William Colenso Bicentenary Celebrations

Registrations now open

William Colenso Bicentenary Celebrations

9 – 13 November 2011

Hawke’s Bay

Printer of some of the most significant documents in New Zealand history, missionary, explorer and botanist, a free-wheeling politician and controversialist William Colenso was a maverick.

This year, on the bicentenary of Colenso’s birth, Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery will be hosting a celebration of his life and ideas with a programme of events, centred on a two day academic conference.

The keynote speakers for the conference are author and science historian, Dr Jim Endersby of the University of Sussex and Peter Wells, author of the new book The Hungry Heart – A Journey with William Colenso.

Go to www.williamcolenso.co.nzto find out more about the full programme of events taking place, and to register for the conference.