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Island Summers - needlework, art, photography, music, dance

Date: Tuesday 12 January – Wednesday 10 February 2010 Admission: Free

Island Summers marks an historical milestone for the Pacific Arts, providing a snapshot of the last ten years of the Pacific Arts Festival in Christchurch. It is accompanied by two exhibitions that remind us Pacific arts, traditional and contemporary, are alive and kicking in Christchurch and beyond.

Tiare Maori exhibits the traditional Cook Island art of tivaevae and the relatively new but related art of cotton flower making.

What-cha Say? is an exhibition of talented young Pacific and Maori artists whose work sheds some insight on what’s meaningful for young people today.

Together these exhibitions celebrate festivals gone and yet to come and remind us that – yes it’s summer and that Otautahi is on an island in the Pacific.

Floor Talk: Island Summers

Date: Saturday 16 January Time: 10am–11am

Exhibition curator Stephanie Oberg discusses Island Summers: Cook Island Tivaevae, and the work of young Polynesian artists living in Otautahi. Stephanie also shares her insight into Christchurch’s own Pacific Arts Festival. 10 am / meet at the front desk / free

Workshop: Creative Conversations

Date: Saturday 30 January Time: 10am–11.30am Join Cook Island practitioners for a hands–on opportunity to learn some of the unique Cook Island techniques of embroidery cotton flower making. Booking essential. 10 am / meet at the front desk / $5.00 per person / book by 22 Jan: (03) 941 7460 .