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
Tō Mātou Tīma Hautūtanga
Diana Marsh
Diana has more than 25 years’ experience leading local, national and international arts organisations. She is Chief Executive Tumu Whakarae of Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington and has led cultural organisations through change and transformation while strengthening business performance, including public and cultural impact and long‑term financial sustainability.
She was Chief Executive Tumu Whakarae of SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music for eight years, where she led the creation of award-winning content alongside national and international advocacy work. Her previous roles include General Manager of Orchestra Wellington, and Manager of the New Zealand String Quartet and the Composing Women’s Festival. Internationally, Diana served as President of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC), representing organisations across 39 countries.
Diana grew up and has spent most of her life in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She studied at the New Zealand School of Music at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington and is passionate about Wellington and its arts and cultural sector.
Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive
Kaine Thompson
Kaine has a background in charitable arts, culture and heritage administration, philanthropy, local and central government, social services and organisational design.
He leads people and culture, business analysis, finance, property, communications, design and marketing at Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington.
Ringatohu Rangatōpū | Chief Operating Officer
Judith Cooke
Judith brings a strong background in arts and cultural project delivery. She has worked with prestigious institutions including, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Melbourne Museum, National Gallery of Australia and was Director of an Australian regional gallery. Judith prides herself in working behind the scenes to seamlessly deliver projects that educate, inform, entertain, and delight audiences.
She has helped manage Australian representation at the Venice and Sao Paolo Biennales and the Guggenheim Museum. At Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki she oversaw delivery for The 4th Auckland Triennial and Walters Prizes and supported its $121m redevelopment. As Operations Manager at City Gallery, Judith, has overseen delivery of major exhibits such as Hilma af Klint; The Secret Paintings. She holds a BA Hons from the University of Sydney.
Ringatohu Titohuranga | Director Exhibitions
Alicia Harris
Alicia’s career has been in visitor experience and customer service focused organisations, and she has a background in the private sector and community organisations where she has held leadership, visitor experience, and partnership roles.
Alicia studied Anthropology, Gender Studies and Education at Otago University before moving into leadership roles in retail and sales. Her experience in the cultural sector includes, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Zoo and Experiences Manager at Wētā Workshop, in addition to being part of the operations team at Wētā Workshop Unleashed.
Alicia is passionate about improving organisational effectiveness, and bringing the stories of our organisation to life in our spaces, to deliver world class and unique experiences.
Ringatohu Hononga Whaipānga | Director Visitor Experience and Partnerships
Our Executive Leadership Team
Charlotte Davy
Charlotte’s expertise is in creative direction and facilitation, arts strategy, and exhibition programming and development.
As Head of Art at Te Papa, she led the high-profile redevelopment of New Zealand’s national art gallery Toi Art in 2018. Charlotte was previously Head of Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She currently sits on the Steering Committee of the International Exhibition Organizers (IEO) and is a trustee of the Colin McCahon Trust.
Charlotte has taught both museum ethics and exhibition development for the University of Sydney Master of Museum Studies programme, and continues to guest lecture for the Institute of Art and Law in the UK. She holds a degree in Art History from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University, and an Advanced Diploma in Design from Massey University. She has lived in Te Whanganui-a-Tara for much of her life and is passionate about the role the arts play in our city.
Ringatohu Whakakite Auaha | Director City Gallery Wellington and Content
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Tānemahuta Gray (Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne, Tainui)
Tānemahuta brings 30 years of professional experience in the performing arts industry, excelling as a chief executive, director, producer, choreographer, and performer. He is adept in both project-based contracts and long-term organisational work, demonstrating a strong aptitude for cultural relations, long-term relationship building, and strategic development. His diverse portfolio includes successful events, projects, and experiences across theatre, dance, festivals, international touring, arts markets, and large-scale performance and community events.
He served as Kahukura / Kaiarataki Toi - CEO / Artistic Director of Taki Rua Theatre and Kairautaki Māori – Māori Strategic Advisor at Tāwhiri – Festival & Experiences including the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts. He also works with the World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW) and the Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ). He created and directed major contemporary bi-cultural large-scale productions Māui – One Man Against The Gods, Tiki Taane Mahuta and Hatupatu | Kurungaituku : A Forbidden Love which opened the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts.
Tānemahuta holds a Diploma in Dance Studies from The New Zealand School of Dance and is conversant in te reo Māori and Spanish. Tānemahuta has spent his life in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and has strong relationships with mana whenua.