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Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Come to City Gallery Wellington and become an art explorer this Family Day.
Using your imagination and looking closely who knows what you’ll discover!
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 16 July | 11am - 4pm
Is it a flower? Is it a house? Is it a space station? 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
Foyer | 11am-4pm | Drop-in
The sky is full of stars or are they flowers? Come and construct your own flower sculpture to take home. Decorate the petals with shapes and colour. Turn it into a badge to wear home. What will your flower look like?
Paper Flower Making
Upstairs | 11am-4pm | Drop-in
Make a zine all about your dream car. How would you decorate it? What would you add so we know it belongs to you? Look around and find artist Ming Ranginui’s car for inspiration.
Check out my Car Zine Making
Upstairs | 11am-4pm | Drop-in
What do you see when you visit the Gallery? Borrow a camera and take a photo of something unusual or unexpected, or maybe missed by other visitors. Share it or take it home as your own souvenir.
Odd Shot Photos
Foyer | 11am-4pm | Drop-in
Become an art explorer by joining one our tour guides to look closely at one artwork. Encounter art together as we tell stories about, ask questions, and look to discover more.
Art Encounter Jr
12pm & 2pm
Be delighted and entertained by short films from Square Eyes which explore new worlds of imagination.
Square Eyes Films
Auditorium | 11am-4pm | Drop-in
Art and imagination come to life in these pop-up story times. Join us as art and imagination come to life! Pop-up story times weave together enchanting tales inspired by the exhibition Matarau.
Story Time
1pm
Be delighted and entertained by short films from Square Eyes which explore new worlds of imagination.
