Walking About: Standing at the edge

Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery is a regional gallery locally rooted in West Auckland but globally minded. We have a distinctive West Auckland focus but a national and international perspective. Through our programmes, we create a world stage for art that is relevant for our audiences, to put local art, artists and ideas in conversation and context with national and international developments in contemporary practice. We present a diverse programme of contemporary exhibitions, events and activities, including art, craft and design, to reflect and strengthen the full diversity of cultural identities, interests and potential of our community.As a destination gallery, Te Uru operates from an award-winning, building in the recently re-opened Lopdell Precinct. The gallery originally opened in 1986 as the Waitemata City Arts and Cultural Centre, later known as Lopdell House Gallery, sited in the historic Lopdell House building in the heart of Titirangi, gateway to the Waitākere rain forest and en route to Auckland's famous west coast beaches. We reopened as Te Uru on Saturday 1 November 2014 in our new purpose-built facilities, offering extraordinary exhibitions and spectacular views of the surrounding area.Our name, Te Uru, makes reference to Te Hau a Uru, the wind that blows from the west, a powerful characteristic of the region and an important story for local iwi, Te Kawerau ā Maki, who have bestowed us with this new kaupapa. The west wind shares the messages and vision of the people that live in the west, brings change, sets direction and influences Auckland City from its mountainous perch atop the Great Forest of Tiriwa. Te Uru will be a source of information and ideas that will project across the region - a fitting framework for a contemporary gallery.420 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland, New ZealandPhone:+64 9 817 8087Open: Monday-Sunday, 10am-4:30pmhttp://www.teuru.org.nz/Parking available on the street or behind the gallery.Public transport - buses and trains available from New Lynn transit station

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A solo performance by Mustaq Missouri, written and directed by Melissa Laing.

Northwest Town Square

A solo performance by Mustaq Missouri, written and directed by Melissa Laing. “Imagine that, in the middle of a vast city, you might be so intimately connected to your community that you cannot leave your house without a serendipitous encounter.” This is the world that our guide is dreaming of as he negotiates life after he’s made redundant. He’s taking us on a walk through the streets and gravel lots of the town centre, showing us development sites undergoing rapid change, and helping us see the possibilities of the place differently. He wants you to dream with him. Standing at the edge is a meditation on the relationships between property, debt, work and community as they play out on the suburban fringes of Auckland. Our guide, Missouri, performs the story of a man balancing financial obligations against dreams of social and economic change. He’s questioning what we value and why. Woven into the story are histories of failed and successful attempts to build alternative communities and create change through labour activism. The performance will take place in two town centres undergoing change as Auckland expands and intensifies – North West Westgate, a town centre being built on green fields and Te Atatu Peninsula town centre, a place that is intensifying and experiencing demographic shifts.Friday 27 March, 7pm WestgateSaturday 28 March, 7pm Te Atatu PenninsulaStanding at the Edge is presented as part of Walking about, a series of performative and participatory walks that travel across Auckland with Te Hau ā Uru – the West Wind. It has been generously supported by Auckland Council.

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