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CALENDAR 2 - 20 MARCH 2011

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Station Square, Newmarket Railway Station, Cnr Broadway and Remuera Road

Letting Space

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Can the blooms of Auckland's suburbs help sow seeds in fallow ground in the inner city?

Recalling the floral artistry of festivals of the 1960s and 70s, for the Suburban Floral Association's Shopfront people and plants are brought together through an abundance of flowering events. A collaboration between Auckland-based artists Monique Redmond and Tanya Eccleston, the Suburban Floral Association introduces its brightest blooms to a recession-hit inner city Auckland retail environment.

White Night, 12 March, 6:00pm - midnight

Inhabiting a vacant shop space for 12 days, Shopfront is an alternative gardening project that regularly changes in function - sometimes a cinema, at other times a gallery, a seminar space, a front yard and a studio. It will change the relationships between flowers and people, making space for conversation as well as display.

Public art programme Letting Space was initiated in 1994 and revived in Wellington in 2010 in response to the economic recession. It brings contemporary art out of the gallery, commissioning leading contemporary artists to perform and install new work in vacant commercial properties, transforming relationships between artists, private property and the often monocultural spaces of the city. Curated by Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram Letting Space works to see stronger engagement between artists, property developers and their city.

To download a guide to all Shopfront events click here.

Shopfront is a Letting Space project in conjunction with Auckland Arts Festival.

Artist talk Shopfront, Tuesday 15 March, 7:00pm

IMAGE: Suburban Floral Association, Seaview Tce White Snowball, 27 October 2010

http://www.lettingspace.org.nz/

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