FLOW FESTIVAL

MUNDI

Mundi’s music is like Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti meeting Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson – filled with global colours, grooves and influences. Composer and flautist for Mundi, Tamara Smith has travelled the world compiling inspiration for her compositions along the way – from performing in Jazz clubs in Paris and recording an album in Sri Lanka, to learning traditional Indian flute by the Ganges and warding off Alligators in the heart of the Amazon.

MUNDI is a high-energy band inspiring people onto the dancefloor.

https://mundi.co.nz/

MindBlank

Rock covers band based in Ōtautahi.
https://www.facebook.com/MindBlankNZ

Dekaworwor

Dekaworwor are a well-loved African drumming group based locally in Christchurch. They perform rhythms and songs from West-Africa which they have learnt from locally and internationally renowned indigenous teachers. Dekaworwor means ‘Unity’ in the local Ghanaian dialect and community is at the heart of everything Dekaworwor does. Group members come from all across the globe and bring their expertise, energy and groovy rhythms to make your feet move! www.facebook.com/dekaworworchch/

DJ Skew-Whiff

Skew-whiff: not straight, askew, out of alignment.

DJ Skew-whiff: Ōtautahi based vinyl-only DJ, playing records obtained over many years and crossing a multitude of genres. Avoiding the middle path, the straight and easy options… taking side roads, left of centre. Askew.

Skew-whiff (AKA drummer Michael Daly) is a regular DJ at Smash Palace on High Street. He plays an assortment of 7” 45s and 12” singles and LP album tracks with an emphasis on infectious beats and rhythms, always striving to create an atmosphere, good vibes and a sense of FLOW.

Jolt Dance

4 performers who respond by dancing when a member of the public steps on to their circle.

Jolt is based on the belief that everyone has the right to dance and find their own creative voice. We believe our communities are strengthened by the beauty of diversity. Jolt performances celebrate disability.

www.joltdance.co.nz

The Magic of Watercolour by Neela Curran

An inspiring demonstration of key watercolour techniques with easy to understand explanations of the processes being shown. You will see how paper, pigments and water can create exciting effects and then can have a go yourself, as paints, brushes and paper are all supplied for you. This demo is for all levels of skill with a highly experienced and passionate tutor who has taught watercolour for several years. Feel free to ask questions during the demonstration if you wish.

Neela Curran is an international award winning artist, who has featured on Australian television and in newspapers and magazines for several years, and originally launched her concept of “Lazy Sundays Watercolour Workshops” to encourage and support people to take their first steps towards their own respective artistic journeys. Whilst working in the human services sector, she introduced art into various programs, for people dealing with mental and physical disabilities, as well as in drug and alcohol rehabs and clients of the Department of Corrections. Her easy-going, relaxed but informative style of teaching has already made her a popular tutor, since moving to settle in the Canterbury region four years ago from Australia. Neela has won numerous awards for both watercolour and sugar art and has collectors of her paintings in six countries.

Duration: 3.5 hours (1.5hr demonstration and 2hr painting)
Location: inside Oxford Gallery
Admittance: Maximum 10. Age 18+
$5 per person
Bookings highly recommended

Strut Your Stuff: A Catwalk Modelling 101 for beginners

Welcome to the world of fashion catwalking and modelling. You will be shown steps, turns, strut, passing, standing and how to showcase the elements of an article of clothing, such as removing the jacket and putting up collars. Hair and makeup preparation will be done onsite (free choice). Take home photos and a Catwalk Certificate.

Nicola Nolet is trained in Vanity Walk by Margaret Farry-Williams 1979 Dunedin. She has run her family business at Jolene’s school Confidence, Grooming and Modelling since 1980.

