Yoga and Zumba Saturdays from 8-9am and 9-10am at Ormiston Primary School, Sundays, 10-11am at Botany Library.
Sensational 60s July 26, 10am, Turanga Creek Vineyard, 133 Whitford Park Road, Whitford, and July 28, 10am and 2pm, Ellerslie Event Centre, 100 Ascot Ave, Ellerslie
The Botany and Flat Bush Ethnic Association organises yoga classes every Saturday at Ormiston Primary School led by Racheal Cooper. Learn to relax and be grounded as well as improve your balance, strength and flexible. Zumba classes are also held at the Ormiston School Primary Hall from 9am-10am. It’s time to burn that cholesterol and get more energetic while you dancexercise the stress away. Free Yoga and Meditation classes led by Nalin Wiji are also held at Botany Library every Sunday, 10-11am.
Operatunity kept our spirits up during the darkest days of the pandemic with fantastic online performances. Now, this talented team returns to the stage. While we may need to wait a little longer for shows to resume locally, this swinging showcase of sixties’ hits will play at venues nationwide, including two not too far afield, in Whitford and Ellerslie. See www.operatunity.co.nz
A Place to Stand Till July 24, Te Taunga Community Hub, Auckland Museum
Light Scuplture: Kohatu & The Sphere Till July 24, Heard Park, Parnell
Auckland Museum celebrates the diverse communities by inviting them into a dedicated space to create their own exhibit. Visitors can experience a community’s story not through the museum’s interpretation, but through the eyes of the community itself. On now is A Place to Stand— Contemporary Indian Art in Aotearoa, curated by distinguished artists of Indian heritage in New Zealand, this collaborative show explores the question: What is contemporary New Zealand Indian art? It also features interactive elements, video interviews with the artists, and documentary film. Free with Museum entry.
Each July, Parnell hosts a mid-winter light sculpture at Heard Park with the goal of warming hearts, connecting friends and families to feel awe-inspired. This year’s light sculpture is Kohatu & The Sphere created by Fish Aberadi. Fish is a Hawke’s Bay artist working to enhance physical spaces and shift perspectives through the lens of his wood-based structures. The sphere in motion speaks directly to the underlying nature and order of the universe. Spheres in motion bend time, space and give us gravity. This piece seeks to replicate nature’s miraculous harmony that gave rise to consciousness.
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