Ashburton District Council Events
Ngā Taonga o Hakatere: One Hundred Years of Forest & Bird
Ashburton Art Gallery
4th Sep 2023 - 8th Oct 2023
Opening event | 03 September, 2pm
From 03 September, celebrate Aotearoa's amazing biodiversity in our new exhibition, Ngā Taonga o Hakatere: One Hundred Years of Forest & Bird.For a century Forest & Bird has been a leading independent conservation charity in the protection of Aotearoa New...
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The Great Haulage Feat 1905-06: The Removal of the Wakanui Mill
Ashburton Museum
23rd Sep 2023 - 3rd Dec 2023
At nearly 16.5 metres tall and weighing 260 tonnes, the huge wooden Wakanui Flour Mill was hauled 10.5km from its original site at Whakanui to the corner of Kermode and West Street over 18 working days.Two traction engines pulled the...
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Exhibition | The Art of the Letter
Ashburton Museum
9th Sep 2023 - 19th Nov 2023
Before the advent of the internet, communication between people separated by distance took place in the form of a letter. Paper, pens, ink and envelopes were basic requirements to form a link to family, friends or colleagues, sharing news of...
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eating stars together at dusk | Saskia Bunce Rath
Ashburton Art Gallery
19th Oct 2023 - 10th Dec 2023
Opening event | 18 October, 6pm
In Saskia Bunce-Rath’s work, thread is deployed, as she says, in ‘a painterly way’ to create images that evoke myth, fantasy, wonder and dream. By infusing the recognisable with the remarkable in brightly-coloured tapestries of various scales, and...
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Two O'Clock Tours | The Great Haulage Feat
Ashburton Museum
22nd Oct 2023 02:00 pm
At nearly 16.5 metres tall and weighing 260 tonnes, the huge wooden Wakanui Flour Mill was hauled 10.5km from its original site at Whakanui to the corner of Kermode and West Street over 18 working days from 1905-1906.How was this...
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From the Earth | Hakatere Ceramics
Ashburton Art Gallery
19th Oct 2023 - 19th Nov 2023
Opening event | October 18, 6pm
From the Earth is the exhibition of the Hakatere Ceramics Group. The show opens with an awards evening on 18 October, 6pmStarted in 2015, the Hakatere Ceramics and Pottery Group of Ashburton is local...
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Nurture Nature | Iain Cheesman
Ashburton Art Gallery
19th Oct 2023 - 3rd Dec 2023
Opening event | October 18, 6pm
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-Based Iain Cheesman is primarily a maker of objects that link sculpture with painting, poetry and the concept of drawing. There is often an underlying sense of humour within his work. This is a medium of...
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Opening: Iain Cheesman | Saskia Bunce-Rath | Hakatere Ceramics
Ashburton Art Gallery
18th Oct 2023 06:00 pm
Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions: Iain Cheesman’s Nurture Nature, Saskia Bunce-Rath’s eating stars together at dusk, and Hakatere Ceramics’ From the Earth. Iain Cheesman’s new exhibition Nurture Nature celebrates the act of slowing down and looking....
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Exquisite Corpse | Project 21
Ashburton Art Gallery
12th Aug 2023 - 8th Oct 2023
Opening event: 11th Aug, 6pm
Exquisite Corpse features Nelson-based jewellers Kay van Dyk, Joel Fitzwell, and Katie Pascoe, who operate as collaborative contemporary jewellery collective Project 21.Based on the surrealist game known as ‘exquisite corpse’, they have...
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Ngā Hau Ngākau
Ashburton Art Gallery
12th Aug 2023 - 6th Oct 2023
Opening event: 11th Aug, 6pm
Ngā Hau Ngākau is an exhibition which is currently touring New Zealand. Consisting of 36 paintings by Robin Slow, 34 carvings by Brian Flintoff and a soundscape and video by Bob Bickerton, Ariana Tikao, Holly Tikao-Weir and Solomon...
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