Matthew Hand, Creative Director for Purewa Cemetery and leader of the Purewa Heritage Project.
He will be assisted by David Goodwin, an information analytics specialist at Purewa who has been working on map plotting of burials and verifying and correcting records for the past year.
PUREWA: ‘A LIVING SPACE – THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF MEMORIALS AT PUREWA CEMETERY’. The presentation is an overview of Purewa’s history, highlighting some interesting stories of those remembered at Purewa, and talking about the future of cemeteries and memorials. The talk includes a multimedia presentation of images and videos.