METAPHOR - visual and poetic Join Bernadette Hall (poet), Jeffrey Paparoa Holman (poet), Gerard Smyth (film maker), Marian Maguire (artist) in a discussion about how words make pictures, pictures make words, and how both can tap memory and imagination through metaphor. Thursday 30 March, 7.30pm, free entry This talk is the last in a series about… View more
Come along for a great evening of poetry, performance and music! Featuring: – Jeffrey Paparoa Holman – poet – Jane Simpson – poet – The Apollo Musicum in quartet and sextet formations, playing recent compositions by Barbara Maguire 7 – 8.30pm Thurs 17 Nov $7 waged, $5 unwaged Jeffrey Paparoa Holman is a poet and non-fiction… View more
Andrew and Doc will discuss Doc’s current exhibition WALKING with eyes open – a selection of documentary photographs of Christchurch and its people as it recovers and repairs. Free entry, all welcome. Exhibition until 25 November
Come along for a great evening featuring: Poetry readings by Bernadette Hall & Kerrin P. Sharpe Performance by Reuben Todd $7 waged, $5 unwaged Bernadette Hall lives in a renovated bach at Amberley Beach, North Canterbury. Best known for her poetry, her most recent collections are Life & Customs, VUP 2013 and Maukatere, floating mountain, Seraph Press 2016, which… View more
Come along for a great evening featuring: Poetry readings from Doc Drumheller and Marisa Cappetta Original music from Kate Taylor $7 waged, $5 unwaged. Doc Drumheller was born in Charleston, South Carolina and has lived in New Zealand for more than half his life. He has worked in award winning groups for theatre and music and… View more
The photographs Tim Veling selected for ‘Vestiges’ are from a large documentary record of Christchurch’s Residential Redzone. More than just a record, these photographs display the sensitivity of an artist’s eye and Tim will talk about the works themselves plus his experience capturing them. Free entry, all welcome VESTIGES – exhibition 28 June – 22 July…. View more
Hear Auckland artist, John Reynolds, talk about his exhibition SIGNS, the project’s previous incarnations and how audiences have interacted with his work inside and out of the gallery context. Free entry, all welcome. ‘SIGNS’ – exhibition 28 June – 22 July Opening: Mon 27 June, 5.30pm
Join us to hear Darryn speak about the paintings is his current exhibition, the ideas behind them, and how they fit into his wider practice. Artist talk Thursday 16 June, 7pm free entry, all welcome. Exhibition – ‘ARIKI’ by Darryn George – on until 24 June.
Come along for a great evening featuring: Poetry readings from Fiona Farrell and James Norcliffe Original music from Motte $7 waged, $5 unwaged. Fiona Farrell is one of New Zealand’s leading writers, publishing work in a variety of genres. Her first novel, The Skinny Louie Book won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for fiction. Other novels, poetry… View more
Join us for this informal session. Sam Harrison, in conversation with Jane Bowman, will discuss the ideas and impetus behind his current exhibition. He will talk about his approach to the human figure and how the processes he uses influence the way his ideas are expressed in drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Free entry, all welcome…. View more