LOCKDOWN YOUTH WATERCOLOUR COMPETITION EXTENDED TO END OF LEVEL 3
ARTSPACE GALLERY YOUTH WATERCOLOUR COMPETITION
I hope this cherry little elephant makes you smile like it did for me on this sunny lock down day - check out the happy dust it puffed up above him. This delightful watercolour is by 10 year old Alma Steinfield, one of three paintings she is in the 10 -13 year age group section. There's still plenty of time to paint and enter, youth can keep painting right through level 3 of the lockdown. Please email more images of entries when completed, we'd love to see them.
Competition Details & Entry Conditions:-
Only paintings done during the lock down period, level 4 and 3, can be entered. Entry is open to any youth, previous attendance of Artspace Gallery art classes are not required.
Four age groups :- 6-9 10-13 14-17 18-21
Prizes donated by Artspace Gallery for each age group :-
1st - art materials to the value of $75
2 runner up prizes of a youth art class voucher each
Free entry
Size - paintings must be A4 size, on thick watercolour paper and unframed.
Delivery of entries - to Artspace Gallery within two weeks after the we come out of lockdown level 3 and the gallery is able to reopen again.
Judge - John Toft, Watercolour artist & past president Watercolour New Zealand
Be sure to write your name, phone number, age and email address on the back of each painting.
Number of entries - up to three paintings may be entered per artist but not all may be exhibited.
An Exhibition of entries is planned to open as soon as possible after the gallery is permitted to reopen after lockdown is over.
Paintings remain the property of the artist and can be collected from the gallery after the exhibition OR posted if a stamped, self addressed envelope is provided.
Please email images of paintings when completed to alfred@memelink.co.nz
Alfred Memelink Artspace Gallery Alfred Memelink
Poll: How should Guy Fawkes be celebrated?
While it is a fun occasion, fireworks on Guy Fawkes Night has caused much conflict over the years, upsetting our pets and disrupting the sleep of neighbours.
How should we celebrate Guy Fawkes Night? Vote in our poll and share your thoughts below.
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27.9% With a city-wide public fireworks display
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20.5% Small fireworks displays in each community
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7.7% Keep it as is
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32.7% We shouldn't celebrate it!
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10.8% Anything but fireworks
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0.4% Other - I'll share below
Solve This Riddle or Be Left Scratching Your Head!
With pointed fangs, I sit and wait;
with piercing force, I crunch out fate.
I grab victims, proclaiming might,
and physically join with a single bite.
What am I?
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Suspicious fire, Stokes Valley
Hutt Valley Police are investigating a fire at a previously targeted Stokes Valley residential address which left one person fighting for his life.
Around 3:10am this morning emergency services responded to a block of flats in Hanson Grove, an 81 year old man was located in a critical condition and was transported to Wellington Hospital.
The area was cordoned and a forensic scene examination is currently being conducted with the assistance of Fire and Emergency New Zealand and ESR.
The fire is being treated as suspicious and is suspected to be linked to two other fires at the same block of flats on Thursday 10 and Monday 14 October 2024, both of which were also lit during the early hours of the morning.
Police are appealing for information from people who have CCTV footage, witnessed the incident, or were in the area at the time of the fire to please get in contact.
Even the smallest piece of information could prove vital in our investigation.
If you have any CCTV footage from dashcam, residential, or commercial premises in any areas of Stokes Valley, witnessed any three of the fires, or were in the area at the time of the fires, even if you didn’t witness the incidents please contact us.
To report information please update us online now or call 105.
Please use the reference number 241105/2249 and quote Operation SOVE.
Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.
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