Loud Magazine Issue 62

AWHI-EMBRACE

UNITED AND WORKING TOGETHER

February - April 2015 LOUD ISSUE #62 Image: MARIAN FOUNTAIN - POSSESSION 1997 1

The Depot Artspace quarterly magazine Loud showcases exhibitions, events, artists, music and musicians and a host of other creative initiatives.

It is a condensed representation of our values; a clear and informative voice as well as a practical guide to what’s happening at Depot Artspace.

Loud is the voice of Depot Artspace.

Loud is about respect, support, advocacy and promotion of the arts.

Loud is about liberation of the arts from current narrow definitions.

Loud is a forum for discussion and opinion.

Loud is loud because it needs to be – art is an incredibly undervalued aspect of our culture, significant to our history and our society.

ISSN 2382-0187 (Print) ISSN 2382-0195 (Online) LOUD ISSUE 61 • • • • • • • • • • • • •

About the Depot Artspace Awhi-Embrace: United and Working Together – Linda Blincko Artists Resale Royalty Rights: The Great Debate – Linda Blincko Love My Community / Flag It Publication Depot Artspace Exhibitions and Openings Depot Sound News – Dave Rhodes Devonstock Photos The Cuban Five Are Free! – Annalucia Vermunt Featured Artist: Christabel Spong United and Working Together: ArtsLab and Depot Galleries – Jamie McEwan ArtsLab News – Lynn Lawton Social photos of Depot Exhibition Openings Join Depot Artspace

All content © Depot Artspace and the respective artists, 2014 For magazine contribution, comment or criticism contact Linda (09) 963 2331 or linda.blincko@depotartspace.co.nz LOUD Magazine design and layout by Lia Kent Mackillop

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A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CREATIVE COMMUNITY Depot Artspace is an open and inclusive multidisciplinary community that encourages engagement in all art forms. To this end it offers a variety of facilities, services and events that support the creative community and provide opportunities for participation and appreciation. www.depotartspace.co.nz Depot Galleries are two galleries in the Depot that provide diverse exhibiting opportunities for artists – the Main Gallery exhibits large bodies of work and group shows and Small Dog is a light-filled, street facing gallery hosting solo or small group shows.

Depot Press is an ongoing series of publications created by the Depot Artspace with an emphasis on exploring Aotearoa/New Zealand’s unique cultural identity. www.nzculturalgenealogymapping.wordpress.com Depot Sound is the Depot Artspace recording studio. Depot Sound is dedicated to providing a friendly and productive outlet for artists along with support and advice for musicians. Rehearsal rooms are also available to hire. www.depotsound.co.nz Ph. (09) 963 2328 Kerr Street Artspace is a large space, located at the foot of Takarunga/Mount Victoria, for workshops, performance and theatre as well as an intimate space for self-managed exhibitions and meetings with very reasonable hireage rates.

ArtsLab offers professional development workshops, seminars, and mentoring to creative people seeking career guidance and employment in the creative sector.

Ph. (09) 963 2328 Cultural Icons is a series of interviews with iconic New Zealanders who have shaped the arts and culture landscape of New Zealand. www.culturalicons.co.nz Morph Magazine is an online arts and culture magazine featuring articles, overseas columnists, reviews and artist profiles. www.morphmagazine.co.nz Urban Arts Village Devonport celebrates everything that makes Devonport the rich and distinct community it is; its history, heritage, landscape, landmarks, arts and people. www.urbanartsvillage.co.nz

DEPOT ARTSPACE 28 CLARENCE ST, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND PH: 09 963 2331 WWW.DEPOTARTSPACE.CO.NZ OPENING HOURS: MON: 12-5PM TUE-SAT: 10AM-5PM SUN & PUBLIC HOLIDAYS: 11AM-3PM 3

Snowplough and the Angel by Sandra M. Waine 2010

AWHI-EMBRACE: UNITED AND WORKING TOGETHER A gratifying feature of 2014 for the Depot Artspace has been the relationships developed both within our own community and across regions and distinctive communities, all of which are proving to be of great mutual benefit.

This has been a developing initiative which coalesced in 2014 in a number of exhibitions and publications celebrating the uniqueness of communities and demonstrating what we have to learn from each other and what we are able to share to mutually enrich our lives.

