Day 1: Create & Challenge
Start your camp with creativity and team building at Capital E! First up, it’s exploring Virtual Reality in MediaLab. Next up, City Gallery Wellington. Join the gallery educators for a Mural Tour and Screenprinting Workshop. Create a screenprint inspired by what you have seen incorporating kupu Māori.
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Start your day at Wellington Museum, which gives students the chance to connect the past, present, and future. In our Protest and Action programme, students reflect on the driving factors behind social change, and contemporary issues. After lunch, it’s on to Capital E’s OnTV where your class will create their own TV show!
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Take the Cable Car up to Space Place, where your students will discover the collection of telescopes in a Telescope Tour. Eat a packed lunch in always beautiful Botanic Gardens. Next up, Nairn Street Cottage. The cottage is a 30 minute walk from Space Place. Here your students can explore Waves of Migration, with a guided visit of the Wallis family home
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.
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The Ten Largest, 1907. Photograph courtesy of Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The People and Culture team are responsible for driving people-oriented success across all aspects of the employee experience. The team work effectively to lead projects and improvements in the people and culture space at Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington.
People and Culture
Finance
The Finance team support the business across all financial responsibilities. They are at the heart of all financial processes and accounting procedures. Our kaimahi manage and control our financial stability for internal and external stakeholders.
Learning
The Learning team design and deliver learning programmes for, and alongside, children and young people. They work to design and deliver best-practice experiences that hold broad appeal, using multiple forms of communication and engagement to spark curiosity, stimulate creativity and enhance the local curriculum. The team embraces our journey of te ao Māori, bringing a Māori dimension to everything they do.
Visitor Experience, Commercial & Public Programmes
Visitor Experience
Our Visitor Experience team are the welcoming faces of our charitable organisation. They deliver exceptional experiences in hospitality, tour guidance, and support for retail and commercial endeavors throughout our Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington venues. They are our storytellers, captivating audiences from the moment they step into any of our Pōneke sites. This team shares insights with manuhiri about our exhibitions, programmes, events, and activities with high standards of professionalism.
Commercial
The Commerical team create and manage our retail and venue hire experience for manuhiri. Each site has a unique story to tell, and our stores provide unique pieces of Pōneke that our audiences can take back home with them. The team work closely with both internal and external teams to provide revenue generating products that help our organisation to continue to provide art and cultural experiences to Pōneke.
Public Programmes
Our Public Programmes team works together within and across teams internally and externally to develop and deliver a vibrant public programme of talks, lectures, performances, workshops and events, and community partnerships that draws in diverse audiences to understand, enjoy, and form a deeper appreciation of our experiences. We bring a te ao Māori dimension to everything we do.
Nōku te Ao Capital E Transition
Nōku te Ao Capital E & PlayHQ
Noku te Aō Capital E is all about children and creativity. Our kaimahi are warm and enthusiastic ambassadors for our immersive play space for under fives. They create a space where all visitors - children and caregivers - feel welcomed, valued and are able to explore in a safe and stimulating environment.
Fundraising, Marketing, Communications
Fundraising
Fundraising influence and drive a culture of fundraising and philanthropy across our charitable organisation. They help our kaimahi understand the importance of fundraising, the importance of donors and funders, their needs and motivations and how their role supports great fundraising. Our internal culture of fundraising is focused on working together and sharing stories, undertaking research on funders and potential partners, their areas of focus and grant applications. They strive to find external stakeholders that are able to keep Wheako Pōneke running amazing experiences.
Marketing
The Marketing team implement marketing and communication strategies that support Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington’s vision and purpose. They support the organisation by developing and implementing marketing strategies, including writing, editing, designing, events and distributing promotional material to our audiences.
Communications
The Communications team develops our internal and external communications strategies as well as the delivery of communications advice for internal and external audiences, including media.
Media engagement is a key communications function. The team shape the profile and reputation of Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington through ongoing proactive communications opportunities; create and tell compelling stories that connect audiences with the brand’s purpose; drive media relations across an extensive network of contacts, with a focus on arts, news and influencers; maintain an overview of all relevant media activity, including key media events, interviews and onsite filming.
Exhibitions
By utilising and embedding learning world class technical, lighting, and audio-visual advances to enhance exhibitions across our sites; the Exhibitions team are instrumental in bringing a passion for helping deliver engaging, innovative and creative exhibitions for our audiences. Exhibitions bring art to life through constructing and maintaining our spaces in a unique way to fit art and cultural expression within the transformative space.
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Corporate Services and Learning
As the Corporate Services team we provide support to the organisation across our financial, commercial, and corporate governance responsibilities. The team works closely with the Executive Leadership Team and managers across our teams providing analytical, reporting, and corporate governance to Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington.
Our Teams
Art & City Gallery
Our Art & City Gallery team are responsible for providing art direction across Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington sites, specifically leading the curatorial vision of Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington. They bring passion for the arts and create remarkable cultural experiences for our visitors.
History & Science
Curatorial and Collections
The History & Science team play a pivotal role in shaping the cultural and scientific landscape of our sites. The Collections team specifically oversee the care, preservation and documentation of collection items and exhibition content.
Kaupapa Māori
Kaihautū and Kaupapa Māori Advisor
Our Kaupapa Māori team are integral to providing a Te Ao Maori view into our organisation and ensuring a commitment to upholding the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. They build and nurture strong relationships with mana whenua to ensure the quality of our mahi.
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Level 8, 342 Lambton Quay, PO Box 893, Wellington, New Zealand
Contact
+64 4 471 0919
experiencewellington@experiencewellington.org.nz
PO Box 893, Wellington 6140
Registered Charity
CC22571
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