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November 20 - 2012
KAIPARA LIFESTYLER
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Celebrating four decades
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by Rose Rees-Owen
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The Dargaville Art Group annual exhibition marks a milestone this year as they commemorate their 40th birthday. The group began in 1972 and was founded by Catherine Brough, an artist, whose husband was the Minister of the Methodist Church. “We used to meet once a week at an old derelict house which stood where the church car park now is,” says artist, Marama Ingle who has been a member since the early 70s. She has enjoyed the companionship of like minded artists and says it has been a supportive environment to create art. “We take our lunch and sit, create art and chat, we help each other with any challenges we may be facing with our work.”
She says the group holds fond memories of taking bus trips to art galleries and often they have tutorials with well known artists who help broaden their scope and incorporate new ideas into their work. Her spare room is now ‘a mess’ of water colour paintings and craft work in the lead up to the exhibition starting on November 29, at 104 Victoria Street, Dargaville. It begins at 5pm with light refreshments supplied and continues on Friday, from 10am until 4pm, then on Saturday 10am to 1pm and again on December 8, at 10am to 1pm.
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Members of the Dargaville Art Group, Catherine Silson (left) and Marama Ingle hold their paintings that will be among the art displayed at the exhibition
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Dargaville Kea Scouts proudly display their trophy and certificate won at the National Kea Day held in Whangarei recently for a ‘build a playground for bugs’ challenge. Their winning bug playground took the eleven Keas three weeks to construct and consisted of a ferris wheel, seesaw, bug-size swings, soccer pitch, merry go round, a lake with a boat — and they even grew grass for the bugs. The Keas also had live insects but they were too shy to play during judging, so they had plastic models as backup to show how the equipment worked.