Arts Coromandel

EVENTS AND FESTIVALS

 

KEEPING IT LOCAL - to February Waihi
Waihi Arts Centre and Museum Assn
presents a Summer Exhibition of variety and colour

"KEEPING IT LOCAL"

ceramics, paintings, fibre art, wire sculpture
from talented local artists
featuring No.8 wire sculptures by Irene Wilcocks

opens to the public on December 19th 2011
in the Lee-Johnson Gallery
54 Kenny St Waihi
and showing until February 6th 2012

Gallery and Museum is open every day during January
12 midday - 4pm
usual admission applies to Museum

Contact: wacma@waihimuseum.co.nz

 

WHITIANGA ART GROUP - January 4th - 30th
Annual Art Exhibition
Local artists exhibition featuring
Guest artist Paul Coney

January 4th - 30th
10 am - 5 pm
School Road, Whitianga

Opening Night 3rd January 7 pm
Opened by TCDC Mayor Glenn Leach

Tickets at ‘Mosaic’ opposite Information Centre Albert Street

Contact: Marianne Sikking peppie@xtra.co.nz

 

EMERGING FROM THE SPACE BETWEEN - 1st - 6th February Thames
Sola Cafe presents

Lisa Corston-Buddle
Dip. Art & Creativity (Honours)
“Emerging from the Space Between”

These works explore the space between the lightest light and the darkest dark, as expressed through the media of paint and dance.

Exhibition runs from Wed 1st Feb - 6th March
8 - 4pm daily at
Sola Cafe
720b Pollen Street
Thames

Contact: Sola 07 8688781

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HAURAKI HOUSE COROMANDEL - LOVERS WALK - January Coromandel
"Lovers Walk - a Poetic Journey in Eight Scenes", comes to Coromandel fresh from Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011

Saturday 28th January 2012, 8pm
Little Theatre, Hauraki House, Coromandel

with a local support from DJ Mat Rapid and a crew and special guests

doors open 7pm
show starts 8pm
stay for a party after
food and drinks available

Contact: gus@printablereality.com

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WOODTURNING AS ART DEMONSTRATIONS - Paeroa
Resident woodturners Michael Tarr and Barry Ellis are available daily Monday thru Saturday to demonstrate the art of woodturning, from basic spindles thru to complex hollow forms and can include Pyrography and colouring, including Paua, Pounamu, semiprecious stones and resin inlays, plus other embellishments.

Daily 10am till 4pm until further notice

Wooden Things
52A Belmont Rd
Paeroa

 

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS & LITTLE RIVER BAND - 5th Feb - Whitianga
A must see live performance! The Doobie Brothers and Little River Band.... performing on one stage at the inaugural Whitianga Waterways Summer Concert.

5 February 2012
12noon - 6.30pm
(Gates open at 12noon, and the concert commences from 1pm, with New Zealand band Late 80’s Mercedes)

Waterways South Highway
Whitianga

Tickets - $89.00 Per adult
Children under 11 are free when accompanied by a paying adult.
Tickets available through ticketek.co.nz or at Whitianga, Whangamata, Thames, Coromandel Town, Tairua and Pauanui i-site offices.

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HIKUAI ART DAY - 11 February Hikuai
HIkuai Art Day
A Day in the Country

Saturday 11 February 2012
Hikuai Hall

Starting at 9.30am in Hikuai Hall..till approx. 3.30pm...

Bring tarpaulins/covers for on and below your trestle, your own lunch, $2 for hall hire and $2 for our art box....

Contact: Jo Dalgety 021 437 932 jodalgety@gmail.co.nz

 

MERCURY BAY ART ESCAPE - Taste of the Tour
The Mercury Bay Art Escape is well known for its popular Art Escape Tours of open artists studios.

This event has become a biennial event with the 5th Tour to be held in 2013 but in this intervening year our artists will be having their Showcase Exhibition at Hot Waves Cafe at Hot Water Beach from 10 March to 10 April.

Contact: Jane Parson

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TASET OF THE TOUR SHOWCASE - 9th March
ART ON THE COROMANDEL PENINSULA
Mercury Bay Art Escape Taste of the Tour
Showcase Exhibition

Hot Waves Cafe, Hot Water Beach
9th March

Preview evening with guest speaker artist Dick Frizzell on Friday 9 March, 5.30 pm. Tickets $30 pp available online at www.mercurybayartescape.com

Contact: Jane Parson 07 8663067

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WOODSTOKE WHANGAMATA - March Hauraki/Coromandel
For the first time in New Zealand a conference is happening dedicated to the art of wood firing. This will be the start of the renaissance for the wood firing fraternity and the best possible introduction for potters and ceramicists that have wanted to have a go with wood firing. The weekend is full of kiln building, kilns firing and an exploration of all things related to the wood fired pot.

The National Exhibition will be hosted in Whangamata, opening on Friday 16th March and continuing for another couple of weeks which coincides with the Whangamata Beach Hop and numerous small shop window exhibitions dotted throughout the retail strip of Whangamata.

March 16th to 18th 2012
Whangamata, Coromandel, New Zealand

Contact: Maureen Allison 07 8658810

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ART WAIKINO - 20th October to 22nd Otober 2012
ARTWaikino

Saturday October 20 to Monday October 22
Victoria Hall, SH2, Waikino

ARTWaikino is now recognised as a major art exhibition on the Coromandel Peninsula. Now in it's twelfth year, it hosts artists from the area and around New Zealand. Paintings, craft,photos, mosaics.

Contact: Helen Wilson sharpadze@xtra.co.nz

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