TOI TANGATA | ARTS UPDATE
30 August 2019
News
Seeking sustainability superhero’s for the 2019 Sustainability Awards You can nominate yourself, individuals or teams across six categories (including students, general staff and academic staff). Think research, operations, initiatives, projects – check out the 2017 winners and find nomination forms here.
Nominations have been extended to Monday, 9 September, 2019. UC Vice Chancellor | Tumu Whakarae Professor Cheryl de la Rey will present this year's Sustainability Awards on 2 October, so let’s recognise and celebrate all the great initiatives happening at UC!
UC Arts at the Arts Centre
Upcoming events:
• An Evening With Joanna Condon, Puamiria Parata-Goodall, Sarah Murray and Terri Elder – Tuesday September 3, 6.00pm – Venue: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location
To Have and To Hold - Experiences of holding, sharing, and releasing control of cultural material Since the creation of the public museum, curators the world over have sourced, traded, and collected artefacts from many cultures, placing them carefully into museum storage, and – some would say – holding on to them all for dear life. Without doubt, the rights and interests of the cultures that created those artefacts were often side lined, ignored or just plain trampled on.
In recent decades, museums in Aotearoa have begun to explore new ways of caring for cultural materials, which take into account not just the needs of the artefacts themselves, but also the rights and wellbeing of the communities they come from. Museums have begun changing policies to reflect cultural beliefs, developing partnerships with the communities best placed to interpret and share their own cultural material and, ever so slowly, even relinquishing control of cultural material completely through repatriation.
However, letting go doesn’t always come easily in a profession that has traditionally been focused on acquisition. Join our panel of speakers as they share their diverse experiences of holding, sharing and releasing control of cultural material.
Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities
It was great to see so many interested and enthusiastic students at the Careers in Heritage event last week. Our thanks to the CCC Heritage team for their generous support and to all our speakers for sharing their stories. Students came from Amuri Area School, Burnside High School, Cashmere High School, Christchurch Adventist College, Hillmorton High, Hagley College, Haeata Community Campus, Marian College, Middleton Grange School, Papanui High School, Riccarton High School, Rolleston College and St Bedes. The feedback we received from students, teachers and parents at the event was very positive, and the level of engagement from students speaks volumes about the quality and approachability of the speakers. It was interesting to note that despite their different roles and pathways, there were a number of themes that repeated and resonated with each speaker.
Curator Terri Elder was Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery speaker of the month this past week, and hosted a follow up tour of the Fantastic Feasts exhibition on Saturday. Terri spoke with the Friends about the creation of the Logie Collection and the establishment of the Teece Museum, and explored some of the artefacts hidden in Fantastic Feasts which illustrate the history of this amazing resource.
As we celebrate national poetry day this week, the Teece is looking forward to hosting a poetry workshop on Saturday 31st for aspiring young authors. Dr Lynley Edmeades will explore how museum objects can inspire poetry. This workshop is completely sold out, but the Museum is hosting another workshop in October for junior writers with tutor Rebecca Nash. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
English
Dr Bruce Harding, Senior Fellow in the Department of English and curator of the Ngaio Marsh house in Christchurch, has recently published an important new study, Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, in the McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction series. https://www.amazon.com/Ngaio-Marsh-Companion-Mcfarland- Companions/dp/0786460326/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Harding+Bruce+Ngaio+Marsh&qid=1566515147&s=books&sr=1- 1
Classics
On Monday August 19th, the day after her performance for WORD, UC Classics was very excited to host Natalie Haynes in conversation at an exclusive event for UC Classics students and staff. The discussion included areas of Natalie’s writing, her life as comic and broadcaster as well as other topics of interest relevant to current UC Classics courses. It was a fantastic opportunity and a real treat for the department. Discussion covered everything from stand- up comedy to Roman Britain, Greek tragedy, Sappho, emperor Augustus and more. Students also asked her about her favourite Greek myths and how she first became fascinated with the Greco-Roman world; and she demonstrated once again how understanding the Greeks and Romans - in all the richness, diversity and complexity of their cultures - can help us face some of the most challenging issues of our time.
Dr Chris Jones gave an hour and a half presentation to the Rangiora branch of U3A on Tuesday 27 August. His paper, “The Canterbury Roll: A Contested Past & New Discoveries”, explored the ongoing digitisation project connected with the Roll as well as discussing the most recent scientific analysis of its content. It also considered the wider value of a topic such as medieval history to improving the employability of Kiwi students.
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