Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
The Future of Monuments
Today, many want to pull down war memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. Are there 'good' war memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' war memorials? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary war-memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? What form could future memorials take?
Everyday Mysticism: Artists Respond
8pm
Sculptor Glen Hayward’s practice brings the everyday into the gallery in profound and absurd ways. Reconsidering familiar objects is a concern shared by other artists. Join us as they discuss their practices and why they find commonplace objects compelling.
Urn (Live)
9pm
Sonic artists Thomas Carroll (Ngati Maru, Hauraki) and Rob Tyler respond to the themes of Matarau. Fusing taonga pūoro and modular synthesis, they incorporate rongoā plants as a modulation source, to create works inspired by Māori philosophy, cosmology and experimental noise music.
IMAGE Glen Hayward: Wish You Were Here City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi 2022. Photo Elias Rodriguez.
Careers at Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington
Career opportunities
Take the next step in your career with Wheako Pōneke and help us enrich the city that we love.
Our teams
Find out more about the Wheako Pōneke whanau, our structure, and how our mahi brings art, culture, heritage, and science to the heart of Pōneke.
Why work with us?
Learn about what it means to work with Wheako Pōneke as we enrich, inspire and empower our communities.
Our Teams
Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington works across six sites. Space Place, Nairn Street Cottage, Cable Car Museum, Wellington Museum, City Gallery Wellington and Nōku Te Ao Capital E. Working across these sites are a mix of visitor facing staff and back of house staff that mahi tahi to create the wonderful experiences Wheako Pōneke offers it's manuhiri.
Across these six sites we have teams that function independently and collectively to create remarkable art, culture and science experiences that generate vitality, enriching the city we love. To explore more about each of our teams follow the links below.
Ngā Aramahi ki Wheako Pōneke
Our passionate team are dedicated to working with and for Wellington to create remarkable art, culture and science experiences that generate vitality; enriching the city we love.
The Experience Wellington team works across:
Space Place, Nairn Street Cottage, Cable Car Museum, Wellington Museum, City Gallery Wellington, Capital E
For any Recruitment Queries please contact hr@experiencewellington.org.nz.
Take the next step in your career
Me kauneke haere i tō aramahi
Ian - Kaipupuri Matua Taonga | Senior Curator (Taonga)
The opportunity to showcase the rich, diverse cultures of Wellington is a real driver for me in my work at Wheako Pōneke. It’s such a privilege to work with Wellingtonians and our wider manuhiri to develop, fun, engaging and thought-provoking content across our sites.
Hear from some of our people
Halo - Mātanga Hōtaka Hāpori | Public Programmes Specialist
I have the opportunity to fuel creativity in the tamariki of Pōneke through enriching spaces and programming. I am lucky enough to work with and for kids to create and design for Capital E’s PlayHQ, a space where families can come together to connect, learn, play, and let their imaginations take flight.
James - Kaitiaki Manuhiri Tuarua | Visitor Experience Team Lead
As an artist myself, I know that amazing results come from collaboration. Working with the Visitor Experience team at Wheako Pōneke is the main reason I enjoy mahi at City Gallery- their enthusiasm and genuine passion for the art, taonga, and history that we share with visitors is inspiring. There is an incredible wealth of knowledge in every person you see on the counter or the floor.
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Ō Mātou Rōpū
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