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The Mix: Suffrage City 125
Credit: Logan McMillan
Credit: Winnie Whyte
Event
Past event
Foyer
Free
This year, 19 September marks the 125th anniversary of universal suffrage in New Zealand. Come celebrate in style with us!
#adifferentnightout #everyonewelcome
Featuring:
- curator Felicity Milburn in conversation with Barbara Brookes, author of A History of New Zealand Women (thanks to Bridget Williams Books)
- NZI Foyer takeover with Fun Natural Fun (join Instant Fantasy, Misfit Mod. Trainwreck & blle fmme for an all-inclusive DJ night where you can feel as fantastic as you wanna)
- fresh takes on the future of New Zealand and our creative industries with artist Jordana Bragg, theatre practitioner Alice Canton, designer and Radio One 91FM music manager Erin Broughton and more to be announced soon!
- drop in Feminist Badge making workshop
- Three Boys and Greystone Pop-Up Bar
- themed tours of the Gallery
- some of Christchurch's best food trucks
- AND a performance by Flip Grater.
Art! Food! Wine! Beer! Inclusive Feminism! FREE!
SCHEDULE:
6-9pm Fun Natural Fun DJ Takeover and food trucks/Pop Up Bar (NZI Foyer)
6:15pm Representing Women Tour (Meet at Front Desk)
6:30 Barbara Brookes and Felicity Milburn in Conversation (Philip Carter Family Auditorium)
7pm Feminist Badge Making Workshop (Education Centre)
7:15pm Representing Women Tour (Meet at Front Desk)
7:30pm Looking Forward Panel Feat. Jordana Bragg, Erin Broughton, Nina Oberg-Humphries, Geneva Alexander-Marsters, Alice Canton and Chaired by Lizzie Davidson (Philip Carter Family Auditorium)
8:15pm Flip Grater Performance (Arcade Space)
Related reading: The Mix, Free event, Gigs at the Gallery
Exhibition
We Do This
12 May 2018 – 3 June 2019
A recharged contemporary hang to mark 125 years of women’s suffrage.
Collection
Robyn Kahukiwa Tena I Ruia
While most haka are performed by men, some iwi have traditions of female haka. Here, Robyn Kahukiwa has painted women from her own Ngāti Porou iwi performing their haka – an event which has on occasion provided women with a means of articulating their fight for social justice.
Robyn’s depiction of mana wāhine is derived from traditions of Māori carving – another means of expression usually associated with male practitioners. Robyn says that Tena I Ruia represents “a form of challenge to Māori and Pākehā to show that we have the drive towards self-determination and the affirmation of tangata whenua status. […] As Māori women we need to reaffirm our place in Aotearoa and be accorded the same status that once was ours in traditional culture.”
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Notes
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.
