Auckland Art Gallery

A Chatter of Starlings

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Light

Performance

Roving & Interactive

Outdoor

Auckland Art Gallery - Q Theatre - Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

Red Leap Theatre presents a roving puppet performance that lights up the night sky, designed to bring a moment of surprise to everyday life.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Damien Hirst

Gow Langsford - Kitchener Street

Prolific UK artist Damien Hirst is rarely shown in New Zealand, but Gow Langsford have the pleasure of presenting a second solo exhibition of his iconic works.

7:30pm - 8:30pm

Dance: Touch Compass - Undertide

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Performance

Wheelchair Access

North Atrium, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Since 1997 Touch Compass has been New Zealand’s only professional inclusive dance company, challenging perceptions about what dance is and who can do it. Undertide is an exquisite, mesmerising feast where subtle movements guide the dancers from within: It is the experience of living in a body and raises questions around the body’s vitality and how we experience life from the inside out. Undertide is a live performance piece that incorporates film.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Der Papālagi (The White Man)

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Wheelchair Access

St Paul St Gallery AUT, Gallery Three

*6:30pm:* Der Papālagi (The White Man), live reading by David Fane[http://whitenight.aaf.co.nz/white-night-events/der-papalagi-the-white-man-yuki-kihara-a-reading-by/][http://whitenight.aaf.co.nz/white-night-events/der-papalagi-the-white-man-yuki-kihara-a-reading-by/]

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Der Papālagi (The White Man), Yuki Kihara: Reading by David Fane

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Performance

St Paul St Gallery AUT, Gallery Three

Renowned actor David Fane reads from Der Papālagi by Erich Scheurmann, the book that inspired Yuki Kihara's exhibition.

8:00pm - 9:40pm

Film: Heavenly Creatures

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Wheelchair Access

Auditorium, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Dark, stylish, and captivating, Heavenly Creatures came from screen writer Fran Walsh’s long fascination with the Parker-Hulme case where two teenagers who invented imaginary worlds and wrote under imaginary personas murdered Pauline Parker’s mother in June 1954. The film received Oscar nominations, deals with Miramax and signaled the debut of Kate Winslet, Melaine Lynskey and the arrival of Peter Jackson as more than just a cult director.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Harvest Sculpture

Scarecrow

A collaboration featuring whimsical sculptures and baskets by Waiheke artist Veronika Evans-Gander, co-founder of Passage Rock Wines. Paired with tasting of Passage Rock Wines and Church Bay Road honey in a harvest theme environment created by Scarecrow.

10:00am - 10:00pm

Make One, Gift One, Leave One, Take One

Family
Roving & Interactive
Wheelchair Access
Workshop & Demonstration

North Atrium, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Paper folding activity inspired by the exhibition Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Metalworks

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Fingers Jewellery

Metalworks focuses on a more traditional jewellery material, metal, and the exciting new approaches to its use being explored by a selection of our artists.

9:00pm - 9:40pm

Music: Richard Adams & Nigel Gavin

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Performance

Wheelchair Access

Exhibition & Installation

Lower Grey Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Guitar virtuoso Nigel Gavin and violin legend Richard Adams come together for an evening of artistic adventures and eclectic music they have played and sung around the world over the past years. As always the Adams / Gavin combo will dazzle you with their expertise and joy of making melodies that can twist on a note and their interpretation so unique that you will want the night to go on forever.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise

St Paul St Gallery AUT, Gallery One and Two

*8.00pm:* SaVAge K’lub will activate the gallery spaces and surrounds of Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise.

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Talk / Tour: Justin Paton

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Talk

Exhibition & Installation

Wheelchair Access

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Join Head Curator, International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales and the co-curator of the exhibition The Body Laid Bare on a tour that will focus on some of his favourite works that feature in the show.

5:00pm - 10:00pm

The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate

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Beyond W/N

Wheelchair Access

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Encounter the human form – in all its complexity – in The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate, Auckland Art Gallery’s major exhibition for 2017. Beautiful, sensual and at times provocative, more than 100 artworks from Tate, London, tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the last two centuries.

6:00pm - 10:00 pm

The Geometrics

Gow Langsford - Lorne Street

New Zealand sculptor Paul Dibble returns for his first solo exhibition at Gow Langsford since 2014. The Geometrics explores the various interpretations of the human body through modern, abstracted and simplified forms.

6:00pm - 9:00pm

White Night Figure Drawing Club

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Workshop & Demonstration

Exhibition & Installation

Wheelchair Access

Mackelvie Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Join in or just watch the White Night Figure Drawing Club engaging in one of the visual arts most basic and original disciplines – drawing the figure from a live model. No experience required, materials and easel supplied and no bookings – just turn up.