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Curator’s Talk: TATAU: Sāmoan tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Join Te Papa Senior Curator Sean Mallon as he discusses his long term research on Sāmoan Tattooing and the stories behind the recent publication TATAU: Sāmoan tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture (2010 and 2023).  This book is the first to cover the 3,000-year history of Sāmoan tattooing, and remarkably, the tools for making Sāmoan tatau remained largely unchanged from the 1800s through to the late 20th century.

$25.00

Talk: Filling the Gap: 5 Years of Shorebird Surveys in North Korea

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Join author and New Zealand Order of Merit recipient Keith Woodley as we hear about the work of Pūkorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust conducting five years of shorebird surveys in reclusive North Korea, and the discovery of internationally important sites for shorebirds.  Each year thousands of shorebirds migrate between New Zealand and breeding grounds in Alaska and Siberia. The best known of these are bar-tailed godwits that make the longest non-stop flights of any land bird. Storing fat before they depart our shores in March, they then take a nonstop flight to tidal flats in the Yellow Sea region of China and Korea, where they stage for several weeks replenishing fuel reserves, before resuming the journey to the Alaskan tundra.

$25.00 – $30.00

Behind the Scenes: Te Papa Cyclone Gabrielle Response

Angus Room, L3 Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from Te Papa's National Services Head of Sector Victoria Esson and Head of Maturanga Maori Migoto Eria as they give us a moving firsthand […]

$25.00

Author’s Talk: Our Land in Colour

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Join us for a wonderful opportunity to hear from New Zealand's leading historian and author Jock Phillips and digital colourist Brendan Graham on their new publication Our Land in Colour (2023, […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Talk: Francis Pound on Gordon Walters

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Visiting Auckland University Professor, Art Historian and Author Leonard Bell will give us wonderful insight on both the art of Gordon Walters (1919-1995) and the writing of Francis Pound
(1948-2017), in particular his just-published monograph on Walters (Auckland University Press, September 2023) and the circumstances of its writing and publication.

$25.00 – $30.00

Chinese Footprints: A Wellington Walking Tour of Chinese History

Poon Fah Rooms, 150 Vivian Street

**Sold Out**Chinese Footprints, led by Lynette Shum (Oral History Advisor, Alexander Turnbull Library) and Nigel Murphy (community historian) will take attendees on a walking tour exploring the rich history of the Chinese in Wellington, much of which has been erased and is now largely invisible to passers-by.

$25.00 – $30.00

Talk: Hundertwasser: Art, Architecture and Environment

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

The Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery celebrates art and architecture in harmony with nature and individual creativity. The Austrian New Zealand artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser was first and foremost a painter, but became involved in architecture and environmental activism because of his concerns about the exploitation of natural resources and ruthless urbanisation and industrialisation.

$25.00 – $30.00

Floor Talk: Arranging Nature and Wayne Barrar: From the Glass Archive

Toi Art, Level 4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Join us for a Curator-led Floor Talk in Toi Art on new exhibitions Arranging Nature and Wayne Barrar: From the Glass Archive. Explore how Aotearoa’s natural world has been described and classified by artists and photographers since the 19th century; and discover the intricate beauty of Diatoms!

$15.00 – $20.00