Victory Convention Centre
98 Beaumont St
Freemans Bay
Auckland

Be prepared to be moved, touched, and inspired. From the creators of award-winning Circus Kumarani, The Circability Trust presents a community of outstanding performers from all walks of life. The performance mixed together with their breath-taking circus skills create a joyous cocktail of entertainment and enlightenment, mixed for your delight.

This event is to help recognise the achievements of those living with a disability and promoting the actions our communities take to create a diverse, inclusive and accepting society around us. We encourage you to bring along family, friends and colleagues to experience the electrifying circus talent fostered by The Circability Trust.

There will be art from Māpura Studios, food trucks, performances and stalls at this amazing event

For tickets visit:
https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2019/celebrate-together-kanohi-kitea/auckland/freemans-bay

Ferndale House
830 New North Rd
Mt Albert
Auckland

A night market with a twist!
Māpura Studios will be there…

To celebrate Youth Week 2019, Recreate NZ brings you Illuminate, an all inclusive night market, organized by young New Zealanders to celebrate the talents, passion and success of local young people. All stall holders participating in the evening will come from a disability background or from a youth community that actively challenges the status quo. The evening will showcase several young people who have created their own path to employment creating an opportunity for the local community to engage with NZ made, socially conscious products.

The purpose of this all inclusive evening is to create an awareness and demonstrate our rangatahi's potential and capabilities within the employment sector. Come along for a night of food, entertainment and epic creations as we work towards social and economic inclusion, as set out in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Eight, “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” (United Nations, 2012).

Location:
Giltrap Audi Dealership
150 Great North Road
Auckland

On behalf of Māpura Studios - Gow Langsford

Māpura Studios supports people at all stages of life who suffer from neurological disorders, stroke, disability, mental health and other invisible conditions. Māpura changes lives using creativity and art therapy because hope goes beyond words.
Everybody knows someone who has suffered and everybody has a story to tell. Please support this charity art auction to raise funds for Māpura’s work, and to support our artists now and in the future. Your story could well be part of our story.

@ Cupid Bar
1218 Great North Rd, Point Chevalier, Auckland 1022

On Wednesday afternoons clashing irregular rhythms, squealing electronics, and chaotic crooning can be heard wafting across Fowlds Park. Its the sound of the Māpura Studios Creative Music Program.

Facilitated by Stefan Neville participants create soundscapes & alternate reality classic hits using piles of old keyboards, percussion, ukuleles, effects pedals & anything that can make a noise. The approach is spontaneous and immersive. The group utilizes gut instinct expression and natural ability to create an environment where anyone can contribute & any sound can be considered music. There are no such things as wrong notes or mistakes.

The group has a bandcamp page to share their recordings ( https://mapuramusic.bandcamp.com/ )  & were recently included on a double LP compilation of international experimental music being made by people living with disabilities called "We Are The World". This was released by the Paris record label Sonic Protest. This October the group will make its live debut concert at The Cupid Bar in Point Chevalier and anything could happen!

Café Crave
6 Morningside Dr
Morningside
Auckland 1025 

‘CREATIVITY IN THE HOOD’ lifting the lid on…

MAPURA STUDIOS

Māpura Studios is a neighbourhood art studio who for twenty years has been supporting people living with disability and neurological conditions. Mapura Studios will present the first in a summer series of community events held at Crave Café. There will be a talk by Professor Bronwen Connor alongside the sale of affordable art by Mapura award-winning artists and an acclaimed New Zealand artist.

 PROFESSOR CONNOR – BEING BRAINY

Bronwen Connor is a Professor in Pharmacology and head of the Neural Reprogramming and Repair Lab at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research. Bronwen has worked on several strategies for the treatment of multiple neurological disorders.

She has also created an excellent online programme called ‘Being Brainy’ designed to teach primary and intermediate school children about brain function. Bronwen will present ‘Being Brainy’ and the importance of creativity in the early school years.

MAPURA ART PURCHASE

Mapura Studios will exhibit a range works by its exceptional artists and introduce Jimmy James Kouratoras, a well known NZ artist. Original works and prints by both Mapura artists and Jimmy James will be for sale. Please see the link below to see Mapura’s winning entry for the 2019 IHC Awards.

http://www.mapurastudios.org.nz/ihc-awards-2019

SAVE THE DATE AND JOIN US AT CRAVE… 

Date                            Wednesday October 30, 2019
Time                            6.30pm doors open
Venue                         Café Crave, 6 Morningside Drive, Morningside. 

