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BLOCK PARTY
Special Event
Past event
Free
The Ōtautahi Year of the Arts Block Party is a celebration of the incredible talent in the city, in a day with something for everybody.
Located in venues across the city between the Ōtakaro Avon River and the Botanic Gardens including Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetū, Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Canterbury Museum at CoCA, The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, Toi Auaha Community Arts Hub, and Papa Hou at The Kind Foundation (formerly the YMCA), the day will feature artist talks, performances, live music, an arts market, and children’s workshops.
Check out the full programme of events here.
We'll be celebrating our major summer exhibition, Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa with a day of artist talks and the RDU DJs playing on the forecourt.
Don’t miss this awesome celebration of creativity for Christchurch.
Related reading: musical performance, Gigs at the Gallery
Exhibition
Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa
Until 24 March | All ground floor galleries; Until 19 May | Selected ground floor galleries
A major exhibition featuring works that tell stories about personal and collective histories, communication, distance and relationships to our environment.
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Remix Committee: We Need You!
We are looking for a small group of passionate taste-makers to join our ReMix Committee. Come and ensure YOUR voice is represented at Christchurch Art Gallery by working with our team to plan an event (and other activities) that is all about, and for, young people. We don’t want to tell you what you might like, we want you to tell us! You pick the theme, you pick the bands, you pick the performers, you pick the film, you pick the speakers.
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Countdown to Fifteen
Fifteen is our birthday party (guess how old we are…) and it’s less than two weeks away! It’s also the opening event for Tony de Lautour’s US V THEM, which is our big winter exhibition. We asked curator Peter Vangioni and visitor programmes coordinator Amy Marr what they’re most excited about in the incredible line-up for this grand birthday bash.
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Been to some lame ‘youth’ events lately?
Now’s your chance to help create a cool event for you and your friends!
The Mix is Christchurch’s Art Gallery bi-monthly late-night event – an interactive mix of art, music, film and good people. We want to run a Mix designed, curated and for under 18s – ReMix.
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Gallery Happenings: Grayson Gilmour
In early March we were lucky enough to have the incredibly talented Grayson Gilmour performing at the Gallery, supported by the equally talented Purple Pilgrims and New Dawn. I love these gigs, but there is a lot of work to be done behind the scenes to make sure that, by the time the public walk in the door, the foyer is gig ready. The process normally feels like a long, slow marathon with a sprint at the final corner. So here’s a guide to how you too can get the NZI Foyer gig-ready in five (or six) easy steps.