Duration: 2 hr workshop. The walk is 90 seconds per participant.
Location: workshop preparation inside the Jaycee Hall; clothing choice at Thea’s; the walk is outside, accompanied by music.
Admittance: 8 spaces. Age 18+
$5 per person
Bookings highly recommended

DIY Blockprinted Festival Merch

Print F L O W on a tote or bring a plain cotton tee you already own, using printing blocks and fabric paint. Using blocks inspired by the FLOW festival graphics, you make up your own design to take away. All materials are provided unless you want to bring a clean, plain cotton t-shirt, hoody, or bag (light colours will work best).

Katie Hallam is a fan of good merch and quiet disruption. This workshop is a nod to the DIY-punk culture that featured heavily in her formative years.

She works in an experimental and playful way with printmaking, drawing, painting and installation. Katie’s work is dark, light, philosophical and connected to place. She feels strongly about connecting communities through the arts and creativity and works part-time with Oxford Gallery as the Communications and Community Engagement Coordinator.

Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: up to 15 spaces for visitors of all ages
$5 per person
Bookings highly recommended

Art Workshop: Zentangle – One Stroke at a Time

Draw patterns using the Zentangle Method. With its roots in calligraphy meditation and repetition, using simple tools and structure, it encourages you to bring deliberate focus and attention to the line you are drawing. With basic strokes, it is easy to reach a calm rhythm. The technique is suitable for children, novices and seasoned artists alike, a method of building complex images from the repetition of simple patterns. Applied carefully, Zentangle yields an impressively elaborate finished product composed of a few pen strokes.

Ildica Boyd has a passion for patterns – whether in fabric, on paper or with other mediums. “I’ve always loved the look of wandering lines or patterns, colours and shapes. I have taught weaving and zentangle for many years and love to watch others grow; and Zentangle is such a lovely medium to creatively blossom with a pen and a positive outlook.”

Duration: 4 hours
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: 10 spaces at a time for visitors of all ages.
$5 per person

Wildflower Botanicals – Welcome to the Tea Garden

Create your own tea blend to take home and enjoy. A relaxed workshop introducing the principles of blending teas for the senses, including information on the benefits of botanicals. Learn the Art and ritual of making your own personalised tea blends with the guidance of herbalist Megan Sheppard.

Megan is a Herbalist and Natural Health author with over 30 years of experience in the health industry. Having grown up foraging and creating ‘concoctions’ from her mother’s garden, it is no surprise that she fell in love with plant medicine. Megan founded Wildflower Botanicals in 2006 making natural and organic products by hand – including a huge range of teas and herbal infusions.

Duration: 3 hours
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: 10 spaces at a time. For visitors of all ages.
$5 per person

Creative textiles with Julie Hassall

Get creative with fabric, watercolor and machine stitching with textile artist, Julie.
Materials will be provided, but you’re welcome to bring items from your own stash if you wish.

Julie Hassall is a Rangiora-based Textile Artist intertwining textile art, watercolor, collage and stitching to create intricate, nature inspired works.
A lifelong passion for creativity has led me to share my skills through teaching, empowering others to discover their own artistic voice.

This workshop is linked to the Take Part in the Arts programme.

Duration: Rotating on hourly basis
Location: Inside Oxford Gallery
Admittance: up to 6 spaces at a time for visitors of all ages
$5 per person

Pounamu carving with Tūhono Taonga, Tūhono Tangata

Have a go at finishing of pounamu shapes by hand, with Jon Jeet.

We will be utilising the medium of Pounamu as a tool of engagement and wellbeing. Empowering a community to rise above some of the intergenerational trauma by therein reactivating our knowledge-based systems of our tupuna within education. There is a hononga with Pounamu which enables us to authentically connect, to each other, to ourselves and our personal narratives. Tūhono Taonga talks of the connections pounamu creates, Tūhono Tāngata speaks of the agency we develop to establish meaningful connections.

Duration: 4 sessions, 1 hr each. Rotating on hourly basis.
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: up to 10 spaces at a time for visitors of all ages.
$5 per person

Take part in the Arts Mural

Get ‘hands-on’ and paint a mural on the gallery’s kiln shed with the guidance of artist Kate McIntyre. All ages and experience levels are welcomed. The painting will be fun and abstract in nature, using hands, brushes, sticks and sponges to create textures, and once completed it will reflect an element of our local environment!

