Here I am on a windy Friday night, holiday weekend eve, in Papatoetoe. In a little while 7 young poets from schools in South Auckland will perform poems the have written in response to cultural artifacts they have seen at Auckland Museum. Not many people have turned out for the performance., mostly family members and representatives from the museum. Grace Taylor has been working with them for eight weeks and their performances will be displayed in Auckland Museum, with an opening on the 3rd of November. They look nervous but radiant.
I had to leave very quickly after the performances, but the energy, humour and passion of the young poets just blew me away. Maybe the future is in better hands than I think.
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