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VIEW PACIFIC
LIVING ROOMS
Maree Koroitamana and Fale Paeu are two
young Pacific designers exhibiting Pacific Living Rooms of the
Pacifica month. Fale’s installation is near the corner
of K Road and Symonds Street. Maree's room, Pacific with
a twist of lime is in St Kevin's Arcade, 178 K Road.
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PECHA
KUCHA
7.30pm,
Tues, 29 April, Samoa House
A Pecha Kucha night is
an event in which presenters speak to their slideshow of 20 images,
each of which is shown for 20 seconds — total time of 6
minutes 40 seconds. Each event usually has 8 - 14 presenters.
Presenters are sought to speak on Pacific topics for this venue
... APPLY
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ARTSPACE
Buy
The Book
Meg Cranston
Hot Pants in a Cold Cold
World
Works 1987–2007
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GAMBIA
CASTLE
Teststrip
a history
of an artist-run space (1992–1997)
This book presents a history
of this killer artist-run space in the form of an archive of ephemera
and photographs. If you were there, you won't remember…
“In 1992 eight artists .... more
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PUBLICATIONS
Art
on paper
Simon Denny,
Paltry Motion and Michael Parekowai available through Michael
Lett
Speculation
- The New Zealand Venice Project
available through Artspace. Catalogues
from ART+OBJECT ... more
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FREE
WIFI ACCESS FOR K ROAD
Just to let you know
we turned on K Road wifi access last week.
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BEST
NEW ZEALAND CITY HOTEL
The Langham Hotel Auckland
was the top hotel as well as the top overall visitor accommodation
at the Tourism Industry Awards.
This win follows the
property’s Best New Zealand City Hotel win earlier in the
month at the 2007 HM Awards for Hotel and Accommodation Excellence
in Sydney... more
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AUCKLAND
PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
1-
24 June
Ingrid Boberg: Dead
Nice at Whitespace
Photo Forum 2007 at
Artstation
Project Lomo #2
curated by Jo Galvin Cross
St Studios
Auckland
Photo Blog
theme for the Festival
is "Heart of The City"
OLYMPUS Photo Day –
9 June ...more
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LNC
DANCE SEASON
27
April - 5 May
Features Maria Dabrowska
Winner Honourable Mentions in Dance & Stand Out Performers
at Fringe 2007 and excitement from some
of New Zealand's most talented young choreographers. Robot
monkeys, bathroom plungers, hanging bodies and random acts of
dance abound ...
more
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FREE
ARTS EVENTS ON K ROAD
March
- April 07
GUIDED GALLERY TOURS
MUSIC POETRY & ART
FROM THE PACIFIC
JOC – JEWELLERY OUT
OF CONTEXT
ARTISTS TALK
SOUND WORKSHOPS
FILM and
so much more
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PHOTO
EXHIBITION
Children
of the Gulf War
Takashi Morizumi has
been documenting the children of Iraq siance 1988. It is
believed that 300 tons of depleted uranium shells were left after
the Gulf War by US and UK military and atht they are causing the
high levels of cancers children are suffering there ...
more
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AUCKLAND
FESTIVAL AK07 9-25 March
is a vibrant and exciting
festival offering unique and innovative experiences for everyone
who loves Auckland and the arts. Outstanding dance, drama, music,
visual arts and culture from NZ and the international arena ...
more
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K
ROAD GIFTS -Astound and amaze your
friends and family with K Road Kards or Sparrow
and I Think designed teatowels. Unique designs created for
the K Road Business Association ...more
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PACIFIC
ART GALLERY OPENS
O'kai
Oceanikart opens on Sat 3 February
The work of such established
artists as Fatu Feu’u, Tui Hobson and Matafetu Smith will
be shown along with mid career and emerging artists such as Ellie
Fa’amauri, Ahota’e’loa Toetu’u, Sylvia
Masters and Zora Feilo
... more
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MY
LIFE AS A HOUSE
Objectspace
- Opens 6pm Friday 26 Jan
The tenants had no children,
so put the doll's house under the house, where the English interior
ply fell apart fast ...
more
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SUN
OF THE SEVENTH SISTER
'Godhead
or Bust' tour of New Zealand
Only Auckland Show! Tuesday 23 Jan 8pm
a 12 piece ecstatic
free music bigband of psychedelic folk and dream noise straight
out of the out-skirts of Sydney where they
... more
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ARTS
K ROAD Voted Metro Best of in 2006
Ivan Anthony, Objectspace
and just two of the dozen or so 'bests of' contemporary galleries
in the K Road precinct! Great shows listed on the Arts Calendar
till December 29. Christmas Shows at House of Taonga (one
day only) and Whitespace and Editions availbale from Artpspace
.... more
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CINECHICO
SHORT FILMS
an
OE for filmlovers
Cinechico at Descarga
Cubana offers an entertaining selection of international short
films every month at Descarga Cubana. NZ filmakers are encouraged
to submit films ... more
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THE
CINEMA ASCENSION FESTIVAL
6-8
Decmber, St Kevins Arcade
will group together an
explosive array of new and old cinematic delights that will explore
the gamut of moving image from expanded celluloid experiments
through pixellated digital escapism, ephemeral archival footage
to temporal performative projection by incredible and diverse
host of current moving image pioneers and musical trailblazers!!
