Friends of Pātaka

"It Takes Three" – jazz concert
2022-08-07 14:00 - 15:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
The second of our 2022 Winter Music Series concerts features jazz aficionados Rafe Swan on drums, Elijah Mulheron on double bass and Rory Johns on piano.
“We are a trio of Pōneke-based jazz musicans and recent jazz school graduates/postgraduate students. Over the past three years of playing together we’ve built a strong musical connection and everlasting companionship. We’ll be playing mainly jazz standards with a few original compositions as well.”

[Note, this concert was originally advertised as ‘Steezy Standards’ featuring a different group of musicians.]

Michaela Cadwgan & Nicholas Kovacev
2022-07-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
In the first of our Winter Music Series concerts for 2022, Wellington based Michaela Cadwgan (soprano) and Nicholas Kovacev (piano) perform a variety of pieces from the classical voice repertoire, ranging from Operatic arias, German lieder, French melodie and European art song. Not to be missed!
Image: Michaela Cadwgan singing at the Malvina Major Foundation Concert at Government House in August 2019 for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Matariki 2022 Events at Pātaka – Saturday 25 June
2022-06-25 | Pātaka Art + Museum
25 June: Night sky experience – https://fb.me/e/2vLB2mKLF
25 June: Whiti Te Ra tours – https://fb.me/e/1zjxz26zU
25 June: Weavers workshop – https://fb.me/e/2wWC041Yy
25 June: Russell Harrison – https://fb.me/e/1MhTvIylC
26 June: Night sky experience – https://fb.me/e/2vLB2mKLF

Whiti Te Ra tours with Ngāti Toa
2022-06-24 10:00 - 2022-06-25 15:00 | Pātaka Art + Museum
A wonderful opportunity to learn from our iwi hosts about the stories and taonga of Whiti Te Rā! – the iconic exhibition of Ngāti Toa with six 30-minute tours, free of charge:
Friday 24 June at 10am, 11.30am and 2.30pm;
Saturday 25 June at 10am, 11.30am and 2.30pm.
See: https://www.facebook.com/events/1443458506104558/1443458512771224?active_tab=about
We expect these to be very popular, so book to avoid disappointment.
BOOKINGS: 04 237 3849, visit Pātaka reception, or walk-in on the day.

Matariki 2022 Events at Pātaka – Friday 24 June
2022-06-24 | Pātaka Art + Museum
24 June: Matariki messages – https://fb.me/e/1vic4IBKW
24 June: Kids workshop – https://fb.me/e/2AoDGRQkc
24 June: Night sky experience – https://fb.me/e/2vLB2mKLF
24 June: Whiti Te Ra tour – https://fb.me/e/1zjxz26zU
24 June: Tour ‘Nomads of The Sea.’ – https://fb.me/e/1Zc2a8vRb
24 June: Storytime – https://fb.me/e/4GhbFmhV1

Concert by NZSM classical voice students
2022-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Pātaka Performing Arts Studio, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022
A mix of song, Lied, chanson, and opera by New Zealand School of Music classical voice students from their upcoming recitals in what may well be one of the few public performances they get this year! MCed by Lecturer in Voice Wade Kernot.
An unmissable concert, free for all.

Friends of Pātaka Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022
2022-04-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
All Friends and anyone else interested are invited to the upcoming Friends of Pātaka Annual General Meeting (AGM). We normally hold our AGM in the evening, but are hoping that the afternoon time of 2pm will encourage as many people as possible to come. The meeting will begin with a guest speaker, Ana Sciascia, the newly appointed Director of Pātaka Arts and Museum. This is a great opportunity to welcome her and to find out about her vision for Pātaka. We look forward to seeing you there.

Friends of Pātaka AGM 2022 Agenda | Friends of Pātaka Constitution and Rules | Friends of Pātaka Annual Report 2022

Friends of Pātaka Performance Report 2021 | Friends of Pātaka Auditor’s Review Report 2021 | Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2021

Melvin Day – A Modernist Perspective
2021-12-09 15:00 - 2021-12-12 16:30 | Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
Exhibition floor talk by Gregory O’Brien
Celebrated writer, poet and art curator, Gregory O’Brien will lead a public floor talk on the major survey exhibition Melvin Day – a modernist perspective in Pātaka’s Maude & Miller Gallery.
Greg curated the second major survey of Day’s extensive practice, Melvin Day–Continuum, for City Gallery Wellington in 2005 and was the primary writer and co-editor of the lavishly illustrated monograph, Melvin Day–Artist, published by Victoria University Press and Waikato Museum te Whare Taonga Waikato in 2019.
A regular commentator on the arts on National Radio and in every other form of public and social media, Greg is a great raconteur and high energy, entertaining speaker.
His floor talk will be a lot of fun and is not to be missed.

