Rob Smith is a music producer & DJ from Bristol (RSD, Smith & Mighty) who got stuck in NZ after his tour back in March when the borders closed. He eventually found his way to Te Henga Studios where he now tends the chickens & continues to make music as well as perusing an interest in photography inspired by local beauty & the night sky. The 'song' of the roosters recently became a feature in some of his recordings - 'Chicken Dub' - which will be playing alongside a selection of his recent photographs. Rob will play a DJ set in the Barn at 3pm on Sunday.

Urban Permaculture Design presents a project focusing on converting lawn/marginal areas into a creative & productive food resource. There will be the opportunity to discuss different edible plants & their multifaceted roles within the ecosystem. The team will be in their garden for chats during the weekend & will also give 1 hour intensive presentation from 2pm Saturday.

Jaqs Clarke illustrated, wrote & designed The Book of Water Magic based on her Phd in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. The Book of Water Magic is a mash up of environmentalism, magic, art & science, water patterns & aquatic creatures, classical mythology & disruptive text, Bosch, Klimt, Medieval manuscripts & Post-Modern anime. Her style of illustration is a mix of original illustration and digital assemblage. She lives on the Manukau Harbour in South Titirangi.

Jaqs will present her PHD research on Water & discuss how her book was created at 1pm on Sunday.

John studied printmaking with Kees Hoss at Elam in the early 1960s. He developed a silk screen printing studio in an old butchers shop at Kaukapakapa in the mid 1970s. He's been living & working out of the old Regent Cinema in Helensville since the late 20th Century ''EX PERRY MENTING'' with block printing, screen printing & stencils well into the 21st Century.. “The rest is history..” - JP

John will demonstrate his screen printing techniques.

Multimedia artist Kina Sai created a kanuka teepee church during lockdown, which she spent living in a van in the bush at Te Henga Studios. This Sacred Space was documented by local filmmaker Conan Fitzpatrick & will be screened in our Container Chapel dedicated to the 1st Patron Saint of Aotearoa, Pioneer Herbalist Suzanne Aubert, with music offerings by Frankie & the Flowers. Kina will give a special dedication performance at 11am Sunday.

The Avante Garde of the fashion world is what excites artist Leigh Tawharu. The mash up of colours and patterns, unusual style combinations and the beautiful absurdity of it all inspires her to experiment with mediums and textures. Leigh’s work is vibrant, fresh and unique, using ballpoint pen and scraps of bold coloured materials and threads which are stitched onto the paper.

Meet the artist Saturday 14 November 10-4pm.

Exhibition 6 – 29 November

Take part in a FREE family workshop (suitable for children aged 5 years and up), inspired by the botanical themes in the current exhibition On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted ecologies and the work of Joyce Campbell, an interdisciplinary artist based in Karekare. On the Last Afternoon displays over 100 artworks, and explores the many ‘disrupted ecologies’ within our environment through nineteenth-century photographic techniques and other analogue processes, creating a unique documentation of deserts, ice fields, reefs, ancient eels, remote rivers, botanicals, bacteria, and more.

Enjoy the process of engaging with Campbell’s unique works and take your artwork home at the end of your visit.

FREE family event (suitable children aged 5 years and up)