JOB OPPORTUNITY: – A SUPPORTED LIFE

 

‘A SUPPORTED LIFE’ ARE SEEKING AN ARTIST TO JOIN THEIR TEAM AS A COMMUNITY ART FACILITATOR!

 

The role assists participants to realise their creative aspirations and develop their skills in arts based and community activity. The successful applicant must be passionate about realising the dreams of those they support and be able to create ongoing projects across a range of art mediums. The writing of project plans and reports on participant progress is required and you need to be a confident and clear communicator.
 
This position is full time Monday – Friday
 
We seek a good team player, with a great sense of humour who is down to earth, adaptable to challenges and demanding situations and a strong commitment to the vision of day support, community inclusion and community connections.
 
We offer:
Ongoing training both internal and external.
Chance to be part of a small enthusiastic and supportive team.
Opportunity to work in a position with variety and high levels of fulfilment.
Flexibility and encouragement for you to integrate your creative talents and interests into the work that you do.
 
A Supported Life and are based in Te Atatu South. We offer a range of arts and life skill projects and classes to persons with intellectual disabilities.
 
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM AND JOB DESCRIPTION CONTACT ALICE –
alice@asupportedlife.co.nz
 
Closing date for applications Wednesday 24th February 2021.
 
All applicants must have a full drivers licence and good command and understanding of written and verbal English and must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in New Zealand.

FRINGE FESTIVAL | SATELLITE

Auckland Fringe SATELLITES 2021

A brand new initiative from Ahurei Mōwaho o Tāmaki Makaurau!

So what is a Fringe Satellite?

This initiative is all about expanding the Fringe kaupapa to further reaching neighbourhoods in Tāmaki. All over! We’re supporting ‘mini’ Fringe festival weekends in our surrounding regions that will bookend the Fringe festival itself.

Henderson-Massey creatives? WE WANT YOU!

The Henderson-Massey Satellite festival will be taking place on Saturday 20th March at Corban Arts Estate, Te Pou and Te Manawa!

Locals can look forward to a weekend celebrating the artistic offerings of their fellow locals, locally. How rad is that?!

QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

Head along to Te Manawa for our Q and A

Saturday 12th December at 2pm

to find out more about being part of your neighbourhoods Fringe festival.

Fringe is all about uplifting the artistic experience for practitioners and audiences, we’re keen to connect with local creatives so share this around to anyone you think may be keen!

Emails to: engagement@aucklandfringe.co.nz
Embrace the chaos Fringesters! We’ll see you on the frontline!

Kākano | The Brighter Side

The Brighter Side Art Exhibition

The Brighter Side is a an exhibition featuring the latest artwork by Kākano Youth Arts Collective, based at Corbans Estate Arts Centre. Featuring artworks created by our amazingly talented rangatahi, created in studio sessions throughout 2020.

Opening Event: Wednesday 9th December, 10am

Project Space, Corban Estate Arts Centre

Exhibition Continues: Wednesday 9th – Sunday 13th December

10am – 2pm

Project Space, Corban Estate Arts Centre

All works are for purchase with funds going back to the Kākano artists.

This is a family friendly, FREE event – all welcome! If you can’t make it to the opening, you can visit the exhibition.

Check out their facebook page for further details.

ArtBoot

ArtBoot by ArtAche
Friday 4th December
4.30pm – 8.30pm
Te Atatu South Community Centre

Seven local artists from the Henderson Massey area are filling their car boots with goodies from their studio!!

Art Boot is Art Aches new *post-covid* free range iteration. It’s Art Ache on wheels!

Perfectly aligned with West Auckland’s car lovin’ vibe, Art Boot runs alongside Food Truck Fridays on 4th December, 5-8.30pm.

The perfect after school/early dinner community gathering for everyone, with live music, DJ’s, a wood-working workshop, A CLOWN !!! Have a feed, listen to music, meet local artists and buy some of your Christmas gifts all in the one evening.

Artists include:

Bethan Hunter

Bethan’s practice questions what is considered familiar and its’ connection to the sacred. With emphasis on collecting and repurposing, she is drawn to the associations we attach to objects and images. Through her work she broaches these questions and exploratory investigations with the hope that each investigation exudes both the familiar and uncanny.

bethanhunter.com

@bthunterart

Gabriel Tiongson

Gabriel Tiongson’s manner as a visual artist belies his traditional, quiet upbringing. Born in the 80s in sleepy Iloilo City, Philippines, his interests ran the gamut of video games, popular cartoons, and Western pop culture. Initially drawing from these early influences, Tiongson’s art came to resemble funhouse mirror images of iconic cartoon characters.

His early work of free-hand, black and white illustrations expanded to include the use of fluorescent technicolor, slapstick, off-kilter character proportions, and distorted references to human anatomy. Marrying elements of innocence, childhood, and the grotesque.

Tiongson completed his Visual Arts degree and Masters in Creative Practice in Unitec Institute of Technology. Formal study shifted his art practice from primarily ink on paper to mixed media on canvas. He paints to construct and deconstruct his paintings to further feed into future work. Formal study also allowed him to criticize and reflect on his loss of identity and culture. This turmoil turned to opportunity when he was able to embrace his hybrid nature. His works are charged by his childhood affinities and presented through his experience of various cultures.

gabrieltiongson.com

@diko_art

Greg Page

Greg Page is a painter who works with domestic materials. His work is owned by a wide range of people, from art collector James Wallace to comediennes French and Saunders. 

Page was born in Palmerston North, studied in Hamilton and now resides in West Auckland. Page is also a well renowned film maker with Fish‘n clips.

