Kim Hill will once again be holding the gavel at the jewellers’ auction

Whitireia New Zealand and Finc Dining Room are proud to present the annual Jewellers of Whitireia contemporary jewellery fundraiser auction and exhibition. The live auction will be held on Thursday 8 November at Finc, 122 Wakefield Street, starting at 6.30pm sharp. An exhibition of the work to be auctioned will be held at Finc from 23 October. Works donated by leading jewellers with an international reputation will be auctioned alongside current student and recent graduate works.

Donating jewellers include Ted Noten, Manon van Kouswijk, Lisa Walker, Karl Fritsch, Peter Deckers, Renee Bevan, Matthew McIntyre Wilson, Neke Moa and Owen Mapp. Kim Hill will once again be holding the gavel. Funds raised from the auction will be used to produce the annual student jewellery catalogue. This high-end catalogue is distributed worldwide and is now eagerly anticipated by public and private galleries, and other institutions and individuals with a passion for cutting-edge contemporary jewellery.

Works will be on display at Finc for the two weeks leading up to the auction, giving people plenty of opportunity for advance viewing of the work, or can be viewed at www.jewelsofwhitireia.wordpress.com This event is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to obtain high quality, one-off works at affordable prices, and above all promises to be an extremely fun night out! Doors open from 5.30pm.

Porirua School Students Speed Date an Author

On Monday 29^th October, Whitireia will host the New Zealand Book Council’s upcoming Speed Date an Author event. Sixty students aged 11–14 will have the chance to meet and learn from six amazing New Zealand authors. Thanks to generous crowd funding through PledgeMe, the event will be completely free to participants. This will enable the schools in the Porirua area to send along their best young writers.

The six authors are poet, novelist and performer Apirana Taylor, children’s and young adult novelist Kate De Goldi, young adult novelist Mandy Hager, poet Karlo Mila, and short story writer Tina Makereti look forward to engaging students with the craft of writing.

In the morning, each of the writers will talk to five groups of 12 students for 20 minutes each about a key aspect of writing

After lunch students will to attend an in-depth, 90-minute workshop with one  author.

For more information about Speed Date or the New Zealand Book Council’s other projects, please contact Marie at wis@bookcouncil.org.nz.

Great courses coming up, radio broadcasting (for stars of the airwaves) and graphic novels with Dylan Horrocks

Dylan Horrocks (the creator of Hicksville) will help you unleash the power of visual storytelling.

A short course with Dylan Horrocks on the 25th-29th June 2012, at the Whitireia Porirua Campus Library – what a great way to get into graphic novels. Details are on the Whitireia website.

If you want to be a radio star, this is where you get the broadcast skills for the industry. You can study it in Auckland (at Whitireia on Queen Street) or in Wellington in our Dixon Street Campus. Find out more about on the Whitireia website.

 

Our publishing students’ project to promote the 2012 Book Design Awards

 

Whitireia Publishing students have completed this video, as well as a website and social media activities to promote the 2012 PANZ Book Design Awards.

Au Revoir, Whitireia Performing Arts show 14-16 June in Wellington. See this award winning cultural group before they leave for Montreal.

Poster for the Performing Arts show Au Revoir, at the Whitireia NZ Theatre 14-16 June.

Tickets are on sale at the Whitireia New Zealand Theatre website.

 

These students are just so talented, they filmed this on an iPhone in one take!

Whitireia students have been “interviewing themselves” (on an iPhone of course), for the television commercials that start on 20 May 2012.

We gave the phone to these two from the Whitireia New Zealand Performing Arts Centre in Wellington and they blew us away! Enjoy…

If you’re on campus, here’s an ipod prize for best use of our bumper sticker (on your vehicle)

The poster and bumper sticker are posted at a selected set of places at our campuses. First in, first served.