Event Highlights: 18 February – 3 March
Welcome to Christchurch Art Gallery's eNewsletter. This fortnight we have some great treats for you. Come along to an art class with artist Michaela Cox or have a go at the Latin dance workshops that continue throughout February. Don’t forget to check out the Let it be now exhibition, which is now entering its final weeks!
Wednesdays 7.15–8.30pm, Saturday 3pm, foyer
In the lead-up to the Latin Dance Festival 2009, 2x4 Trust and Christchurch Art Gallery are proud to present performers from the best Latin dance studios in Christchurch. Join them and try your moves in these fun workshops.
See www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/SpecialEvents/ for workshop details.
2–3pm, courtyard, free
Christchurch's finest brass and pipe bands line up to entertain you on Sunday afternoons throughout the summer. This Sunday – the
Michaela Cox, Angelus for a California Quail, 2007. c-type photograph |
Salvation Army Band.
11am–4pm, Education Centre, $30.
Bookings tel: (03) 941 7342
Working with the artist, create your own Victorian diorama through the use of decoupage, photomontage and museological presentation. This unique workshop explores the artistic possibilities of a three-dimensional collage process.
6pm sharp, meet at Christchurch Art Gallery tram stop, Tram 178, free
6pm: Hot Solder (homemade analogue synthesizers), on Tram 178
7pm: Grunge Genesis (inspirational gangsta folk), at the grass amphitheatre next to the Gallery's forecourt. The amphitheatre is an artwork entitled Tenefüs / Breather by Murat Sahinler & Fuat Sahinler.
2–4pm, board tram 178 at any stop along the tram route, free
Greg Malcolm (environmental duets), Grunge Genesis (inspirational gangsta folk), and Hot Solder (homemade analogue synthesizers), performing on the tram, the Worcester St Bridge and outside the Canterbury Museum.
Trambience uses one of Christchurch's restored wooden trams as a venue for experimental music. Local and international sound artists and musicians respond to the space of the carriage and the sounds of the tram as they and the audience trundle together around Christchurch's Cultural Precinct.
Trambience 2009 is supported by the Cultural Precinct, Creative Communities, and the Christchurch Art Gallery
Beth O'Brien White Flags 2008. Photograph |
Until 8 March 2009
This exhibition presents new work by six emerging New Zealand artists. These recent graduates unravel conventions and show us new aspects of contemporary art practice.
Generously supported by Coffey Projects.
Until 26 July
Nature's Own Voice focuses on plein-air painters – artists who work outdoors in an attempt to record the varying effects of differing light and weather conditions through direct observation.
Until October 2009
Keeping younger audiences in mind, and including a number of new works by contemporary artists, White on White is an exhibition brimming with the imaginative possibilities of white.
Generously supported by Chartwell Trust.
6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, free
Canterbury Museum conservator Sasha Stollman presents an overview of the conservation considerations in the lead-up to the opening of Fred and Myrtle's Paua Shell House and discusses the issues that arises for collectors that live amongst and use their collections on a daily basis.
Sponsored by The Press
6pm, Philip Carter Family Auditorium, 60 mins, free
This documentary, narrated by Meryl Streep, discovers the palette to palate connection of great artists and chefs as explored through the eyes of Claude Monet. Filmed entirely on location, Monet's Palate is a delight for the senses.
www.monetspalate.com
Sponsored by The Press |
