Acknowledging Fijian Language Week, join the exhibition makers, Kaliopate Tavola, Mereia Carling, Vasemaca Tavola, Ella and Tiana Carling to discuss intergenerational cultural transmission, routes of connection and the act of solesolevaki – working together.

This is a free event.

Location: Tautai Gallery, Level 1, 300 Karangahape Rd, Auckland 1010

This artist talk is part of the public programme for Solesolevaki.

Image: An Early Premonition (2024) by Tiana Carling

Reflecting on the ecological and meditative qualities of rag rug making, join Fijian creative Ella Carling in a morning making session. Participants are invited to bring old clothes or textiles to repurpose into bespoke floor rugs, a making practice particularly forgiving to the demands of motherhood and care responsibilities.

This is a free workshop and registrations are limited.

Location: Tautai Gallery, Level 1, 300 Karangahape Rd, Auckland 1010

Rag Rug Making is part of the public programme for Solesolevaki.

Thurs 10 Oct, 2024, 6-8pm

Join us in celebrating the opening of our new group exhibition Solesolevaki.

Curated by Vasemaca Tavola. Featuring contributions from Lanuola Mereia Aniseko, Ella Carling, Tiana Carling, Mereia Carling, Mereia Sauvukivuki, Helen Tavola,  Kaliopate Tavola, Vasemaca Tavola

Exhibition design: Christian Carling

Solesolevaki will be open from Thurs 10 Oct to Sat 16 Nov.

In Te Ao Māori your head/hair is the most tapu part of your body. In this workshop you will learn to make a simple and ancient ayurvedic hair serum from Hibiscus flowers and leaves for strengthening and growing the hair and for cleansing the scalp.

He Mana Makawe is part of the public programme for Good Hair Day.

Details:

Saturday 2 September, 2-3pm

Tautai Gallery, Level 1, 300 Karangahape Rd, Auckland 1010

Thank you to everyone for your interest! This workshop is now full.

About Koro

Koro Matene Star Sciascia is an Artist and performer who originally comes from Te-Matau-a-Māui (Hawke's Bay) of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga iwi, but from a young age became an "Urban Māori" living far away from the rohe of his iwi for his own sense of safety as Takatāpui. As an adult he returned to Aotearoa to reconnect with his roots and with the whenua. He performed across the country as Drag alterego "Constance Maraj" and moved to Waiheke Island which he now calls home. It was during the covid-19 lockdowns that he began his hair growth journey; learning the mana the comes with growing your makawe (hair), during this time he discovered many different home remedies to help him and his hair along the way.

Join us to celebrate new group exhibition Good Hair Day.

Good Hair Day curated by Luisa Tora explores urban narratives around hair. Featuring artists Bali Buliruarua, Māia Piata Rose Week, Nââwié Tutugoro, Karlin Morrison Raju and Peter Seeto Wing. 

Refreshments provided.

Good Hair Day will be open from Friday 4 August - Saturday 23 September.

You are invited to join us on Thursday 27 July at 6pm sharp in the Tautai Gallery for a zoom performance by Brian Fuata.

fog zoom spilling down a timed ten minute improvatisation about wresting and resting is a timed ten minute improvisation performed live on Zoom. The points of departure are the words, "wrest"/"rest" and responding to the physical spaces of both Brian's rehearsal studio in Sydney and the Reading Room at Tautai. Brian will set the timer, and where ever he is, you are, when the alarm rings is the end of the work.

The performance is the last event on our Titiro ki muri, kia whakatika ā mua | Look to the past to proceed to the future Matariki Programme 2023 calendar, so make sure to join us!

Event takes place at 6pm sharp onsite (not online) and will only be available to view in the Tautai Gallery space. It is recommended that you show up at least ten minutes early as the impromptu performance will start at 6pm on the dot. Refreshments provided.

About Brian:

Brian Fuata is a Wellington-born Sāmoan artist currently based on Gadigal Country (Sydney) Australia. Brian works across the fields of improvisational visual and performance art. He uses multiple registers and modalities of performance to produce from a given institutional context a dumb zone of dramatic affects.

Weaving Workshop with Ahi Nyx  (She/her, They/Them, Te Āti Awa me Ngāti Raukawa) 

We want to create art with you this Matariki! Join our small raranga wānanga where we will create pōha (nets) used to throw our whetū into rangi to be installed as living art at Tautai.

Work with others to create a large piece or create your own pōha. This are our way to raranga us all together this Matariki season.

Registrations are essential. Spaces limited. Send us an email at gallery@tautai.org or click the button below to secure your spot!

About Ahi Nyx:

Ahi Nyx - She/ Her/ They Them (Te Āti Awa me Ngāti Raukawa) is a Tāmaki Makaurau based artist and the Director/Creator of Ahi Raranga Ltd. Known for hand woven harakeke toanga and raranga wānanga, she is extending her practice to help reconnect to traditional Māori harvesting practices. 

Her creativity comes from a deep spiritual connection to Papatūānuku and Taneatua. Through her whakapapa, she holds onto raranga practices which she continues to weave with mana. Her haerenga through raranga has healed and reconnected her and many others through wānanga and the woven pieces that she makes.

Her mahi toi is purposeful living art stating: "Our creations with harakeke are an act of decolonisation, removing our reliance on mass produced products ."

We’re open late during the KBA x Te Karanga a Hape – Matariki on K Road event. Come and experience our reading room, lovingly selected by artist and writer Hana Pera Aoake. It’s whanau friendly! Hope to see you there.

Sharing poems, stories & kai. In association with Samoa House Library

With Hana Pera Aoake & Friends
Saturday 1 July, 6 pm -8 pm
Samoa House Library, Level 2, 283 Karangahape Road, Auckland 1010

Thinking through the late Waikato poet, Trixie Te Arama Menzies’ poem, Harakeke, this will be an evening of sharing poems, stories, and kai to help celebrate Matariki. This reading will invite readers to consider this idea of harakeke as a means of weaving together the ways in which people from across Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa have observed Matariki for millenia.

Join Hana Pera Aoake for a pukapuka reading of Peter Gossage's Battle of the mountains in both te reo Māori and English, followed by a family-friendly maunga making workshop.

"Living by the maunga of my daughter, Pūtauaki, I often read this story her because it describes how and why Pūtauaki ended up in the Bay of Plenty, but I also love to imagine what this battle must have looked like with maunga throwing rocks and volcanic lava at each other. I have been drawn to many of the pūrākau that have defined the landscape around me. Pūrākau can be used as a methodology for understanding our world and how we live now." - Hana Pera Aoake.

See the Exhibition page here.

Malae/Co, is grateful to our friends and family who have supported us in our growth. We thought a Garage Sale would be a fun way to connect with our wider community - providing an opportunity for fellow makers and supporters to sell their creations and - in our own way - celebrate garages! 

We designed our exhibition to mirror a garage space; reclaiming it as an area just for the gals . It’s where we create our art, have potluck dinner with our sisters, host mini club nights and drink-ups and ultimately - a place that fosters greatness. We are so keen to welcome you into our exhibition space and have a real-life Garage Sale.

Saturday 29 April, 2023

10:00 am - 2:00 pm