... more
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FREE
TANGO LESSONS
Tango
on the Town Square
Free tango lessons - all
welcome - began Wednesday October 18 on Beresford Square just
off Pitt Street. Expert tuition with Maida Zanaboni, who
keeps her skils honed by returning to New York and Argentina ...
more
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DOUGLAS
MACDIARMID
A
Very Generous Gift - 19 Nov– 15 Dec.
Opens Sunday 19 Nov
3pm ...
more
Please RSVP to 373 9700 or adrienne.molloy@otago.ac.nz
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TEMPO
FESTIVAL OF DANCE AT GALATOS
Moving
Image Centre - 4 performances
Launched
29 Sept and featuring over 40 performances across 10 venues.
Wow! At Galatos: Beautiful City, Classic Dance Music Videos, Private
Dancer:Ms Fortuna, The Naked Truth:Ms Fortuna. Ms Fortuna is cheeky,
flirtatious and sumptuous. She seduces while her companion, ....
Private Dancer is .. a cabaret show … nudity, feisty table
dancing, wild stories, prizes galore and some shocking dance routines
... more
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TANGO
CONGRESS OF NEW ZEALAND 2006
20
-23 Oct - Welcome to the
Aerolineas
Argentinas International Tango Congress, Incorporating the NZ
Tango Championship. This is the spring rendezvous for tangueros
in New Zealand. Presenting highly respected & internationally
renowned tango masters direct from Argentina! ...
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VAANA
2, the next generation
7 October
1pm next to Artstation
The VAANA 2 works by Young Visual Artists
for Peace and Social Justice now on at Disrupt. “I
was impressed by the deep thought and high level of skill demonstrated
by the younger artists" ...
more
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2006
CUBAN FILM FESTIVAL - SI! CUBANAS!
Cuban
women behind the camera
The main Auckland venue
is K’Rd cafe & bar Descarga Cubana. The focus is on
WOMEN FILMMAKERS, showing the best work from the country’s
top female with special guest the esteemed Afro-Cuban GLORIA ROLANDO
... more
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AFI
- THE FIRST SAMOAN SUPERHERO
Comic
Book Launch 3 October 6.30pm
Samoa
House, 283 K Road
Is it a bird? Is
it a plane? No, it’s Polynesia’s answer to that
mythical figure, the superhero. AFI, a comic creation from
New Zealand-born Samoan Johnny Angel, is a futuristic Samoan superhero
driven to do good for humanity. This is an opportunity to take
home a copy of the Pacific’s first superhero comic. ALL
WELCOME
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MOVING
IMAGE CENTRE
From
RED Light District to Right Respectable
Short Fuse at Galatos – A night of
short films at Galatos, 28 September features this intriguing
doco by new director, and K Road Business Association staffer,
Kathy Moriarty. For the best in local short film, video, animation
and experimental cinema. ... more
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HERITAGE
FESTIVAL
16-24
September
Windmills,
Churches, Theatres
2 hour free guided tour
of Karangahape Road by Mr Edward Bennett and ... "The Inside View"
2006 'special treat'
- see inside buildings you have always been curious about ...
more
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FREE
LECTURE SERIES
University
of Otago Auckland Centre
Biogeography of New
Zealand Galaxiid Fish; Blood, Sweat & Teeth – Adventures
in Forensics; Competitive Branding Practices; Lebanon and Syria
– The Politics of Murder ... more
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K
RD CREW TMD WIN WRITE4GOLD
NEWSFLASH! Its done!
Congratulations
to ASKEW,PHAT1, EXIST, RYZE and DEUS! The TMD Crew from New Zealand
has won the first Write4Gold World Finals! ...
more
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ARTWORK
K ROAD
Art
by Falk ‚Akut’ Lehmann
Have you seen the control
box on the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds St? Internationally
renonwned German Judge Akut painted it while he was here for WRITE4GOLD
... more
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CRAFTWERK
arts,
crafts, zines and music fair - 3 August
An arts
and crafts fair with a difference, a lo fi approach to helping
young and emerging artists and craftsters to show and sell their
works. We have stalls selling ... more
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MATARIKI
MARAMATAKA 06/07
‘Nga
Rangatira o te Ao', follows on from last year with twelve
Maori fashion designers coming together to celebrate Matariki,
the rise of the Maori new year. The celebrations kicked off with
a live fashion show showcasing the garments to an intimate audience
at Disrupt Gallery. The beautiful Matariki Calendar is available
at the gallery ...
more
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K
ROAD DANCE SEASON - LNC Concept
- Late Night Choreographers poses an exciting time for
dance and the dance industry - LNC will be nurturing dance at
a crucial level, representing... more
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ALLELUYA
NOISE FESTIVAL
View photos
from this event
a festival of unique,exploratory,innovative,kinetic,
open,
cracked,harsh, lower
case,minimal,animalistic,extreme,soft,frenetic,
improvised, ... more
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PASIFIKA
STYLES 2006 UK
Nau
Mai - Haere Mai
The unveiling
of George Nuku's "Out of Space Marae" on April 18 attracted over
100 guests and approximately 400 visitors over the ensuing two
days. The unveiling was accompanied by an eery and mystical
dance performance ... more
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