Events
This page features events and activities by, for or about the people and communities that Arts Access Aotearoa works with. Events are listed under regions. us with your events.
March 2010
Auckland
Artstation gallery to become creative neighbourhood
A new exhibition running from 17 to 31 March will transform Auckland’s Artstation gallery into a neighbourhood of artworks and craft objects. Curated by Artstation’s Domestic Craft and Contemporary Art Group aka the Knitterati, the exhibition will raise funds for Auckland City Mission’s project, Mission in the City, which aims to provide a place for Auckland’s homeless.
Community groups, schools and artists have been asked to create house artworks for the installation. This exhibition is supported by the Creative Communities Scheme.
Bay of Plenty
Belly dance basics
Come and learn the basics of Middle Eastern raqs (aka belly dancing) and how to do a rocking shimmy, an undulating eight and a travelling camel. Belly dance basics with Belisha: every Wednesday, starting at 7pm at the Club Rooms, 45 Cliff Road, Tauranga. Cost: $15 per session or $45 for five sessions. For more information, please contact Belisha (E: T: 07 570 2445).
Otago
Martin Thompson exhibition
Five New Works, an exhibition by Dunedin artist Martin Thompson, runs at the Brett McDowell Gallery in Dunedin until 4 March. The work represents the past year’s work by the artist, who was featured in a 2005 exhibition, Obsessive Drawing, at the American Museum of Folk Art in New York. Thompson works on millimetre-square graph paper, filling in the squares with fine ink pens to create sequenced rows that combine to form complex quilts.
Waikato
Sandz Gallery exhibitions
Living Canvas is Joy Hillary and Clinton Hawkes’ first major exhibition, featuring landscape paintings in an expressive, intuitive style. It opens at the Sandz Gallery studio at 7pm on Thursday 11 March and continues until 25 March. Also on is Recent Works, an exhibition by Sandz artists.
Wellington
Creative communication at ROAR! gallery
MASH Trust Living Plus is a day service providing activities for people with intellectual disabilities in Paraparaumu, Levin and Palmerston North. ROAR! gallery’s latest exhibition, RAW MASH, shows the creative communication between clients of MASH and its support staff. What results from this communication are artworks that are the products of collaboration, integration and inclusion. The exhibition opens at 5.30pm on Thursday 18 March and continues until 3 April.
ROAR! gallery and work by David Boyle
In Rumble in the Jungle, David Boyle takes us on an fantastical, exotic journey to a place with recurring visions of adventure. Alongside his paintings are the artist’s signature Bolted Books, Sculptural Pourings and his latest X-ray Lamps. The exhibition runs until 13 March.
Vincents Art Workshop at Newtown Festival
Vincents Art Workshop will celebrate the Year of the Tiger by display more than 60 hand-painted, cut-out plywood tigers on the railings of the playground on the corner of Riddiford and Constable Streets in Newtown, Wellington as part of the Newtown Festival on Sunday 7 March. All tigers can withstand outside elements and will be for sale at $25 each. There will also be a Vincents’ stall with a range of activities such as free tiger face painting for children; packs of Vincents fundraising greeting cards for sale; raffle tickets for 2 Big Cat Encounters at Wellington Zoo, donated by Wellington Zoo; and the sale of affordable art by Vincents’ artists.
Meta Assink’s installation at Vincents Gallery
On Beauty, an installation by Meta Assink, opens at Vincents Gallery in Wellington at 5.30pm 10 March and continues until 24 March. The artist is interested in popular conceptions of beauty (particularly women’s), as expressed in mainstream magazines. Devoid of their context by removal from the magazines and without the product being advertised, this collection of “beautiful” people may inspire questions and responses on various related issues. Vincents Gallery is at Level 4, 84 Willis St.
Whangarei
Pathways, paintings by Moira Pagan
Moira Pagan’s exhibition of paintings in mixed media, based on an inner spiritual journey, features at the Quarry Arts Centre, 21, Selwyn Ave, Whangarei from 19 February to 5 March. There is a special preview on Sunday 21 February, 4.30–6pm.
Paper Dreams by The Papermill
The Papermill is holding its second solo exhibition showcasing exquisite handmade paper produced by its artists, on at Tuatara Gallery, 29 Bank St, Whangarei from 23 February to 10 March. Councillor Sheryl Mai will be opening the exhibition at 5.30pm Tuesday 23 February.
April 2010
Bay of Plenty
MEDANZ Festival 2010 in Tauranga
The Middle Eastern Dance Association of New Zealand (MEDANZ) is hosting the national MEDANZ Festival 2010 from 8 to 11 April in Tauranga. It’s a weekend of of workshops, performance and networking for belly dancers and drummers. For more information, booking forms and a festival booklet, visit the MEDANZ website.