Who was behind the lens? What motivates the filmmaker? How/Why are New Zealanders portrayed in this footage? How do we perceive this footage today? What stories and people were less likely to be filmed?
Read more |December 15, 2020
It was a night “to feel the fear and do it anyway”. Conversation stopped as we concentrated intensely, trying to achieve perfection.
Read more |December 2, 2020
This walk was planned for a lovely sunny day but Wellington delivered a more than fresh wind and a chilly temperature to accompany a visit by 20 Friends of Te Papa to two special spaces in Lyall Bay.
Read more |November 24, 2020
There was a good turnout for this lecture by Dr Mark Stocker, retired art historian and former curator at Te Papa. The British artist Edward Burne-Jones is closely associated
Read more |November 24, 2020
Captain Cook, his officers and accompanying naturalists aboard the Resolution explored Dusky Sound for six weeks during March-May 1773. Their observations became New Zealand’s first BioBlitz, with the broad-billed prion and little penguin among the birds they described
Read more |November 10, 2020
30 years ago, Mana Island was a grass-covered, bleak, windswept landscape, only a few native trees still surviving in sheltered gullies. 500,000 trees later, Mana is an island paradise, home to a wealth of forest and sea birds, lizards and geckos, and thriving native trees and shrubs.
Read more |November 4, 2020
There is a long history in all the Maori arts of carvers, weavers and carriers of the culture learning as apprentices and developing their skills until they can produce objects worthy of the tradition they have been taught.
Read more |October 22, 2020
Friends visit to Frances Hodgkin’s at the Adam Art Gallery.
Read more |October 8, 2020
Athol McCredie gave members a fascinating glimpse into the life and photography of Adkin. Leslie Adkin (1888-1964) was a farmer near Levin, but is better known as an amateur scholar, geologist, ethnologist, author and photographer.
Read more |October 7, 2020
Dr Rebecca Rice introduced us to the rich world of botanical art by females in 1880s colonial New Zealand while we sipped our bubbles, and with the added treat of works from the storerooms on display for us to encounter in person.
Read more |October 2, 2020
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