making friends
celebrating fine timez at and around Mairangi Arts Centre
- A free programme for creative activity. open to all, at and around Mairangi Arts Centre.
- ALL AGES, ALL TIMES! -
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*please download the catalogue of photos and stories on the cart here...
making friends (part 1) oct-nov 2017
schedule and locations here
In this project we will construct a lightweight and hand-drawn cart/art pavilion using free and local waste materials to display documentation materials, show and experiment with "stuff people around here have made" and offer casual art activities to "people we meet" as we roam about our neighbourhoods.
"what 'other stuff' in our neighbourhood could we use as art centres?"
we would like to explore how we can "show and tell", both as a celebration of past/present work and an invitation to future creative activity.
TEMPURA CAFE
on the side of the road... made with weeds from around here and served on ceramics made with clay from the beach (thanks Jack for ceramics help!)
(Thanks Caroline, Ella, Yuriko, a grandma, stoned guys, etc...)
Making Friends with visitors from far-off lands, bermside (during halloween roadside grill with Shota Matsumura)
"helping out"
at Mairangi Bay School PTA activities cracks open space for improvisation with resources at hand (thanks Amy, Steph, Tracey, and kids!)
Shota Matsumura
fires up "gutter grill" made with "found" gutter in a garage reading room, for first test of 2017-18 Weird Bird on a REAL rainy day
Continuing MOSS (Making Our School, Slowly) at Mairangi Bay School
Fixing cracks with local clays to Save Stubbed Toes
handcrafted lollypops
overcooked cordial improvised into lollypops with hand-carved twigs for sticks
thanks, in particular, to Emily and Cua
learning from Jack Tilson
in preparation for Alternative Pottery Learning Space
kids at Mairangi Bay School
hung out with me and experimented with painted shelters
Making Friends "Weeds Tempura" and MAC-brewed handmade gingerbeer cafe outside MAC
for the opening of Hibiscus and Bays Art Awards
developing MAC gardens for Free Feast - Thank you Tamaki!
helping out
at local lunchtime art class at Mairangi Bay School, we learn new skills, and Make Friends
open ginger soda workshop
- we mix our own flavours, the 3-week brewing period teaches us pleasures of anticipation
we piggy-back on events and festivities
to crack open a chance to offer a weird experience, "show and tell", and Make Friends (thank you Shota!)
bring out
"stuff we made together" in different environments, to find new pleasures and share ideas
(in this case a hammock hand-woven on an old trampoline frame from "string-like stuff" people brought in during What 2017)
install
the hand-made hammock in public spaces as a mend-able public furniture, inviting play, concern, public safety issues, and foraging of construction materials
find out
about excess resources and play with them
in this case, various fabric from Rangitoto Kindergarten...
we made a giant wind and bamboo powered sun shade sewn together with plastic strapping strips and inner tubes
making friends (part 2) dec 2017 - march 2018
project log here
includes Rain Zuo from Galaxy Art Crafter's Workshop in Galaxy Drive, Mairangi Bay
just enjoying playing with a sound toy of junk
berm-side potluck party
with handmade treats served in dishes made of Mairangi Bay Clay, including "fishx4" from Mr. Jokagi prepared and grilled by Shota
under a shelter made of junk from local Rangitoto Kindergarten
repurposing handmade beanbags made of junk as landing pads
a playful time of "men" from "asia"
makeshift public waterslide, for soapy, thrilling times between "people we happen to meet", friends new and old, and various junk
past programmes at and around MAC
- what could an art centre be? what could be an art centre? 2017
- summer open workshop 2017
- summer art not-school 2016
- other workshops here
"our neighbourhood offers an incredible variety of learning labs"
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+ in collaboration with Mairangi Arts Centre, provided with support of Hibiscus and Bays Local Board (Part 1: Oct/Nov 2017) and Creative Communities Scheme (Part 2: Dec 2017 - March 2018)
