Art / February 2024
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Contemporary artists explore the stories we tell in Memory Lines
- City Gallery
- 29 February 2024 Five contemporary artists explore how knowledge can be shared across time and culture in Memory Lines, a new exhibition opening at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi.
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Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Fashion Activist Wants You to Dress Up & Dance: Jeanine Clarkin - pataka.org.nz
- Pataka
- Designer Jeanine Clarkin is a champion of indigenous Māori fashion. Her garments feature alongside other contemporary Māori artists – Noa Blanket Co and Mataaho Collective – in the Pātaka exhibition 'Paraikete Threads', which opens with a special event, 'Dress Up and Dance with Jeanine Clarkin'.
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Pātaka Art + Museum, Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Artists to feature at Naenae community centre
- Hutt City Council
- Traditional Māori art and modern manufacturing technology is set to provide the perfect cultural backdrop at the new Naenae Community Centre.
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Naenae, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Announcing - Write Room Wellington Screenwriter 2024
- Toi Pōneke
- Wellington writing team Amelia Addis and Ebed Pohl have been announced as the 2024 Wellington Write Room Screenwriter Residents with their project In Alex. Producer Kate Goodwin will join the programme’s mentor team as this year’s Producer Intern. Amelia and Ebed will be in residence at Toi Pōneke from 25 March - 16 June 2024.
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New French writer meets Randell Cottage supporters
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- On a perfect Wellington evening, Friends and Trustees of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust, along with French Embassy representatives, gathered at the home of Pip and Simon Murdoch to meet Julien Blanc-Gras and his wife Aurore.
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Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friday Five: Welly's epic food and art festival line-up
- Wellington City Council
- From delicious Greek food to live art on the waterfront – the city will be full of good vibes thanks to all the food and art festivals happening in the capital! Check out the line-up for this month.
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Proposal for a Body Reading List
- Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
- Proposal for a Body posits that sound and text-matter are mediums that can be regarded as inherently queer in their expansive and corporally liminal states. Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett draw on the music and writing of artists Loren Connors and Kim Gordon to communicate through sound and poetry abstract-experience; what is inexplicable.
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Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 211, Left Bank, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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God the Mechanical Mother Reading List
- Enjoy Contemporary Art Space
- God the Mechanical Mother is an exhibition of extraction and post-metaphysical effluvia. Kat Lang experiments with primordial and time-bound materiality, and offers a deconstructed ontotheological study into the implications of meaning and uncertainty.
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Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 211, Left Bank, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Iconic Trans-Tasman artists to showcase at The Dowse
- Hutt City Council
- The Dowse Art Museum is delighted to showcase a significant exhibition charting the multidisciplinary practice of internationally renowned contemporary Australian artist Nell.
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The Dowse Art Museum, Stevens Grove, Lower Hutt Central, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Rita Angus, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and New Zealand’s Medieval Modernism
- Friends of Te Papa
- Rita Angus’s portrait of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the only portraits she painted of someone she had never met, and perhaps as a result has been less […]
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Theme - Gatherings
- Thistle Hall Community Venue
- Many hours are spent working up layers in the background, using mixed media, of oil, acrylic, old papers and architectural plans. Then scraping, peeling back and adding before the desired patina is achieved. The layers in the background often reflect the items painted on top, worn and chipped by time and use.
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Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- The latest book by Lynn Davidson, Randell Cottage resident in 2021, was launched on 13 February at Unity Books in Wellington.
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Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Touring Wellington’s Built Heritage
- Friends of Te Papa
- Many Friends travel widely to explore areas of historical interest and to enjoy built heritage sites. Our own Wellington neighbourhood has a variety of sites that present a full range of architectural interest and styles. Join Historic Places Wellington Chairperson Felicity Wong as she talks to us about some of her favorite local heritage places.
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The history of Cuba Mall and its Bucket Fountain
- Wellington City Council
- The summer of 1969 in Wellington brought a pedestrianised mall, and the erection of the Cuba Mall water mobile, or as we know it, the Bucket Fountain.
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Sylvia townsend warner on the letters of katherine mansfield
- Katherine Mansfield House
- In 1929, writer Sylvia Townsend Warner published a piece in The New York Herald Tribune about Katherine Mansfield’s letters, entitled ‘Death and The Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield’. This blog post introduces the piece, which you can read in full.
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Katherine Mansfield House and Garden, 25, Tinakori Road, Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Pīwakawaka brighten up Whitby and Aotea
- Porirua City Council
- More Chorus cabinets receive makeovers in Porirua.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Secret Valley Murals
- Pukerua Bay Residents Association
- Porirua City Council has engaged Dave Smith from Street Smart to try to remove the tagging from the murals in the Secret Valley shelter and to reseal the murals. The […]
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Invitation to Lynn Davidson’s book launch on 13 February
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- We are thrilled that Lynn Davidson is about to launch the memoir she worked on while a resident at Randell Cottage. All are welcome to the launch of Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? at Unity Books on 13 February.
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Randell Cottage, 14, St Mary Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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always love xxx (Live on TEAMS)
- Toi Pōneke
- Please join us for an online talk with artists Yumoi Zheng (China), Isadora Lao (Aotearoa) and Angel C Fitzgerald (Aotearoa). In the stream, they will share about their favourite food and talk about their current projects and creative practice
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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always love xxx
- Toi Pōneke
- always love xxx is an exhibition through Yumoi zheng and Isadora Lao’s stories. A core focus within this body of work is connection: location, family, queer identity, love and how these overlap.
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vinyl Records Session @ Twentysix Gallery
- Newtown Festival
- Dive into the Newtown Festival vibe at Twentysix Gallery, where colourful art meets vinyl beats! TV DiSKO Steve the Hat Marty Vital 45 and 33.3 Herb’s Mobile Records Store rollin’ up in support
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friday Five: Commemorate Waitangi Day in Pōneke
- Wellington City Council
- Did you know that Aotearoa has been celebrating Te Rā o Waitangi/Waitangi Day officially since 1934? Here in Pōneke, the Centennial Exhibition took place in Rongotai, between 8 November 1939 and 4 May 1940, to commemorate 100 years since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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Hayden Gundry
- Black Coffee
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Black coffee, Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Q&A with Marvel Exhibition creators
- Wellington City Council
- From rare items such as original comic book pages to movie costumes and props, Marvel: Earth’s Mightiest Exhibition at Tākina has over 80 years of Marvel history on show. Creating and touring an exhibition this large is no easy feat, especially from the USA to Wellington. Read more about the exhibition from the minds of the curators, Ben Saunders and Patrick A Reed.
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Tākina - Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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