Te Whau Pathway Project’s pop-in holidays art programme, Winter 2024
About 80 tamariki passed through our winter arts pop-in workshop held at All Goods in Avondale. This was a great location as it allowed double-dipping opportunities for kids who participated in activities at both the Avondale Library and All Goods. Lots of interesting things to do to keep little hands happily busy during the holidays.
Some activities were pre-planned while others, guided by tamariki, were developed during the week. Workshops included painting tiles, working with air-dry clay, colouring leaves, and creating packing tape collages.
Additionally, children made clay sticks, stickers, painted bunting leaves, created leaf collages, engaged in foam printing and shared sketch pages, fostering creativity and collaboration.
Wherever possible, Whau the People used recycled and reusable materials, keeping with Te Whau Pathway Project’s Environmental kaupapa. The Project came away from the sessions with a few treasures, including some bunting and painted tiles to add to our events and pou (posts) that will be along the pathway.
Shout outs
Thank you to Deahne, Dom and Ekarasa from Whau the People for delivering such an exciting drop-in for kids during our cold months.
Creatives
Meet the artists inspiring budding artists!
Dominique Crawford (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tū Wharetoa)
Project and event coordinator, local artist, actress, entrepreneur, and proud mother. She’s been working with organisations like I Love Avondale and the Avondale Business Association and has a special love for creating new opportunities for new makers to share their creativity. You may remember her from iconic shows such as Holly’s Heroes, Jackson’s Wharf or Outrageous Fortune.
Deahne Stone
“I’m Deahne. People call me D. I’m from Avondale but I’m lucky to be able to work with tamariki making art and creating change in schools around the West. I LOVE creativity, art and making things and I was super excited for us to get creating together.”
Ekarasa Doblanovic
Ekarasa’s creative practice encompasses painting and installation with collaborative and participatory projects working across New Zealand, Australia as well as internationally. She uses pure pigments and local soils and fabricates her own colours to activate a consideration of colour in its truest state as the primary voice of her works. participatory projects working across New Zealand, Australia as well as internationally.
Photo gallery
About this event
| Date | July 2024 |
| Location | All Goods, Avondale |
| Type of event | School holiday programme (Arts), Drop-in |
| Funder | Te Whau Pathway Project |
| Who | Whau the People |
| Kaupapa | To connect children with their environment and river through creativity, giving them an appreciation for their community’s unique cultural, natural and historic heritage, while encouraging imaginative expression and collaboration. |
