TOI TANGATA | ARTS UPDATE

28 June 2019

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Volunteer call for Open Day | Rā Tōmene Open Day | Rā Tōmene is coming up on 11 July 2019 and volunteers are needed. There are currently 37 staff registered as volunteers and 134 are needed to help out on the day. The link follows for registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/open-day-ra-tomene-volunteers-2019-tickets-62896215273 If you would like further information or there are questions about the roles please contact Michayla Clemens directly. UC Arts at the Arts Centre An Evening With Jonathan Le Cocq, Peter Low, Antonio Viselli, & Francis Yapp will be held this coming Tuesday, 2 July at 6.00pm. Join us for ‘A Fauré into French Music: from Baïf’s Académie to Bigflo and Oli’. Specialists in French music and song promises a journey through time and genres: from 16th and 17th century French courtly song, complete with the performance of an air de cour, to readings and discussions of French lyrics—in French and in translation, bien sûr—in more contemporary works, including chansons as well as rap battles. Our panelists will discuss the history, poetics, and translation of music and song, and the je-ne-sais-quoi of their quintessential Frenchness. Please register online for a free ticket. School of Music For those creative people, here's an amazing opportunity to attend a workshop specifically dedicated to mental health for creatives: The weekend is for performers AND their partners, managers, teachers. Core sessions will explore: The psychology of creativity; The nine dimensions of creative minds; Understanding what helps creatives work at

their best; Understanding what happens when you get stuck. Breakout workshops will explore Making creative ecosystems (for managers/teachers of creatives) and The anxious creative (for performers) as well as Conflict and collaboration, and Resilience for creatives. Best of all it's free! But you need to register. For more information on the workshop, please check out the Facebook event here. We are thrilled to be part of Christchurch Arts Festival 2019! The programme has been released and our concerts will take place at the end of July, take a look at the events

below, we’d love to see you there:

• Monday 29 July, 7.30pm – Satie’s Socrate at UC Arts City Location • Tuesday 30 July, 6.00pm – Iconoclasts at The Piano

We are delighted that one of our postgraduate students, Wenting Yang, plays on newly released album “Koriana” – Accordion music, composed by Gary Daverne, New Zealand’s most prolific composer and writer of music for the accordion. All performed by New Zealand champion accordionists, recorded at various venues over several years, with several archive tracks. This is the third album of accordion music by Gary Daverne. Koriana is a New Zealand Maori word for piano accordion. “Song of the Far North” is composed in 2016, originally scored for solo accordion and piano. played by 2018 South Pacific International Accordion Solo Champion Wenting Yang (accordion) and Roger Chen (piano). Koriana is available online, and CDs are available for purchase from The Accompanists. Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities Staff, students, and their families are invited to take advantage of the Teece Museum Kidsfest 2019 event ‘A Food Odyssey’. The adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus included a number of encounters with food – dinner with an enchantress, and drinking with a cyclops to mention but a few! The Teece Museum invites artists of all ages to help colour in a series of larger than life storyboards all about Odysseus and food. Drop by the Pūmanawa gallery (Arts Centre) anytime between 10am-3pm, 8-12 July, get your artistic juices flowing, and help bring 'A Food Odyssey' to life. Entry is free, gold coin donation welcomed. Caregiver supervision recommended. The upcoming talk on ‘Food for thought’ takes place next Wednesday 3 July at the Teece Museum. This public talk by several of the authors of ‘Kai and Culture: Food stories from Aotearoa’ is an exploration of food and

identity in New Zealand, a fitting contemporary contrast to the current exhibition at the Teece ‘Fantastic Feasts’. Register for the event via this link here. School of Fine Arts Steve Carr’s publication Variation for Troubled Hands (which won the 2017 AUS/NZ Photobook Award) is currently in an exhibition called ‘Hold Up’ curated by Saul Marcadent and Mario Lupano at the Università laud di Venezia, Totentini, Venice, Italy. Showing alongside artists such as John Baldessari, Emmett Williams, Keith Goddard and Shino Yamakishin

NCEA Top Art Exhibition

Opens 4pm Tuesday 2 July, Seminar Room, Block 2, Fine Arts. Exhibition runs till 11 July.

Top Art is an annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of the NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual Art in the previous year. Five streams are covered: design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Top Art provides an opportunity for secondary students and teachers to gain an understanding of what is required to achieve Excellence at Level 3. It also allows members of the public to see the high quality art being created in schools. More info here: http://www.topart.govt.nz/

Image credit: Jasmin McCormick, Rangiora High School

Cinema Studies

Cinema Studies’ student Michael Woods been invited to screen his film The Parcel at the 12th Autism-Europe International Congress in Nice, France this September. The thirty-minute film, which was warmly received by students in Senior Lecturer Mary Wiles’s course, “Hollywood and Genre,” is a semi-autobiographical story of a teen on the autism spectrum (played by Michael) who learns to overcome his fear of the outside world when he must deliver a mysterious parcel. Read more here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/113487769/aspergers-wont-stop-young-christchurch-filmmaker

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