There are four known forces in the universe […] Gravity, electromagnetism, the nuclear strong force, which holds nucleii together, and the nuclear weak force, which causes radioactivity. 

Summer has arrived! And what better way to spend it than catching up on everything you haven't had time to peruse during the year...

Following our Self-Publishing Mini-Series held in July, Rebecca Boswell left us the following list of recommended publishers, bookstores, distributors, journals and online platforms to check out, based both locally and internationally.

Courtesy of DJ MR DAD aka Callum Devlin

On the 7th of December Pātaka Art Museum is hosting If we never met – A wānanga on curating Indigenous art. In the lead up to this, our Manager and Curator Sophie Davis spoke with presenter and panelist Ioana Gordon-Smith about her role at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, her recent curatorial projects and some of the conversations that might come out of the wānanga.

A few weeks ago our Communications and Publications Manager Louise Rutledge sat down with Anthony Byrt to discuss optimism, the decline of arts criticism, dating, Simon Denny, and how he picked the lineup for his recently published book,This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art.

Following the suite of Massey University exhibitions last month, it's now time for the photography series. Here are the details for all of the upcoming shows, on from Friday October 21 – Saturday November 5.

For the last couple of years over a few consecutive weeks, fourth-year students at Massey University have been hosting exhibitions off campus and throughout the city. Here are the details for all of the upcoming shows, from Tuesday September 27 – Thursday October 10. 

Once you've done all the hard work developing, financing, editing and printing your publication (or going online), getting it our to people can be a daunting task.

Alice Tappenden, one of the editors of the Enjoy Occasional Journals The Dendromaniac and Love Feminisms, hosted the first session in our Self-Publishing Mini-series.

So just who are Boosted and how does it work? If you missed our recent workshop, here are some of the ins and outs of how to run a successful fundraising campaign.

The 6:30am start, freezing temperature, wind (of course) and the potential to be very, very rained on did not deter the crowd. Braving a world outside of bed, around 70 people gathered on Courtenay place to witness Tiwhanawhana perform a dawn blessing of Sian Torrington’s latest project We don’t have to be the Building which is now being displayed in the Wellington City Council Lightboxes.

If you missed out on Sorority, the wonderful Pip Adam took the time to sit down with each of the writers and recorded their readings for her podcast, Better off Read. 

As our book fair comes to an end, here's a list of some of our favourite online reading spots.

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Current opportunities for artists.

Over the past fortnight the gallery is lucky to have had two beautiful newspapers delivered to us: Speaking Places: How to work and The Ground Swallows you. Copies of both publications are still available from Enjoy.

We're incredibly excited to share it with you. 

Current opportunities for artists.

We love our building and, when the stars align, love to share it with other people. Margot Mills spent some time in our stairwell over the weekend and produced a beautiful video work addressing ideas of intimacy, labour and domestic space.