For further information please call or email Mapura Studios 09 845 5361 or email info@mapurastudios.org.nz

Performance Day:
 Friday 25 October 

Shed 1
Corban Estate Arts Centre
Mt Lebanon Lane
Henderson

Time: 11:10am

Family Fun For Everyone!

Māpura Studios
Fowlds Park
Rocky Nook Ave
St Lukes
Auckland 1022

Everyone welcome .

Come along and celebrate our fantastic Māpura Studios artists with a bit of music, face painting, amazing art, food, dance, poetry, murals and music.

Awesome affordable art, dance, poetry, music, performance, bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, yummy food, art workshops & more...

NZSL Interpreters will be there from 10am till 12pm

Supported by:

@Silo Park
Wynyard Quarter
Auckland

Māpura Studios Artists are going to be projected onto big screens at the Silo during InMotion Matariki.

Sarah Holton
Craig Murray
Shyroe Henry
Ela Tukuhaukaua
Michael Nathan
Ululau Ama

InMotion Matariki is a big colourful parade in celebration of Matariki: the Māori New Year. Each winter participants decorate their bicycles and wheelchairs, and enjoy pockets of performance as they roll through Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.

The parade is created and presented by Touch Compass, New Zealand’s leading inclusive professional performing arts organisation combining artists with and without a disability.

Mapura Videos:

little stars.mp4

matariki_test4_2.5.mp4

For more info please visit:

https://www.facebook.com/events/390664964845716/

www.inmotion.org.nz

Matariki: The Māori New Year

Traditionally, Matariki is the period of time referred to by Māori, to mark the changing of the year. It is a time to reflect upon the previous year and plan for the next. The common Māori translation of Matariki is “eyes of the god”.

According to myth, when Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother, were separated by their children, the god of the winds, Tāwhirimātea, became so angry that he tore out his eyes and threw them into the heavens.

Since this time, every year at a time around mid-winter, a cluster of stars called Matariki rises to mark the new year.

However, the name Matariki is not only used to describe the entire cluster of stars, but a specific single star within the group. The total number of stars in the cluster varies too. Some Māori talk of Matariki and her six children, and others talk of eight children. Regardless, each star is connected to the Māori world in its own special way.

@STUDIO ONE—TOI TŪ
1 Ponsonby Road
Auckland

We are inviting a diverse group of people, expert in their field, to discuss ideas around communication and communicative technologies. Communication is critical to our practice and research at Māpura Studios. The artists use a broad range of media to share their ideas. We are asking questions such as: how contingent is information on its medium? And how does technology affect how we relate to each other, and how we relate to information?

 The Chair is Actor, Comedian and MC John Glass

The panel:

·  Painter Jacqueline Fahey

·  Game Designer Eric-Rangi Hillman from Metia Interactive

·  Assistant Prison Director at Auckland Prison Simon Chaplin

·  Dr Morrigan Mullen, Education and Social Work, Auckland University

·  Dr Danielle Lottridge, Computer Science, Auckland University

 Hope you can join us – we would love to see you there!

Touch Compass & Māpura Studios Collaborate...

On Display: An Installation installed by Touch Compass, Dance written by Heidi Latsky

Including:
Dance Peformance by Yung & Julie And Song by Natalie Te Paa @11-11.30am

@Lake House Arts Centre
7 Fred Thomas Dr
Takapuna
Auckland 0622

ON DISPLAY is a deconstructed art exhibit/fashion show and commentary on the body as spectacle and society's obsession with body image. It turns a cast of diverse and different bodies into a sculpture court where the performers are the sculptures. ON DISPLAY began as a simple human sculpture court and is now a global movement, a growing portfolio of works that explore and demonstrate inclusion through art.

Live Human Sculpture

@Lake House Arts Centre
7 Fred Thomas Dr
Takapuna
Auckland 0622

Māpura Studios invites you to participate in the

LIVE DRAWING Event.

On Display: An Installation installed by A Touch Compass Dance by Heidi Latsky

Dancers from Touch Compass will be performing and posing.
Join us in sketching and contribute your artwork to the exhibition (on until Wednesday 17 April.

Materials provided.

