This Month at the Adam Art Gallery

This Month at the Adam Art Gallery

In conjunction with the exhibition Dark Sky 1 May – 8 July 2012

16 May, 12pm, Adam Art Gallery
Heaven is a place on earth
Join Chris Marshall (theologian and Associate Professor, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies) and Michael Hannah (scientist and Associate Professor, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences) who will address why we consider heaven to be above us, a discussion prompted by Colin McCahon’s Venus and Re-entry: The Bleeding Heart of Jesus is Seen above Ahipara.
Free entry.

23 May, 5pm, Carter Observatory
Film Screening: Nostalgia for the Light
Join us at the Carter Observatory (40 Salamanca Road, Kelburn) for this special screening of Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (90mins), a politically charged and cinematic documentary relating astronomy to the consequences of human behaviour in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Adult $18.50 / concessions $13.50 / child (4-16 yrs) $8.00 /Free to star pass members. Cost includes entry to Carter Observatory exhibitions.

Wednesday 30 May, 12pm, Adam Art Gallery
Off the grid
Listen to Terry Galuszka and Jennie McCormick talk about the contribution amateur astronomy has made to scientific advances, in relation to the work of contemporary German artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
Free entry.

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