Wellington Branch Events
Saturday 16 September - Sunday 24 September (ongoing throughout festival)
Creative Curiosities: An Emerge Architectural sketching competition
A celebration of architecture through drawing. We invite you to explore quintessential Wellington urban scene, moment, building, or streetscape and send us your sketch. Click here for more information, and here for full terms and conditions.
Saturday 16 September – Saturday 23 September
Ngā Awa Tini o Te Whanganui-a-Tara: The many streams of Wellington
Te Wharewaka o Poneke
Exhibition visible 24/7 through the festival dates on the southern wall of the building.
Waimapihi, Waitangi, Kumutoto, Tutaenui, Tiakawai... Andy Spain explores the many streams that flow through Te Whanganui-a-Tara through photography. Click here for more information.
With thanks to Te Wharewaka o Pōneke, and the Wellington Tenth Trust, for their support.
Monday 18 September
Awa Talks | Andy Spain & Liz Mellish
12:30pm - 1:00pm, Te Wharewaka o Poneke
These talks are part of a week long series accompanying the photography exhibition ‘Ngā Awa Tini o Te Whanganui-a-Tara’, bringing a range of topics focused on our hidden waterways. For this opening event Andy will introduce his ‘Ngā Awa Tini o Te Whanganui-a-Tara’ exhibition, and discuss his processes and experiences. Click here for more information.
City Talks: Open Wellington | Exploring the Capital's built environment
6pm, City Gallery Wellington (and livestream)
This City Talk is a little different from the ones we've done before. We want to talk about opening up Wellington and launch the beginning of what we hope will be an enduring engagement with the city and you all. Click here for more information.
Tuesday 19 September
Resene Sir Ian Athfield Memorial Lecture
5:30pm - 6:30pm, Embassy Theatre
Te Kāhui Whaihanga welcomes this year’s presenter Liam Wallis (above), the founder and managing director of HIP V. HYPE in Melbourne, Australia. Click here for more information and booking.
Wednesday 20 September
Awa Talks | Kali Mercier
12:30pm - 1:00pm, Te Wharewaka o Poneke
These talks are part of a week long series accompanying the photography exhibition ‘Ngā Awa Tini o Te Whanganui-a-Tara’, bringing a range of topics focused on our hidden waterways. Kali Mercier, WSP Fellow and Deputy Director of the Helen Clark Foundation joins us to discuss her "Sponge Cities" research. Click here for more information.
Wednesday 20 September - Friday 22 September
Light Works / Conceptual Pavilions
9:00am - 5:30pm daily, Te Aro Campus Atrium, 139 Vivian Street, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
A selection of physical models by second year architecture students at Te Herenga Waka will be displayed at this exhibition. No booking required.
Thursday 21 September
Awa Talks | Robin Skinner: Mapping History
12:30pm - 1:00pm, Te Wharewaka o Poneke
These talks are part of a week long series accompanying the photography exhibition ‘Ngā Awa Tini o Te Whanganui-a-Tara’, bringing a range of topics focused on our hidden waterways. Robin Skinner joines us to discuss the historical pathways of Wellington's streams. Click here for more information.
Friday 22 September
Awa Talks | Kedron Parker
12:30pm - 1:00pm, Te Wharewaka o Poneke
These talks are part of a week long series accompanying the photography exhibition ‘Ngā Awa Tini o Te Whanganui-a-Tara’, bringing a range of topics focused on our hidden waterways. Kedron Parker, multi-media artist, joins us for this talk. Click here for more information.
Open Studios
3:00pm - 6:00pm, participating Wellington Architectural Studios
Take a self-guided tour of the local architecture practices here in Wellington. Go behind the scenes to see how these firms make architecture jump off the page. Click here for the Open Studios map.
Saturday 23 September
Not-so-straight walking tour
1:00pm, starts in front of the Cenotaph, 1 Bowen Street
Explore some of the locations and stories associated with artists, writers and musicians who are in some way related to Rainbow LGBTI+ communities. Click here for more information and booking.
Futuna Chapel Open Weekend & Guided Tours
Saturday 23rd September - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Sunday 24th September - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Futuna Chapel, one of the jewels of Wellington's built heritage, will be opened to the public over the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture weekend of Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September, from 11am daily.
Trust Chair Nick Bevin will conduct a detailed and personal tour of Futuna Chapel telling the story of Futuna. This story starts in France in 1816 and has been added to significantly over the intervening 206 years. Come and experience the Life of Futuna.
An integral component of the tour will be the stories of the Chapel art works by Jim Allen. Some of these works are embedded in the exterior building fabric of the Chapel. Jim Allen passed away 9th June 2023 in his 101st year.
Click here for more information. Futuna events generously sponsored by Riegers print and copy and organised by the Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust.
Futuna Chapel Lecture: Chris Moller - Architect and Urbanist
Doors at 1:30pm, lecture starts at 2:00pm, Futuna Chapel
Chris will talk about his architectural experiences, his practice and those who have influenced him during his study days and later during his professional career. Click here for more information and booking.
(Photo by Paul McCredie and used with permission)
Sunday 24 September
Futuna Chapel Open Weekend & Guided Tours
Saturday 23rd September - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Sunday 24th September - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Futuna Chapel, one of the jewels of Wellington's built heritage, will be opened to the public over the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture weekend of Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September, from 11am daily.
Trust Chair Nick Bevin will conduct a detailed and personal tour of Futuna Chapel telling the story of Futuna. This story starts in France in 1816 and has been added to significantly over the intervening 206 years. Come and experience the Life of Futuna.
An integral component of the tour will be the stories of the Chapel art works by Jim Allen. Some of these works are embedded in the exterior building fabric of the Chapel. Jim Allen passed away 9th June 2023 in his 101st year.
Click here for more information. Futuna events generously sponsored by Riegers print and copy and organised by the Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust.