March 2017

Toi Pōneke Music Stage at CUBA DUPA
25 & 26 March
Saturday 25 March 12pm – Midnight
Sunday 26 March 12.30pm – 4.15pm

For Cuba Dupa 2017, Toi Pōneke presents a Music Stage and Art Market. Come and experience the finest talent, local DJ's and electronica fused performances, featuring Tiki Taane, Rhombus in Dub, A Girl Named Mo, The Audio Mechanics and more.

The cash and carry Art Market will be bustling with local artists bringing their goods to Abel Smith Street. Stay tuned to our facebook events page for the full line up and more details.

Pictured: Tiki Taane Photograph by Wayne Tait

Opportunity

WARE artist in residence programme - call for proposals

Wellington City Council’s City Arts and Events team and the Asia New Zealand Foundation are calling for proposals from Wellington-based artists to take part in a residency at Xiamen’s prestigious Chinese European Art Centre (CEAC), an international centre for artists.

This year marks a change for the Wellington Asia Residency Exchange (WARE) programme with a move from our sister city, Beijing in the North to our sister city Xiamen, in the South. This year also marks the thirtieth anniversary of our sister city relationship with Xiamen.

Applications are open to visual artists for a three month residency starting this September. Artists must email their application as a PDF to Arts Programme Advisor, Katie Taylor-Duke by 5pm, Monday 3 April.

The application form and details are available from wellington.govt.nz and asianz.org.nz For more information, please contact: Katie.Taylor-Duke or phone 803 8021.

Asia New Zealand Foundation is calling for applications for their next round of arts grants. Grants are for arts organisations or individuals collaborating with Asian artists or working on projects with an Asian focus. Deadline: 5pm Monday 27 March

Wellington’s PARK(ing) Day

8am - 6pm Friday 10 March
Upper, mid and lower Cuba Street

In association with the Wellington City Council, Wellington Sculpture Trust is holding Wellington’s second version of PARK(ing) Day; providing temporary public open spaces one parking spot at a time.

To make it easy, a map will be available to show you the location of all car parks. The Wellington Sculpture Trust is also running a ‘people’s choice’ award for the day where the winner will receive $1000.

PARK(ing) Day is an annual global event which started in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. Since then it has evolved into a global movement, with organizations and individuals creating new forms of temporary public spaces in urban settings around the world.

Pictured: First Impressions SANNZ - Oliver Jordan, Shane Kumar, Elise Cautley, Riley Adams-Winch, Jason Tan & Tyler Harlen.

Get funded

Arts and Culture Grants

If you are organising an arts or cultural event, performance or workshop, you may be eligible for support from our Arts and Culture Fund.

We are looking for projects that best fit these four focus areas: the city as a hothouse for talent, Wellington as a region of confident identities, active and engaged people, and our creative future through technology.

Legally constituted community groups can make applications through the online funding portal until midnight Friday 31 March. This round is for project expenses that start after 3 May. For more information contact the Funding Team or Arts Advisor .

Pictured: Upstream Arts Trail school workshop. Photograph by Gabby O'Connor

Te Whare Hēra Lecture

Beyond Good and Bad Taste
Soraya Rhofir
6pm Thursday 2 March
The Pit – Te Ara Hihiko
(Block 12)
Massey University
Free

French artist Soraya Rhofir, part of the post-internet movement within visual art, uses a “collagist approach”. Soraya produces both small-scale paper collages and large immersive installations by assembling found images and motifs from 1990’s CD Rom clip art, 16-bit video game graphics, B-Z grade films and ‘suggested serving’ images on food-packaging.

Soraya Rhofir’s residency is supported by the French Embassy in New Zealand.

Pictured: Ball (detail) paper collage, Soraya Rhofir 2010

Upstream Arts Trail is on in Central Park Brooklyn over the weekend of 2-5 March. This years' trail will showcase the work of 15 emerging artists and a combined work by five local primary schools.

Masons Screen

i am who i am (who am I?)
Hugh Chesterman

Born in 1994, Hugh Chesterman describes himself as “…from a generation who have had their lives recorded on both digital and analogue lens-based media, on both tape and iPhone.” Despite this large archive of memories, i am who i am (who am I?) asks how much of the self can be captured through such traces of experience.

Pictured: Still from i am who i am (who am I?) Digital Video, Sound, 20 minutes Hugh Chesterman 2016

Toi Pōneke Gallery is calling for proposals

Do you have an exhibition idea?

Toi Pōneke Gallery is calling for proposals for our 2018 programme.

Toi Pōneke exhibits work by solo artists, groups and curators, with priority given to Wellington-based artists. It supports emerging contemporary artists and curators, as well as more established artists. Proposals are due 5pm, 1 May. Email reception if you have any questions.

A pplication form and proposal process.

Pictured: Kohikohiko group show 2016

On at Toi Pōneke Gallery

Take that which has passed
Ruth Buchanan, Julian Dashper, Sonya Lacey, Neil Pardington, Ann Shelton, Shannon Te Ao

Curated by Louise Rutledge
Until Sat 4 March

Drawing from the City Art Collection, Take that which has passed focusses on six contemporary artists’ responses to the ways in which knowledge is held, collected and communicated. Expanding on notions of the archive, the works in the exhibition consider artistic legacies, the landscape, and online repositories as historic and material resources.

Pictured: Detail from: Pacific Store #1 (Samoan Clubs), Museum of New Zealand, Neil Pardington 2006

On next at Toi Pōneke Gallery

Over/Under
Alice Alva
10 March – 1 April

Opening: Thursday 9 March 5.30pm
Talk and Embroidery workshop: Saturday 18 March 1.30pm

Alice Alva presents Over/Under, an exhibition investigating the physical connections between traditions of textile and pattern making, domestic crafts, ornamentation and decoration.

Alva is known for her lively explorations of colour, geometry and shape through bright, eye popping drawings and paintings. As the title Over/Under suggests, the artist plays on
physical act of stitching to present a contemporary take on traditional craft practices. Alva re-imagines an array of her existing hand-drawn patterns as bold new embroideries. The electrifying combination of hand-stitched and beaded works zing across the gallery walls.

VIVID Wellington

VIVID street art announced the winners of the phantom poster competition on the eve of the VIVID festival. British Street Artist, Cityzen Kane has arrived, a group of local street artists are poised to paint at Bond Street and several painted ply boards about to be installed throughout the city.

Pictured: Artist Jade Townsend holds up the winning design of the Under 18 VIVID poster competition by Isis Turner Bartlett

Check out the Performance Arcade happening on the Wellington Waterfront from 10 - 19 March. Using a series of architecturally arranged shipping containers, the arcade creates a space for installation, performance art, sonic art, audio-visual art, interactive media, culinary art, and live music.

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Toi Pōneke Music Stage at CUBA DUPA 25 & 26 March Saturday 25 March 12pm – Midnight Sunday 26 March 12.30pm – 4.15pm