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You are warmly invited to join us at Mabel's Restaurant for the official launch of:PAST, PRESENT & FUTURES: A Decade of Asian Aotearoa Arts
5-7pm, Wednesday 4 December 2024
Mabel’s Restaurant
66 Tory St, Wellington
This new book documents the breadth, depth, and scope of the landmark Asian Aotearoa Arts Programme—a series of exhibitions, workshops, talks, tours and public events that ran from 2013-2024 and brought together, and established, a community of diverse Asian tauiwi creatives practising in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Edited by Kerry Ann Lee, with support from Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (Sub-editor/Project Manager), Sam Buchanan and Designer Gia Espelita, the publication is a smorgasbord of content that is part zine, part year book, part family photo album, with reflections and contributions from the community.
Published for the first time are new commissioned essays by Ya-Wen Ho, Emma Ng, and Helen Yeung (Migrant Zine Collective); conversations with Simon Kaan, Kim Lowe, Kathryn Tsui, Amy Weng, and Kerry Ann Lee, Jas Sabrine and Gia Espelita, Esther Fung and Eda Tang; and illustrations by Marc Conaco.
Join Asian Aotearoa Arts for one last hurrah for 2024! Food & non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by our good friends at Mabel’s (plus the bar will be in full operation for celebratory extras for experts), and books will be available for purchase ($30 each, cash or bank transfer).
For those who can’t make it, the book will be available via https://aaah.org.nz afterwards (Keep an eye on our website/social media for updates).
Ngā mihi maioha to Creative New Zealand and Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University for supporting the production of this publication.
NEW IMAGES ONLINE (2023 & 2024 galleries)
We are delighted to announce that the photos from our 2023 and 2024 programme are now on our website https://aaah.org.nz. Image galleries can be found on the individual event pages. Huge thanks to Jo Sunga and Abhi Topiwala for documenting the events.
COMMUNITY SURVEY
Finally, if you can please help us out with some feedback we’d love to hear from you. This is the last (and very short) survey that we’ll ask you to fill out, we promise!
https://forms.gle/CLiqyLRdAgc244BV8
This survey will close at 10am, Thursday 5 December, 2024.
Tēnā koe, and thanks for all your support,
Kerry Ann, Bronwyn, Gia, and everyone.
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Mabel's Restaurant, 66 Tory Street, Wellington, NZ, New Zealand
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