Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
E tuwhera ana te wharetoi i kā rā e 7 o te wiki, 10am - 5pm
Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
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SPR...
Assuming we count the start of spring from the September equinox (and we do, don't we?), today means Spring is half over.
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Parihaka Day
On 5 November 1881, following more than a decade of dispute over the confiscation of Te Atiawa land in Taranaki for European settlement, 1,600 government troops entered the prosperous settlement of Parihaka which lay on flat land between the mountain and the sea. The troops encountered 2,500 local people led by spiritual leaders Te Whiti-O-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, who met the military advance with creative acts of passive resistance including singing, skipping, and the offering of food.
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Spooky
Maybe it's just a Halloween hangover, but there's something strange in the neighbourhood.
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Chapman’s Homer at Placemakers Riccarton
Following three months outside City Council's building on Worcester Boulevard – Christchurch's favourite bull can now be found at Placemakers Riccarton! That may sound a bit unusual, but these are strange times.
Collection
Robyn Kahukiwa Mourning Woman
The female body is tapu, or sacred, in te ao Māori, and known as he whare tangata, the house of humankind. Hair, in particular, is associated with mana and power. A woman’s hair might be cut during tangihanga (funeral rites) in order to be placed with the tūpāpaku (deceased) as an act of intense grief. Robyn Kahukiwa is connected through her mother to a matriarchal Māori lineage and seeks to affirm and resurrect the customary status of wāhine Māori in her art. This was undermined during the colonisation of Aotearoa due to patriarchal Victorian beliefs about gender roles.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
