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Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Sketch & Paint: Strange Skies
5.00pm-9.00pm
Angela Lane’s small landscapes are grounded in the real world but gesture towards otherworldly experiences. Mysterious messengers or omens hover in the skies, just in sight but almost always beyond our comprehension. Channel the enigma of these works with a chance to create a miniature landscape painting.
Brought to you with the support of Gordon Harris.
The Future of Monuments
Today, many want to pull down war memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. Are there 'good' war memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' war memorials? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary war-memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? What form could future memorials take?
Everyday Mysticism: Artists Respond
8pm
Sculptor Glen Hayward’s practice brings the everyday into the gallery in profound and absurd ways. Reconsidering familiar objects is a concern shared by other artists. Join us as they discuss their practices and why they find commonplace objects compelling.
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Book Club: Eerie Pageantry
7.30pm
City Gallery’s occasional Book Club returns. Inspired by the dualities that sit at the dark heart of the folk horror genre through the lens of Roland Hugh Morrison’s 1963 New Zealand folk horror masterpiece The Scarecrow.
Chaired by Maggie Tweedie, our panellists: writer Pip Adam, and filmmaker and artist Ted Mills will share their thoughts on the novel and the enduring, unsettling draw of antipodean gothic sensibilities in literature and art.
Urn (Live)
9pm
Sonic artists Thomas Carroll (Ngati Maru, Hauraki) and Rob Tyler respond to the themes of Matarau. Fusing taonga pūoro and modular synthesis, they incorporate rongoā plants as a modulation source, to create works inspired by Māori philosophy, cosmology and experimental noise music.
IMAGE Glen Hayward: Wish You Were Here City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi 2022. Photo Elias Rodriguez.
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Late Tour: Summer Season Highlights
5.30pm
Join our expert tour guide for a highlights tour of our new season exhibitions: Eerie Pageantry and Angela Lane: Phosphene. Spend time with selected artworks in each exhibition for insight into the artists’ work and what drives the ideas that inform their practices.
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Live Music: BIRDPARTY
8.45pm
Underpinned by sample-based beats and acoustic drums, BIRDPARTY brings together the unlikely merging of extreme metal musician William Barrett (Heresiarch) and electronic artist Emma Bernard (Ludus) exploring the realms between to produce a cinematic semi-industrial soup.
Tuatara Open Late
Thur 2 November, 4pm-10pm
$10 pre-sales | $12 door sales
Start the evening with our Art Bite Tour showcasing some selected works from our new exhibitions, continue to be thrilled and chilled with a performance of the uncanny Tales from Nowhereland by artist Ted Mills, City Gallery’s occasional Book Club returns as we dive into the antipodean folk horror of Eerie Pageantry and expand your horizons with our drop-in miniature painting session. End the night with live music by the charismatic duo BIRDPARTY.
Thursday 2 November, 4.00pm-10.00pm | $10 pre-sales | $12 door sales
5.30pm-
6.15pm
Sketch & Paint: Strange Skies
5.00pm-
9.00pm
Exhibition Tour: Summer Season Highlights
6.30pm-
7.00pm
Ted Mills: Tales from Nowhereland
7.30pm-
8.30pm
Book Club: Eerie Pageantry
Please consider supporting Open Late and our other progammes with a donation when you arrive.
Live Music: BIRDPARTY
8.45pm-
9.45pm
4.00pm-
9.30PM
DJ, Exhibitions, Shop, Bar and Taco Addicts Food Truck open
Art Bite Tour
4.30pm-5.00pm
Snappy and insightful, join us for this short tour where we take a closer look at an artwork or idea from our current exhibitions. One of our expert staff will offer this focused exploration that will fire your imagination and curiosity and leave you hungry for more.
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4.30pm-5.00pm
Art Bite Tour
Ted Mills: Tales from Nowhereland
6.30pm-7.00pm
As evening shadows chase the dying light, our narrator clears his throat. He begins to recount a...strange tale...Ted Mills is a filmmaker, artist, and writer originally from Santa Barbara, CA. In Tales from Nowhereland, Mills presents a live performance of beguiling short stories that reach into the uncanny and which are both disquieting and wickedly funny.
Eat, Drink & Shop at Open Late
From 5.00pm grab a drink from our bar serving Tuatara beers, wines from Matahiwi Estate, and a range of non-alcoholic options from Almighty Drinks. Grab a bite from this month’s food truck Taco Addicts.
The Gallery Shop boasts a selection of award-winning art and design books, activities and toys for creative kids, New Zealand–made homewares and jewelry, plus much more—all carefully selected for the art-and-design-lover who loves to shop. You’ll feel good about your purchases too, as all proceeds help support the Gallery’s exhibitions and events programme.
Ngahuia Harrison: Coastal Cannibals, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2023