This relationship began with an exhibition which travelled from the Hokianga in March. Titled He W’akaputanga Mai O Te Rangatiratanga – A Proclamation (of Maori sovereignty), it comprised artworks by twelve Hokianga artists created in response to Te W’akaputanga, signed by Ngapuhi chiefs in 1835.

This was a challenging and an edifying exhibition and attracted a culturally diverse audience which travelled from across the region to engage with it.

Following this we organised Turangawaewae – Sense of Place, an inclusive exhibition exploring the history, geography and demography of the Devonport community and the components that contribute to its distinct identity. It celebrated the people who have worked to build this community and made the point that meaningful communities don’t just happen but are made and evolve through continuous participation.

Our Vernacularist publications also drew together cross-community and cross-cultural views on issues of mutual concern, such as the environment and the importance of community in an increasingly urbanised, technologically sophisticated society.

While we proudly stand upon our grass roots we also recognise the pitfalls associated with parochialism when it does not discern regional, national or even global influences and their implications for small communities, or when it generates ignorance and intolerance of other community cultures.

There can be great strength in distinct communities working together to raise issues and support one another to challenge imposed change, such as with some of the standardised arts policies introduced by the amalgamated Auckland Council. And there is also much to learn from other more culturally diverse communities. For example, in April we are hosting an exhibition, organised by the Cook Island Arts Collective, which commemorates the little known fact that Cook Island soldiers were stationed at Fort Takapuna (Narrowneck Military Camp), Devonport and that they made a significant contribution to NZ’s efforts during WW1.

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This brings to our local consciousness a largely invisible aspect of Devonport history and further enriches our culture by making it real and whole.

Some time ago the Depot developed criteria which defined a conscious community. We think they are worth revisiting as we reflect on the notion of ‘awhi’, of embracing others and working together in the spirit of mutual respect.

The Conscious Community 1. The Taken-For-Granted: More vigilance and concern is required for the things we take for granted. These can be the most important things; the values we live by, the places we live in and the people we live with. How can we question, sustain or protect what we have ceased to pay attention to?

In an environment subject to accelerated change it is likely we could lose the things that actually underpin our lives. One such component is community.

2. The Endangered Community: A community whose components are neither recognised nor valued is always under threat of extinction.

An abstract or uncommitted appreciation is ineffectual in sustaining or protecting a precious resource. External threats do not that initially endanger a community – they can in fact further galvanise it; rather those threats from within (at its heart), such as apathy or inaction, are more likely to be its downfall.

3. The Importance of Community in Contemporary Society: Traditional or tribal communities were a naturally occurring phenomenon and continued to adapt to and thus occupy an unassailable place in a changing environment.

The community withstood population growth, diversification and division of labour, migration, industrialisation and urbanism. Community continued to provide the necessities for a meaningful life, close affinitive relationships and shared experiences, among others. In a society where individualism, ambition, competition and materialism proliferate these qualities are no longer perceived, consciously at least, as priorities.

4. The Evolution of Meaningful Communities: The traditional community, with its focus on geography and a fixed population (a ‘true community member’ is born into the community or has lived there for years), a common history and shared experience is a declining phenomenon in urban environments. However, the concept of community has evolved to include a diversity of structures that share fundamental ‘communitybuilding’ components. These communities include communities of interest, belief, concern or passion; communities of identity, often drawn together through minority representation or discrimination; intentional communities, formed by any of those previously mentioned, which recognises itself as a community and works to uphold community values.

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5. The Common Denominators of Communities. Each form of community has characteristics in common which define it as a community: a) Something shared and to which members are able to relate such as geography; experience; a belief or value system; history; identity. b) A level of affinitive interaction, as opposed to functional transactions or business relationships. c) Common expectations, of behaviour, action, responsibility, knowledge, commitment, values. d) Interdependence; people recognise that mutual support and exchange achieves greater sustainability for the group. The recognition of mutuality or interdependence provides the pivotal characteristic of community, something the Dalai Lama refers to as Big We, Small I. 6. Big We, Small I: “Community is vital and unifying, self-sufficient and harmonious, an antidote to a fragmented, commercialised society that is fatally and contagiously diseased.” – Robert Houriet, Getting Back Together, 1971 A community, in sublimating the individuated self as a part of the big We, ironically, maintains human wholeness or fulfillment, and articulates the meaning of Heidegger’s ‘being-in-the-world’ or essential interdependence.

