Friends of Randell Cottage Newsletter March 2024
Plenty has been going on at the Cottage and amongst the Friends since our Open Day in October last year. So, grab a cuppa, or a wine, polish your glasses and settle in for a bit of a read.
Plenty has been going on at the Cottage and amongst the Friends since our Open Day in October last year. So, grab a cuppa, or a wine, polish your glasses and settle in for a bit of a read.
Read the latest newsletter from the Friends of Randell Cottage and find out about events in October and November.
Book now for the Randell Cottage screening of the new film, Napoleon.
Find out about three upcoming events you won’t want to miss.
Read the July 2023 newsletter from the Friends of Randell Cottage.
Read the Christmas newsletter from the Friends of Randell Cottage.
We welcome Her Excellency Mme Laurence Beau, the new French Ambassador, as Patron of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust, alongside NZ Patron and renowned writer, Sir Vincent O’Sullivan.
Mme Beau presented her credentials to the Governor-General at a ceremony at Government House in Wellington on 4 October. She is accompanied on her posting to New Zealand by her husband, M. Gilles Beau.
The Randell Cottage Open Day is 30 October this year as part of Wellington Heritage Week 2022. From 1-4pm enjoy the cottage and garden and listen to readings from past writers-in-residence.
Recently, some of the Friends visited Te Papa to view the objects discovered when the Cottage was renovated back in the mid-1990s.
In the last week of April 2021, we celebrated the launch of Saving Randell Cottage. A short film talking with descendants of William and Sarah Randell about how the historic Randell Cottage saved from demolition, restored and donated to become a residence for New Zealand and French writers.
Listen to Beverley Randell Price and her daughter Susan Price as they share memories of the rescue and renovation of their ancestors’ colonial home (6:37 minutes).
Video credits:
Director: Jeremy Macey
Cinematographer: Valeriya Golovina
Second camera: Jess Soderberg
Sound: Brynn Olsson
Editor: Shane Loader
Produced by Godwit Films and funded by Creative New Zealand.