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He Ara Whāriki

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

The graduating students and tutors of the Maunga Kura Toi weaving programme at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa share their raranga works with you. The programme encompasses all aspects of Māori weaving and maintains the practices and techniques of the ancestors.

Free

Paul Dibble: Continuum

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

An exploration of the creativity and career of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most iconic sculptors, Paul Dibble. Manawatū has been home to Paul and his family since the late...

Free

BCM Sweet & Sour UCOL Te Pukenga

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

UCOL Te Pukenga Bachelor of Creative Media students exhibit their work in "Sweet & Sour".

Six Extinctions

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Experience Six Extinctions this Summer, a fun-filled, educational exhibition the whole family will love

Free

We Come From The Earth

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Bringing together natural materials alongside painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics and weaving, We come from the Earth explores our relationship with the environment with works from the Te Manawa collection.

FREE

Boro – timeworn textiles of Japan

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Artist and teacher Pip Steel has gathered a significant collection of old Japanese rural everyday workwear and household textiles, known today as boro.

FREE

Bronz.Place.Belonging. Curator Floor Talk

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Join Sian van Dyk for a floor tour and talk on Paul Dibble: Continuum, looking at Dibble’s notion of place and belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand.

FREE

Artist Talk: the art of Boro textiles

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

In this artist talk, Pip Steel will trace the beginnings of her fascination with Boro textiles timeworn cloths and delve into the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ of their existence.

FREE

Te Whare Pora: a sacred space

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Te Whare Pora: a sacred space presents works by artist Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa of Ngāti Porou (Aotearoa New Zealand) from the past three years. The exhibition is centered around the core pou (pillars) of his practice: Te Whare Pora, the sacred zone of making; Hineteiwaiwa, the guiding atua (deity) for creativity; and Waipunarangi, the source of ancestral guidance and inspiration.

Artist Talk: Maungarongo Te Kawa

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Join Maungarongo Te Kawa and curator Zoe Black for an insight into Te Whare Pora: A sacred space, a new body of work by Te Kawa.

FREE

School Holiday Programme: Create with Clay

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

Inspired by the We Come from the Earth exhibition, get your hands dirty and create your own clay object!

Gold Coin Donation

WAR – What is it Good For? Anthony Davies

Te Manawa Museum 326 Main St, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand

This exhibition by printmaker, Anthony Davies is part of a series on the war in Ukraine.
Anthony Davies is a master printmaker who has spent time looking at the progression of the Ukraine war. His artwork, using a selection of images from the Internet, presents these events from his own viewpoint. Davies says he felt compelled to undertake this series. He speaks of a sense of injustice as he watches people turned into refugees; “the devastation of ordinary people”.

FREE