Kia Ora and hello 🙂 I totally mistook this post as the gallery section… so here we are with photos… enjoy(!) and I hope this doesn’t suddenly dominate your screen.. XCHC is an artist-run initiative started in 2014 to help revive the creative energy after a devastating earthquake in our city, Christchurch NZ. We’ve been considered an incubator, school of life, social/cultural experiment, and social enterprise amongst other things.. all have elements of truth and most still don’t understand wtf we are. Which is how we like it. This space has brought together thousands of people for connection and appreciation through showcase events, working in the makerspace/shared studios, staying/living here, and simply great coffee & beer. Our purpose is to Cultivate a Creative Ecology; a result that stems from mixing various levels of experience, creative practices and cultures to achieve 1 common interest; to grow. It was about 6 years in that we realized 1 space wasnt enough, and a collective formed to start taking over abandoned spaces around our city and creating private, immersive, and intentional nightlife events with other artists.. many who feel they don’t fit into the traditional art world.. probably for the best. Our work extends […]
376 Wilsons Rd N, Waltham, Christchurch 8011
Established in June 2000, Enjoy Public Art Gallery is a non-commercial artist-run initiative based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Mission Enjoy generates and facilitates contemporary art projects to promote the discourse of contemporary art practice in all its forms. Vision Enjoy is liberated from commercial constraints in order to provide both emerging and established practitioners with opportunities to develop innovative work. Enjoy works to provide the necessary critical support, resources, and audience development to realise quality projects in dialogue with contemporary practice both nationally and internationally.
Level 1/147 Cuba St. Wellington 6011 Aotearoa New Zealand
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16 Dowling ST. Dunedin New Zealand
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66 Crummer Road, Grey Lynn Auckland, New Zealand 1021
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3 Samona House Lane Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand
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3C/23 Dondonald St. Eden Terrace Auckland 1021 New Zealand