public programmes

Using hypnotic trance hammes will induce altered states of sensory perception to influence and interact with Auckland sound artists.

Featuring:
John Bell
Trudy Lile
John Radford
James McCarthy
Ivan Mrsic

Come along and hear Chicago based artist Jacob C.Hammes discuss his current contribution to Te Tuhi's Drawing Wall project as well as his broader art practice.

Hammes has exhibited and performed extensively in Chicago and is involved in a number of sound performance groups and artist run galleries. Often working collaboratively Hammes' practice operates within the realms of installation, hardware hacking and sound art. Hammas has collaborated with the Chicago Phonographers, and held performances at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Mess Hall, Gallery 40000 and Hyde Park Art Centre.

In his current body of work entitled Deep Imagination Therapy Hammes investigates the creative unconscious by hypnotising his fellow sound artists. The resulting sound recordings of the hypnotisms reveal synesthesic experiences and extraterrestrial imaginings. For the Drawing Wall Hammes has proposed a new development of this series by turning the recordings into an interactive sound installation.

Image caption:
Jacob C. Hammes, Hypnosis Experiment #1, 2009
Drawing made during hypnosis performance on November
22nd 2009 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago.

Come along to watch the famous 'Knitterati' in action! Join the group in Te Tuhi's foyer for a relaxed and creative knitting session. Learn and get involved as members workshop participants through the creation of a knitted sculpture using recycled plastic bags as yarn and large handmade needles. Bring along any plastic bags as well as your current knitting projects, your ideas and knitting accessories.

Over the past year, the Knitterati have been meeting up for 'public knitting sessions' in homes, libraries, cafes and community centres. Teaching, enjoying and sharing the craft of knitting is central to the Knitterati's aims. Wherever they go, the group attract a crowd of enthusiastic knitters and inspired onlookers. 

 For more details on the Knitterati visit their website.

Come and experience the amazing music of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, performed by the Blackbird Ensemble with dancer Annabel Harrison.  

"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener."
- Arvo Pärt

There will be two opportunities to experience this:
7pm Friday June 25th at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
8pm* Sunday June 27th at the Montecristo Room (53 Nelson St)
doors open 7pm

The programme will last approximately one hour and includes the following works by Arvo Pärt:
Tabula Rasa
Fratres
Spiegel im Spiegel
Summa

In addition, The Blackbird Ensemble will be collaborating with dancer Annabel Harrison, who will be performing a specially choreographed work during the performances.

*Following the Sunday event at the Montecristo Room, Andrew Keoghan will present a set of originals from his upcoming album.
http://www.myspace.com/andrewkeoghan
http://www.facebook.com/andrewkeoghanmusic

Matariki Storytelling with Robina Adamson & Taini Drummond | The Gift of Mamaku

Wednesday 23rd June 10.30 - 11.00am

Come along and join us for a morning of story telling and craft making.
Celebrate Matariki this year with Robina Adamson, storyteller and author of The Gift of Mamaku.
Come along and be entranced by a magical story of aroha, then join Taini Drummond in making your very own Pohutukawa flower to take home as a memory of celebrating Matariki together.

Suitable for kindergarten aged children. All Welcome. If you would like to come along as a kindergarten group, please contact Renee with an indication of numbers on 577 0138 ext 7706 or email renee@tetuhi.org.nz.



Planting Day | Freedom Fruit Garden
Friday 25th June 9.30am - 12noon

Come along and join us in planting the Freedom Fruit Garden. All Welcome.

We've a 9.30 am start, so bring along your gumboots and spades, then from 11am we've a line up of events;
a traditional Maori blessing lead by local Taini Drummond, representing local Iwi, Ngai Tai, followed by an opening speakers address, a Cook Island Kapa Haka group perforance, and concluding with a Hangi.  For full details on the Freedom Fruit Garden Project visit see information below on this page. 
Contact Renee if you'd like to join in on 577 0138 ext 706 or email renee@tetuhi.org.nz

For a full programme of events celebrating Matariki in Auckland visit the Matariki Festival website.

Join us for the inaugural planting of artist A.D.Schierning Freedom Fruit Gardens project.

Schierning's project aims to plant edible gardens throughout New Zealand. The site for Auckland Freedom Fruit Gardens at Preston Road Reserve boarders with Rongomai Primary School. The Students of Rongomai voted to have the following fruit planted in the orchard; feijoa, plum, peach, orange, mandarin, pear, banana and kiwifruit. Join A.D.Schierning, Te Tuhi staff, Rongomai Primary School, Manukau City Parks staff and local residents for a morning of planting, with a traditional Maori blessing lead by Taini Drummond, representing local Iwi, Ngai Tai, a performance by Rongomai Primaries Cook Island Kapa Haka group and Hangi.

A.D.Schierning and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts would like to thank the following people and organisations for supporting the project: Waimea Nurseries, Rongomai Primary, The Otara Community Board, Vincent and the Parks team at Manukau City Council and Landscape Designer, Robert Sly.

For further information contact Renée Tanner, Public Programmes Coordinator on 577 0138, renee@tetuhi.org.nz

Call for volunteers:
If you'd like to volunteer your time in support of the project, we'd be happy to hear from you. Please email renee@tetuhi.org.nz

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Listen to A.D.Schierning discuss her Freedom Fruit Gardens project
Read the latest media release

muka prints for young people   an adult free zone

the idea:
the best way to make young people acquainted with contemporary art is to get real works of art in their hands.
normally the cost of art work is forbidding for young people.

muka offers a solution!

the rules :
a number of well known artists from all over the world are invited to produce a set of small (100x200mm) original lithographs
the works reflect the normal style and concerns of the artists, there is no patronising or "talking down" to children
the lithographs will eventually be sold exclusively to young people aged 5 - 18 (inclusive)
visitors to the show can buy a maximum of three lithographs and only for themselves, not for adults
all works are sold at a uniform low price, set according to specific costs in every country
names and signatures of the artists are covered over during the shows, muka wants young art collectors to look at the work, not considering the fame of the artist or potential for financial gain
adults are not allowed in at the exhibtions

For more information on Muka Gallery and the Youth Prints Exhibition visit MUKA Gallery

Come along and hear Auckland artist Ruth Thomas-Edmond discuss her current contribution to Te Tuhi's Drawing Wall project as well as her broader art practice.

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Come along and hear Auckland artists Richard Francis and Clinton Watkins talk about his work in the current exhibition Wall of Sound as well as their broader art practice.

Richard Francis
Thursday 6 May, 1.30pm

Clinton Watkins
Thursday 3 June, 1.30pm

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Come along and hear Auckland artist Daniel Malone talk about his work in the current exhibition Unpacking My Library, as well as his broader art practice.

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[image credit: (detail) Daniel Malone, Black Market Next to My Name: From Warsaw, From Memory 2007-
marker pen on wall
Courtesy of Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland]

Come along and hear Auckland artist Dan Arps talk about his work in the current exhibition Unpacking My Library, as well as his broader art practice.

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[image credit: Dan Arps, New Temporal Studio Unit 2010
flatpac shelving, plaster, putty, resin, highdensity polystyrene,
found ceramics, enamil paint, acyylic paint, steel, pvc, vinyl gloves]

Come along and hear Auckland artist John Ward Knox talk about his work in the current exhibition Modern Physics as well as his broader art practice.

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[image caption:John Ward Knox, Untitled 2009, carved plaster wall, dress-makers' pins. Courtesy of the artist]

Join us on a mini-van tour of a selection of Auckland's Artist-run galleries. A member of each gallery will give an introduction to their space and current shows.

Window
ACFA
Cross Street Studios
The High Seas 
RM
Gambia Castle

Join the mini-van for a return trip from either Te Tuhi at 10am, Parnell Pools at 10.15am or Window at 10.30am.  Window is located in the foyer of the UoA General Library. Join us for a lunch break at Alleluya Cafe, K'rd with members of the Society of Brilliant Ideas, one of Auckland's newest Artist-run spaces.

*$10 for transport +  koha for ACFA (suggested $10)

Bookings essential:
email renee@tetuhi.org.nz

[image: ACFA]

Ishtar Bellydancer, a well known professional dancer and teacher is hosting a wonderful eclectic collection of dances from a number of north island belly dance groups. For this one night performance, the dancers are coming together to perform "Ancient Gods & Goddesses". Come along and be 'inspired' with a visual symphony that takes you back to the past and be tantalised with colourful costumes and exotic dances. There will be prizes for those who come in costume reflecting the theme, and traditional 'Hafla' dancing afterwards by all the audience and stage performers!!

13th November, 7.00pm at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, in the Auditorium
Limited tickets available; $15 PP, $10 senior citizens & students (with student id card). Tickets sold at Te Tuhi.

