Library staff are cordially invited to attend The Grand Tour Symposium, at SOFA GALLERY, The Arts Centre, on Friday 29 Jan at 3pm.
The current exhibition ‘The Grand Tour’ at SOFA gallery showcases beautiful prints from the 17th to the 19th century by notable European artists such as Piranesi, Watteau and Vernet. The prints have all come from the Macmillan Brown Library collection.
In conjunction with the exhibition a free symposium will take place on Friday 29th of January from 3pm at the SOFA gallery. There will be three short talks by Senior Lecturer David Maskill from Victoria University, Associate Professor Ian Lochhead and Senior Lecturer Emilie Sitzia (both from Canterbury University).
Topics to be addressed will include ‘Piranesi and the power of fragments’, ‘The Grand Tour: Text and Context’, and ‘Enlightenment landscapes’. There will then be a round table with time for questions from the public. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided.
In January, an exhibition at SOFA gallery in the Arts Centre is being launched to showcase the fabulous collection of early European prints from the Library’s collection. The exhibition is titled the Grand Tour. To find out more, go to http://www.sofa.canterbury.ac.nz/
As part of this exhibition, we are going to be offering quiz sheets for children – a first for SOFA I think! So that kids will find it easier to complete the quiz, we need to find a selection of clipboards that they can use. Do you have any clipboards you could spare from 10 Jan -12 Feb 2010? If so, please let me know. I promise they will be returned to you!
As part of the Christchurch City Council Heritage week, I am running three sculpture trail tours. We will be coming to a library near you on Monday 19th, Wednesday 21, and Friday 23, between 10.30 12 o’clock. We are focusing this time on the connections between some of our artworks and the heritage week theme of Christchurch in times of conflict, concentrating particularly on the contributions of our artists in WW1 and WW2.
As it is the lead up to exams, I will try to contain the noise as much as possible.
I am taking a group of 15 Canterbury art collection curators / registrars on a tour of the sculpture trail on Wednesday morning 9 Sept between 9.15-10.30am. We will probably visit Central, PSL, and Law libraries this time around, and will try to keep noise to a minimum.
The plinth for END DOLL is being lent to SOFA gallery for their display. Staff from the gallery will be collecting the plinth from Central Library level 2 today, so dont panic if you see someone wheeling it out.
For those of you who field enquiries about the sculpture trail, please note the End Doll by Ronnie van Hout is being temporarily relocated. Between 31 July – 30 August 2009, End Doll will be on display in ‘Inner Landscapes’ at Sofa Gallery. End Doll will then join its family on display at the Christchurch Art Gallery in ‘Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There’ from 1 September – 18 October 2009.
The sculpture trail website has been adjusted accordingly, and a sign will be placed in the central library where the doll is usually displayed explaining its absence.
Hi, we are installing several new artworks in central library levels 2 and 4 this afternoon from 1.30pm. I will try to keep the noise to a minimum, but we will have to do some drilling into concrete, which is never a quiet process.
The artworks had to be delivered early, and are currently in the corridor outisde the mailroom on level 1. Please dont move them. If they are in the way give me a call on extension 8669.
Hi everyone, I am running another sculpture trail today between 2-3.30 on the Ilam campus for a U3A group. We may visit Central, PSL, Law and Engineering libraries on our rounds, and as usual, we will try to keep the noise to a minimum.
This is the last tour booked for this term. Next term we will be trialling some tours on the Dovedale Campus instead.
Thanks, Terri
Hi everyone, I am running another sculpture trail today between 1.30-3pm on the Ilam campus. We may visit Central, PSL, Law and Engineering libraries on our rounds, and as usual, we will try to keep the noise to a minimum.
There are spare spaces on this tour, so if anyone would like to join us please give me a call, you would be most welcome.
Thanks, Terri
I am running another sculpture trail today between 1.30-3pm on the Ilam campus. We may visit Central, PSL, Law and Engineering libraries on our rounds, and as usual, we will try to keep the noise to a minimum.
