14 Dec Poetry In Windows Summer Season
Poetry in windows Summer Season has begun -and will run through to late February.
Featuring the work of over 50 creatives displayed in the windows of over 22 local businesses, it will give locals and visitors an opportunity to enjoy poetry throughout the city.
The initiative is organised by Poetry Bomb Rotorua and is supported by Creative Rotorua and Rotorua Lakes Council. It is normally part of the annual Poetry Bomb Festival held in Rotorua during August in celebration of National Poetry Day.
Poetry Bomb co-organiser Jill Walker says the postponement of Poetry Bomb in August due to Covid, created the opportunity to include the poetry into the “line up” of the city’s summers festivities, extend the viewing time from 10 days to 10 weeks and allow for more poets to be featured.
“It’s exciting too, because this year we’ve got 25 new poets and 7 new hosting businesses.
Poetry In Windows is a wonderful way a to give poets a chance to share their poetry with others and puts poems in unexpected places.”
She says this initiative makes poetry accessible, as people who normally wouldn’t go to poetry events or read poetry books come across the poems in the store windows.
“The whole concept is bringing the power, joy and feeling that you can have from reading poetry out into a wider audience.”
She says with the additional funding support for Poetry Bomb 2021 from the Civic Arts Trust it has made it easier to work with the postponement of Poetry Bomb Festival August events and redesign and reschedule them so that we do not miss out on Poetry Bomb activities.
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The hosts are as follows:
Grace and Glory
1131 Amohau St
07 460 1056
https://www.facebook.com/graceandglory.co.nz/
Art United Rotorua
1310 Tutenakai St
027 476 5081
https://www.facebook.com/Art-United-Rotorua-108111107616964
City Books & Lotto
1304 Tutenakai St
07 346 2674
https://www.facebook.com/citybooksandlotto/
Trade Aid
1285 Tutenakai St
07 349 4988
https://www.facebook.com/RotoruaTradeAid/
Honey Comb
1219 Tūtānekai St
07 348 9115
https://www.facebook.com/honeycombhair.nz
Simply Different
1199 Tūtānekai St
07 347 0960
https://www.facebook.com/simplydifferentgifts/
Atlantis Books
1206 Eruera St
07 349 0472
https://www.facebook.com/atlantisbooksnz
The Health Shop
1184 Eruera St
07348 4883
https://www.facebook.com/TheHealthShopRotorua/
Citizens Advice Bureau
1143 Eruera St
07 348 3936
https://www.facebook.com/CABRotorua/
Cottage Flair
1129 Eruera St
07 357 5955
https://www.facebook.com/cottageflair/
Artworks
1219 Hinemoa St
07 349 1122
https://www.facebook.com/ArtWorksRotorua/
The Arts Village
1240 Hinemaru St (cnr Hinemoa & Hinemaru St)
07 348 9008
www.facebook.com/RotoruaArtsVillage/
Portico Gallery
1155 Pukuatua St
07 347 8169
https://www.facebook.com/PorticoGallery/
McLeods Booksellers
1148 Pukuatua St
07 348 5388
https://www.facebook.com/mcleodsbooksrotorua/
Rotorua Library Te Aka Mauri
1127 Haupapa St
07 348 4177
https://www.facebook.com/RotoruaLibrary/
Rotorua i-SITE & Visitor Centre
1167 Fenton St
07 351 7349
https://www.facebook.com/RotoruaVisitorCentre
Fat Dog Cafe
1161 Arawa St
07 347 7586
https://www.facebook.com/fatdogcafe/
Princes Gate
1057 Arawa St
07 348 1179
https://www.facebook.com/princesgateofficial/
Brown Owl
197 Ranolf St
07 777 2110
https://www.facebook.com/BrownOwlOrganics/
Okere Falls Store
757A State Highway 33
07 362 4944
https://www.facebook.com/okerefallsstore/
The Happy Angler Store
369 State Highway 33, Mourea
07 362 4709
https://www.facebook.com/The-Happy-Angler-Store-380876068649431/
Miss Parrots
1208 Hinemoa St
https://www.facebook.com/miss.parrots/
The Refinery Rotorua
1224 Fenton St
https://www.facebook.com/therefinery.gold/
Curiosity Blooms
176 Ngongotaha Rd
Ngongotahā
https://www.facebook.com/curiosityblooms/