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Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Sketch & Paint: Native Botanicals
5.00pm-9.00pm
Ayesha Green’s paintings abound with botanical imagery. Drop-in and get hands-on with this activity inspired by the works in Folk Nationalism, by sketching and painting botanical studies of native rākau and ferns.
Limited watercolour paint and materials are provided. Feel free to bring your own materials (dry media only please).
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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Live Music: E.U.G.
8.45pm
End the night with the rousing post-punk of E.U.G. Usually heard in only the darkest sweatboxes of Wellington’s underground scene, E.U.G.’s frenetic, deliciously heavy sonics and potently tense lyricism will raise every hair on the back of your neck.
Made up of local musicians Jordy Edwards (Mother’s Dearest) Frazer Charlton (Mother’s Dearest, Goya), Laura Robinson (Soft Plastics) and Lucas Donnell (Goya), this is one performance not to be missed.
Doors to the auditorium open at 8.30pm. Spaces are limited and there is no assigned seating, arrive early to avoid disappointment.
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: New Season Highlights
6.00pm
Join our expert tour guide for a highlights tour of our new season exhibitions; Ngahuia Harrison: Coastal Cannibals and Archive: alter / image. Spend time with selected artworks in each exhibition for insight into the artists’ work and what drives the ideas that inform their practices.
Poets Respond: Beauty Incarnate
7.00pm
George Watson: Beauty Incarnate tweaks, rephrases and makes strange the material and subliminal nature of colonial inheritances to expose the persistence of Empire and unsettle its assumed position of authority.
Join Wahine Māori poets Kahu Kutia, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, and Renae Williams as they offer responses to the exhibition.
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Eat, Drink & Shop at Open Late
City Gallery Wellington has you covered for a good night out at Open Late. Along with our exhibition and schedule of events you can grab a bite, or a drink, all while perusing the Gallery Shop.
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 Shouk Israeli Food Truck.
The Gallery Shop boasts a selection of award-winning art and design books, activities, New Zealand–made homewares and jewellery, plus much more! You’ll feel good about your purchases too, as all proceeds help support the Gallery’s exhibitions and events programme.
Tuatara Open Late
Thur 5 October, 4pm-10pm
$10 pre-sales | $12 door sales
Experience City Gallery Wellington after-hours with Open Late. Enjoy our changing programme of art, music, screenings, and talks on the first Thursday of the month.
Start the evening with an insights tour of selected works from the new season of shows, expand your experience with ‘Poets Respond: Beauty Incarnate' and dive into our drop-in watercolour painting session. End you night with the post-punk funk of E.U.G.
Thursday 5 October, 4.00pm-10.00pm | $10 pre-sales | $12 door sales
5.00pm-
9.00pm
Bar and Shouk Israeli Food Truck open
5.00pm-
9.00pm
Sketch & Paint: Native Botanicals
6.00pm-
6.45pm
Exhibition Tour: New Season Highlights
7.00pm-
8.00pm
Poets Respond: Beauty Incarnate
Please consider supporting Open Late and our other progammes with a donation when you arrive.
Live Music: E.U.G.
8.45pm-
9.45pm
4.00pm
DJ, Exhibitions and Shop 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