Events
City Acupuncture
In this workshop with Taiwanese architect, curator and writer Ching-Yueh Roan 阮慶岳, participants are invited to share three photos from their daily routes in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Drawing on the methodology of traditional Chinese acupuncture, these photos will serve as the starting point for a discussion on how to improve the quality of the city.
Julieth Morales - Woman Workshop
Morales' most recognized works is Mujeres jovenes hilando (Young women spinning), in which she made a minga (meeting of friends and neighbours to do some common work) with the women of her community so that the youngest could consolidate the practice of spinning and weaving wool, which has been forgotten.
Julieth Morales - Textiles Workshop
Julieth leads a creative workshop open to the community. The workshops revolve around disentangling and weaving to account for her own identity. This part takes a representative textile for the territory in which it is made, which contains the tradition and knowledge of the community.
Whakairo Soap Carvings –Ngaroma Riley
Come and learn 3D reduction carving techniques using soap with artist Ngaroma Riley (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri).
Raranga Wānanga – Frank Topia and Linda Lee
Join Frank Topia and Linda Lee for an introduction to raranga, weaving with harakeke, outside of their usual space at Ōtari Wilton’s Bush. We’ll discuss basic tikanga and you can see what the artist/s have been creating during the residency in unfinished form. You will walk away with your own small taonga at the end of the wānanga.
Dear Listener – Fantastical and Magical Creatures Workshop
Te Whare Hēra artists Rohan Trueman and Pip Rayner will show you how to create an imaginary creature in this fun drawing into sculpture workshop.
Disarming Privilege - a workshop facilitated by Latham Zearfoss
A collaboration between Te Whare Hēra and Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, this workshop follows Whiteness: a blinding view, a public talk on white power and privilege. The workshop, facilitated by our current artist in residence Latham Zearfoss, is intended to provide an exploratory space for Pākehā/white artists to engage with racial justice effectively and ethically.
Eduardo Abaroa workshop series - experimental drawing sessions
To Eduardo Abaroa drawing is an activity that can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of their profession, skill, or cultural background. His workshops are structured around a series of exercises, designed to open up the idea that drawing can be a catalyst for sensations and thoughts.
Chloé Quenum - Workshop Series: Fables
When a fable is retold, it becomes an adaptation: every storyteller shapes the narrative with their personal way of telling. These acts of transmission and interpretation add layers to narratives documented in both folklore and literature.
Chloé Quenum - Workshop Series: What’s Your Name?
Our given and inherited names invoke biographical, anthropological and whimsical narratives that transcend generations. They connect geography, history and symbolism influencing and giving the past a presence in our rich and manifold contemporary realities.
Tom Dale - Translation is a traitor and your friend
What happens when you take footage of a performance or an event and start to edit it?
Translation is a traitor and your friend was a two-day intensive workshop held by contemporary British artist Tom Dale.
Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko - HEALERS: ACTION, DANCE SESSIONS
Healers invited people with diverse backgrounds to join a collective performance and publication project related to health and healing.