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PART – Time vacancy at MPHS

Submissions close August 6th

May you or someone you know would be interested in the following PART – Time vacancy at MPHS we are looking for youth worker and a community initiator for the McLaren Park and Henderson South area.

MPHS Community Initiative are looking for

Youth Coordinator required for local youth group.
Hrs up to 15 hrs per week must be able to work wed evening.
Seek someone with the following skills experience.
•   Must have at least 2 years experience of working directly with youth
•   Must have experience of coordination a small team.
•   Good communications and marketing skills.
Youth leader required for wed night 3hrs per week
Please forward your CV to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
For further details and job description please contact the office. 09 838 4820
Closing date 6th August 2010

ALSO SEEKING

Part –time 6 month contract for a community initiator to work in the McLaren Park and Henderson South area, facilitating, developing emerging groups.
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FRESH – New Work from Waitakere Glass Artists

Submissions close August 27th

22nd October – 5th December 2010, Opening October 21st Thursday at 6pm

The hunt for talented Waitakere (based or bred) glass artists is on again…This year we are looking for submissions of new work from glass artists who have a link to Waitakere. Show off your innovations and new ideas in our annual exhibition. Works should have been completed in 2009 – 2010 and preferably not have been exhibited before. There is no limit to the amount of work you submit but final selections will be made by the Curator. Please submit images of your work along with some artist info to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
For more information please ring the Curator, Lisa Rogers on 09 838 4455 x203.
End date for Submissions August 27th 2010.

TCAC Creative Communities Funding

Grants

The Titirangi Community Arts Council receives funding from Waitakere City Council and Creative New Zealand to run arts activities, to run the Upstairs Gallery and to distribute to community groups as grants. These grants are in the vicinity of $750.

Click here to download an Application Form.

(NB - You will need Acrobat Reader to view PDF files- if you don't have it, download it here.)

For larger grants of up to $5,000

Applications can be made twice yearly to Waitakere City Council. Contact: Julie Nash, Community Arts Coordinator, Private Bag 93109, Henderson 0650. Ph 836 8000 extn 8934. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Our Purpose

The purpose of the Creative Communities Scheme is to provide financial assistance to groups and individuals for local arts and cultural activities. ‘Arts’ is broadly defined to mean any ‘creative practice’, including those relating to language, literature, performing arts and visual arts.

Our Aim

The aim of the Creative Communities Scheme is to increase the number of people participating in arts and cultural activities at a local level, widen the range of arts available and community interest in them, support artistic and cultural expressions by diverse communities.

What will not be funded

Facility development
Purchase of art works for galleries
Ongoing administrative costs that are not related to a specific project
Repayment of debt or interest on that debt
School programmes (which would normally be funded through the ongoing curriculum operating budget)
Costs already incurred for projects already completed
Catering costs
Fund raising costs
Applications from groups who have received funding but did not complete a certificate of expenditure and provide evidence of expenditure

Titirangi Painters Annual Art Exhibition

Sat 31st July - Sun 1 August (10-4:30pm)
Over 40 well known Waitakere Artists will display recent work including: Sharon Mann, Edith Diggle, Suzanne Greenshields, Lynette McKinstrie, Bruce Loretz, Noel Hutchinson, Monique Endt, Ted rogers.
Special Guest Artists: Green Bay High School Students Visual Art Boards including work by Melanie Hiewoudt winner of To[ 2009 New Zealand Scholarship Art Award
Titirangi War Memorial Hall
South Titirangi Road, Titirangi

LEARN THE ART OF CHIGIRIE

Workshop lessons in the style of Akiko Otani, renowned chigirie artist and teacher in Yokohama, Japan.

No former art experience is necessary.

You will learn the art and practice of tearing Japanese paper (washi) to make shapes of flowers and leaves, and create pictures by pasting them onto card.
All materials will be supplied.
Regular lessons may follow the workshops, according to demand.

WORKSHOP TIMES
Tues 13th July 9 – 5 $65.00
Sunday 1st August 1-5pm $ 45

At The STUDIO, WCCAC at Corban Estate Art Centre
426 Gt North Rd Henderson.
For bookings and enquiries please contact Barbara Kerr-Mann
Mentor and Founder of Leafgreen Chigirie New Zealand PH 8371776.

Ker-Mann trained as a secondary teacher in art, music and English. In 1983-84 she was Fellow of the American University Womens Association to research Talent Education at the Suzuki Institute in Matsumoto.

While there she studied traditional Japanese art and later was introduced to chigirie. Ker-Mann has made three visits to Yokohama to take lessons in chigirie with Akiko Otani. In February 2000 she exhibited with Otani sensei and her women students from Japan in an exhibition in Manila as part of a cutlural exchange between the Philippines and Japan.

If interested in learning more about the art of chigirie, contact Barbara Ker-Mann by email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Chigirie in subject line, please)