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Warwick Freeman, Hook Hand Heart Star, 2024, photograph by Sam Hartnett. Warwick Freeman, Insignia, 1997, photograph by Sam Hartnett. Warwick Freeman, Fern Fish Feather Rose, 1987, photograph by Sam Hartnett. Warwick Freeman, Ducks, 2019, photograph

Sunday 19 July, 11am-2pm. Free | Registration required. Learn how to archive your own experiences, warts and all, in a way that is helpful and useful. Writer and prolific journal-keeper Nadine Hura will share tips on journaling, how to break through

Workshop: Attention Seekers. Saturday 13 June, 11am-2pm. Free | Registration Essential. Make an embellished garment you can wear or carry, costume, banner, or something in between. Make an embellished garment you can wear or carry, costume, banner,

Saturday 30 May. 11am-2pm| FREE. Ages 15+. Using cryptids as a metaphor for indigeneity, Cunty Cryptids Club have been pioneering what it means to provide “de-colonial art spaces” for Takatāpui youth. Their recent works consist of Clothing

Handle with Care: Expert tips on storing and preserving family treasures. Saturday 16 May, 11am-12pm. Free | RSVP appreciated. Discover expert tips on storing, handling, and preserving your family treasures. A Dowse take on the antiques roadshow. No

Sunday 10 May,. 11am-1pm| FREE. Stop by The Dowse this Mother’s Day to make a wool craft inspired by the work of Wayne Youle. Pick up a coffee and pastry from Bellbird, pull up a seat, and make a pompom or length of woven yarn. Chat to mum over

Opening Weekend Floor Talk: Wayne Youle Ans Westra. Saturday 9 May, 11am-12pm. Free | RSVP appreciated. Two new exhibitions open, kicking off with opening weekend floor talks. Come along, get up close, and join Wayne Youle and our curators as they

Ans Westra photograph of a midnight poetry reading at the graveyard at Victoria University (Te Herenga Waka) in 1970. Courtesy of {Suite} and the Westra Estate. Installation view of ‘Ans Westra: Jeetje’ at The Dowse Art Museum featuring the

Wayne Youle, I'll Be The One Wearing The Pink Carnation, Standing In The Corner (Sweating), 2017. Install shot, Wayne Youle: Back In Five, The Dowse Art Museum, 2026. Photo: Mark Tantrum. Wayne Youle, The Saviour, 2012. Collection of Christchurch

Saturday 18 April. 11am| FREE. Join curators Aaron Lister and Chelsea Nichols for one last look at Blood Is Thicker, where artist Jason Greig’s darkly luminous monoprints and paintings commune with their gothic ancestors—Goya, Redon, Kollwitz,

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Hook Hand Heart Star: Warwick Freeman

Things We Want To Write About: A journalling workshop with Nadine Hura

Workshop: Attention Seekers

A Worldbuilding Workshop with the Cunty Cryptids Club

Handle with Care: Expert tips on storing and preserving family treasures

How long is a piece of string? Drop-in wool crafts

Opening Weekend Floor Talk: Wayne Youle + Ans Westra

Ans Westra: Jeetje

Wayne Youle: Back In Five

Closing Weekend Curators' Talk: Blood is Thicker