We have a range of daytime and evening events for individuals, families and groups, including lectures, floortalks, films, workshops and performances.
Events Calendar
Kids in Town
Every Thursday during school term time at 12 noon, free
Local primary schools perform in the Gallery Foyer. Offered in conjunction with the Christchurch City Council Events Team.
Art Clubs
First Tuesday and Saturday of every month, 10.30am – 12.30pm
View selected works from the latest exhibitions at the Gallery, and enjoy group discussion on the works and artists with senior members of our Guide Team.
For information telephone (03) 941 7342.
All events held in the Philip Carter Family Auditorium unless otherwise stated.
November 2008
Insight Art Appreciation Course For Beginners
Tue: 10.30 – 12.30pm: 4, 11, 18 & 25 Nov
or Sat: 10.30 – 12.30pm: 8, 15, 22 & 29 Nov
Public $60, Friends $54, SuperGold Card $40
This enlightening four-week course uses the Gallery’s historical and 21st-century works of art to discover more about portraiture, landscape painting, abstract works and contemporary art.
Places are limited. Tel (03) 941 7342 to register.
Sat 1 Dawn / Water Poem by Ralph Hotere
12pm, meet at the front desk, free
Susan Laidlaw explores this iconic work, made at a time of protest against French nuclear testing on Mururoa atoll.
Sun 2 Showcase International: Calligraphy Demonstration
1 – 3pm, foyer, free
Watch famous calligraphy masters from China demonstrate the ancient art of calligraphy. This demonstration will also include performance of the zheng, one of the most ancient Chinese plucked string instruments and the erhu, the Chinese violin.
Wed 5 Conservation and Restoration: Hands Off! (The Art of Not Touching)
6pm, free
Join Gallery conservator Lynn Campbell for a light-hearted look at how touching artworks can cause irreparable damage, and the delicate procedures required to conserve them.
Wed 12 Showcase International: Iranian New Wave Cinema
6pm, free
The first film in this showcase of Iranian films, opened by His Excellency, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is Transit Café by director Kambozia Partovi. Winner at the Fajr Film Festival, this is a life-affirming portrait of a young widow who takes over her husband's run-down roadside café on the Iranian/Turkish border. Persian refreshments provided by the local Iranian community.
Fri 14 – Sun 16 Muka Prints
10 – 5pm, Education Centre, $65 per print
Every year Muka Studio tours a new collection of forty original lithographs by artists from all over the world. Exclusive to young people aged 5–18, this is an opportunity to visit the exhibition and buy up to three works.
Sat 15 Fiona Hall: Force Field
8.30am, Alchemy, Friends $20, public $30
After breakfast, hear Australian artist Fiona Hall talk about her exhibition Force Field, in which ordinary objects and materials are transformed into complex and allusive objects that are witty, humourous, savagely critical or ironic.
Book by Thurs 13 Nov.
Sat 15 Artist talk: Fiona Hall
1pm, meet at the front desk, free
Fiona Hall offers her perspective on the works in her survey exhibition Fiona Hall: Force Field.
Wed 19 Christopher Johnstone, The Painted Garden: The Garden in New Zealand Painting
10.30am, Friends $2, public $5, students with ID free
Christopher Johnstone, former director of Auckland Art Gallery, will speak about his new book The Painted Garden, to be published in November.
Wed 19 Showcase International: Cartooning for Peace
6pm, free
Renowned French cartoonist WIAZ from the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur and The Press cartoonist Al Nisbet in an off-the-cuff demonstration and discussion of their cartooning practice. Part of a national programme of events for the international conference exhibition ‘Cartooning for Peace’ – the brain child of French political cartoonist Plantu.
Fri 21 Showcase International: The Ancient Art of Kimono
7pm, $5
A stunning modelled presentation and dressing demonstration of traditional and ancient layered Kimono from the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Culture, revealing the beauty and history of these unique garments.
Sake and light Japanese snacks available.
Sun 23 White On White Family Fun
11am – 3pm, foyer and galleries, free
Come down to celebrate the opening of White on White, our new exhibition for children and families. Twisty balloon sculptures and giveaways on the day.
Sun 23 Fiona Hall: Force Field
2pm, floortalk, free
Join curator Felicity Milburn to discover how Fiona Hall transforms the ordinary into the artistic in this stunning survey exhibition.
Wed 26 Appreciate, value, revalue
6pm, free
Curator Felicity Milburn provides an illustrated introduction into the work of celebrated Australian artist Fiona Hall.
Sat 29 De Nieuwe Stem by et al.
12pm, meet at the front desk, free
Art dealer Jonathan Smart discusses this charged work, which was exhibited in the Manhattan foyer of Saatchi and Saatchi and includes speeches intoning Rumsfield, Bush and their justification for invading Iraq.
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