REvolutions Creativity Exhibition & Market
part of the Divergence Festival
Tuesday 03 to Friday 06 September 2024
Time
10.00AM – 4.00PM
Venue: Pūmanawa community exhibition space
Free
This year's theme for the Divergence Festival is REvolutions.
Pūmanawa Gallery will display an exhibition, market, Listening Post and Random Acts of Kindness Crafting – brought to you by Thriving Madly!
Exhibition and Market
REvolutions Creativity Exhibition and Market will display and have for sale, art and crafts by local artists and artisans.
Works will highlight the evolutionary and revolutionary elements of their journeys.
Free and all welcome | Daily 10am - 4pm
Artworks for sale, bring cash!
Listening Post
An informal opportunity to connect and chat about the things that matter to you.
Free and all welcome | Wednesday 04 September 11.30 - 1.00pm
Random Acts of Kindness Crafting
Come along and get crafty, make your own random acts of kindness.
Free and all welcome | Tuesday 03 & Thursday 05 September 2pm - 3pm
About the artists
The creative works are made from people from all works of life as a way to express a time of REvolution in their life.
Thriving Madly is a community that aims to journey as and alongside Mad, Divergent and Neurodivergent people, families and communities to improve our status as citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand. The focus is community transformation through connection.
The group shares their unique worldviews, wisdom, skills and creativity, to provide opportunities for the community to understand them and their experiences better. They also aim to increase connections and participation opportunities within the community by growing spaces that are comfortable, accessible, and welcoming of their diversity.
They believe it is through mutual connections that they will weather the storms of life, crafting wisdom and beauty along the way, that will benefit not only themselves and each other but also the broader community.
About the Divergence Festival
Divergence is a two-week-long Festival of Madness. It aims to provide a space for Mad, Divergent, and Neurodivergent people, to connect, celebrate, showcase, and share the richness of their lives, with one another and the wider community. They want sane folk to have an opportunity to witness their diversity and have an opportunity to see what they as divergent people bring to the world.
Thriving Madly wishes to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Christchurch City Council Creative Communities Scheme.
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