Opening weekend of Light from Tate: 1700s to Now

Sat 4 Mar 2023 — Sun 5 Mar 2023 10am – 5pm

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Celebrate the opening of Light from Tate: 1700s to Now with a weekend of food, music, crafts and free talks.

Enjoy live music, food-truck goodies, and drop in to make your own light-inspired crafts with friends and whānau.

Explore the exhibition Light from Tate: 1700s to Now, and join a curatorial conversation that explores how light has captivated artists for over 200 years.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in the entrancing, transcendent effects of light in this sensational travelling exhibition.

Free curatorial talk will be held 2–3pm Saturday. Exhibition admission additional.

Image: Alfred Sisley The Small Meadows in Spring 1880, Tate: Presented by a body of subscribers in memory of Roger Fry 1936, Photo: Tate.

Date: Sat 4 Mar 2023 — Sun 5 Mar 2023
10am – 5pm, each day
Location: Various locations
Cost: Free | Exhibition admission additional

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What to expect:

<p>Let’s Brezel is NZ’s first mobile pretzel (brezel) bakery offering freshly baked, <br />
authentic German pretzel straight from the oven in their food caravan. Choose <br />
from plain salted (naked) pretzel or a variety of savoury filled options as well as <br />
delicious traditional German cakes.</p>

Let’s Brezel is NZ’s first mobile pretzel (brezel) bakery offering freshly baked,
authentic German pretzel straight from the oven in their food caravan. Choose
from plain salted (naked) pretzel or a variety of savoury filled options as well as
delicious traditional German cakes.

$<p>With a musical mind that stretches far and wide, Jon Bywater plays many flavours of soul, rock, jazz, and folk with a leaning to the raw, free, and less familiar. His vinyl-only sets include music from pre-war to the present, often centring on 7’’ records from the ’60s and ’70s.</p> <p>In response to the exhibition’s theme, Jon plans to play to play sun songs, anthems of the sun, and New Age evocations of inner light, refracting multiple musical associations of light and dark through his collection of weird and wonderful records from around the world.</p>$

With a musical mind that stretches far and wide, Jon Bywater plays many flavours of soul, rock, jazz, and folk with a leaning to the raw, free, and less familiar. His vinyl-only sets include music from pre-war to the present, often centring on 7’’ records from the ’60s and ’70s.

In response to the exhibition’s theme, Jon plans to play to play sun songs, anthems of the sun, and New Age evocations of inner light, refracting multiple musical associations of light and dark through his collection of weird and wonderful records from around the world.