Saturday 20 June
7pm - 9.30pm livestream
PŌNEKE ART + MUSIC – Featuring POP host Hopepa, artists Miriama Grace-Smith, Ritchie Adamson & Air Aotearoa. Music by DJ Marcos Alonso & Rhombus Sound System
POP Livestream at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre offers the delight of witnessing art in the making with a tasty musical journey for it’s worldwide launch online.
Host Hopepa aka Joe Lindsay of Fat Freddy’s Drop fame will introduce Toi Pōneke based artists Miriama Grace-Smith and Ritchie Adamson making original art as it happens.
Miriama Grace-Smith, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Toarangatira and Ngāti Porou is a curator, muralist, illustrator, fashion designer, film art and wardrobe director. She’s also a member of Māori women’s art collective Hine Pae Kura and designs in collaboration with Moana Road. A recent print series ‘Māori for Black Lives Matter’ will inform her POP mahi.
Ritchie Adamson intends to work on a portrait painting with an invited sitter for the two and a half hour POP livestream. His work is informed from time spent in Japan and the influence of early Renaissance (fourteenth- and fifteenth-centuries) Flemish panel paintings and Surrealists of the early twentieth century.
Digital Maori art by Air Aotearoa will be projected on the walls of the Gallery which is the showcase hub of the arts centre providing spaces and support for a range of creatives and businesses.
Rhombus Sound System is debuting brand new and classic dub beats created in their Toi Pōneke production studio. The music will be unleashed on the incredible Te Kōkī Hi Fi sound system Rhombus producer Thomas Voyce has built with New Zealand School of Music -Te Kōkī, at Victoria University of Wellington where he lectures in composition and audio engineering.
DJ Marcos Alonso’s eclectic selections have been honed during a series of fruity lockdown livestreams. The UK born DJ, producer and head honcho of newly-minted record label Sqeaky Wheels is celebrating the release of his funkified sassy debut ‘Afrika Jitu’. Binoculars optional.
POP is presented by Transmit, the creative force behind content for Fat Freddy’s Drop music releases and shows worldwide and WW1 Remembered Light & Sound shows, & Rhombus Productions. With Support Wellington City Council, Toi Pōneke & New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī, at Victoria University of Wellington. Thanks Sqeaky Wheels, Valley Audio & Mike Potton Camera
