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✨ Exhibition Opening: KUMI MOE HELIAKI – Blackened Tapa and Metaphor ✨Join us at Aigantighe Art Gallery for the opening of KUMI MOE HELIAKI, a powerful new exhibition by internationally recognised Tongan New Zealand artist Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka.
📅 Saturday 18 October, 1pm
📍 Aigantighe Art Gallery, 49 Wai-Iti Road, Timaru
🎶 Featuring a Tongan blessing and dance performance in collaboration with the South Canterbury Tongan Society.
🥥 FREE refreshments and nibbles provided.
Rooted in the Tongan traditions of heliaki (metaphor) and kumi (blackened tapa), Maka’s contemporary and traditional tapa works explore layered meaning, cultural endurance, and the quiet power of abstraction.
This exhibition runs from 18 November 2025 – 8 February 2026.
FREE ENTRY – all welcome.
#AigantigheArtGallery #StoneMaka #TonganArt #PacificArt #indigenouspacific #KUMIMOEHELIAKI #welovetimaru #art #dance #familyfriendly
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