The best way to make young people acquainted with contemporary art is to get real works of art in their hands, but unfortunately the cost of art work is forbidding for young people. However, Muka's Art For Young People offers an opportunity for young people aged 5 - 18 to view an exhibition of lithographs without adults present, and to purchase a maximum of three art works. Well-known local and overseas artists have produced small original lithographs to be sold exclusively to young people. All works are sold at a uniform low price and artists' names are covered during the show. Bring your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends!
 

Come along and hear Auckland performance artist Philip Dadson talk about his work in the current exhibition Modern Physics as well as his broader art practice.

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[image caption: Philip Dadson, Breath of Wind 2008, video, audio. Commissioned by Television Spaceman for TVNZ's New ArtLand Series. Courtesy of Starkwhite, Auckland]

Come along and hear Auckland artist Steve Carr talk about his work in the exhibition From the Depths of Suburbia: photo-media from Auckland, as well as his broader art practice.

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Auckland artist Darren Glass is the current contributor to the artist billboard project at Te Tuhi.  Darren's photographs result from a blend of rigorously controlled testing and deliberate incorporations of accident.  Since 1990 he has constructed a wide array of cameras, from his camera Frisbees which expose photographic film while literally being flung through the air, to static sculptural objects built to capture multiple photographic viewpoints.  In this new work, Darren presents a set of photographs that negotiate the transitory site of the Billboards. 

Come along and hear Darren discuss his practice and his contribution to Te Tuhi's billboard project.

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Come along and hear Auckland artist Geoffrey Health talk about his work in the exhibition From the Depths of Suburbia: photo-media from Auckland, as well as his broader art practice.

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Come along and hear Auckland artist Yvonne Todd talk about her work in the exhibition From the Depths of Suburbia: photo-media from Auckland, as well as her broader art practice.

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Come along and hear art dealer Anna Miles in conversation with photographer Edith Amituanai in response to the themes and works included in the exhibition From the Depths of Suburbia: photo-media from Auckland. Edith will be discussing her work in the exhibition and her recent portrait and interior work taken in France, Samoa, Alaska and West Auckland.

Edith Amituanai was born in 1980 and brought up in West Auckland by Samoan parents who settled in Christchurch. Her photographs work across the portrait/interior divide and typically traverse the idea of home. In 2007, Edith was the inaugural recipient of the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award. In 2008, Dejeuner, her exhibition of portraits of France-based New Zealand Samoan rugby players and the interiors of Christchurch homes where these players were raised, was selected for the Auckland Art Gallery Walters Prize. Edith is represented by Anna Miles Gallery.

view exhibition and download the recording of the talk here.

Nanette Cameron School of Interior Design and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts present: 

An Interior Design lunchtime talk with guest speaker:
Dr Rachel Carley, Senior Lecturer and Head of Interior Design Department, UNITEC

Dr Rachel Carley, will be presenting her paper 'Interior Convolutions' which critically examines the British sculptor Rachel Whiteread's public sculpture, Nameless Library, 1996-2000, a holocaust memorial in Judenplatz Square, Vienna. For this project, the artist designed an inverted library in concrete, whose proportions were derived from those found in a room surrounding the square. While the majority of critics refer to this memorial as an 'inside out'
library, Rachel Carely argues that Whiteread's design complicates the apparent simplicity of the inversion and that Whiteread's design elaborately convolutes relationships between sculpture and architecture, container and contained, private and public, interior and façade, as well as domestic and civic scales.

Rachel Carley completed her PhD in Architecture in 2006. Her PhD thesis titled Whiteread's Soundings of Architecture, moulds a series of contours between the British artist Rachel Whiteread's sculptures and architectural discourse. Her thesis explores the complex ways in which the artist enlists architectural drawing and modeling practices to shed light on the rich interior lives of quotidian spaces and typological structures frequently overlooked. Rachel Carley' s current post doctoral research critically examines the relationship between contemporary architecture and fine art practices both within New Zealand and abroad. Since 1994, Carley has also been designing slip cast, earthenware ceramics that have been extensively published in New Zealand design magazines.

Performance and Workshop with Atamira Dance Company

Join Atamira for a special 30 minute performance to celebrate Matariki,  featuring excerpts from 'Memoirs of Active Service' and 'Starlight Ballroom' .

After the performance join choreographer Maaka Pepene and the dancers from Atamira for a workshop exploring telling a narrative through contemporary dance. Learn some creative ways to share your own stories through dance. The workshop will include a casual warm-up with the company followed by a series of fun choreographic tasks led by the choreographer.

