Looking for something to do with ngā tamariki?

Visit the Gus Fisher Gallery to see The Shouting Valle: Interrogating the Borders Between Us exhibition and there is an activity sheet for the kids to Make Your Own Wallpaper. In the exhibition The Shouting Valley, artist Jun Yang creates a wallpaper to help portray one culture through the eyes of another. This activity asks children to engage in Yang’s work and to draw images and patterns that remind them of home.

The Shouting Valley: Interrogating the Borders Between Us features artists whose politically motivating and activating work asks us to engage in urgent discussions of injustice in order to effect change.The works in this exhibition highlight contemporary issues relating to borders and migration, questioning why freedom of movement often appears to be a Western privilege; a subject in the forefront of people’s minds following the tragic events in Christchurch and the controversy surrounding the treatment of refugees at Australian off-shore detention centres. As a country largely populated by migrants, the exhibition resonates with Aotearoa’s diverse history and asks us to think about our own whakapapa.

No booking required. This is a free exhibition and activity during the hours that the Gus Fisher Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm and is on until the 14th of December.

MOTAT is hosting in partnership with Auckland LEGO® User Group a weekend of fun LEGO® building and creating, with impressive displays.

There will be a LEGO® Build Zone with plenty of bricks and blocks and screenings of The LEGO® Movie in the MOTAT Kiddies Zone.

Come in and enjoy these and other weekend activities.

muka youth prints is a very special exhibition of small lithographic art works for kids and teenagers aged 5 to 19 years of age only.

For 33 years the iconic NZ touring art event muka prints has been giving young people the chance to start their own art collection: they can view the exhibition and if they want to, even buy a lithographic print.

Each year muka prints invite a number of NZ and international artists to exclusively produce a set of lithographic prints. The names and signatures of the artists are covered and the artworks displayed for viewing and purchase by people under 19 years of age.

Help kids experience the magic value of art by getting art into their hands.

Muka prints rules:

✱ All art works are (100 x 200mm original lithographs) are for sale and are $75 each without a frame.
Optional tawa muka frames are $75 each.
You will need to collect any framed works you purchase from muka in Sandringham on Saturday 7 December from 10am to 2pm or following days at muka’s hours.

✱ Open to people under 19 years old only – no adults allowed!

✱ Visitors can buy a maximum of three works and only for themselves, not for adults

✱ Visitors can enter the exhibition space only once

✱ No mobile phones or cameras.

What games did your great-great-grandparents play? What games did kids play five hundred years ago? What are your favourite games to play today? Join in the fun at this celebration of tākarokaro / children’s play,  in different times, places and cultures.

Come along with your whānau, learn about some old games and some new ones, dress up, and stay and play!

This is a free exhibition of games, books, photos, manuscripts, and more from the Sir George Grey Special Collections. Read an instruction book for board games from 1786, see some nineteenth-century tin soldiers with a royal connection, learn about the hula hoop craze of the 1950s, compare Māori and Pākeha versions of mū
tōrere (draughts), and try your hand at putting on a sock puppet show.

This exhibition is on daily (excluding public holidays) until 1 March 2020.