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Today's Exhibitions and Events - 5 July 2009

EVENTS

11am to 3pm (closed on Sunday and Monday)
Friends of the Gallery 2009 Student Art Exhibition
''Sustainability'', the Friends of the Gallery annual Student Art Exhibition, is on from Friday 3 July to Friday 10 July 2009, 11.00am to 3.00pm (closed Sunday and Monday) at AUT St Paul St, Gallery Three, 39 Symonds St, Auckland City. The exhibited artworks are for sale so don't miss this wonderful opportunity to support emerging young artists.
Friends of the Gallery

2pm
Heart Songs - Choir
The all female choir, Heart Songs, perform live in the Gallery as part of their celebration of the group's founder - the poet, musician and artist Sri Chimnoy.
New Gallery - free

1pm
Lynda Hallinan - growing your own veggies
Join self-confessed plantaholic, self sufficient inner city gardener and magazine editor of New Zealand Gardener Lynda Hallinan as she discussed how best to prepare and plan for a a vegetable garden.

As well as writing about New Zealand gardens, Lynda travels to all the leading international shows each year - from Chelsea in London to Chaumont in France - to report back on the latest design trends. In 2003 she also managed the publicity for the 10th Anniversary Ellerslie Flower Show at the Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens. Lynda also appeared in the first series of Ground Rules in 2004. Lynda lives in Auckland where she shares her subtropical courtyard garden with four hyperactive cats.

Never gardened at all before she got the job as editor. She was drunk when she declared on New Years Eve that she would sustain herself entirely from her garden for a year, and waking up sober she stuck with the goal.
Art Lounge - Free

3pm
Lynda Hallinan - Planting your fruit trees
Matariki is also a time for planting new trees and bushes. Join Lynda as she advises on what type of fruit trees to plant plus she will have her new book on fruit trees for sale and will be available for signings.
Art Lounge - free

EXHIBITIONS

For Keeps: Sampling Recent Aquisitions 2006 to 2009
Until 12 July 2009
For Keeps is a unique opportunity to see Auckland Art Gallery's collecting activity with a sample of works acquired in the past three years.
Cost: FREE
Cnr Wellesley and Lorne Streets, cbd

Picturing History: Goldie to Cotton
Until 21 February 2010
Looking at key moments from New Zealand's past, this exhibition explores artists responses to and interpretations of our history. Featuring Colin McCahon, Charles Goldie and Shane Cotton amongst others.
Cost: FREE
Cnr Wellesley and Lorne streets, cbd