Performance
Saturday 11th July, 1.00 pm. 
Venue: Te Tuhi's Auditorium
All welcome, no charge

Free Workshop with Maaka Pepene and members of the Atamira Dance Collective.
Saturday 11th July,  2.00 - 4.00 pm
Venue: Te Tuhi's Auditorium
suitable for ages 13 to Adults, no charge

Bookings:  To attend the workshop and/or performance please contact Renee by phoning 577 0138 ext 7706 or emailing renee@tetuhi.org.nz

Get here and home for FREE! - Catch a free bus to and from Te Tuhi.
12.30 pm meet outside ARTSPACE at 300 Karangahape Rd. 2 return trips at 2.00pm and 4.00pm

Maaka Pepene went to the best performing arts school for six years - the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. He also studied dance at the UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts, and has been performing for over a decade with companies such as Atamira Dance Collective, Touch Compass, Auckland Dance Company, Black Grace, Taiao Dance Theatre, Pacific Sisters and for The World of Wearable Arts in Wellington.  Maaka has choreographed, directed and performed for theatre, film and television in Taiwan, Australia, the U.S.A and throughout Aotearoa.

His choreographic work includes The Whale Rider Stage Production. Maaka's debut full length work inspired by the 28th Maori Battalion and choreographed for the Year of the Veteran 'Memoirs of Active Service' was named the NZ Listeners "Best New Work by an Emerging Choreographer" in 2006.

To learn more visit Atamira Dance Collective

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts would like to thank Atamira Dance Collective,DANZ (Dance Aotearoa New Zealand), COGS (Community Organisation Grants Scheme) and Creative New Zealand for their support in making this performance and workshop possible.

Celebrate Matariki at Te Tuhi this year with Storyteller Taini Drummond.  Come along and be entranced by a traditional Maori tale of the natural world. See the story come alive with songs, dance and puppetry.

Suitable for kindergarten aged children.  All Welcome.  If you would like to come along as a kindergarten group, please contact Renee with an indication of numbers on  577 0138 ext 7706 or email renee@tetuhi.org.nz.

For a full programme of events celebrating Matariki in Auckland visit the Matariki Festival website

Fresh from their European tour, with appearances in Paris, Prague and Berlin, The Trons are coming to Pakuranga! Join us for a free afternoon gig at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts.

A completely home built robot band, the Trons are made mostly from old computer and mechanical parts and play original songs using an array of old amps and instruments. Their performance on YouTube has already registered 750,000 viewings. This is your opportunity to see them live! Band members: Ham (vox and rhythm guitar), Wiggy (single string lead guitar), Swamp (drums), Fifi (keyboards, one hand working!) Vist The Trons on myspace

Get here and home for FREE! - Catch a free bus to and from Te Tuhi.
1.30pm meet outside ARTSPACE at 300 Karangahape Rd

Sarah Munro's current works explore ambiguities between actual and illusory form. First initiated during her Frances Hodgkins Fellowship residency in 2006, this series stems out of her intimate knowledge of program CAD (Computer Aided Design) which has a range of industrial applications both for generating mass produced and one off objects. Munro toys with the way CAD represents onscreen previews of three-dimensional form by re-rendering these exaggerated shadows into the surface of her objects. Her illusory light effects generate highly perceptual experiences of form.

Come along and hear Sarah talk about her current work at Te Tuhi and her broader art practice.

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Join us as for a performance by John Lyall in response to his ten drawings featured in Select > Effect > Export. The performance will be followed by an artist's floor talk with refreshments provided.

It is thirty years since Lyall began this painstakingly detailed body of drawings. Lyall constructed ten detailed mazes by hand that numerically reveal the order in which they have been created. He states, 'I was interested in the idea of turning myself into a machine to subvert my every natural instinct in art making. The works are everything I'm not to the nth degree'.

First performed in Sarajevo, Lyall's politically layered performance attempts to come to terms with a lost technology in the drawings and the time that has passed since they were created.

Get here and home for FREE! - Catch a free bus to and from Te Tuhi.
1.30pm meet outside ARTSPACE at 300 Karangahape Rd

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Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts presents the HOME New Zealand Design Awards 2009, showcasing the best local talent in the furniture and object-making fields. Selected items representing the most innovative entries will be exhibited including the winning design as judged by renowned UK designer Edward Barber. The exhibition will be on from 17 April to 24 May.

