The Fortnight Ahead At Auckland Museum

The Fortnight Ahead At Auckland Museum

Special events, exhibitions and programme listings running from:

Monday 19 February - Sunday 4 of March 2007

FROM THE NEWSDESK:

Opening on March 2, featuring work from some of New Zealand's leading contemporary artists - Le Foulauga will showcase what will arguably be the best contemporary pacific art exhibition to be seen in New Zealand for many years.

Come and experience the spirit of Taiwanese traditional songs in a FREE concert by Taiwan Yuan Yuan, an Indigenous Culture & Art Troupe. They have been invited to perform in more than 20 countries, including Europe, America, Africa, Middle East, South East Asia, including performing at the Sydney Opera House during the 2000 Olympics Games.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Taiwanese Indigenous Performance
Saturday 24 February, 10am
New Atrium
Free Admission
Come and experience the traditional songs and dance of Taiwan Yuan Yuan an Indigenous Culture & Art Troupe. All members of the troupe are experts from different tribes in Taiwan and have been invited to perform in more than 20 countries.

Pacific Jewellery Tour: Colleen Williams
Tuesday, 20 February
11am
Meet in Foyer
$10 and $5 members
Join Colleen Williams for an informed and passionate tour of the Pacific Jewellery in the collection.

VAKA MOANA PROGRAMME
Genetic Pasifika

Try a Craft: Tapa, Tivaevae and Weaving
3 & 4 March, 10.30am – 4pm
Atrium
Take the opportunity to sit down and have a go.
(Materials and tuition free)

Tivaevae Workshop
Saturday 3 March, 2pm - 4.30pm
Tutorial Room
Meet at bottom of Atrium staircase.
Produce your own small piece of tivaevae
Price: $20.00 Bookings essential. 09 306 7048

Cook Island Drums and Dance Performance
Saturday 3 March, 3pm
Atrium

CCE LECTURE SERIES

Voices of the Islands: Linguistics and Autronesian Migrations
DR Ross Clark Phd Head of Linguistic Study University of Auckland
Wednesday 21 February
7.30pm
Auditorium

FAMILY EVENTS
Children's Day (4 March)
Auckland Museum has a great line up for things to do over this entire weekend:

Saturday 3 March
Free entry for Children to Vaka Moana

Storytelling
11am, 3pm
Treasures & Tales
Hear Maori Legends of dolphins and other creatures who share the sea.

Behind the Scenes Tour
10:15, 11.30 and 2pm
Children will met in southern Atrium, Join Glenys and tour the natural history departments and choose a mini marine treasure to take away. Bookings essential. Children 7 years and over please. Call 09 306 7048 Free for members, $8 for non members.

Talking about Hector
1.30pm
Oceans Gallery
Be enlightened about the Children's Day's mascot, hectors dolphin, in this presentation by Rochelle Constantine, from the University if Auckland.

Dolphin Mural
10am-12am and 1:30pm-3pm, 3rd & 4th March
Treasures & Tales
Museum needs more dolphins! Decorate a Hectors Dolphin to add to the Ocean Mural.

Sunday 4 March
Free entry for Children to Vaka Moana

Delaurus at the Teddy Bears' picnic
11am - 4am
Auckland Domain
The annual Free Teddy Bear's picnic is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

EXHIBITIONS

Vaka Moana: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Exploration
9 December 2006 - 1 April 2007
Vaka Moana is the incredible story of the exploration of the Pacific. It begins 4000 years ago - 3500 years before Europeans even thought to head south, when the ancestors of the Pacific looked toward a never-ending horizon and launched the work's first sea going craft into the greatest ocean on Earth. Their journeys and settlements were accomplished with great skill and inconceivable bravery - and it is our story - the Pacific story.

Cheesemans Flora
ENDS MARCH 4
Tamaki Gallery Free Admission with Donation
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (1845 - 1923) was the Auckland Museum botanist and sole curator for 560 years (1874 - 1923). During his career, Cheeseman described some 154 species, 87 varieties and four plant generations. Thirty - two plant species for New Zealand and Cook Islands are also named after him. The exhibition marks the centenary of this important publication by one of New Zealand's most famous botanists and first full-time director of the Auckland Museum.

Wide-Eyed in Tonga: paintings and drawings by Noelle Sandwith
9 December 2006 – 1 April 2007
An exhibition of 36 artworks by Noelle Sandwith, including paintings, pastels, and drawings; illustrating aspects of 1950s social life and customs in Tonga, including tapa cloth making, dye making, and kava ceremonies.

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