Upstairs Gallery - Events And Updates

Upstairs Gallery - Events And Updates

• NOW ON: This is the first week of our latest exhibition BLIND – interactive works by Diane Rimmer. Check out our website to view a sample of the work via slideshow by clicking here. Better still – come on in and take your time while you get hands-on and discover the stories behind the works. Comments from our visitors book already include: “Fascinating! Most enjoyable”, “Fascinating concept”, “Interesting view of history”, “Nice interaction”, “Really draws the viewer in”….. add your own comment to our book. Open 7 days, 10-4:30. Free Entry.

• REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: July brings our 5th annual Titirangi Community Arts Council (TCAC) Emerging Artist Awards. We’re on the lookout for emergent visual artists across Auckland. 20 works will be selected for a month long exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery in Lopdell House, and from those 20 works, 2 will be awarded grants – one for $1000 and another for $500. Additional prizes of gift vouchers and publication are in the mix too. Judges this year are Linda Tyler (Director, Centre for Art Research, The University of Auckland), Regan Gentry (BFA), Paul Sinnett (Gordon Harris), Jo Duggan (Resene). Click here for full details and entry forms – or pick one up at the gallery. Entries close June 15th.

• TOP UP YOUR ART SUPPLIES: There’s a Canvas & Easel Sale on now at Gordon Harris. 50% off all Canvas & Easels. Sale ends 4 June 2012. Check out more info by clicking here.

• GET INFORMED AND INSPIRED WITH A GOOD READ: Happy Birthday Gallery36! Always a great read. Click here to download the latest copy.

• GO FOR A NIGHT OUT AT LOPDELL HOUSE: Do or Di? Herschel Herscher hosts a fun-filled musical event. Add singers Anna Rugis and Linn Lorkin and you have a top professional vocal trio. This fabulous fifties television game show spoof showcases the trio's comedic and musical talents. Wonderful singing and jazzy instrumental arrangements are applied to the hits of Doris Day and Dinah Shore while the audience guesses which diva was the hit-maker! Click here for more info.

• COME TO A LOCAL PLAY: Waiatarua Performing Arts Trust presents: in association with The Play Bureau (NZ) the classic comedy drama. Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling directed by Kathy Lowe. 16 - 26 May 2012 at 8pm, Waiatarua Hall, 911 West Coast Rd, Waiatarua. Click here to book, or ph 814 1850. Sun 20 May at 6.30pm. No show Mon or Tues. Tickets $20 /$15 concession. (no eftpos) Group booking rate available. Steel Magnolia: a lady who is sweet and gentle yet strong and resilient.

• GO TO AN ARTIST TALK ON THURSDAY: A must for all Art Lovers! Degas to Dali: March to Modernism is an illustrated talk review by TJ McNamara, NZ Herald weekly art columnist. This talk will provide you with essential background that extends and deepens your understanding of the current exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Degas to Dali. Thursday 16 May, 6:30pm. Corban Estate Arts Centre Don’t miss this unique opportunity! $15 adults, $10 student/community/gold card. Click here to book online

• HELP PLANT A NEW FOREST: Kia ora koutou. Awhi Papatuanuku by volunteering to assist Riki Bennett ( Alone Ranger oops I mean Parks Ranger) to celebrate Matariki in new planting of the whenua ......Planting Day. Pae o Te Rangi. 27 June 2012, 10am. Location: Meet at the stock yards corner of Bethells and Te Henga Roads. Come and be part of creating a new forest on your Auckland Council farm park, Pae O Te Rangi. What to bring: Gumboots and a spade that is clearly marked and lots of enthusiasm.

• TAKE A LIFE/ART CLASS: Dance and art take us on a journey home to the soul, uncovering the deeper meaning of our lives, our truth and knowing. Creative Juice Life/Art Classes at Laingholm.
Lou is an experienced teacher of the Tamlapa Life/Art process, and visual artist. Each class is themed and begins from the ground of body awareness and integration, to personal and group interactions, and explorations of self in movement, drawing, painting, and poetic writing. Those with or without previous dance or art experience are equally welcome. If you love to dance or paint or are terrified to, this class is for you!! Please wear loose comfortable layered clothing. The class is fortnightly. Beginning Thursday May 17, 31 June 14, 28. 7-9pm. Laingholm community hall, Victory Rd, (across the road from Laingholm primary school). $15 (includes art materials). Click here for more information on Tamlapa

• VISIT WEST COAST GALLERY, PIHA: Keep It In The Family. A collaborative exhibition by Mandy Patmore and her 13 and 9 year old sons, Ezra and Lukah Ashton. 5th May – 3 June 2012. West Coast Gallery, Seaview Road, Piha. Open Wed-Sun 10-4,

And last but not least …

• LIKE OUR FACEBOOK PAGE: I’ve just noticed that some email programs hide the link to our facebook page (at the bottom of all my emails). So here it is again… just click here and ‘like’ us J

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