Opening preview
6.00pm Thursday 16 April

Designers' Talk
7.00pm Wednesday 13th May
Hear Design Awards finalists Simon James, Jamie McLellan and David Moreland in conversation with HOME New Zealand editor Jeremy Hansen.

This years judge Edward Barber studied architecture at the Royal College of Art in London and currently works in partnership with Jay Osgerby in their London based design studio BarberOsgerby. Their celebrated designs are found in many permanent collections globally including the V&A Museum, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Design Museum, London.
http://www.barberosgerby.com/. Prior to the design awards exhibition Barber will give a public discussion of his work at Te Tuhi on Wednesday 11 March.

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German born artist Boris Dornbusch immigrated to New Zealand in 2001 after spending an extended period of his life in Yugoslavia. His work explores social histories and questions definitions of the individual within the onslaught of popular culture. Dornbusch is also this years recipient of the annual Iris Fisher scholarship, which rewards an outstanding visual arts student enrolled in an Auckland tertiary institution. The scholarship is a partnership between Te Tuhi and the Fisher Trust. Come along and hear Boris talk about his current work at Te Tuhi and his broarder art practice.

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Shigeyuki Kihara is a Samoan-born multimedia and performance artist currently based between Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. Kihara's work is based on an investigative research relating to the indigenous cultures of the Pacific - and more specifically to Samoan culture, history and spirituality - pointing to how its principles can be applied to her urban environment. 

Join us in hearing Shigeyuki Kihara discuss her work included in the current exhbition F for Fake, as well as her broarder art pracitce.

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Come along and hear Karl F Sim, aka C F Goldie the famed New Zealand art forger talk about his work and life.  

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In this bewildering new world of Photoshop, CGI and plastic surgery, how do we know what's real anymore?

Join Director of ArtSpace and Curator of the current exhibition F for Fake, on a tour of the exhibition and indepth discussion on the concepts and artists included in F for Fake.

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Don't miss Te Tuhi's magic show with professional magician Tony Wilson.  Everyone gets to be a part of the show so come along children and bring your parents too. There will be plenty of fun and entertaining tricks for all to enjoy, including white doves transformed into a live rabbits!

Sorry, this talk has been postponed. A new date will be posted ASAP.

Recently Te Tuhi presented the first long term commissioned artwork by Auckland artist Julian Dashper. As one of New Zealand's most prolific contemporary artists, Dashper exhibits regularly throughout New Zealand and internationally.  Come along and hear Julian talk about this recent project and broader art practice.  

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Edward Barber is one-half of the acclaimed British design duo BarberOsgerby. He and his design partner, Jay Osgerby, studied architecture together at the Royal College of Art in London and established their firm in 1996. Since then, they have experienced a dizzying rise to prominence, with works now included in the collections of London's Victoria & Albert Museum and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Barber and Osgerby's acclaimed designs have included chairs, tables, fabric and lamps as well as interiors, including those of fashion designer Stella McCartney's stores. They have accepted commissions as diverse as designing furniture for a cathedral on England's south coast and dining chairs for the famed modernist De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea.

Edward Barber will be in New Zealand in March for the first time to judge the HOME New Zealand Design Awards 2009.  The awards showcase the best local talent in the furniture and object-making fields.  Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts is presenting the HOME New Zealand Design Awards from April 13th - 3rd May.  Selected items representing the most innovative entries will be exhibited including the winning design.

Don't miss the chance to meet and hear Edward Barber disucuss his work at Te Tuhi.  Edward will be giving two separate talks on Wednesday 11th March.

Wednesday 11th March | $25
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, in the Auditorium
$25, tickets must be purchased prior to the 2nd March by phoning 577 0138, emailing enquiries@tetuhi.org.nz or visiting the front desk at Te Tuhi. 
 
Two talks:
12.30pm    light lunch included
7.30pm      wine and cheese served

For more information contact Renee Tanner on 577 0138 ext 7706 or renee@tetuhi.org.nz
To learn more about Edward Barber visit:  http://www.barberosgerby.com/

This exciting opportunity to hear a top English designer has been made possible by the Nanette Cameron Interior Design Guild and HOME New Zealand Magazine.

Auckland artist Richard Orjis is the current contributor to the artist billboard project at Te Tuhi, in this new work Orjis uses the letters YES spaced over individual billboards, which typographically references the logo of the US religious cult Heavens Gate. Come along and hear Richard discuss his practice and the billboard project.