– Linda Blincko

Pictured: A performance from the New Zealand Cook Island Arts Collective at the 2015 Depot Artspace Degustation in January.

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ARTISTS RESALE ROYALTY RIGHTS: THE GREAT DEBATE Since we began promoting the long dormant issue of Artists Resale Royalties in NZ through the Pre-Loved, Re-Loved art sale we have been surprised at how lively the debate remains among artists and others involved in the arts world.

The right to a percentage of sales for artists whose work has been sold on the secondary market has so far been legislated for in 70 countries worldwide.

The issue was initially raised in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2005 by then Minister for Arts and Culture Judith Tizard with a discussion paper on a possible resale royalty right scheme for artworks resold on the secondary market.

She based her advocacy for this scheme “on the reality is that in New Zealand, most visual artists have to take on other work to survive. A cultural employment report based on the 2001 Census showed the median personal income (from all sources) for a visual artist in New Zealand was $15,900, compared to $27,700 for the general population. Meanwhile total sales across the main art auction houses have doubled over the past decade. Sales peaked at nearly $19.5 million in 2003.” – NZ Herald, Wednesday April 25, 2007 A resale royalty right is designed to ensure an artist gets a fair share in terms of the economic returns they are able to derive from their work. “A resale royalty right is, in effect, a variation of rights that already exist for other creators under copyright legislation. It is a variation that recognises the unique nature of visual art which does not derive added value from the production of multiple copies.” – NZ Herald, 2007 It is an economic right recognised by France since 1920 and provides an incentive to create and the ability to benefit from this creation. It is also a moral right and recognises the ongoing relationship between a creator and his or her work.

A resale royalty right is also part of international copyright treaties such as the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, to which New Zealand is party.

The Depot Artspace has produced a document which outlines the issues around Resale Royalties and this is able to be purchased here or read online at www.issuu.com/depotartspace/docs/artist_resale_royalties_aotearoa

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LOVE MY COMMUNITY Love My Community is a co-operative for communities launching in 2015.

Love My Community works by connecting communities — making it easy for communities to find, support and work with one another — by providing a network for groups to exchange ideas and opportunities.

Love My Community has been initiated to strengthen community identity, celebrate the uniqueness of each community and to reassess the necessity of community in our lives.

Rapid social and political change in Aotearoa New Zealand is creating numerous challenges for community. Love My Community provides the opportunity for diferent groups to overcome these challenges together.

This co-operative concept has grown from strong grassroots established by Depot Artspace — a socially conscious community for over 18 years.

For more information about Love My Community email erin.forsyth@depotartspace.co.nz

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FLAG IT! THE PUBLICATION ON DESIGNING THE NEXT AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FLAG Now available from Depot Artspace

Above: The People’s Choice Award winner from the FLAG IT! exhibition held at Depot Artspace, designed by Otis Frizzell

The FLAG IT! publication is now available from Depot Artspace. This full colour staple-bound journal documents the progress of the New Zealand flag referendum, the FLAG IT! exhibition, flag designs, artist statements, images of the installation and opening, articles and basic information about the existing New Zealand flags and the ongoing debate surrounding them.

FLAG IT! is now available for purchase from Depot Artspace for $10 or by emailing erin.forsyth@depotartspace.co.nz 9

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Pre-Loved, Re-Loved 7 – 25 February

Doors open 10am in the Main Gallery Saturday 7 February Refreshments from noon

The Depot Artspace is currently advocating for Artists Resale Royalties Aotearoa (ARRA), an artists’ resale royalty scheme that entitles the artist to receive a royalty payment (normally a percentage of the sale price) from the sales of their artwork on the secondary market.

It is seven years since the Ministry of Culture and Heritage produced a discussion paper on artist resale royalties. Our secondary art exhibition, Pre-Loved, Re-Loved revisits and reinvigorates the dialogue about royalty payments for artists here in Aotearoa. For all sales of $1,000 and above the Depot Artspace will pass 5% back to the artist.

Pre-Loved, Re-Loved features work from Ross Ritchie, Michael Smither, Peter Robinson, Raymond Ching and many more. If you are interested in exhibiting/submitting artwork please bring them in on Monday the 2nd and Tuesday the 3rd of February between 10am and 5pm.