‘Music and Memory’ with Robert Oliver & friends
2021-08-18 19:30 - 21:30
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS
Because of the inability of a key Australian performer to travel to New Zealand to play in this concert tour, it has been decided to cancel it. We deeply regret and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Classical viola works performed by NZSM students
2021-08-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
FREE CONCERT FOR FRIENDS AND CHILDREN; $5 FOR OTHERS.
Three young, highly talented and accomplished viola players – Aucklander Taliesin Amoore and Wellingtonians Lauren Jack and Zephyr Wills – offer a programme of works for viola accompanied by the piano. This is a great opportunity to hear seldom-played masterpieces of the viola repertoire by three of the School of Music’s promising up-and-coming musicians.
Taliesin Amoore is a viola student at the NZSM and a member of the Eden Quartet, a string quartet of highly talented and motivated first-year music performance students who have performed in Wellington and other centres in NZ. Only beginning to learn a stringed instrument since starting high school, Tal’s enormous self-motivation has driven him to succeed in a far shorter time than is usual and he has been accepted into the National Youth Orchestra, the Adam Summer School and various youth orchestras and chamber groups in Auckland and Wellington.
Zephyr Wills and Lauren Jack are both Honours performance students from the Wellington area making waves round Wellington.
Lauren has been the principal violist in the National Youth Orchestra and the NZSM orchestra and is the current principal of the Wellington Youth Orchestra. She was in the winning group in the 2017 Chamber Music NZ Community Trust Chamber Music Contest and has played as a casual player with Orchestra Wellington and the NZSO.
Zephyr has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra for several years, has attended the Adam Summer School 4 times and received A+ in most of his performance exams. He is the inaugural recipient of Orchestra Wellington’s Linda & Max Simmons Viola Fellowship, entitling him to free lessons with the principal viola and to perform with the orchestra this year.

This concert is from the Friends of Pātaka’s 2021 Winter Music Series:
25 July: The Pacific Connection
I August: Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill
8 August: Classical viola works performed by NZSM students

Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill
2021-08-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
FREE CONCERT FOR FRIENDS AND CHILDREN; $5 FOR OTHERS.
Gillian Boucher, an award-winning fiddler & dancer from Eastern Canada’s Scottish-infused Cape Breton Island, and Bob McNeill, an award-winning guitarist, singer and songwriter originally from Scotland, share a deeply seeded passion for their musical heritage and culture.
Mere months before a global lock-down, the duo released their highly anticipated new album, Race for the Sun, with a successful tour of both Canada and the USA. Gillian’s unique fiddle style paired with Bob’s innovative, rhythmic accompaniment and powerful lyricism takes what you know about traditional Celtic music and brings it to another level altogether.

This concert is from the Friends of Pātaka’s 2021 Winter Music Series:
25 July: The Pacific Connection
I August: Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill
8 August: Classical viola works performed by NZSM students

Toi Koru: Sandy Adsett, Ahi Toi and Wero exhibition openings; Art of Kōwhaiwhai and Māori Curatorial Practice symposium
2021-07-31 | Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
Pātaka Art + Museum presents an exhibition and symposium on the Art of Kōwhaiwhai and Māori Curatorial Practice
EXHIBITIONS:
Toi Koru: Sandy Adsett
An exhibition of over 60 paintings tracing 60 years of the highly influential art practice of Dr. Sandy Adsett MNZM
Ahi Toi
An exhibition featuring Toihoukura and Toimairangi Schools of Māori art alumni
Wero
A solo exhibition by Wellington-based painter and tā moko artist Victor Te Paa
DAY SYMPOSIUM on the Art of Kōwhaiwhai and Māori Curatorial Practice
The exhibitions will be accompanied by a Day Symposium on the Art of Kōwhaiwhai and Māori Curatorial Practice. Free entry
To register email: Mark.hutchins-pond@poriruacity.govt.nz
Programme:
10am: Blessing: Taku Parai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira kaumatua
10.20am: Welcoming address: Arapata Hakiwai, Kaihautū | Māori Co-leader, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, with June Grant, artist and friend
11am: Toi Koru: Sandy Adsett artist talk in conversation with Reuben Friend
12pm: Live Tā Moko demonstration by artist Victor Te Paa
1.30pm: Kōwhaiwhai in contemporary art panel discussion
Robert Jahnke ONZM (facilitator), Kura Te Waru Rewiri and Ngataiharuru Taepa
3pm: Māori curatorial frameworks panel discussion
Nigel Borell (facilitator), Dr. David Butts and Sandy Adsett discuss the first iwi-led exhibition Ngā Tukemata: Ngā Taonga o Ngāti Kahungunu, 1986.
3:30pm: Māori curatorial practice today and tomorrow
Nigel Borell (facilitator), Megan Tamati-Quennell and Tim Walker discuss curatorial frameworks for contemporary Māori art, beginning with Kohia ko Taikaka Anake at the National Art Gallery of New Zealand in 1990.
4pm: Refreshments

The Pacific Connection concert
2021-07-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Pātaka Performing Arts Studio, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022
FREE CONCERT FOR FRIENDS AND CHILDREN; $5 FOR OTHERS.
The Pacific Connection is a large a cappella group made up of Samoan, Niuean, Tongan, Fijian, Italian, Māori and Pākeha. They sing a mix of songs – Pacific and Māori as well as some songs in barbershop harmony style, Disney and gospel.