@gregpagey

Inga Fillary

Fillary’s uses organic materials such as clay, soil, rust and occasionally human biotics, along with acrylic to paint with. Fillary’s paintings are textural and visually tactile, challenging the notion of painting and aesthetic. Often dramatic in composition, the artist’s work explores the darkly weird and alludes to a burden of sorrow between the natural materials used and their symbology. Creating a melancholic allegory illustrating the separation between anarchy and order.

Inga Fillary holds a PGDipFA (Distinction) from Elam School of Fine Arts.

@inga_fillery

Rebecca Ter Borg

Ter Borg’s work often includes tangled natural elements and playful characters which reflect her interest in the natural world while adding a slightly fantastical twist. Her illustrations depict a quirky, dreamy and stylish alt narrative to every-day real life.

Based in Tāmaki Makauru, the artist works on commercial projects, murals and illustrations. Ter Borg has been exhibiting around Auckland for the last decade and belongs to the QuickDraw sketch gang. 

rebeccaterborg.com

@rebeccaterborg_illustration

Tashi Donnelly

Tashi Donnelly is an emerging New Zealand artist currently producing illustrations, comics and paintings. Donnelly’s work aims to make sense of beautiful and terrifying life experiences.The artists current series explores and exposes issues around mental health, feminism, gender identity, sex and LGBTQ+ through daily life.

patreon.com/tashird

@tashi_rd

Check out the Food Truck Fridays Facebook page here.

Shaping the Future of the Arts, Culture and Creative Sector

Interested in how arts policy will shape the future of Aotearoa for the next three years?

Join a Livestream pre-election conversation on arts policies with:

Hon Carmel Sepuloni (Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister)
Jonathan Young MP (Arts, Culture and Heritage Spokesperson, National Party)
Chlöe Swarbrick MP (Arts, Culture and Heritage Spokesperson, Green Party)
Jenny Marcroft MP (Arts, Culture and Heritage Spokesperson, NZ First)

This forum will be facilitated by broadcaster Miriama Kamo.

Delivered via: Facebook Live

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2020

Time: 6.30pm – 8.00pm

Hosted by Arts Regional Trust, Auckland Live


Te Atatū Food Truck Fridays

Food Truck Fridays are back from 2 October

Creative Henderson-Massey are proud to be a sponsor

Dates: First Friday of the Month, October – April

Venue: Te Atatu South Community Centre

Time: 4.30pm – 8.30pm

Follow Food Truck Fridays on Facebook for all the details.

Young Creatives Art Course

Young Creatives Art Course

Join a 5 week course for children aged 5-10 years to learn basic artistic skills, all materials provided.

Date: Friday 31 July—28 August 2020

Venue: Te Manawa Communty Hub
Creative Space Level
111 Kohuhu Lane, Westgate

Two sessions available:

5—7 year olds 3.45pm—4.30pm
8—10 year olds 4.45pm—5.30pm

Register now via Eventbrite

For more information on the course please email temananwa@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Whàriki weaving workshop using recycled fabric

Whàriki weaving workshop using recycled fabric

Join a FREE creative and crafty workshop facilitated by Nat Rose Te Hei



Join a FREE creative and crafty workshop facilitated by Nat Rose Te Hei (Ngāti Porou, Tainui) at Te Manawa

Whàriki workshop using recycled fabric. A fun activity for children, suitable for five years and up. Bring your own materials – some will be provided also.

Date: July 7th 2020
Time: 10.30-12.30pm
Ages: 5yrs upwards
Venue: Te Manawa, 11 Kohuhu Lane, Westgate
Wheelchair accessible.


FREE but registration required by emailing creativehendersonmassey@gmail.com or sending us a facebook message.

Or, Reserve a spot via our Facebook event here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/552520995630914/

Uku clay (Tàonga Pùoro) workshop

Uku clay (Tàonga Pùoro) workshop

Facilitated by Nat Rose Te Hei & Julious Mora


Enjoy this fun FREE workshop for all ages, and get ready to make your very own kōauau (flute) and a song to go with it. Using clay and natural materials to add texture and colour, this is a natural, eco-friendly and musical workshop.

Date: 6 July
Time: 10:30 – 12:30
Venue: Te Manawa, 11 Kohuhu Lane, Westgate
Ages: 5 yrs up
Wheelchair accessible

FREE but registration required by emailing creativehendersonmassey@gmail.com or sending a facebook message.

Or, Reserve a spot via our Facebook event here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1508949152600485/

Make a stand for the arts!

Have your say on Auckland Council’s Emergency Budget

Until 19 June, Aucklanders are being offered the chance to provide feedback on the Auckland Council Emergency Budget 2020/2021. In Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland Council adopts its Emergency Budget for the current financial year. It has direct ramifications on how arts and culture will be presented, performed and experienced.

Cuts to the arts include; 

  • Fewer and smaller events, including regional events and festivals such as Matariki Festival, Waitangi Ki Manukau, Movies in Parks, Music in Parks, Heritage Festival
  • Council facilities reducing opening hours
  • Scaled back programmes in community centres, arts facilities like galleries and libraries and scaled back regional arts and culture programmes 
  • Fewer arts, culture and events grants due to a reduction in activity, including reduced contestable grants
  • Public art spending would be reduced by 70 per cent.

You can see all the info about potential cuts to ‘The Arts’ at this article by The Big Idea – Make a Stand for the arts

Even with the knowledge that there would have to be impacted in these tough times, it’s a bitter pill to swallow. HOWEVER, There is still a window of opportunity for those who live in the region to be heard. 

Support the arts and make your opinions known before the 19th June.

Have your say here
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