Otago Daily Times

HIGHLIGHT REEL

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Otago Battalion’s journey

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum curator Sean Brosnahan traces the experience­s of the Otago Battalion through 1918 to commemorat­e Armistice Day in ‘‘The Bitter End: Otago’s Soldiers In the Last Year of The War’’, Saturday at the museum.

Armistice Day remembered

Towns around Otago are rememberin­g Armistice Day on Sunday with services at war memorials and family activities. Dunedin begins with a service at the Queens Gardens Cenotaph and continues with a short ceremony, musical performanc­es, food trucks and children’s activities at Otago Museum.

Big Wall discussion

Megan TamatiQuen­nell, curator of modern and contempora­ry Maori & indigenous art at Te Papa, will discuss Jonathan Jones’ Big Wall work ‘‘Untitled (D21.281 Galari Bargan)’’ on Sunday at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Jones is a member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi nations of southeast Australia and TamatiQuen­nell is of Ngai Tahu ki Otakou and Te Atiawa descent.

Trees of change

New Zealand Arboricult­ural Associatio­n life member Mark Roberts talks about the changing environmen­t concerning trees, pruning, urban ecology and tree risk, at the Otago Museum on Saturday.

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