Start your April with us at our annual event Open Arts Day 2017. There's so much do at Corban Estate during the coming month: Take part in the ºTEMP activities, visit the new exhibitions, join a discussion on New Zealand textile art, visit our monthly Saturday Gallery Club, and sign up for our Easter Holiday kids classes or Youth Art Workshops...

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Visitors to Martin Selman's studio at Open Arts Day 2016

Here's what's coming up in April at Corban Estate Arts Centre

Our annual Open Arts Day returns, providing a great opportunity to see behind the scenes at this creative hub. The day will feature:

Open studios with more than 20 artists based on site
Exhibitions, artist talks and tours
Graffiti battle
Hands-on workshops
Live music and performances
°TEMP action stations

Open Arts Day

Sat 1 April, 10am - 4pm. Free, all welcome

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Events

°TEMP

Tools for a future planet imagined by artists/scientists

A month-long series of events featuring five unique arts and science installations, with Xin Cheng & Chris Berthelsen, F4 Artist Collective, Gabby O’Connor, Brydee Rood, and The Roots Creative Entrepreneurs

Onsite at Corban Estate Arts Centre
Thursdays to Sundays, until 8 April, 11am – 4pm

Plus an exhibition at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
Daily, 10am – 4:30pm

Remaining key events include:
Open Arts Day, Saturday 1 April, 10am – 4pm

Writing extreme weather, with Katherine Dewar, Friday 7 April, 2pm

Closing Programme, Saturday 8 April, 11am

Talk with Associate Professor Craig Stevens, Saturday 8 April, 1pm

For a full list of events and information about the artists visit:
www.tempauckland.org.nz / °TEMP Facebook page

Exhibitions

Around the Estate

2017 Waitakere Arts Exhibition
Saturday 1 April - Tuesday 4 April

Shed 2

An exhibition of visual art, sculpture, craft, photography and more by members of the Waitakere Central Community Arts Council.

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Events & Activities

In the galleries and on site

Saturday Gallery Club # 25
Under the Sea

Saturday 8 April, between 10:30am and 12pm

Kids and families come and create your own under water model as you learn about the impact we have on our ocean life, and learn ways in which we can help protect the inhabitants of our oceans.

Free, family friendly.
No bookings necessary.
Art activities designed for four years and over.

Social Fabric: The New Patterns in Contemporary Textile Art
Panel Discussion

Saturday 29 April, 11am - 12pm
The Homestead

Panel discussion featuring prominent figures in the New Zealand textile community including Audrey Boyle, Gina Ferguson, Anna Hanson, Cait McLennan Whyte and Katie Smith.

Katie Smith in her studio at Open Arts Day 2016.

Exhibitions

In the Homestead galleries

Teu
Alma Proença

14 April - 28 May
Opening: Thursday 13 April, 6-8pm
Artist korero: Saturday 6 May, 11am

Auckland based artist Alma Proença explores her Portugese heritage through ceramic artwork that links traditional processes with modern subject matter. Her exhibition Teu, meaning 'yours' in Portugese, uses flora and fauna to link her dual Portugese and New Zealand ancestry.

Alma Proença, Peony pot & Fern (2017). Courtesy of the artist.

Embedded
Curated by Maddie Gifford and Katie Smith

14 April - 28 May
Opening: Thursday 13 April, 6-8pm
Social Fabric Panel Discussion: Saturday 29 April, 11am - 12pm

Featuring artists:
Annie Mackenzie | Audrey Boyle | Genevieve Packer | Gina Ferguson | Katie Smith | Nalani Gloor | Pip Steel

From the time we are born, we are all embedded in cloth. So too are our personal memories embedded in the clothing, fabric and textiles that we interact with throughout our lives. This group exhibition features the work of female artists who explore the relationship between textiles and the different memories we fold into them, both individually and as a wider society. Through tactility, colour and patterning, each artist pushes the boundaries of our usual interactions with textiles in everyday life.

Annie Mackenzie, Walking forwards backwards (2016). Image courtesy of Shaun Matthews.