Peter Robinson, Untitled, 2004 (limited edition signed print)

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We encourage you to come and be a part of the community.

All are welcome at Depot Artspace exhibition openings and events.

Group Show: The Driving Force 28 February – 18 March

Opening in the Main Gallery Saturday 28 February 2 – 3.30pm White Night Saturday 14 March 6 – 10pm

A perennial question regarding the arts is; what inspires creative people to work at their practice, often without the usual gratification that motivates, or simply sustains, most of us, such as a secure livelihood or the ostensible freedom to achieve a ‘work-life balance’?

Over the years the Depot Artspace has observed in artists across all disciplines a drive to create that transcends others regarded as more legitimate, such as social and economic imperatives.

In The Driving Force, Nicholas Boyd, Paris Kirby, Jermaine Reihana, Sash and Yonel Watene, explore (and articulate) the characteristics or qualities that motivate creative practice through painting, installation, Yonel Watene sculpture and assemblage. For these 5 diverse emerging artists who work across a variety of disciplines, art is their calling, commitment or passion, their raison d’etre, something without which their life would cease to have significant meaning, since this is what ‘they were born to do.’

Paris Kirby

Jermaine Reihana

In curating The Driving Force the Depot Artspace also wants its audiences to experience something of this intangible aspect of creative practice that not only puts them in touch with the vast spectrum of individual creative thought, but shows that it is possible to think in a different way from the packaged world view with which we are presented as ‘reality’.

Nicholas Boyd

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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS The Lost Men of Devonport: Devonport and the Impact of WW1 11 April – 6 May

Opening in the Small Dog Gallery Saturday 11 April 10am

The Lost Men of Devonport commemorates those men who left their homes in Devonport to fight during WW1 and who were among the 18,500 New Zealanders lost. This exhibition documents the effects on the community, as those left behind – the families, friends, work mates – experienced loss and adapted to the vast changes war made to their lives.

The Lost Men of Devonport encourages community reflection and participation through personal stories and memorabilia, including old family photos, letters, medals and other personal artefacts, which will be displayed and added to during the exhibition.

We also invite through a ‘reflections wall’, the thoughts and feelings of community members about war, reflections on those who fought in the war, the loss of families and communities, and alternatives to war.

This exhibition includes the work of Fraser Toumlin, an avid traveller and self-taught photographer and artist. On a battlefield tour of the Western Front, Belgium, a week after Armistice Day 2013, he photographed the Flanders Fields series. It features images of the New Zealand memorial at Passchendaele, Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Cemetery, and Vladslo German war cemetery.

Recorded readings by Devonport historian Dave Veart of excerpts from his grandfather’s journals, written while on active service, will be another highlight of this intensely personal, introspective exhibition – of a community looking into itself at the impact of war.

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We encourage you to come and be a part of the community.

All are welcome at Depot Artspace exhibition openings and events.

Opening in the Main Gallery New Zealand Cook Islands Arts Collective: Saturday 11 April 10am Lest We Forget Our 500 Cook Island Soldiers Aue! Ko te ngaropoina ia tatou rima anere vaeau toa 11 April – 6 May

Lest We Forget Our 500 Cook Island Soldiers commemorates the Cook Islands contribution of recruiting five hundred men from 1914 to 1918, who left Rarotonga to serve for King and Country in the Great War. New Zealand Cook Islands Arts Collective is a group of creative people of Cook Island descent who connect, inform and support one another through their Facebook page. Members from the collective have created an opportunity for the Cook Island creative community to pay tribute by creating new works of sculpture, traditional song and dance, photography, theatre play, moving image and installation.

This exhibition starts its journey right in the heart of Devonport, where all the soldiers trained at Narrow Neck Military Camp with Maori and Niuean as well as other ethnicities.

Also eight Cook Island soldiers are buried at O’Neill’s Point Cemetery in Bayswater. For Devonport to be a starting point for their journey shows it is so significant, not only did they live and train here, they would have exchanged language and culture, built relationships and created memories with one another. One hundred years later we believe this exhibition will not only pay tribute, but essentially encourage similar cross cultural exchange and learning experiences with people from the Devonport community and the Cook Island community.

Lest we forget the five hundred men’s journey.

Opening Performance: Theatre – Play about a Cook Island soldier’s love story.

Week 1 – Living memories night – shared stories and photographs by soldiers’ descendants.