This concert is from the Friends of Pātaka’s 2021 Winter Music Series:
25 July: The Pacific Connection
I August: Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill
8 August: Classical viola works performed by NZSM students
18 August: ‘Music and Memory’ with Robert Oliver & friends –
two concerts: 11am (drop-in) and 7.30pm

'Prince Philip and our Money' – an illustrated talk by Dr Mark Stocker
2021-06-27 16:00 - 17:00 | ICON, Te Papa, 5 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011
Friends of Pātaka are invited to join Friends of Te Papa at their members cost of $25 (non-members $30), which includes a glass of wine and free parking.
Although senior members of the royal family, especially the Queen, famously carry no money, Prince Philip has exerted a profound influence on what British currency looks like. Between 1952 and 1999, Prince Philip was President of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee (RMAC) on the design of coins, medals, seals and decorations.
Dr Mark Stocker will present an illustrated talk based upon his article which was published in Majesty magazine in February 2021, where he says that the major role of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, in world coin design through the Royal Mint over many years was just one example among many of his service and duty, and that he was impressed to see his many good, uncelebrated qualities emerge.
Dr Mark Stocker was an Associate Professor and Programme co-ordinator for Art History and Theory at the Department of History and Art History, Otago University before taking up the position of Curator Historical International Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, retiring in 2019. Dr Stocker remains an energetic publisher, with over 200 books, articles and essays to his credit. In 2014 he was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). In June 2021 the Royal Mint is publishing Dr Stocker’s book When Britain Went Decimal: The Coinage of 1971.
To book:
Visit the event website members can use the code 210627
Email: friends@tepapa.govt.nz
Phone: (04) 381 7051
Doorsales will also be available on the day.

Poetry readings from 'Somewhere a cleaner' (Landing Press)
2021-06-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Pātaka Performing Arts Studio, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022
FREE FOR ALL-COMERS!
Readings by Porirua poets in Landing Press’s unique new anthology Somewhere a cleaner.

Presentation on Colin McCahon by Dr Peter Simpson
2021-04-30 14:00 | Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
The director and staff of Pātaka Art + Museum warmly invite all Pātaka Friends to hear a fascinating illustrated presentation on the life and work of the late, great Colin McCahon by leading McCahon scholar, writer, and curator Dr Peter Simpson at 2pm , Friday 30 April.
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom.
“I’ve had the good fortune to attend many lectures and presentations by Dr Peter Simpson over the last 20 plus years. His speaking voice is an appealing, gravelly baritone. He makes his points succinctly, with the occasional rhetorical flourish or the odd wry chuckle. His recall in these moments, for dates, or for the joy and fitful enmity of friendship is uncanny. On the subject of Colin McCahon (1919 – 1987) Simpson could be described as a walking computer of New Zealand art history.” – Hamish Coney
Dr Peter Simpson is a former associate professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books including Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years, 1953–1959 (AUP, 2007) and Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933–1953 (AUP, 2016). He has also curated three significant exhibitions of McCahon’s work. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (non-fiction) in 2017.
Peter Simpson is also the author of the recent and most comprehensive two-volume biography on McCahon published to date. The first volume, ‘Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919–1959′, was published in 2019 to coincide with the Centenary of the artist’s birth. The second, ‘Colin McCahon: Is this the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987’, was published the following year.
Each volume includes over 300 illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of McCahon’s work (many never previously published), plus photographs, catalogue covers, facsimiles and other illustrative material.
Copies of both volumes of Dr Simpson’s McCahon biography will be available for inspection and purchase from Pātaka’s main reception desk following Dr Simpson’s presentation.

Cry of the Stolen People
2021-04-26 18:30

Friends of Pātaka AGM
2021-04-19 19:30 - 20:30 | Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Art + Museum, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand
19 April 2021 : 7.30pm
Helen Smith Room, Pātaka Arts +Museum
All Friends of Pātaka are invited to our Annual General Meeting, which will be held in the Helen Smith Room at Pātaka. The room will be open from 7pm for nibbles and drinks. Come early and have a chat with other members.
Our guest speakers, Kate Montgomery, Creative New Zealand Senior Community Arts Advisor, Visual Arts, and Charlotte McKay, Advisor, Stakeholder Relations. They will speak about CNZ priorities in Visual and Community Arts and how, as Arts communities in Porirua, we can best advocate for, and support the Arts in our City, to promote wellbeing.
The AGM will follow, with the following agenda: Welcome; Apologies; Minutes of the 2020 AGM; Presidents Report; Financial Report; Election of officers; General Business.
Friends-of-Pātaka-Annual-Report-2021
Friends-of-Pātaka-Performance-Report-2020

Friends Art Awards opening and announcement of Award winners
2020-08-06 18:00 - 20:00
