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School Holiday activity – map making
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandOur natural environment is very important in keeping the cultural identity of Ngāi Tahu alive. To honour the environments our tūpuna (ancestors) moved through in Te Waipounamu (The South Island), and particular mahika kai (natural resources), make an arty map of the Hakatere district at the Gallery and Museum! Cost: Free; drop in anytime Ages:…
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Mid-winter Burty Challenge 2022
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandComplete all four challenges to win a free swim at EA Networks and go into the draw to win COOL prizes. Pick up your challenge card from: Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum Ashburton District Council Ashburton Library EA Networks Centre
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School holiday activity – Imagine Hat!
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandWhen you use your imagination, you can make-believe anything you want it to be. You can imagine a stick is a magic wand, broccoli are dinosaur trees, or a cardboard box is a rocket ship. Come to the Gallery and Museum this school holiday to make an imagination hat! Create a hat that transforms you…
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Grandparents Day Arts & Crafts
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandGrandparents Day is a day to acknowledge and celebrate the important contribution made by grandparents to the wellbeing and education of children within their family. It is an opportunity for family to show their gratitude and respect for the older generation and to honour grandparents. This year, the Gallery and Museum invites families and whānau…
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Picture a Story
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandCome and make a fold-out picture book of a story featuring Aunt Effie from The Whistling Bull: David Elliot and Jack Lasenby exhibition. Look around the Art Gallery and find a book character called Aunt Effie. What types of stories is Aunt Effie in? Imagine you are an author. . . In your mind, create…
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Art Competition for Ashburton District school students
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandTo celebrate Māori Language Week 2022, we are making packs of Te Reo Māori flash cards to encourage the community to learn Mahika Kai.
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Moon Walking
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandAbout: This brief activity is inspired by the Gallery’s current exhibition The moon and the pavement. Visitors are invited to consider their personal memories in relation to the different surfaces they walk upon, and make a small artwork to represent such. Do you remember what your feet have walked upon today? They may have walked over cracked…
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Lecture: The Kelliher Paintings – a New Zealand Phenomenon
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandWe're thrilled to have Dr. Mark Stocker coming to Ashburton to share some of his knowledge and insight into our upcoming exhibition Rare and Unrivalled Beauty: Landscape Paintings from the Kelliher Art Trust Collection. Mark's recently published article in Art New Zealand, ’This is New Zealand: The Kelliher Collection Tours the Mainland’ (Autumn 2022), delves…
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Zonta Ashburton Female Art Awards entries now open
Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandThis award exhibition presented by The Zonta Club of Ashburton in partnership with the Ashburton Art Gallery showcases the works of emerging and mid-career female artists based in Canterbury. The award seeks to raise the status of female visual artists working in the wider Canterbury area and acknowledges excellence in emerging and mid-career female artists as well as…
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Tāngata Ngāi Tahu Talk
FeaturedAshburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New ZealandJoin co-editor and project lead Helen Brown and other members of the Tāngata Ngāi Tahu team as they highlight the lives and contributions of Ngāi Tahu people associated with the Mid Canterbury area whose biographies are featured in Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volumes One and Two. The recently published second volume of Tāngata Ngāi Tahu celebrates…
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