Council Events

In this Cultural Awareness session, you will learn about Latin American culture and discuss basic social protocols to help you interact with clients, whānau, and friends.Whakatere Ashburton resident Jessica Falconi, from Ecuador, will lead the discussion.All are welcome – nau...

Jenna Packer’s work looks to the various structures that shape the lives of people – social, political, religious and economic – and the tension that occurs within or between them.In this exhibition she looks back at over a decade of...

For this exhibition, Jane Venis has hand-built a variety of instruments that incorporate the culturally potent material of pāua shell.Both the ukelele and pāua have been historically devalued within the Pacific – sold as cheap and...

Esther Deans’ thesis exhibition is an accumulation of ideas and imagery from four years of study towards her PhD through the Auckland University of Technology. This research was a personal investigation into her experiences and preoccupations, including ideas about eschatology,...

At this special Two O'Clock Tour, join us and artist Jenna Packer for an extended artist floor talk.On the final day of her exhibition Toro, Jenna Packer will join us to share insight into her practice and discuss the context...

In View features a selection of artworks from the Ashburton Art Gallery Incorporated Collection (AAG Inc.) and the Ashburton District Council’s Civic Art Collection. AAG Inc. was founded in 1995 before a gallery and collection were...

Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions: Falling if not Flying by Michael Greaves, and and with his kiss i became a braided river by Wesley John Fourie.Falling if not Flying builds on the last four years of...

This recent body of work from Ōtepoti Dunedin-based painter Michael Greaves are a continuation of the last four years of his practice, a period bound up with the COVID pandemic, which altered the parameters of everyday encounters, resulting...

Waitaha Canterbury contains nearly sixty-four percent of the braided rivers found in Aotearoa New Zealand. Their dynamics are still being understood, but what is clear is that the visible course of a braided river is only one element...