3 NOV - 2 DEC 2012
TAMAKI GALLERY
& SCHEDULED MUSEUM PERFORMANCES
FREE

Urbanlife is a chance to hear Auckland youth express their vision for the city’s future. Six groups of rangatahi (15-24yrs) from across the city have tackled the big issues: employment, housing, culture, education, economic well-being and environment.

Working with artist mentors and drawing inspiration from Auckland Museum's collections the groups have created responses through screen-printing, soundscapes, spoken word poetry, photography, devised theatre and Graff art.

The Urbanlife project has been brought together this month inside the Museum. The young people’s creative responses activate our galleries, while short films screen about each groups’ work and their exploration of the issues facing urban life in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Find out more on our blog, YouTube channel and  facebook.com/youthinthemuseum.

WORKSHOPS 11am-1pm

Work with our artists and have your say on our Urbanlife ‘Response Wall’.
Email urbanlife@aucklandmuseum.com to register your interest.

EXPERT SESSIONS 2pm 

This is your opportunity to hear from the Urbanlife youth and the artists they worked with.
Email urbanlife@aucklandmuseum.com to register your interest.

 7 Nov 12

  10 Nov 12

 14 Nov 12

 17 Nov 12

21 Nov 12

 24 Nov 12

28 Nov 12

PERFORMANCES

Email urbanlife@aucklandmuseum.com to register your interest.

 18 Nov 12

 24 Nov 12

TE KOROWAI
TALK EDUCATION

The Museum’s pictorial collection and recent exhibition of wildlife photography are the basis for the young Māori men in the Te Korowai programme to explore what education means for those who have slipped through the gaps. Working with Te Rawhitiroa Bosch they’re using photography to document their journey to a stronger future.

YOUTHLINE CENTRAL
TALK EMPLOYMENT

Youthline Advisory Group takes the versatile t-shirt as a means to express their thoughts on finding work. Using the Museum’s photograph collection, archive of old Weekly News magazines, and the recent Identi-Tee exhibition they team up with artist and screen-printer Siliga David Setoga of Popohardwear to put their ideas on t-shirts.

NGATI WHATUA
TALK ENVIRONMENT

Ngāti Whātua rangatahi join up with Aotearoa hip-hop pioneer DLT (Darryl Thomson) to explore what the environment means to them as tangata whenua and kaitiaki of the region. Their graff-style mural draws inspiration from their native plant restoration work, Museum collection photos of the Bastion Point occupation, as well as 18th century botanical images in Banks’ Florilegium.

IamGI
TALK HOUSING

The sounds of the Museum’s lali drum and the taonga pūoro collection, as well as photographs of GI (Glen Innes) from the 1970s give inspiration to IamGI to address the issue of housing from a youth perspective. With guidance from Samoan hip hop producer Anonymouz (from the Hypnotics) they have recorded interviews and sounds from their community to create beats, stories and rhymes that form a soundscape response to the controversial Glen Innes housing relocations.

NAVIGATING SPACES
TALK CULTURE

Polynesian youth use spoken-word poetry to navigate their way through Auckland’s urban culture. With mentor Grace Taylor of South Auckland Poets Collective they draw inspiration from the Museum’s collection of tapa and masi patterns, as well as sketches of Tongan life and migration in the 1950s.

MASSIVE ENSEMBLES'
TALK ECONOMIC WELL-BEING

The Museum’s galleries, manuscripts and the work of early feminist photographers are the source material for Massive Company’s Central and South Ensembles’ exploration of what economic well-being means. Working with Massive Company’s tutors and artistic director Sam Scott, they’re using devised theatre techniques to activate the collections and create performances featuring both human and non-human characters.