In 2014, the inaugural Whau Arts Festival exploded onto Auckland’s creative scene with involvement from over 120 artists, 30 businesses, and thousands of audience members over four days of intense artistic activity in Avondale. Driven and curated by multi-disciplinary arts group Whau the People, the 2015 Festival is set to meet the 2014 bar, if […]
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11 am – 3pm, 22 November, 2015Under the Avondale spider, 1951 Great North Rd, Avondale The Creative Souls Project presents a day of creative activity, spoken word and live music from local Pacific artists, held under the spider in the heart of Avondale. The diverse artists will share poetry, stories, lyrics, skills and beats exploring
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Koanga Festival1st to 19th September 2015Te Pou Theatre Kōanga, Spring time in te reo Māori, is heralded by the blossoming of the kōwhai and the call of the pīpīwharauroa (shining cuckoo) as it returns to our shores. This is traditionally a time of joining together and combining efforts to plant for the next harvest. Te
Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015Exhibition Hours: 10 am – 5 pmArtist Floor Talks: 1 – 2 pm each dayArt Workshops: 11 am – 1 pm, Saturday 17 October ArtWest 2015 is a public exhibition of West Auckland artists organised and hosted by Kelston Girls College. First established in 2009 this is the third
Flying Paua Origin occupied empty shops in the Merchant Quarter Building for 6 hours on Thursday 13 August. A pop up exhibition of UV light responsive images with sound curated by psyanta and live music by Ionosphere, Origin lit up the bus station and shops for one night. Realised with support from Infratil and Purflex
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Sit with me, tell me something… 12 Totara Avenue, New Lynn, is an installation project aimed at providing an opportunity for local residents in the Whau are to share their lived experiences of living in a rapidly evolving urban centre. Residents are invited to sit and record their experiences or create an expression of their
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SMILE was a project developed by Sisterhood NZ in collaboration with youth in Kelston. Created for Youth Week 2015, SMILE consisted of a flash mob dance and an invitation to smile and celebrate youth as our future. The flash mob visited night markets around Auckland and even popped up in a petrol station. Alongside the
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12 Totara Avenue,New LynnThursday 25 June, 20156pm – 8pm The News(prints) is a collection of current works by members of the Aotearoa-New Zealand arm of The News Network. Established by Melbourne based artist and academic Marian Crawford, The News Network was initiated as a series of ‘Trans-Tasman research project and artist residencies’ occurring in Australia
We’re pleased to let you know that we’re going to be holding the Whau Arts Hui on Saturday 27 June. Its an opportunity for people in the community who work or live in the Whau to get together and talk about things close to our hearts. By coming together to meet and discuss our communities
Why not join us for a bit of a sing? The OutrageousWhauTunes is a pop-up community choir taking shape in the Whau area. Directed by Frances Moore, this new choir is for those of you who secretly, (or not so secretly), love a good hollah. No auditions required, the Outrageous Whau Tunes is about coming
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