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"At HOME New Zealand, we like to showcase the best New Zealand homes as well as the things that go in them. In this series of talks, I'll be introducing you to three key people behind the creation of our spring issue: Architect Adam Mercer, who designed a beautiful Hamilton home, artist Trudie Kroef, who stars in our lineup of the best New Zealand object makers, and photographer Patrick Reynolds, who photographs much of New Zealand's best architecture."
Jeremy Hansen, Editor

7pm | duration 1hr | $10 per night
refreshments served

Invited speakers:

Adam Mercer has architecture in his blood - he grew up in the Waikato where his father, Dick, was a prominent architect and a contemporary of the Group Architects who were so influential in the 1950s. Adam worked with the builders of his father's designs as he was growing up and after attending architecture school and taking over his father's practice has incorporated this love of precision craft in his beautifully detailed buildings. One of his current projects, a complex of three apartments in central Hamilton, is featured in the current issue of HOME New Zealand and manages to debunk a number of myths simultaneously: it proves multi-unit inner-city living can be spacious and stylish, that lovingly crafted interiors lend great warmth to a home, and that downtown Hamilton is an increasingly appealing place to live. Adam also recently completed the restoration and expansion of a historic bach on the shores of Lake Tarawera, as well as the renovation of one of his father's early designs in the Waikato.

Patrick Reynolds is New Zealand's best-known architectural photographer. The son of two prominent architects, Marilyn and Ian Reynolds, he captures images of the country's finest buildings for publications including HOME New Zealand and Architecture New Zealand, as well as being published in many overseas periodicals. He also has a burgeoning artistic practice. Last year marked the publication of New New Zealand Houses, a best-seller by Patrick and writer John Walsh. This year, he has collaborated with writer and architect Pip Cheshire on Architecture Uncooked, a celebration of great (and hitherto little-known) New Zealand baches and alpine getaways.

Trudie Kroef is an object-maker who defies categorisation in any particular medium. She started out as a glass artist, but in recent years she has experimented with ceramics and wood-turning techniques to produce a unique body of work that is capturing art-world attention. Her last series, The Tomb of the Unknown Maker, involved the painstaking recreation in wood and ceramics of a series of common domestic items including a coffee maker and icing syringes, and was intended to reclaim credit for these works on behalf of their now-anonymous designers. Her work is included in the collection of Te Papa and in many private collections.

Passion Dance Crew will be performing for the Manukua Youth Art Awards Opening Event. 

"Passion is an all female dance crew combining funky, fresh innovative moves with a splash of natural ability and of course passion! Our purpose is to touch the hearts of the Youth! To move those who have never been moved before! And to inspire people around us! In our community, city and the world!" Christina Hano, Passion Crew Manager

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respond-response is a participatory art project established by two Auckland based artists: Carolyn Milbank and Colleen Altagracia. Each artist has an individual studio practice in sculpture but also collaborates for the respond-response projects.

This time they set out to explore the tattoo for project #2. A request was made to provide stories, reasons and image of the markings on the body; i.e. tatau, moko, henna, scar, temptoo, airbrush, body art, tribal or contemporary tattoo.

The outcome of the project is in the form of a catalogue. All participant's stories and images are featured in a sixty-page colour catalogue including an essay by Ema Tavola, writer and curator of Fresh Gallery, Otara. The participants' contributions provide a personal and honest insight into their associations with the mark on their body, which is often experienced in no more than a fleeting glance.

Auckland based sculptor Ruth Watson will be dicussing her new major project Entangled, currently on show at Te Tuhi.  Ruth will focus her discussion on how this project has evolved in terms of her overall practice.

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Image: Ruth Watson, Entangled (Spade), 2007, mixed media.
Courtesy of Two Rooms, Auckland. Photograph by Jennifer French

Auckland Festival 2007 really made an impact on the city. It started with a visual feast of French fireworks a tightly curated programme of 66 events, major free events and a comprehensive visual arts program. Britomart (The Red Square) home of The Spiegel Tent (La Clique) and the Festival Club, became 'the place to be" llona Rodgers, Friends of the Festival co-ordinator
 
Next Auckland Festival : 5 - 22 March 2009.
In anticipation of the 2009 Festival  llona Rodgers will lead you through the programme for the 2009 festival.  Come November you will be well  prepared to make some choices that will stimulate your taste for cutting edge events from both here and around the world. 

