What's on at City Gallery | Talk, film and Tuatara Open Late: Toi te reo

Events

Talk: Geoffrey Batchen and Gavin Hipkins on Bullet Time

Tonight: Thurs 30 June, 6pm | free

Art historian Geoffrey Batchen (Victoria University of Wellington) and artist Gavin Hipkins (University of Auckland) respond to works in the exhibition Bullet Time. They discuss past, present and future identities of photography and film through the works of Steve Carr and Daniel Crooks. They look at how these mediums have developed and integrated across time and genre. Followed by refreshments.

Film Screening: Blue Velvet

Sun 3 July, 2pm | Free

In 1986, David Lynch polarised the critics with his lurid film noir, Blue Velvet. Amping up the sex, the violence and the art direction, the film earned Lynch an Academy Award Best Director nomination and is now recognised as one of the greatest films of the 1980s.

It also inspired Steve Carr to make American Night (2014), a video currently showing in Bullet Time.

Director: David Lynch | 1986 | 120min | R18

Tuatara Open Late: Toi te Reo

Thu 7 July, 5-10pm | Entry by koha

Celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Maori/ Maori Language Week at this month's Tuatara Open Late with a special night of art, music and storytelling. The evening will feature Nga Tangata Korero mo te Reo / True Stories Told Live with renowned New Zealand artists, writers and speakers including CEO of Te Taura Whiri Ngahiwi Apanui; Te Mangai Paho and filmmaker Larry Parr; MP Marama Fox; Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Mokopuna, Mark Bradley; Director of Pataka Reuben Friend; poet Anahera Gildea and writer Tina Makereti.

Another highlight is a performance from up and coming Wellington-based musician Sharn Te Pou. He will be performing a set of eight of his most recent eletronic-soul tunes.

All galleries open late. Supper treats from Burger Liquor and cash bar available.

http://citygallery.org.nz/events/tuatara-open-late-toi-te-reo

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