Curated by the CubaDupa programming team, the Late Night event fuses art and music for an extraordinary evening of talent The Capital’s new visual arts festival, Face to Face Portrait Festival , funded by the Wellington City Council’s City Recovery .
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Curated by the CubaDupa programming team, the Late Night event at the Face to Face Portrait Festival will fuse art and music for an extraordinary evening of talent
The Capital’s new visual arts festival, Face to Face Portrait Festival, funded by the Wellington City Council’s City Recovery Fund, has announced its full programme of free art events, including the full-line up of musicians for the Late Night event. Taking place on Saturday 29 May, the Late Night invites the public to experience the very best in contemporary New Zealand art and music. Enjoy performances by celebrated musicians in an intimate art gallery setting.
The Manawatū River Leaders’ Forum chair Richard Thompson said the festival was a celebration of the actions collectively taken to improve the river. The forum was started in 2010 and the accord was signed the same year, with the vision “if the water is healthy, the land and the people are nourished”. “The rejuvenated Foxton River Loop Reserve is a perfect example of one such project,” he said. “In all, there are 104 tasks identified by the accord to help improve the mauri (essence) of the Manawatū River Catchment. “The Accord was originally signed August 2010 in Foxton, so it’s fitting we host the festival here, sharing a day of community celebration.”
Jerome Kavanagh to play taonga pūoro at Te Manawa on Waitangi Day
2 Feb, 2021 01:22 AM
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Jerome Kavanagh will introduce visitors to the world of taonga puoro on Waitangi Day at Te Manawa.
Manawatu Guardian
This Saturday, Te Manawa commemorates the 181st anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a day of events and activities.
At 1pm, Jerome Kavanagh returns to Te Manawa in Palmerston North for a performance of his Oro Atua show, a journey through the world of taonga pūoro – traditional Māori musical instruments.
Experience Kavanagh s collection of about 40 unique and rare Māori musical instruments: from the nguru (whale tooth nose flute) to the porutu pounamu (greenstone long flute); the kōauau toroa (albatross wing bone flute) to the unique putorino, a cocoon-shaped trumpet flute made from the mighty tōtara tree.
Monday, 1 February 2021, 2:59 pm
The Manawatū River Leaders’ Forum has announced that
for the first time Te Oranga o te Awa – the Manawatū
River Improvement Festival, will be held in Foxton to
celebrate the reopening of the Foxton River Loop
Reserve.
The celebration will be held at the reserve
on Saturday 27 February from 10am-3pm. It will provide an
opportunity for the community to come together and mark the
rejuvenation of a key part of the River Loop, which silted
up after the upstream entrance of the Loop was accidentally
cut off from the Manawatū River about 80 years
ago.
Forum Chair Richard Thompson said the festival is