Week 2 – Jam night – Cook Island musicians and vocalist tribute their favourite songs.

Week 3 – Workshop for our youth – storyboards.

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Opening Saturday 7 March 10am No1 Parnell Artspace, Rawene

Kauri dieback is the deadly disease caused by Phytophthora taxon Agathis (or PTA). Kauri dieback is specific to New Zealand kauri and can kill trees of all ages. Nearly all infected kauri die. In the past 10 years, kauri dieback has killed thousands of kauri in New Zealand.

No.1 Parnell Artspace, Rawene, is holding an exhibition to celebrate the majesty of kauri and its part in defining Aotearoa New Zealand’s national identity and to raise awareness of dieback and its impact on the environment. Painting, sculpture, installations and other art forms will be exhibited and a poster-painting workroom will be open throughout the exhibition.

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Opening Saturday 7 March 10.30am 15 gallery HOurs Open 7 days 10am – 4pm

DEPOT SOUND NEWS 2015 is going to be a big year for Depot Sound. In March we will be building a new control room which will give us greater flexibility, better recording quality, and capacity to work with larger groups of people. The old control room will be turned into a multipurpose room for use as a vocal booth and also available as a smaller production studio. The new studio and all the existing rooms are going to have extensive sound treatment and updated decor to create comfortable and professional spaces for all types of recording.

Over the last few years we have built a vibrant community of musicians and sound engineers. This year we hope to expand this community by making the new studios available for engineers of all skill levels to use, and by holding events where engineers can meet and talk all things sound related.

The studios will still be available to book with our in house studio manager Dave Rhodes for high quality productions.

Keep up to date with the studio build on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/depotsound or at www.depotsound.co.nz – Dave Rhodes

Indy & Livy and Thin White Lines. Photos courtesy of Maria Teape.

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Jesse Sheehan, Haddon Smith and VIVID. Photos courtesy of Trevor Villers.

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THE CUBAN FIVE ARE FREE! THANK YOU DEPOT ARTSPACE AND ITS PATRONS. Centre during their first seventeen months of imprisonment. Those were months when they were confined to punishment cells isolated from the general inmate population, and initially from each other, as well — the “hole.”

The Cuban Five were living and working in southern Florida in September 1998 when each of them was arrested in coordinated predawn raids by the FBI. On behalf of the Cuban government they were gathering information on the operations and plans of Cuban-American paramilitary groups that operate with impunity on U.S. soil. These outfits have a long record of carrying out bombings, assassinations, and other attacks, both against targets in Cuba and supporters of the Cuban Revolution in the United States, Puerto Rico, and other countries as well.

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero returned to Cuba to a hero’s welcome on Dec. 17, joining previously released members of the Cuban Five Fernando González, and René González.

The five were arrested and railroaded to jail in the U.S. in 1998.

The return of the five to Cuba is a victory that came about through the record of the Cuban Five in jail as they remained firm to their convictions, the determination of the Cuban people and their government to ensure their return, and the expanding international solidarity around the world as growing numbers joined the call for their release.

Supporters of the Cuban Five and the Cuban Revolution will continue to campaign to defend Cuba’s independence and sovereignty.

In particular, we call for the lifting of the economic, financial, and commercial embargo that successive United States administrations have maintained against Cuba since 1960.

Antonio Guerrero produced another series of paintings and text before his release, titled “Absolved by Solidarity”. As well as exposing the injustice of their trial, they highlight the dignity, strength, and humanity of the Cuban Five and the Cuban Revolution.

An English/Spanish full-colour book of this work can be ordered from Pathfinder Press.

Special offer: $12 until March 15. (Normal As part of the international campaign to build price $19) Email: pathauck@xtra.co.nz for support for the Five, the Depot Artspace details. hosted an exhibition last November which featured the work of Antonio Guerrero, – Annalucia Vermunt one of the Cuban Five. The exhibition “I will die the way I’ve lived” portrayed, and transformed into art, the conditions the Five confronted at the Miami Federal Detention 18

Images: Antonio Guerrero – Applause from Absolved by Solidarity (page 18) Antonio Guerrero – The Hole from I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived (above) 19

FEATURED ARTIST

FEATURED ARTIST CALL OUT: We are introducing a Featured Artist wall in our hallway gallery where artists are able to exhibit exclusively on the back wall for one month at a time. If you are interested please contact our Curator Robyn Gibson on robyn.gibson@depotartspace.co.nz.

