Ehutai - Toihoukura

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Fri 9 Dec ’11, 5:30pm–7:00pm	Saving
Sat 10 Dec ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 17 Dec ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 24 Dec ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 31 Dec ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 7 Jan ’12, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 14 Jan ’12, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 21 Jan ’12, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 28 Jan ’12, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 4 Feb ’12, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sat 11 Feb ’12, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sun 12 Feb ’12, 1:30pm–4:00pm	Saving
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Where: Tairawhiti Museum, Stout St, Gisborne Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

Website:

www.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz

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Toihoukura, the School of Mâori Arts at the Eastern Institute of Technology, formerly Tairâwhiti Polytechnic, has an annual exhibition at the museum and art gallery to showcase the work of senior students. This year the students’ work explores their responses to the many environmental issues that have challenged New Zealanders in recent times, ranging from the Christchurch earthquakes to the prospect of oil drilling in the Raukumara Basin off the East Coast.

Each year at the opening of the exhibition a Toihoukura student is awarded the Ruanuku Award, sponsored by local art patron Professor Jack Richards. The student submits a body of work from which one work is selected to become part of the Tairâwhiti Museum fine arts collection. The first Ruanuku Award was made to Randel Leach in 1995. The Ruanuku Award Collection now includes paintings, mixed media, ceramics and weavings. Two of these works are currently on display in Watersheds: Ngâ Waipupû.