This is a FREE public talk and all are welcome.
If you would like to attend please email renee@tetuhi.org.nz

"We are a group of young teenages who have been motivated by some of the top dance crews in New Zealand to create our own group. We are called FaithOne because we needed faith to pursue and fulfil our dream to dance and dances we see ourselves equally as one. What makes our dance unique is we have choreographed it ourselves with a uniquely island style turned hip hop. We want to show people what we're made of in our own way and that we are proud of what we have become and achieved"

Group members: Lizzy, Carnie, Jessie, Rahui, Ramari, Pe Irangi

Come along and support FAITHONE dance crew when they perform at:

New Zealand National Hip Hop Competition | 25th October at ASB Stadium Kohimarama
Summer Festival | 11am & 1pm at Westfield, Pakuranga
Otara Market, in association with the Manukau Festival of Arts | 11am on the Otara stage

PKN_AKL_09 a collaboration between Pecha Kucha Nights Auckland Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Pecha Kucha - which originated in Tokyo - is a unique, rapid-fire format in which each speaker shows 20 images, each for 20 seconds. With each presentation lasting just 6 minutes and 40 seconds, the audience experiences an exhilarating variety of ideas and projects.

List of speakers who have confimed so far:
Florian Habicht// film maker//
Claire Cowan//artist, musician//
Barney MacDonald//allrounder// see no evil, hear no evil
Uwe Rieger // architect UoA //reactive architecture
Alex Monteith//artist//recent time-based projects
Kirsty Cameron//costume designer, film maker//
Malcolm Taylor // architect // drawing a new reality
Oliver Kraft// design editor// on Purple South, NZ international design label
James Pinker//sound artist//Holiwater / Indian Music CoLab
Dean Roberts//sound artist//
Pip Cheshire//architect//
Nova Paul//video artist/academic//
Luke and Kimberlee Munn//illustration and interactivity, www.werkhaus.co.nz//
A.D.Schierning//artist//
Jenny Laycock//artist//two months of learning among other things

Full list available soon.
Please also visit the Pecha Kucha website for updates and for more information of Pecha Kucha globally visit:http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

Pecha Kucha is for CONTENT, not for profit.

Join us for this heart-warming and award winning documentary. 

RUN GRANNY RUN
Director: Marlo Poras
Year: 2007, USA
Running time: 76 mins
With: Doris "Granny D" Haddock

Marlo Poras' humorous and heartwarming documentary about Doris Haddock 'Granny D', a political novice with virtually no resources, who at 90 years of age, laced up her sneakers and walked across America in a feisty campaign to rally against the influence of big money in elections and personifying her democratic ideal of a government by and for the people.

Screening organised by the Green Party of Aotearoa.
6.45pm - doors open for ticket sales
7.00pm - Metiria Turei MP, introduces the local area Green Candidate
7.15pm - Movie starts
8.45pm - Tea/Coffee served with biscuits provided thanks to Angel Food

To book contact Peter Bankers: peter.bankers@allianceceit.co.nz, 09 534 7634
or simply purchase a ticket at the door.

Related films will be made available throughout the duration of the exhibition at the: 

Auckland Office of the New Zealand Film Archive
Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton,
Hours: Monday - Friday: 11.00am - 5.00pm, Saturday: 11.00am - 4.00pm


For programme details visit Auckland Film Archive  
For further exhbition details visit Land Wars

Storytelling Wednesdays with Taini Drummond
Celebrate Matariki and be entranced by traditional Maori tales of the natural world, told by Taini Drummond. See stories come alive with songs, dance, puppetry.

Hangi Feast at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
Come along and take part in a Hangi feast.

Wednesday 2nd July from 11am
Free

For bookings and enquiries please contact Renee Tanner, Public Programmes Coordinator, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts on 577 0138 ext 7706 or renee@tetuhi.org.nz

A nation wide network of alternative Craftmarkets which embodies arts, crafts, music, baking, mixtape dropping, geeks, sweet things, all the things that those involved are sure some of you dream of.

We are so excited to have Craftwerk visiting us on the 3rd of May to make a super gigantic event combined with the Te Tuhi Summer Market.  There will be all the ususal treats, plus more! So start savign those pennies. 

From 10am to 4pm there will be lovely live music with bands;  The Spoils (melb), Seth & Merle (wgtn), Ryan Cardno (ak) and Too Many Cats (ak).

Yes, yes, it is quite some way from the Craftwerk home base of St Kevin's Arcade on K'rd, but there will be a FREE bus leaving outside ARTSPACE at 1:30pm and returning back around 4pm. There's even lovely muuuusic on the ride! The bus will also be bringing people out to the Exhibition Opening at 2pm.

