Magic Playgrounds at the Film Archive
Tina Makereti has curated a series of moving image exhibitions about New Zealand childhoods.
Exhibition one in the Magic Playgrounds: Historical Images of New Zealand Childhoods series, The Natural Environment – Ko te Taiao opens at the Film Archive on 6 June.
PhD in Creative Writing graduate Tina Makereti has curated a series of three moving image exhibitions on the social history of childhood in Aotearoa / New Zealand. The first in the series, The Natural Environment – Ko te Taiao, explores the relationship between children and the natural environment. It features documentaries, television footage, home movies, feature films and rarely seen films from the early 1900s.
The exhibition will run from 7 June through 20 July 2013.
The second and third exhibitions in the Magic Playgrounds: Historical Images of New Zealand Childhoods series will open on 25 July and 12 September.
Tina Makereti is The Film Archive’s 2013 Curator-At-Large. She is a writer with a background in Social Anthropology and Māori Studies. Makereti has won several awards for her writing, including the Nga Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards Fiction Prize in 2011 for her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (Huia Publishers, 2010) and the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing (Non-Fiction) in 2009.