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Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Come to City Gallery Wellington and Look! Make! Discover! this Family Day.
There will be a range of activities running throughout the day along with pop up performances.
Join us for a day of creativity and discovery.
The Future of Monuments
Today, many want to pull down war memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. Are there 'good' war memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' war memorials? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary war-memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? What form could future memorials take?
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Saturday 15 October | 10am - 5pm
Is it a flower? Is it a house? Is it a coral reef? Help us bring Bloom to life using bright pink construction pieces to connect, construct, and deconstruct whole new worlds. Imagine and collaborate as a family.
Bloom
10am – 5pm | Foyer
They say birds of a feather flock together but what a flock we’re creating! Use different materials and techniques to add feathers, feet, and a beak creating a bird unique to you. Whether a plump pigeon or a dazzling peacock there’s room for everyone in our flock. Can you find the birdsongs in the Gallery?
Birds of a Feather: Collage Making
10am – 5pm | Education Studio
Capture light with this colourful activity and bring our windows to life. Design and colour your own window decal to take home. Make sure you look around to discover Georgette Brown’s stained glass artwork for inspiration.
Light meets Colour: Window Art
10am – 5pm | Drop In | Boardroom
Art can make you think and feel in new ways, work together to find the words. Using our wall of magnetic poetry share something about what you see and read what other people think and feel too.
Words love Art
10am – 5pm | Drop In | Foyer
Nan and Tuna have been friends for 70 years and now it is time for one last adventure together. But before they leave they need to find someone to care for the river. A bilingual puppet show about eels, rivers and friendship
Performance: Nan & Tuna
11.30am-12.30am | Drop In | Auditorium
Mindfulness, Tikanga Māori practices like pūrākau and whakataukī, and movement come together in this short session presented by M3. Created for children to empower them and build resilience so they can change the world.
M3 Mindfulness
1pm | Foyer
Enid is a trotting portrait painter extra-ordinaire. She sets up her easel in street corners, market places, festivals, capturing the likenesses of men, women, children, dogs and teddy bears the world over.
Performance: The Portrait Painter
2.00 – 3.30pm | Foyer
Look and discover by joining one our tour guides to look closely at one artwork. Encounter art together as we tell stories, ask questions, and look closely to discover more.
Art Encounter Jr
11am & 2.30pm
Join Children’s Book author and illustrator Paul Bevis for a live drop-in drawing session. Learn how Paul constructs delightful animal characters out of simple lines and shapes as we let our imaginations run wild!
