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Textile Conservation: The Restoration of Forest in the Sun

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

Forest in the sun, by renowned textile artist Joan Calvert, was created specifically for the large Tākaka marble wall of the Beehive. The abstract design evokes the experience of walking across the forest floor, looking up at the sun filtering through the canopy. Joan Calvert collaborated with weavers Jean Ngan and Dorothea Turner, who took […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Len Lye, Animation and Surrealism

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

Join Victoria University Art Historian Raymond Spiteri as he discusses the development of the film practice of Len Lye, and its proximity to surrealism. While surrealism does provide one reference point for the development of his practice, Lye did not identify closely with the movement. Instead, he drew on broader currents of modernist primitivism, the interest in Freud’s writings, and the effects of mechanization in his practice, to produce an amalgam that echoed surrealist practice while maintaining a modicum of distance.

$25.00 – $30.00

Floor Talk: Encounters – The Portrait Room

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

The portrait room, Nga tai whakarongorua | Encounters, has been at the heart of Te Papa’s Toi Art galleries since their opening in 2018. We’ll be saying goodbye to these much-loved faces very soon. Join Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator Historical New Zealand Art, before the gallery closes, to hear about the ideas underpinning the exhibition, […]

$20.00 – $25.00

The Unsettled: The Forgotten Corners of our Settler-Colonial Histories and What We Can Do About Them

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

Join author Richard Shaw as he takes us through his new book, The Unsettled (2024, MUP), which is based on responses he received to an earlier account of his great-grandfather’s participation in the invasion of Parihaka and the farming of confiscated land in Taranaki. Richard will reflect on the reasons why troubling aspects of our […]

$25.00 – $30.00

What Happened Down Inaha Road: The Historical Geography of South Taranaki

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

Join Richard Willis, Victoria University Senior Associate, School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, as he gives us fascinating insight into the rich and varied history of Inaha Road, in South Taranaki. Beginning with the original settler iwi descended from the Aotea Waka, Ngati Ruanui and Ruahine, and the Twin Pas – Waimate and Orangi […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Artist Talk: Tim Christie

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

Tim Christie is a New Zealand-based multi-disciplinary artist. His art practice emerged from a series of explorations where he examined the intersection between geometric design and figurative form. Starting with pure digital art his practice now includes original paintings, lightworks, weavings and immersive experiences. His unique style has been described as a modern synthesis of […]

$20.00 – $25.00

Discovering New Deep-Sea Species – An Expedition to one of Aotearoa’s Least Explored Places

Te Papa Tory Street 169 Tory Street, Wellington

Earlier this year, Te Papa scientists Andrew Stewart, Thom Linley and Kerry Walton, along with NIWA, were granted a rare opportunity by Ocean Census—a 21-day expedition with the singular goal of discovering as many new species as possible. After pooling their data, there was clearly an area of New Zealand’s marine environment they knew next to nothing about: the Bounty Trough, likely the world's oldest sediment transport system.

$25.00 – $30.00

Shared Histories, Connected Futures: The Entangled Relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa – Morning Session

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The island nation of Sāmoa is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but it also has a turbulent history of colonisation and occupation by foreign powers, primarily New Zealand and Germany. Following the Tripartite Convention in 1899, Sāmoa first became a German protectorate. The German administration, while making German an official language and introducing […]

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Shared Histories, Connected Futures: The Entangled Relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa – Afternoon Session

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The island nation of Sāmoa is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but it also has a turbulent history of colonisation and occupation by foreign powers, primarily New Zealand and Germany. Following the Tripartite Convention in 1899, Sāmoa first became a German protectorate. The German administration, while making German an official language and introducing […]

Free

Directing Shows within the ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘The Tempestuous’ Time Periods

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

Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility’ in the late 1700's / early 1800’s where the décolletage was in vogue, and Shakespeare was writing in the late 16th Century where women were entirely banished from the stage. From the dawn of time, women have been portrayed as mothers, lovers or strumpets. Accessories to the male protagonist […]

$25.00 – $30.00