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The Mix Edition 1: Tastemakers
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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
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Rediscover the Gallery after dark as it comes alive with vibrant special events combining art with live music, great food and wine, pop-up talks and demonstrations, debates, films and live performances. Enjoy a different kind of night out with The Mix Summer 2016.
Get your senses working overtime with Edition 1 of the Mix: Tastemakers—a mouth-watering night of art and food.
Food Trucks (NZI Foyer and Art Gallery Forecourt 6-9pm)
Drop in still life drawing in the NZI Foyer (6:30-9pm)
Panel discussion on the changing New Zealand culinary scene with Giulio Sturla, owner and chef of Roots, Cuisine magazine’s Restaurant of the Year, Alex Davies, freelance chef and food activist who is currently creating sustainable culinary adventures with his pop up restaurant Gatherings, and Lauraine Jacobs, food writer at the Listener, and past president of New Zealand Food Writers Guild. (Under the Stairs in the NZI Foyer, 6:30pm)
Pop up talk on food and art with curator Felicity Milburn (The Phillip Carter Auditorium, 7:30pm)
The documentary Monet’s Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny (The Phillip Carter Auditorium, 8pm)
Yealands cash bar with beer from Three Boys Brewery and wine from Peter Yealands (NZI Foyer, 6-9pm)
Related reading: special event, The Mix, Summer of Art, Free event, Music, NZI, Three Boys Brewery
Notes
Introducing... Limited edition art-wine and art-beer
Don't you love it when your two favourite things come together?
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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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Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation's Fifth Annual Gala Dinner
London's hottest chefs are coming to town – and you're invited to dinner!
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Art Makes Me... A Winner!
Meet Kylie Hansen from Christchurch. She's the lucky winner of our Art Makes Me selfie competion.
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What's the difference between a piano and an onion?
Answer: No one cries when you chop up a piano.
Apparently that's only the third worst piano joke of all time...
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Getting Older - Flying Nun
November sees the 30th anniversary of my favourite record label, Flying Nun Records.
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Playing to the Faithful
The 2011 Christchurch Arts Festival has been full of highlights, from theatre to dance to the visual arts. However, it's been the music that has made the biggest impression on me.
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Number 1 Evil, Number 2 Evil, Number 3 Evil…
Finally, the chance to listen to some loud rock music!
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The Satara Player by Petrus van der Velden
Things are not always what they seem. What looks like the result of an artistic foray into exotic lands is, in fact, an 1894 portrait of a Christchurch busker who posed in the studio of Petrus van der Velden.
Commentary
Laurence Aberhart
New Zealand artist Laurence Aberhart is internationally regarded for his photographs of unpeopled landscapes and interiors. He photographs places redolent with the weight of time, which he captures with his century-old large-format camera and careful framing. But he’s always taken more spontaneous photographs of people too, particularly in the years he lived in Christchurch and Lyttelton (1975–83) when he photographed his young family, his friends and occasionally groups of strangers. ‘If I lived in a city again,’ he says, ‘I would photograph people. One of the issues is that I even find it difficult to ask people whether I can photograph a building, so to ask to photograph them – I’m very reticent. I also know that after a number of minutes of waiting for me to set cameras up and take exposure readings and so on, people can get rather annoyed. So it’s not a conscious thing, it’s more just an accident of the way I photograph.’