Event Highlights: 28 May – 10 June 2008
Welcome to the Christchurch Art Gallery e-Newsletter. This fortnight features the beginning of a great programme of events for Matariki, the Māori New Year. Check out the Kapa Haka performance on the 8th June, and during the same weekend, the Children's Funky Whetu Workshop. Also of interest is Inez Crawford's Bouncy Marae, coming to the Gallery foyer on Queen's Birthday, free for children to bounce around on.
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Don't miss your chance to see this striking and influential exhibition during its last days at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Exhibition closes 8 June.
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Colin McCahon Victory over death 2 1970.
Synthetic polymer paint on unstretched canvas. Collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Gift of the New Zealand Government 1978. Courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
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6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
Wed 28 I AM
A 2004 documentary film about the remarkable life and work of Colin McCahon, New Zealand's most famous painter.
Wed 4 The Gorse King
Curator Felicity Milburn introduces the documentary The Stones on my Tongue on artist Denis O'Connor, which covers the creation of his monumental sculpture The Gorse King.
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Denis O'Connor, The Gorse King (detail), 1990-1991. Maheno limestone painted with yellow ochre lime wash. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery. Commissioned 1990.
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The Gallery is pleased to offer a programme of events in support of Matariki.
Inez Crawford Bouncy Marae installed at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau, 2008. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by John Collie.
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Mon 2 Queen's Birthday: Family Fun
All day, free
Bring the kids down to the Gallery to bounce on Inez Crawford's giant inflatable artwork Bouncy Marae, and explore I See Red with it's new family quiz.
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Whetu (star), Areta Wilkinson
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Sat 7 & Sun 8 Children's Workshop: Funky Whetu
11am - 1pm, Education Centre, free
Create your own whetu (star) for Matariki in this children's workshop with contemporary Māori artist Alice Spittle.
Suitable for children 5 - 14 yrs.
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Sun 8 Kapa Haka featuring Mareikura
2pm, Foyer, free
A uniquely Māori performing art in which dancing, singing, expression and movement share customs and tell ancient stories. Mareikura is a community-based Māori performing arts group whose members come from every major iwi in Aotearoa.
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Mareikura at the Waitaha Senior Regionals 2008.
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1.30pm, Floortalk, free
Join curator Felicity Milburn for a walk through the Keeping Time exhibition, exploring how the past can shape and frame our present through works by Denis O’Connor, Marian Maguire, Michael Shepherd and William Dunning.
New to the Gallery!
My Sister, My Self
New in the foyer. My Sister, My Self is a dazzling balancing act by one of New Zealand’s renowned sculptural performers.
Climb the stairs to see Michael Parekowhai’s gleaming South Pacific seal playing with one of the most famous objects in modern art – Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Bicycle Wheel’.
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Michael Parekowhai My Sister, My Self 2006 sculpture. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
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