Food Futures is a two-night pop-up art restaurant happening over the evenings of December 1st and 2nd, exploring the future of our food, first from te ao Māori perspective and then on the second evening, through the lens of sustainability and collaboration.
For Food Futures the Chez Derriere gallery at Te Tuhi’s Parnell Project Space will function as an explorative art restaurant where diners are invited to join a group of inspiring artists, designers, chefs and food writers for a meal, to celebrate, discuss and imagine the future of food. To hear about it, Frances caught up with curator Felixe Laing.
Each year Artspace Aotearoa orbits one question in the company of artists and through exhibitions. In 2023 they have been asking “where does my body belong?” Artspace is closing out the exploration of this with the first iteration of the New Commissions programme, evolving out of the legacy of the annual New Artists show. Sunlighting presents the work of three emerging artists living in Tāmakai Makaurau Auckland. To hear about the show Frances caught up with director Ruth Buchanan and artist Prairie Hartchard-McGill.
Liam chats with Ōtautahi muso Sam Bamberry about links between Music and Visual Art, as well as Shania Pablo about the Trans poetry night happening tomorrow night at Movespace.
Frances speaks with Chairperson of NZ Sculpture OnShore Sally Dewar about New Zealand’s largest and longest running outdoor sculpture exhibition.
We have guests from the NZ National Poetry Slam in to give us a teaster and Frances also speaks with Hamish Carter about six new exhibitions opening at TeTuhi this weekend.
And, to round off the show, we will take you through the art guide for Tāmaki Makarau this week.
The country’s largest outdoor art event – NZ Sculpture OnShore – opened on 4 November offering visitors a record number of more than 130 spectacular works held at the stunning clifftop park of Operetu Fort Takapuna in Devonport, Auckland.
Returning after a five-year hiatus, the biennial exhibition is Women’s Refuge NZs biggest fundraising event.
To hear about the exhibition, Frances caught up with Chairperson Sally Dewar.
Happening at the end of this month is the 2023 NZ National Poetry Slam, where the top poets in the country will travel here to Tāmaki Makaurau for the opportunity to be crowned the 2023 National Champion.
To hear about the Slam, Frances has a chat in-studio with Abby Irwin-Jones and Auckland Regional Champ, Ngaio Simmons.
This weekend, over at 74 Karangahape Road, is the SAMA-SAMA pop up market.
This’ll be the first event from SAMA-SAMA, showcasing six local Filipino creatives and makers from the third to the fifth of November.
Long term, SAMA-SAMA is aiming to form a full on community of Filipino creatives within Aotearoa. To learn more, I had a chat with founders Denise and Clarisse.
Poets Isla Huia, Liam Jacobsen, and Dominic Hoey will be going on a tour across the motu throughout late november and early December.
The trio will be heading to The Wine Cellar here in Tāmaki Makaurau on the eighth of december, as well as Golden Bay, Ōtepoti, Ōtautahi, and Te Whanganui-a-tara
This comes off of the back of each poet releasing their own poetry books throughout this year.
Liam had a chat to Isla about the tour, and how it came to fruition.
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