Museums and Galleries / October 2022
November 2022 | September 2022-
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Curator’s Talk: Pāua: A Contemporary Jewellery Story
- Friends of Te Papa
- Whether its glimmering surface evokes nostalgia or cultural cringe, pāua is undeniably linked with the visual character of Aotearoa New Zealand. .
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New Manager at Iconic Hannah Playhouse
- Toi Pōneke
- Exciting news for our friends over at the Hannah Playhouse! Wellington City Council is delighted to announce Isobel MacKinnon has been appointed as the Manager of this iconic venue.
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tour: Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join Kaiwhakarākei Curator Collections Sophie Thorn from Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery on an afterhours tour of the Ngā puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection. The […]
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Thomas Kirk’s new species of Veronica from Newtown Park, Wellington in 1896
- Te Papa's blog
- Recently the Botany team at Te Papa dedicated a week to curating several boxes of plant specimens – we called it the Botany Blitz! Our aim was to crack open boxes that have been patiently waiting – months, years, or in some cases decades – to be processed and databased.
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Newtown Park, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Artist kōrero: Holly Walker and Tūi Howard
- Toi Pōneke
- In the Gallery space Holly and Tūī will host a kōrero about how they use their creative practices, spirituality and relationship to the environment to create places to speak about their identity and whakapapa.
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Talk: Lifting the lid on the photobook phenomenon
- Friends of Te Papa
- The photobook is more than just a compilation of individual images in a book format, it’s a creative object in itself.
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Talk: What does it mean to be Chinese in Aotearoa?
- Friends of Te Papa
- Grace highlights the diverse linguistic and cultural heritages with which people of Chinese ancestry in Aotearoa identify.
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2022 Write Room Producer Intern Announcement
- Toi Pōneke
- Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Francesca Carney as the Write Room Producer Intern for 2022.
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Footscray Avenue, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thinking Out Loud: Moya Lawson
- City Gallery
- Moya Lawson on the development of At Thresholds at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. Originally published on Art Now, read the essay here. Making art about other species seems less restrained than writing about them. The artists in At Thresholds are experimental with their practices, harnessing colour, shape, and material—the organic and the machine. […]
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Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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And other stories
- Katherine Mansfield House
- To mark the centenary of the publication of Katherine Mansfield's third short story collection, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories', we held a winter series of readings with Wellington writers. We asked each writer to choose one of the lesser-known stories from the collection to read out loud and chat about on a Sunday afternoon. This blog post outlines the notes from each discussion.
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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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