What we have to say - renegade radio is live now here at Toi Pōneke HUB ! Pop in to hear shared stories about cross cultural encounters in the arts and morning tea! 🎵🎧❤️🐉💥🍉🥟🎤📻#aaah #wgtncc
Last minute reminder about the Te Kooti symposium at Te Papa tomorrow. If your interested in hearing about how Te Kooti has positively influenced Aotearoa New Zealand get along to Te Papa tomorrow morning.
$20 per ticket, which also pays for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
Next Week starting Monday is Te Reo Māori language week. To celebrate there is a planned hikoi from Parliament to Te Ngākau (Civic Square).
Meeting between 10.00am - 11.00am at Parliament grounds the procession is schedules to start at 12pm and finish at Te Ngākau at 12.45pm.
**Suffrage 125** Get your diaries out! WCC have supported 2 exciting public art projects marking the 125th anniversary of Women's Suffrage: Mausina by Mau on 19 September and Over Time by Public Share on 28 November. Check link for more details:
Welcome to the Toi Pōneke team, Sascha Perfect. Our new Public Programmer who started here with the team on Monday.
Sascha is a Wellington based producer, vocalist & performance artist. Recently, Sascha has been working with The Performance Arcade, Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, Cuba Creative & Stroma.
Welcome again Sascha we are so happy to have you here. If wish to contact Sascha you can email her here Sascha.Perfect@wcc.govt.nz
Taupuruariki Brightwell Leala Faleseuga Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho Rex Paget Janice aka Hy-bee Ikiua Pasi-Taito
Curated by Leilani A. Sio
21 September – 13 October Opening: Thursday 20 September 5.30pm
The Future is Death, curated by Leilani Sio aka Panda, asks what place migrant people have in a colonised land. Emerging Pasifika artists reimagine a new existence for their people.
The artists in this Tautai exhibition use digital and mixed media, soundscape/spoken word, zines, photography and sculpture to expose how colonisation has blurred the ancestral connections of Tangata Whenua and Tangata O Le Moana. The Future is Death explores how to break free of the past and create a future free of the limits of somebody else’s imagination and structures
Saturday 29 September 1 - 4pm Raw Fish Live panel discussion The Bungas Have Landed!
Saturday 6 October 1pm Artist/curator’s talk: Taupuruariki Brightwell and Leilani A Sio Hiro’s Progeny
Former Toi Poneke Arts Centre artist Isabella Loudon has new works showing at Robert Heald Gallery from Thursday 6 September to Saturday 29 September.
Isabella had her first solo show, I do not want to be a fool, here at Toi Pōneke last year. Disintegration Loops is a new work that will be showing alongside artist Sonya Lacey.
**On Tonight** Head out of the cold and into the heady mix of Open Late at City Gallery:
Aaron Frater has some new work showing at Black Coffee this Thursday 6 September 6.00 - 9.00pm 133 Riddiford Street, Newtown.
If your around the area please get along to see some awesome work with safety mesh as a material.
If you are interested in being involved in the organisation of Girls Rock camp Wellington. Their first hui is on this Thursday at Toi Pōneke in the community room at 7pm. See you there!
http://girlsrockcamp.co.nz/
email ali.burns@wcc.govt.nz with any questions”
What we have to say (is worth sharing with you) is a pop-up renegade radio station running as part of AAAH2018 festival programme.
Hosted by AAAH2018, Wellington Access Radio and featuring Lynda Chanwai-Earle, this renegade radio station will run for two consecutive Saturdays (8 and 15 September) before the Hui at Toi Pōneke Art Centre in Central Wellington.
If you want more information on some on what's scheduled for Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui during the month of September, follow this link here
https://www.aaah.org.nz/festival-events/
*Deadline Extended**
Toi Pōneke Gallery is calling for proposals with a Māori kaupapa from Wellington curators and artists for an exhibition during the Matariki festival in 2019.
The exhibition will open in late June and run through to mid-July.
Deadline: 30 November 2018
**New Work to Asia - applications open**
Creative New Zealand is offering artists and practitioners, across art forms, the opportunity to build stronger artistic and cultural connections in Asia through two funds - check the link for more details. Closing 19 October.
Next Monday (3rd September) Youthline Wellington is hosting a community education event with guest speakers from InsideOUT. They will be sharing with us some of the biggest issues rainbow youth are facing, and ways that we can support young people within this community. This practical workshop will be invaluable for anyone who works or volunteers with youth.
https://www.facebook.com/events/188588998586959/
Toi Pōneke NZSM Sound Artist in Residence 2018-19 CORY CHAMPION
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and New Zealand School of Music- Te Kōki are excited to announce Cory Champion as the recipient of the Toi Pōneke NZSM Sound Art Residency 2018-19.
The residency offers an opportunity for Wellington sound artists to develop and present unique works over a 12-week period, culminating in an exhibition and public programmes.
Over the summer Champion will be developing a performance work that aims to dissolve and augment the drum set while abstracting the roles of the audience, participant, improviser, or performer.
Champion is a graduate of New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōki and works as a composer and performer. He also performs as borrowed cs, writing and producing his own electronic music.
Mark Amery's Lowdown #16 is out.
Check it out below
On this weekend! friends of Toi Pōneke are having a fundraising show down the road:
PAINTING/DRAWING AWARD OPPORTUNITY!
Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards are open for entries and close December 1st. With $20,000 in awards for Painters and Drawers this award is to encourage and celebrate the development of painting and drawing on a national level and reward artists who create outstanding works.
The 4 Plinths Sculpture Award is open for submissions. These plinths are located outside of Te Papa Tongarewa and is planned will be installed in early 2020.
Proposals on A3 boards to be submitted by 2 November 2018
Interested? Click the link below to see the criteria.
Toi Poneke is a great arts centre for music and really good for my friend Andy Mauafua's screening for "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" on Wednesday 18th July 2018.
It's a really good place for all sorts of music and performing arts vibes,and great to hire out rooms for special things.
TS xxx
Love this place, so fully involved in their community they're a shining example of what community galleries can achieve while upholding the highest standards in contemporary art.
we have enjoyed every day we're in at Toi Poneke awesome residency for the Pukana exhibition