Seaweek 2024 runs from Saturday 2 March to Sunday 10 March 2024. The theme for Seaweek highlights the holistic element of our relationship with the natural world: healthy seas – healthy people.
We need healthy and sustainable seas to sustain the people forever. To that end it also calls to all of us to take some responsibility for the health and well-being of our coastal and marine environments; we all need to be kaitiaki or guardians of Tangaroa’s realm.
Art Competition
For students from ECE to Y13 ~ Entries close at the end of Seaweek, Monday March 11th
Using your artistic skills, celebrate your connection to the sea by looking at the ocean or beach through the eyes of a creature of the marine environment… maybe through the eyes of a toroa/albatross, a k?unga/hermit crab, or perhaps as onep?/sand onto which the waves break!
Once you have created your artwork make sure it is posted to, or dropped along with an entry form into our Tuam St office, by Monday 11 March, to be in to win a prize.
Winners will be contacted later in March when the judging has taken place. Entries that place will have them displayed at The Kiosk, Botanic Gardens. Great prizes to be won with 1st, 2nd & HC in each age category
Criteria for artwork:
• Media: wet or dry media such as paint, charcoal, ink, graphite, pen, pastels, or print making may be used. Texts and symbols may be used. Mixed media and collage are acceptable.
• Support: paper or card, not canvas. Must be ready to hang.
• Scale: as large as A3 (297 x 420 mm) and not smaller than A5 (148.5 x 210 mm). NOTE: ECE – for group art creations, please no bigger than A0 i.e. 841 x 1198mm.
• Note: Glitter, fluorescent pens and all other art supplies that are disproportionately harmful to the environment are actively and strongly discouraged.
• Please do not sign or place your name on the front of the artwork. Creators of the artwork retain ownership of their work and will be acknowledged if shown publicly.
For further information and to access the entry form click here.