Education

Youth Arts Workshops

In The Box | 13 - 18 years
with David Atai (Nesian Mystik) & Marcus Powell (Blindspott, Blacklistt and City of Souls)
Wednesday 19 & Friday 21 April, 10am - 3pm

A DIY songwriting, production and beat making workshop presented by the Crescendo Trust of Aotearoa. Learn how to write, produce and record a track from scratch—making a beat, lyric writing and chorus hooks, mixing and mastering a recording.

$25

Photograph by Hinauri Apa

Click here to find out more, or to book a place: info@ceac.org.nz / (09) 838 4455

Graphic Signatures | 12 - 16 years
with Leela Bhai
Wednesday 26 April, 10am - 3pm

Participants will be inspired by the slick world of graphic design, using a range of techniques to create a visual display of their chosen word. Calligraphy, ransom note effect & organic street fonts will be combined and re-assembled to produce a unique ‘tag’.

$15

Image depicts work by Retna

Click here to find out more, or to book a place: info@ceac.org.nz / (09) 838 4455

Black Out Poetry | 12 - 16 years
with Leela Bhai
Thursday 27 April, 10am - 3pm

An introduction to the work of artist Tom Phillips and poet Austin Kleon, where you'll learn the technique of Black Out Poetry. Many works will be completed in both collaborative and individual tasks. Usually fuelled by a lot of humour, great results are achieved at all artistic levels.

$15

Image depicts work by Tom Philips and Austin Kleon

Click here to find out more, or to book a place: info@ceac.org.nz / (09) 838 4455

Education

Children's Holiday Classes

Here's a selection of some of children's holiday classes we've got coming up during the Easter break. For a full list visit our website

Nature's Mandalas and Autumn Lanterns
with Sarah Ormsby
Wednesday 26 April, 10am - 2.30pm

Places filling fast!

Explore the surrounding grounds to collect a range of natural treasures and use them to build vibrant mandalas, then transform them into a beautiful sculpture.

$50

Click here to find out more, or to book a place: info@ceac.org.nz / (09) 838 4455

Orchid Exploration
with Leela Bhai
Thursday 20 - Friday 21 April, 10am - 2.30pm

Study the intricate orchid through drawing, acrylic painting and mono printing.

$80

Click here to find out more, or to book a place: info@ceac.org.nz / (09) 838 4455

Discover your own cosmic universe
with Tim Danko
Wednesday 19 - Thursday 20 April, 10am - 2.30pm

Learn creative ways to combine words, story and print in your own comic book.

$80

Click here to find out more, or to book a place: info@ceac.org.nz / (09) 838 4455

Coming up in May

Kids Arts Festival 2017

Saturday 13 May, 10am to 4pm

An action packed annual day-long event aimed at entertaining and educating kids through fun activities, exhibitions, performances and more.

This event depends on a number of volunteers to run smoothly. We would love your help! To volunteer contact eilis@ceac.org.nz

And lastly

A huge thanks to everyone who supported us and Kākano Youth Arts Collective as part of the Million Dollar Mission.

Over $15,000 was raised, which will help us expand the programme this year. We, quite literally, couldn't have done it without the support of the community around us.

Corban Estate Arts Centre
2 Mt Lebanon Lane, Henderson, Auckland

www.ceac.org.nz
(09) 838 4455

Just 7 mins walk from Henderson Train Station!

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Visitors to Martin Selman's studio at Open Arts Day 2016

Here's what's coming up in April at Corban Estate Arts Centre

Open Arts Day

Find out more

For a full list of events and information about the artists visit: www.tempauckland.org.nz / °TEMP Facebook page

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Katie Smith in her studio at Open Arts Day 2016.

Alma Proença, Peony pot & Fern (2017). Courtesy of the artist.

Annie Mackenzie, Walking forwards backwards (2016). Image courtesy of Shaun Matthews.

Photograph by Hinauri Apa

Image depicts work by Retna

Image depicts work by Tom Philips and Austin Kleon

Here's a selection of some of children's holiday classes we've got coming up during the Easter break. For a full list visit our website

For a full list of events and information about the artists visit:
www.tempauckland.org.nz / °TEMP Facebook page