The Tauranga Sculpture Symposium as part of the New Zealand Garden and Art Festival has now opened after a last- minute change of location.
The event was formally opened this morning after being moved to Tauranga's Strand waterfront as the result of an objection to its original location at Mount Maunganui's Mt Drury reserve.
The symposium will therefore be back at the site of its successful 2012 Garden and Art Festival.
"While we were looking forward to staging the symposium at Mount Maunganui, it is a bit like coming home to be back on The Strand," said festival director John Beech.
The Burley Attwood Law Symposium will go ahead exactly as planned but in a different place - with 16 sculptors from all over the country taking part.