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Māori Language Week 2008
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2008
20 – 27 July
This year, Māori Language Week celebrates Te Reo i te kāinga – Māori Language in the Home. What makes your own house not just a house but a home? Is it the look of the place and the things found inside it? Or is it the people who live there and the stories they tell about the place?
Visit the Gallery information desk for your guide to view four artworks offering four very different ideas of what it means to be 'at home' in Aotearoa New Zealand. |
Events
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru
Wed 23 July
6 pm, Sutton Gallery, free
One of Te Reo Māori's most persuasive and successful advocates, Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, speaks about the role of Māori language in his life, and discusses his involvement in the successful bid to have Te Reo Māori recognised as Taonga under the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru
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James Ormsby: Dance of a Marae Fly
Wed 23 July
7 pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
Contemporary artist, James Ormsby, in whose detailed works, motifs and imagery from Māori culture are firmly placed, will discuss his practice and specific works.
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 Bilingual Gallery Announcements
This year in our house – Te Puna o Waiwhetu – we're making a commitment to speak Te Reo Māori every day. You will notice that our gallery audio announcements are spoken in Te Reo Māori and also in English. We encourage you to speak Te Reo Māori in your house every day.
Free Audio Tours!
The Gallery's Audio Guide in Te Reo will be free for visitors during Māori Language Week.
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When Inez Crawford was a child she imagined her local marae at Te Kaha was a fairytale castle. Now, Crawford has created her own bouncy-castle wharenui – brown on the outside, bright pink inside and free for kids to jump around in.
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Inez Crawford Bouncy Marae 2007. PVC and air compressor. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by John Collie
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Stretching more than fifty metres and reaching from floor to ceiling, Pulse is an engulfing fusion of customary Māori art and contemporary abstract painting.
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Darryn George Pulse, on view at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008. Courtesy the artist. Photograph by Brendan Lee. Thanks to Miller Studios
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Charles Barraud Lake Horowhenua (detail)1864. Watercolour. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, presented by Mrs M. Trail, 1969
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This painting of a traditional Māori village at Lake Horowhenua is upstairs in the collection galleries and includes a prominently positioned pātaka (storehouse) which was essential to Māori life and survival.
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James Ormsby Māorigami 2007. Courtesy of the artist and Whitespace
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Visit the exhibition I See Red to view 3D versions of James Ormsby's kōhaiwhai-covered whare (house), waiting to be carefully folded into portable artworks.
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Christchurch Art Gallery
Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch. Admission Free.
Open 10am to 5pm daily. Late night Wednesday until 9pm.
Email info@christchurchartgallery.org.nz
Tel (03) 941 7300, Fax (03) 941 7301
www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz
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