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Drop On In
Family and Kids
- Past event
- Education Centre
- Free
Drop in to the Gallery and make a colourful egg-carton flower!
All ages welcome. No bookings required.
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Amelia Barker (nee Foster) and Enoch Barker
Join volunteer guide coordinator Rebecca Ogle as she discusses two 1866 portraits of Amelia Barker (nee Foster) and Enoch Barker, aged 37 on loan from Canterbury Museum and currently on display in Ko Wai Tatou? Who Are We? on the first floor.
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Leonard Bell: Strangers Arrive
On the opening night of the WORD Christchurch festival, Leonard Bell tells the story of the extraordinary group of European artists, writers, photographers and architects who arrived in New Zealand as forced migrants from the 1930s through the 1950s, and examines how their modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country.
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School Holiday Film: The LEGO Movie
We are going all out for KidsFest with a great, FREE family film!
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Blue Ridge - Over the Wild Blue Yonder - Homage to Henri Matisse by Max Gimblett
Join volunteer guide Barry Allom as he discusses Max Gimblett's Blue Ridge - Over the Wild Blue Yonder - Homage to Henri Matisse, on display in Untitled #1050 on the first floor.
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Underworld 2 by Tony de Lautour
Join volunteer guide Margaret Nicholas as she discusses Tony de Lautour's Underworld 2, on display in Tony de Lautour: US V THEM on the ground floor.
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From The Green Plain to On Building Bridges: Colin McCahon and the Canterbury Landscape
In the context of the Gallery’s recent acquisition of Colin McCahon’s Canterbury Plains (1951), leading McCahon scholar Dr Peter Simpson will discuss McCahon’s evolving response to the Canterbury landscape between 1948 and 1952, drawing on fresh research undertaken for a major book on the artist he is currently writing that will be published by Auckland University Press in 2019, McCahon’s centennial year.
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Gentry, Slaves, Natives: Class and Art in Colonial Canterbury
Writer and historian Stevan Eldred-Grigg examines our exhibition Pickaxes and Shovels and explore what it reveals about class and art in colonial Canterbury.
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KidsFest: The Moon and Crawling Colours
We start this activity by reading Jimmy and Jane and the Tale of the Yellow Moon. This colourful, humorous story reveals the unusual daily eating habits of moon-dwelling Lunatrons. Your kids will discover what strange things happen when their diet changes!
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Late Night Tour
Take a free guided tour of our collection highlights with one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides.
Notes
Food for thought?
This year’s weekly ArtBite programme is about to start! From Friday 10 February, we will again offer a weekly presentation of a work on display here at Te Puna o Waiwhetū. The aim of these 30-minute talks is to give you an art break in the middle of your day. We know you’re busy, so this isn’t a long lecture meant to take up too much of your time. And they’re free. With a new work presented each Friday at 12.30pm, the information will be fresh so you can impress your friends during your weekend socialising.
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Muka Youth Prints
The annual exhibition of Muka Studio lithographs by international artists especially for kids is back!
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Art Safari
Come on an art adventure with us. Make and look at art with your pre-schooler in this specially designed programme for under 5s. Held on the first Tuesday of every month. Runs till 11am.
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Introduction to the Gallery Tour
Take a free guided tour of our exhibition highlights with one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides.
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Oh Baby, It's Art!
A free, guided art tour especially for parents with babies. Buggies welcome.
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Gallery tour with a sign language interpreter
Tour the Gallery with our friendly, knowledgeable guides and a sign language interpreter.