Name: Opening of "Dear Ursula, With regards to the river..."
Start: 2025-08-20T07:30:00+12:00
Location: The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora

We warmly welcome friends and whānau to the Opening of "Dear Ursula, With regards to the river..." by the Common Ground Collective, at Pūmanawa, upstairs in the old BHS building, Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora.
Six North Canterbury artists reunite, inspired by their local awa (Rakahuri-Ashley) and by poet Ursula Bethell’s urgent call to regard our rivers, a call which is just as relevant a century later. These new works emerge in response to these sources, drawing on each artist’s creative flow and shaped by in-flowing streams of thought and practice from other members of the group. These creative confluences inform this collection, creating fresh channels of understanding and connection both to our environment and to one another.