{"id":1129,"date":"2018-10-13T22:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:52:08","slug":"my-piece-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"My Piece of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20170610_164518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1131 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20170610_164518-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20170610_164518-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20170610_164518-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20170610_164518.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing\u00a0 community arts project designed in partnership with the Department of Conservation (DOC).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The project&#8217;s aim was to connect communities to their local natural environment and give participants an opportunity to celebrate their love of nature through art and share this with the wider community. <!--more-->Many groups joined this project and many workshops were held in Te Anau, Manapouri, Invercargill, Riversdale, Dunedin, Motueka and Nelson.\u00a0 Community groups from Kids Restore the Kepler, Dunedin Creative Fibre, Manapouri Art group, James Hargest College, Murihiku Maori &amp; Pasifika Trust, Blue Mountain College, The Shed, Auckland Point school and many more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3881.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1134 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3881-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3881-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3881-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3881-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3881.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants in the My Piece of Nature workshops were invited to think about how nature is important to them, and express these ideas through the decoration of two small wooden cubes &#8211; one kept by the person and the other added to the project.\u00a0 Hundreds of cubes were decorated!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/?attachment_id=1161\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1161 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dunedin-Creative-Fibre-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dunedin-Creative-Fibre-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dunedin-Creative-Fibre-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dunedin-Creative-Fibre-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dunedin-Creative-Fibre.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1135 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3888-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3888-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3888-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3888-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCF3888.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These workshops were made possible with funding from Creative New Zealand and the Department of Conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an ongoing\u00a0 community arts project designed in partnership with the Department of Conservation (DOC).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The project&#8217;s aim was to connect communities to their local natural environment and give participants an opportunity to celebrate their love of nature through art and share this with the wider community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janetdewagt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}