With "Creative Upcycling" for their motto, Upcycle One aim to help people in Palmerston North and surrounding areas create something beautiful and useful using recycled materials. They also use natural resources such as soil, plants, stones, dried flowers, leaves and feathers. Participants not only enjoy opportunities for arts and craft, but also they learn about...
Come join NOA for twice-weekly facilitated drawing sessions in the Te Manawa foyer. NOA is both an acronym for Notes Of Art and Te Reo for “an area without restriction, safe and open for everyone.” All are welcome! Nau mai, haere mai – Open daily from 10am to 5pm. General admission is free – donations...
Come join NOA for twice-weekly facilitated drawing sessions in the Te Manawa foyer. NOA is both an acronym for Notes Of Art and Te Reo for “an area without restriction, safe and open for everyone.” All are welcome! Nau mai, haere mai – Open daily from 10am to 5pm. General admission is free – donations...
On Friday 23 April, join Ruby Dax, Moe Downunder and their friends for a fabulous storytime at the museum. They'll read all the best children's stories between 12 noon and 2pm - stay a while and listen! Free entry. Presented in association with MaLGRA.
With wheel and spindle, loom and dye, needles and hook, Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild members turn fibre into fabric and felt in amazing variety. They’re joined by the Embroiderers’ Guild, creating art with stitch and thread. These crafts, both old and new, are meditative and fascinating. See them at Te Manawa from 1-3 pm.
Join Vanisa Dhiru as she takes you through her personal journey of being a changemaker, activator and leader in social causes close to her heart - fair trade, gender equality, race relations and youth leadership. She will share key tips and a range of opportunities on how to get into activism, engage in community building,...
It's time for another Bug Disco! Come and farewell BUGS! Our Backyard Heroes on 1 May at a disco with a difference. Dress up as a bug and come in for a bit of a boogie. We have spot prizes to give away for interesting or clever outfits. The exhibition will be open for you...
Join Caroline O’Reilly of Vinnies Re Sew in interview, as she talks about her vision for the Suffrage in Stitches project, challenges on the way, and what she learnt. She shares what is at the heart of this exhibition through the personal stories of the panel makers, who chose to represent the lives of those...
The craftspeople of the Manawatū Woodworkers’ Guild are masters of chisel and lathe. Come and see them transform chunks of wood into works of art.
Come along to Movie Night at Te Manawa! See The Croods: A New Age (PG) on the big screen in the Art Gallery. Bikkies and Milo provided (gluten- and dairy-free options available) "Still searching for a place to settle down after the cataclysmic events of The Croods (2013), the overprotective prehistoric patriarch, Grug, leads his family...
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