Please note that this workshop will be a bit messy, however we will provide some painting clothes for participants to wear.

Kate’s practice leads her to pursue stories, beauties, truths, and distress calls in her surroundings. She nurtures this connection with her environment through tedious processes and laborious tasks; growing, foraging, processing and repurposing materials for use in her work. Ecological respect and resourcefulness echo throughout her life, and she is often fascinated in the zone where nature and human intervention meet and how they intertwine.

This project is linked to the Take Part in the Arts programme

Duration: 1 hour
Location: outside, uncovered
Admittance: up to 12 spaces available for visitors of all ages. No charge.

TREASURE HUNT

Play a treasure hunt game in different locations around Oxford. You will be given a treasure hunt map with instructions. Complete the search and get a prize!

Duration: 11:30 am – 3:00 pm.
Prize giving: Round #1 at 1:30 pm, round #2 at 3:45 pm
Location: festival grounds and additional locations around Oxford specified on the Treasure Hunt map (10 stops – 3 at the festival, 7 in Oxford)
Admittance: Up to 200 spaces available for visitors of all ages. Children MUST be supervised by adults.
No charge.

Origami Station

Construct simple origami art works to take home or gift to friends. All materials provided.

Duration: all day
Location: Outside, covered
Admittance: Unlimited and for all ages. No charge

Demonstration of paint-making from natural sources

Watch artist Celia Wilson making and using paints from local rocks and plants. Celia will demonstrate how to grind rock into pigment powder and then show how paint is made, with emphasis on watercolour and oil paint. She will test the paints made on paper and may allow you to have a go yourself!

Celia Wilson is a local mixed media artist who is using local rock pigments and colours from plants.

“This interest in pigments started when researching my subject – an eroding hillside, and I realised the colours revealed could be used to make paint. Having worked at setting up and running a certified organic orchard in Paparimu near Hunua, south of Auckland, sustainability and environmental concern played a big part in my choice to use local rock and plant pigments. While I find rock beside road cuttings and on rivers and beaches, I feel quite aware that this is not a never-ending resource. You only need a small pebble, size of a walnut shell, and a tablespoon of ground pigment to give a few years supply of watercolour paint. Even the binder ingredients can be sourced in New Zealand”.

Duration: 3 hours
Location: inside Oxford Gallery
Admittance: Up to 10 spaces available at once for visitors of all ages.
No charge.

BOUNCY CASTLE

Slip off your shoes and bounce yourself happy!

Duration: All day
Location: outside
Children only
No charge

RARANGA

With students from Darfield High School and Oxford Area School, you are invited to experience raranga – weaving – by learning to create a simple putiputi – flower. Learn the correct tikanga when working with the harakeke including karakia and how to gift your first piece of weaving.

Duration: 12.00-3:30 pm
Location: outside, covered
Unlimited and for all ages
No charge

FOUND POETRY STATION

You’re invited to use the available texts to create Found Poetry. This involves rearranging words, phrases, or passages from other sources to create a different meanings. It can be created by choosing language that is meaningful or interesting and rearranging and organising that language into a theme or message to create a poem.

Duration: All day
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: Unlimited and for all ages
No charge

watercolour Bookmarks

Create your own bookmarks using paints and guided by artist Russell Perry.

Duration: 2 hours
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: up to 5 people at once, all ages
No charge

collage station

Use the available materials (or found materials around the festival) to create an artistic collage by assembling and gluing various materials onto paper.

Duration: all day
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: Unlimited, all ages
No charge

Shadow Animal Drawing

Use the available toys to recreate the shadow onto paper, then colour-in and add details.

Duration: All day
Location: outside, covered
Admittance: Unlimited, all ages (most suitable for younger children)
No charge