And thats not all Te Tuhi and Craftwerk are up to. We're also holding a Craftwerk Workshop where participants will learn how to make some speical treats on Saturday 12th of July at Te Tuhi.  Think knitting, sewing, and embroidery but without the rocking chairs and grey hair. This wool is spun a little differently! Spaces will be limited so to put you name down for this workshop please email renee@tetuhi.org.nz 

Craftwerk:
A nation-wide network of alternative Craftmarkets which embodies arts, crafts, music, sweet things, baking, mixtape dropping, geeks, and all other things that we know you dream of. For those who aren't familair with who/what is Craftwerk you'll love learning about them here: Craftwerk.

And for more information on the Te Tuhi Summer Market, keep reading below.

Come along to the Tuhi Summer Market.
Supporting New Zealand designed products and local growers produce.

upcoming Market dates
2nd February, 1st March, 5th April, 3rd May

Where & When
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts | 10am to 2pm

For further information and to becoming a stall holder, contact Renée Tanner; 577 0138,  renee@tetuhi.org.nz

Alida van Klink, Jellybones' hand crafts
Margaret Mann, ALVITA nuts, seeds and muesli
Alison Harris, handcrafted jewellery
Shirley Vann, antiques and collectables
Sarah Eades, RUOK? badges
Ora Brenner, soy wax candles
Kate Sellar, Caravan Couture
Ross Nicholson, promoting the Tamaki Estuary Protection Society
Virginia&Angelia,V+A textile products
Christine Robson&Jacqui Lawson, textile brooches
Annette Lauder Nut and Bee
Kate Shuttleworth, Fossage
Kimberlee Munn & Lies Vandersande,  ANEMONE
Rhondah Rhombus  the Anti Fashion League
Sonya Kraus, MonkeyCraft
Annabel Taylor Hung Up

Visit Kimberlee's blogsite review of Te Tuhi Summer Market and some great pictures from Feb 2nd:http://anemonecrafts.blogspot.com/

Bang-Town Productions presents: GET'EM OFF!!

Come along to a fantastic Krump* and Hip-Hop night at Te Tuhi.  Krumping is world wide dance phenomenon which has now become a part of mainstream hip-hop culture. This event is organised by a group of young locals with a huge amount of energy to share with their audience. Come along and support their first session on Thursday 24th Jan, then again on the following Thursday before they go back to school.  Visit their website to learn more, at Tha Bang-Town Session

Thanks to all the groups who came along to the first session on 24th. Looking forward to having you again:
Swiss              Impact          GMan
Sik Kidz           Rampant

Keep in touch to find out the dates of upcoming Krump Sessions. Contact Renee: 577 0138 for updates.

*Krumping: A form of dance that originated in South Central Los Angeles, California. This dance movement is free; it's expressive and highly energetic. Its performers mostly use it as a way to express who they are and what they're feeling.

Crew members of GET'EM OFF: from left, Ryan(Axton), Alex (Jr Nuisance), Victor (Stonex), Steven (Bless).

Interested in starting or developing your art collection? Here is an opportunity to learn directly from a selection of Auckland's key industry professionals with a seminar series on collecting contemporary New Zealand art.

Speakers include:
Melanie Roger of Roger Williams Contemporary
Sue Gardiner, Chartwell Collection
Paul Baragwanath, Director of ART Ltd Art Consultancy
Hamish Coney, Managing Director, Art + Object

Delmaine Fine Foods Ltd has kindly provided food for this event.

7pm | duration 1 hour | $10 per night
Wed 5th March, Wed 12th March, Wed 19th March, Wed 26th March

Auckland artist James McCarthy will perform on his sonic wall drawing with a selection of fellow Auckland musicians who are members of the Auckland Improvisation Collective. James is the current contributor to Te Tuhi's ongoing drawing wall project. His work "Powersound" is a drawing made up of steel and piano wire to acoustically respond to the surrounding architecture. Artists included in the performance will be Paul Winstanley, Andrew McMillan, Paul Buckton and Zoe Drayton.
 

'Performance': listen to Auckland artist James McCarthy perform his sonic drawing 'Powersound'. James performed his drawing at the opening preview of the exhibition and the work will be viewable for the duration of the exhibition | 17th November 2007 - 10th February 2008.   James would also like to encourage visitors to play his sonic drawing.