Event Highlights: 29 October – 11 November
Welcome to Christchurch Art Gallery's eNewsletter. This coming fortnight sees the opening of our Showcase International programme that runs until Friday, November 21. This fortnight includes a Chinese calligraphy demonstration. See christchurchartgallery.org.nz for future Showcase International listings.
Our Insight Art Appreciation Course For Beginners also gets underway. Places are limited for this enlightening four-week course, so book now to avoid disappointment!
Sun 2 November
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 12 November
6pm, auditorium, 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.
6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
Wed 29 October
Filmmaker and academic Nova Paul discusses wandering and spatial politics as artistic practice.
Wed 5 November
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.
Ralph Hotere Dawn / Water Poem 1986. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery. Reproduced courtesy of Ralph Hotere.
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Wed 29 October
8.30 – 9.45pm, meet at the front desk, free
SCAPE artists Hannah and Aaron Beehre invite you on a mystical night-time tour.
Sat 1 November
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.
Tue: 10.30 – 12.30pm; 4, 11, 18 and 25 Nov
or Sat: 10.30 – 12.30pm; 8, 15, 22 and 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. Telephone (03) 941 7342 to register.
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