PATAKA Events for February

Festival of the Elements, Waitangi Day - UK Storytellers in the Courtyard

Sunday 6 February, 1.00pm in Pataka's beautiful courtyard

Join Ashley Ramsden and Sue Hollingsworth from the International School of Storytelling (Emerson, UK) for a storytelling experience in the Pataka courtyard. Taking the theme of the Elements Festival this year the storytelling will explore the idea of water. Ashley and Sue are in NZ for the first time taking a 5 week long workshop called The Storyteller in the Community to be held at Pukerua Bay and are presenting a free performance for the festival.

Taoist Tai Chi demonstration, Waitangi Day Festival of the Elements
Sunday 6 February, 2.00pm in Pataka's Spine
Come and see the Wellington Taoist Tai Chi Society demonstrate what is called the Tai Chi set. The set, made up of 108 moves, has amazing health benefits.

Quiltmakers - Waitangi Day Festival of the Elements
Sunday 6 February, All day in Pataka's Spine
Local quilters will be setting up in the spine to demonstrate piecing and quiliting techniques. They will also show us some of the stunning charity quilts they have been producing, so if you love quilts pop in for a look.

Artists Talk, Morag Stokes
Sunday 20 February, 1.00pm in the Blue Pacific Gallery

Morag will give a talk to celebrate the final day of her exhibition, kNot Pasifika, which is based on the merging of Celtic and Pacific art using her 'drag painting' technique.

Pataka Exhibition Opening. The opening of 5 new exhibitions
Sunday 20 February, 2.00pm
CUTTING EDGE - the Art of Turned Wood.
THE PA OF PORIRUA: 1830-1850.
SHE BEAUTY, HE BEAST: Reuben Paterson.
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER - the ardh mela (religious festival): Photographs by John Williams.
NGATU TU ’ULI - the past is now: Kulimoe'anga Stone Maka.

Opening speaker
Mayor Nick Leggett

Artists Talk, Kulimoe'anga Stone Maka
Sunday 20 February, 2.30pm.
Follows the Exhibition Opening

Tongan artist Kulimoe'anga Stone Maka will be presenting a floortalk on his work in the exhibition Ngatu Tu 'Uli – the Past is Now. Based on the sacred Tongan ngatu ‘uli’ (black tapa) Maka’s works are large painted abstract pieces on canvas and tapa.

Spoken Word Performance - Janet Rogers and Apirana Taylor
Thursday 24 February evening in the spine at Pataka 7-8pm

Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994. Janet works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music.
www.janetmarierogers.com

Apirana Taylor is a writer, poet, storyteller, painter and actor who helped form Maori theatre at a time when no such theatre existed. Apirana has traveled nationally and internationally as a poet and storyteller. He has twice been invited to tour India as a poet and has also traveled throughout Europe where he was asked to participate in a three month poetry tour of Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Germany.

Get your hands on Pataka's latest publication Bamiyan - the Heart of Afghanistan
Only available at Pataka's shop $25.00

All good things are worth waiting for! Pataka Museum has just taken delivery of the Bamiyan exhibition book from the printers in China.

This full colour, 204 page book with its beautiful page layouts of virtually all the images from the recent Bamiyan exhibition is an absolute stunner!

Relive the experience, savour the images of the people of Bamiyan. Recall the history of the region, review the scenic sights and historic sites. Drool over Chris Weisserborn's remarkable panoramic images, revisit the work of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, enjoy the children's artwork, savour again the photographs of Pedram Pirnia and ponder the words and thoughts of the local interviewees.

Every aspect of the stimulating exhibition that was visited by over 60,000 people is encompassed in the book. Buy your copy now and celebrate the memory of the exhibition and Porirua's Friendly City relationship with Bamiyan.

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