Exhibitions & Events
Hours: Our City O-Tautahi is open to the public Monday to Saturday, 10.00am - 4.00pm. Venue hire available anytime.
Community Exhibition Space
This space, comprising three galleries, is especially designed to provide an area where issues of importance to the city or aspects of local life can be communicated and shared. Community groups and organisations of Christchurch get a chance to show their talents, projects and viewpoints to the public. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us.
Current Exhibitions and Events
 like something different
making a living from making stuff: inspirational Christchurch crafters
Date: 18 August 13 September 2008
Talented Christchurch crafters bring their unique one-off or limited edition creations to Our City O-Tautahi. Explore what makes for the Christchurch character of these design smart and environmentally aware handmade goods as this increasingly visible, accessible and internet savvy community challenges homogenous mass production. www.felt.co.nz
Free admission.  Craft 2.0
Buy local crafts and make a kitten smile
Date: One-day-only Saturday 23 August 2008, 11am - 3pm
An indie craft fair featuring the best and brightest of the New Zealand craft scene.
This one-day-only event presents a beautifully created show highlighting a wide variety of handmade good, including handbags, jewellery, baby gifts and paper products, clothing and house wares, one-of-a-kind plushies and original artwork. Following on from thousands who have walked through the door at Wellington events, Craft 2.0 generates a social atmosphere for people who enjoy design, eco-friendly products and support the community of local makers.
Free admission.  Sparking Your Interest
Artist Hilaire Campbell explores the uninhabited space and beauty of our citys substations
Date: 18 August 13 September 2008
This story is about the buildings themselves - about the way people behave around them. Theyre in your back yard and my back yard. Monumental blocks of fancy concrete, tacked with old trellis. They are a convenience and a resting place, but offer no shelter because their recesses are very shallow. With double doors and windows, they look like houses, faces even- -but until recently, nobody lived in them, nobody loved them, nobody wanted them.
Hilaire Campbell is a Christchurch based painter, illustrator and writer.
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events
The Big Bergs local students present images and stories of Christchurchs Antarcticans
Date: 15 September 11 October 2008
Young people from our city explore the challenges, adventure and untold stories of some of the people who make up the extraordinary community of our citys Antarcticans. Through portraits, memorabilia, interviews and short movies the relationship built up over months of research and contact between these young people and their Antarctic mentors brings new reflections on Christchurchs past and present stories of our status as an Antarctic Gateway.
Free admission. Woolston
Industrial Strength & Character
Date: 13 October - 22 November 2008
A photographic voyage through Woolston - one of Christchurchs more colourful suburbs with deep industrial and working class roots. This exhibition pays homage to Woolstons ordinary, and extraordinary people and places who have contributed to the flavour of this suburb; from the quirkiness of the citys oldest cemetery to the increasingly appreciated, understated style of late 1940s and 1950s buildings; take a glance at the retro cool of the 1960s and 1970s and move towards how we see ourselves in this suburb today.
Free admission.
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