The introduction of the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum for students in Years 1-10 is a significant change for the New Zealand Curriculum which had previously largely avoided compulsory subjects or content.
Talk: Our young people will learn our history
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Talk: David Cook on community, ecology and space.
Most of David's documentary projects deal with communities in transition, contested space, community and ecology.
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Curators' talk: Robin White
Come and join Dr Sarah Farrar and Dr Nina Tonga who will talk through the curation of Dame Robin White’s retrospective exhibition Something is happening here. Sarah and Nina will give insights into
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A Fluid Art: Watercolours 1778-1900
Join Annika Sippel, curator of 'A Fluid Art: Watercolours 1778-1900', for a floor talk on a forgotten private collector, the history of British watercolours, and their place in New Zealand’s art collections.
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Review: Carry Me: 100 Years of Handbags
Handbags are familiar items to us; mostly utilitarian and a fact of life, but they did not emerge as desirable and useful objects all that long ago.. We all associate them with the (mostly) women in our lives, and they are evokers of memory.
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Review: Mataura at City Gallery Te Whare Toi.
The word Matarau refers to a multi-pronged spear used for fishing and eeling; in this work we see a mother with spear in hand guiding her 3 tamariki.
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Art Narratives Tour: A Focus on Robin White
Celebrate New Zealand’s world of art on this guided tour of Toi Art at Te Papa.
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Friends Annual Research Grants 2022
We are delighted to be able to assist in facilitating research projects, and also in supporting the mentoring and scholarship of graduates as assistants on …
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President's Column: July 2022
In Wellington the National Library is public; the zoo is public and Te Papa is public. …
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Review: Circa Theatre Guided Tours
Linda regaled us with a fascinating insight into the history of Circa, how such a modern live theatre organisation is run. …
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