Blooming Cuba Dupa

Tuesday 15 March: 10am - 3pm

Drop-ins welcome!

Come and get involved in the creation of a fabulous pop-up Urban Garden for the Cuba Dupa Festival with REACT (Rangiwahia Environmental Arts Centre).

Using renewable, reuse and low impact resources we will be creating beautiful blooms, bugs and vines for the Leeds Street carpark transformation.

No experience required. Bring your enthusiasm.

Made possible with funding by Welly Council Arts and Culture Fund

Workshops in Flower making will also run during the Cuba Dupa Festival.

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Glam Up Ur Headwear

Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 March: 3pm - 5pm

All welcome to come and make fantastic head dresses, masks and hats to wear at Cuba Dupa Festival.

Resources and advice provided by the team from REACT.

Bring anything you may wish to use – cap base/old hat, snazzy bits.

I am Kathryn Armitage, a local photographer from Wellington and have recently been studying at The Photo School in Raumati, which is where my passion for Documentary Photography evolved. I have discovered that I have a huge interest in community and love connecting with people, places and gaining an understanding of different aspects of our community.

This photographic exhibition is about community and breaking down the barriers and the “box” which people are often put into.

These images a part of a project which is about love and acceptance – we are all the same on the inside and deserve to be loved, accepted and respected regardless of the way we express ourselves or choose to live our lifestyles.

Looking at the negative and positive experiences for which people in this community have experienced and though tailoring images to each person and their story, this project is about raising awareness towards a greater social acceptance.

Everyone is welcome to come along and view!

Constructed by Kate Bartlett, in collaboration with Rebecca Solomon, Our Catharsis is a performance work that looks to address the destabilising effects of life’s apparent fragility.

How do we wear our worry? In what form do we find cathartic release from this?

These notions of questioning are carried out through text, movement, and film to present a personal unfolding of events. We, two women with overlapping experiences, will share a semi-autobiographical account of our method for living; exposing the instances in which we find ways of coping...

of becoming

of projecting

of ending

Part of Wellington Fringe Festival 2016

LUCY is an exhibition that explores the nuances that make us human, the small details that our habits reveal about us. It offers the opportunity to explore the intimate nature of an individual's bedroom from the safety of a gallery.

The analytical approach to the subject matter allows the viewer to start their own investigation into the subtle changes in an individual’s space, documented by daily photographs, notes, and a small selection of objects.

This is Ivy Urquhart’s first exhibition, and is a project that she will continue to grow in the future. This is the first in a developing series.

Celebrating and empowering artists to tame Wellington’s boring walls.

Over the week three works will be completed outside the gallery in the streets of Wellington. Phlegm (UK) will cover a wall Jessie Street, local artist T-Wei is at work on Taranaki St, and a cohort of emerging artists take over Inverlochy Place.

Thistle Hall will host a space encouraging discussion around how we’re currently trying to tackle tagging, start to map out artworks that exist in the city and question what type of works we want in Wellington.

EVENT

Thursday 18 February, 6.30pm

Film screening: Dregs - A New Zealand Street Art Documentary

Read more on Phlegm's project - "Street artist Phlegm spruces up Wellington wall for Vivid festival" via Stuff NZ.

Copacetic. A wonderful word whose origin nobody can seem to agree on. I like the theory that it derives from Cajun French coup esètique / coupersètique, which means “able to cope with anything and everything”. When art is in my life, when I create, I feel like everything will work out, everything will be fine.

But it is not without paradox; it is old French slang for “final cut”, meaning the point beyond which something can no longer be changed. When I hang my art on the wall, I have to let it go. The creative effort has come to an end.

I am OK with that. I am taking the next copacetic steps to new works.

Thirty years ago four young women graduated from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and went their separate ways. Lan Zi, Wei Wei, Xiao Ling and Judy Huo are now back together to host an exhibition in Wellington. Their varied life experiences are reflected in their individual styles—but their shared love of painting remains unchanged. This exhibition will highlight the unique and shared Aspects of their works.

Opening to include a Tea Ceremony by Ms Huang Lihong of the Ming Tea Studio.

PrettyUgly is a group exhibition with a split personality - 'Pretty' on one side, 'Ugly' on the other.

Featuring art by Cory Mathis, Iain Anderson, Jane Peng, Marc Johnston, Simon Kao, Stacy James Eyles, Stacey Robson, Tom Robinson, T-Wei and Yoii.

A new sculptural body of work by Douglas Crane looking at the course of an imagery Empire, which is at best an allegory of our own world today. It is centred around five children's swimming pools.

JUST GOOD STUFF | 6 DAYS OF LOCAL CREATIVE CONSUMABLES

Works from a Collective of Artists, Designers and Makers in Wellington, New Zealand / Aotearoa.

A chance to see the lovely things we've been making, and maybe to find the perfect gift.

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The Young and The Restless is an exhibition showcasing young talented students from two local Wellington boys’ schools, Rongotai College and St Patrick’s College. This will be the first time most of the students will have exhibited their work in a public forum.

We hope through this exhibition to raise the public’s perception of what teenage boys are like and to display their more creative sensitive side. Hopefully the public will get to meet them in a positive and engaging environment.

The works are in a range of media—printmaking, painting, drawing and photography.