@Lake House Arts Centre
7 Fred Thomas Dr
Takapuna
Auckland 0622

The Language of Colour

A Dance Performance
by Yung & Julie

Waiata
by Natalie Te Paa

Performances
- Sunday 7 April at 4 - 4.30pm
at the Opening of I Feel Like I’m Not Here - I’m Right Here Exhibitoin

- Friday 12 April at 11 - 11.30am
before the Installation of Touch Compass’ On Display dance written by Heidi Latsky

University of Auckland
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
85 Park Rd, Grafton

Discover the magic of the brain with public talks by leading neuroscientists. Experience brain science through interactive displays, brain games and challenges from our Being Brainy programme. Hear from community groups about what they are doing to support people living with brain disorders.

Māpura Studios will be there on the day and speaking at the event.

For More Information: http://www.mapurastudios.org.nz/new-blog/2019/2/14/brain-day-2019

Link to Brain Day Web page Here

Link to Facebook Event Here

Join us for a surprise addition to Pussy Riot's NZ tour, bringing together local performers, artists and creative activists in celebration of all things feminine and creatively disruptive that inspire social change*

Māpura Studios will be taking a workshop creating Protest Placards & Activist Art on the evening.

Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Centre
72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough, Auckland 1345

Programme 4pm - late ..( more TBA)

Main Stage Outdoor Concert 7pm:
Him
Labretta Suede & The Motel 6
Midnight Poetry Band
>> PussyRiot - Riot Days

Main Space Indoors:
4pm - Performances by Local Poets $ Artist
creatrix DILDA LABONYA @wildbramble
Eris Seress
Simone Kaho
Genevieve McClean
( more TBC )
5.30pm Discussion Panel led by Diane Blomfield
with Maria Masha Alekhina , the author of the RIOT DAYS and local artists / activists ( TBA )

Film space Upstairs:
4pm : Pussy Vs Putin Award Winning Documentary followed by Q/A with the filmmaker Vassiliy Bo
5.30pm more Pussy Riot documentaries
+ video works by Local Artists:
Brydee Rood
Siri Embla : ShEarth - Embrace my blood
Cloud9 Productions - So Beautiful
Simone Kaho
Frankie Berge : Syrup
( more TBA )

The Pussy Riot crew have incurred extra costs on their tour due to the cancellation of Brazil and delays on flights due to visa issues, so Pah Homestead is generously offering up multiple spaces for diverse activities in order to help them fund raise to continue spreading their important message to the world, as only the arts can do. With a main stage on the lawn, electronic music spaces inside, panel discussions, talks & Q&A's, film, art workshops and performance art pieces happening from 4pm, this is shaping up to be an incredible last minute extravaganza - only possible with the support of an incredible line up of local performers and socially conscious sponsors. The Pah cafe will be open serving a specially inspired Russian menu to tempt your tastebuds, as we get set to party with the Pussies before they leave Auckland. Standby for performer details and ticketing links to follow! 4pm - late, March 9*

Riot Days : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dc1Cclz0MY

CCS Disability Action
14 Erson Ave, Royal Oak, Auckland

CCS Disability and the Disabled Women’s Forum invite you to Celebrate International Women’s Day with us. Featuring speakers with diverse background sharing their thoughts on and leadership journeys.

Artwork by Māpura Studios’ fabulous Women Artists will be featured on the day.

…… its not too late to register ……join us for High Tea to celebrate

In this workshop facilitators will guide you through making a zine or protest placard. This workshop is held in association with the exhibition titled ‘Mana Taurite’ which creatively explores what it means to celebrate and value diversity in our society and how we experience equality. It will be a fun, creative morning which will get you thinking out of the square. Please register to secure a place.

Please email Alex on alex@mapurastudios.org.nz or phone: 09 845 5361

https://www.facebook.com/events/2106338549411920/

Mangere Arts Centre

Venue : Mapura Studios
Fowlds Park
Rocky Nook Ave
St Lukes

Family Fun For Everyone!

Come join us for some festivities, all welcome…

awesome affordable art, dance ,music, performance, poetry, bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, yummy food, art workshops & more...

Venue: The Pah Homestead TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre 72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough, Auckland

Come along with Mapura Studios and celebrate our heritage and the diverse creative community around us at Pah Homestead Community Day.

Enjoy musical performances, exhibitions and entertainment, including face painting and a bouncy castle, throughout the day. Participate in art activities highlighting our heritage, as well as cultural workshops featuring traditional art techniques. Community Day is an interactive annual event, offering children and adults loads of hands-on creative experiences.

Delicious food and beverage options will be available from the Homestead Cafe, or bring a picnic to enjoy in Monte Cecilia Park.

Thank you to the Puketāpapa Local Board and TSB Bank for supporting this event.