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CHRISTABEL SPONG

Auckland based collage artist Christabel Spong currently has her 100 Days of Collage artworks and cards on display at the Depot Artspace. Featured recently in Viva Magazine, she received accolades and sold many of her works at the Depot.

The magical retro-fantasy scenes were created during the 100 Days Project, where artists craft 100 artworks in as many days. Spong used vintage images from magazines to create her collages. A lover of details and beautiful things, Spong’s quirky sense of humour is apparent in the thoughtful titles of each collage, which give a sense of meaning to each individual print in the series.

During the project, common themes such as space, constellations, playing with scale and pop colours began to develop in her work.

Each beautiful collage print juxtaposes different images to create a surreal and engaging scene. Framed, signed 30cm x 30cm prints are $100 and greeting cards are $7.

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UNITED AND WORKING TOGETHER:

ARTSLAB AND THE DEPOT GALLERIES Linking the parts that make up the Depot Artspace whenever possible helps us to build the sense of community within the space and further develop the relationships we create.

Last year the ArtsLab team coupled Shelley Te Haara with the Depot galleries for her successful La Maison Derriere exhibition. The ArtsLab team has been proud again to connect two more visual artists with our gallery team: Jermaine Reihana and Han Nae Kim. Both Jermaine and Han Nae are painters with successful past exhibitions and have both been eager to discuss exhibiting their work here at the Depot in 2015. Jermaine is a MÄ ori visual artist, focusing on painting. He re-works traditional Maori narratives with a stylistic re-interpretation of customary carving, tukutuku and kowhaiwhai design conventions. Han Nae is a Korean-born artist, with a process-orientated approach to creative practice whose abstract work explores the improvisational use of ottchil, a typically carefully-used lacquer.

Han Nae and Jermaine will have simultaneous solo exhibitions here at the Depot in June/July 2015, which will bring together these culturally distinct works in adjacent gallery spaces. Jermaine is also participating in a group show The Driving Force opening on the 28th of February in the Depot Artspace Main Gallery.

The ArtsLab team is looking forward to seeing these exhibitions up and running and hopes the wider Depot community will enjoy them too. – Jamie McEwan, Depot ArtsLab

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ARTSLAB: NEWS Q: What do you get when two talented job seekers collaborate on a great idea with a lab that fosters young creatives into work?

A: A business with a future and jobs for four people!

Jobs were scarce for architecture students when Paul Organ and Kurt Meyer left Auckland University in 2013. They registered with Work and Income to look for work and were referred to ArtsLab. They had an idea to create a business app for boarding schools. Kurt had been a boarder at Mount Albert Grammar School and knew how hard it was for staff to manage students with pens and clipboards and the information from boarding schools around the world was they all had the same problem.

ArtsLab is a six month employment and professional development programme for people seeking careers in the creative industries. Paul and Kurt met the criteria for the programme having the skills, knowledge of the boarding school environment along with a passion and drive to give their business idea a really good go. ArtsLab provided them with support, business mentoring and time to do the development.

Six months later an iPad app called Boardingware was up and going whereby boarding school staff manage student boarders via tablet, mobile phone or computer. There were 10 customers in NZ and seven overseas with a business development team of four. In November last year, Kurt and Paul showcased Boardingware at the American Association of Boarding Schools’ Conference in Washington DC and they planned to have 50 customers by the year’s end.

Over the past 12 years ArtsLab has supported the creative aspirations and employment goals of over 2000 people and Paul and Kurt’s story is just one of many whose successes we celebrate. www.boardingware.com – Lynn Lawton

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DEPOT EVENTS & OPENINGS The Vernacularist: The Environmental Issue Launch

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All are welcome at Depot Artspace exhibition openings and exhibitions.

Please check www.depotartspace.co.nz for the latest news and events.

Outside the Square | Small Object Exhibition | Shelley Te Haara

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DEPOT EVENTS & OPENINGS Handweavers and Spinners | Takapuna Grammar School

John Davies Meet & Greet

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Devonport Celebrates

Saturday 14 March 6 – 10 pm

Art Music Food Talks Workshop

whitenight.aaf.co.nz For participating local venues see depotartspace.co.nz/whitenight Presented by

Coordinated by

With kind support from

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