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Te Papa is coming to Gisborne!

12 September 2012 – 11.05am

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is coming to Gisborne! The Education and Discovery Centre teams will be based at Tairawhiti Museum for a week of exciting art workshops and learning programmes. Schools in the Gisborne area are taking part in free hands-on workshops, exploring kākahu (cloaks), taonga (treasures) and their connection to the area of Gisborne. Two large artworks, in the form of cloaks, will be created by the students, using digital photography and mixed media. The cloaks will be on display at Tairawhiti Museum and then at Te Papa in Wellington for thousands of visitors to see.

The education staff at Tairawhiti Museum

The education staff at Tairawhiti Museum. Aaron Compton and Jen Pewhairangi. Courtesy of Dudley Meadows, Tairawhiti Museum.

Joining the team is Te Papa educator Khali Philip-Barbara, who is no stranger to the Gisborne community. Having grown up in Gisborne, Khali is excited to be returning to her roots to work with local students, extending Te Papa’s reach beyond the Wellington Region. The Te Papa team come from a variety of backgrounds, including Wellington, Sweden, Ruatoki, the Pacific Islands and Gisborne. 

The Gisborne Outreach Team

The Gisborne Outreach Team (from top left, clockwise) Ati Teepa, Herbert Bartley, Khali Philip-Barbara, Kim Gustavsson, displaying their favourite taonga.

Added to the mix is gifted master carver Anaru Rondon from The Bay of Plenty Matata. Anaru is offering a workshop that will give people a rare chance at making traditional tools using customary methods. 

For more information contact Tairawhiti Museum or Te Papa’s Education Team.
Te Papa will be based at Tairawhiti Museum from 17 – 21 September. This is part of Te Papa’s annual national outreach programme. Te Papa wish to thank the staff at Tairawhiti Museum for their support of this programme.

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Feathers of knowledge

8 August 2012 – 4.09pm

 

Ma te huruhuru te manu ka rere, with feathers a bird may fly.
And by the sheer number of feathers that the education team received in the last few months, this bird could fly as far as Matariki!Image

 

This amazing paper feather kākahu (cloak) has been created by thousands of students from schools across Aotearoa. The kākahu will be displayed in the Discovery Centre Te Huka a Tai on Level 4 for the next few weeks. Come along and admire the work and share in the collective knowledge.

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The education team have been inundated with feathers from students who have been learning about Matariki. With support from Te Taura Whiri Māori Language Commission, the Te Papa Educators produced a new teacher resource to help teachers teach their students about Matariki. The lessons in the resource include an activity for students to record their new learning about Matariki onto a paper feather. Upon these feathers children drew pictures, and wrote words of wisdom that they would like to share with others about Matariki, including:

“Matariki means little eyes” and “There are over 500 stars in the Matariki cluster”.

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So armed with staplers, hot glue guns and even a sewing machine the Te Papa Educators sewed, glued and burnt their fingers creating the kākahu. With over 2,000 feathers they ended up with a kākahu that is 5 metres long and 1 metre wide and weighing up to 5kg!

The end result of this activity is not only a beautiful collaborative artwork, but it is also a great exercise in sharing matauranga (knowledge). It also demonstrates the many and varied communities that we reach out to through our education service.

Nō reira ka mihi ki ngā kura, ki ngā akonga, ki ngā kaiako nā rātou i tuku mai i ēnei tāonga atāhua, me te tuku mai hoki i ō rātou ake mātauranga hei koha ki te katoa.

Thank you to the schools, students and teachers for contributing in the creation of this beautiful kākahu, and for sharing their knowledge with us all.

Written by Te Papa Educator Ati Teepa
View the new Matariki Teacher Resource
Find out more about the Te Papa Education programmes

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Students enjoying the Unveiled education workshops

20 March 2012 – 2.14pm
Students at an Unveiled workshop

Students from He Huarahi Tamariki in Te Papa’s education room, creating paper wedding fashions in the fast paced project runway style education workshop.

The Unveiled education workshops have given Secondary School Fashion and Textiles classes the opportunity to learn about the changes in wedding fashion over the last 200 years. Students have enjoyed studying and sketching the historic and contemporary garments, and they have loved the chance to view them up-close.

Following a tour of the exhibition, the students are taken to the education room for a hands-on workshop, led by our team of educators. In a Project Runway inspired challenge, the students create and model their own wedding garments by working in small design teams. The results have been impressive!

After the visit many students have written us to pass on their feedback, here are two of our favourite comments…

‘In my opinion the Unveiled exhibition was the most amazing, spectacular exhibition I have ever been to. The detail in the clothes really stunned me and I was inspired’.   Mohammad from Wellington High School.

 ‘I really enjoyed the trip, it gave me a lot of ideas for what I want to make this year. The best part was making our own outfit out of paper I had so much fun. I really liked the exhibition and want to take mum before it closes!’  Jack from Wellington High School.

The exhibition closes 22 April. There are only a few places left for teachers to book their students. If you are interested in booking please contact Andrew Watt the Education Coordinator by emailing: reservations@tepapa.govt.nz

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