Final year Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Design students studying Visual Communication have been set a task to develop designs for a series of bilingual (English and Te Reo Māori) outdoor signs which present site-specific narratives to the local community, mana whenua, and visitors to the coastal town of Port Waikato.
The Theatre stream of Wintec | Te Pūkenga Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts is getting ready for its end-of-year musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. Billed as a “musical within a comedy”, this year’s offering promises to be a hilarious night out at the theatre. At its heart, The Drowsy Chaperone is an affectionate send-up of all the tropes and conventions of classic Broadway musicals.
Wintec | Te Pūkenga Media Arts ākonga are extremely excited to share their creative work this year. Graduating Art and Design, Communication, and Music and Performing Arts students will display their work at multiple events during 15-25 November. The showcase is a window into the creativity of Media Arts ākonga (students) from across the disciplines and these events celebrate this fresh talent and hard work in front of an audience of peers, whānau and the wider community.
Rebekah Harman, Wintec | Te Pūkenga tutor and researcher has been researching ways to reduce the environmental footprint of fast fashion for over six years. She has launched “Worn well: sustainable clothing survey”, to better understand what clothing people love and hold onto for an extended period in the hope of reducing the environmental footprint of fashion and supporting designers to design for longevity.
This year, the Diwali celebrations at Wintec | Te Pukenga City and Rotokauri campuses were completely ākonga (student)-led, making them even more special than usual. Although facilitated by the International Student Support team, the events were entirely hosted by ākonga, from the MCs to all of the entertainment.
After a three year break due to Covid, Wintec | Te Pūkenga is again home to a vibrant group of scholars from the Pacific Islands, thirsty for knowledge and skills that they can take back with them to improve their communities. The group of eleven scholars are here in New Zealand thanks to Short Term Training Scholarships (STTS) from the New Zealand Government. Supporting and nurturing them in this journey is key to their success.
Performance Art Week Aotearoa (PAWA) kicks off at 5pm, 27th October at Ramp Gallery, Wintec | Te Pūkenga. With their first stop in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, PAWA are bringing two international artists and one local artist to present performances; enormousface aka Kalan Shh! (Cascadia/NYC), Tomasz Szrama (Poland/Finland) and Leafa Wilson/Olga Krause (New Zealand/Samoa).
Third year Wintec | Te Pūkenga Visual Communication student Carmin Erasmus has created the brand identity for a new Dress for Success clothing retail shop called Rosy in central Hamilton.
Sarah Munro’s solo exhibition Partners in Painting at Ramp Gallery (21 September - 18 October 2023) examines the painting process together with highlighting some ‘unseen and unheard’ characters in the New Zealand painting scene, through a selection of figurative watercolour works.
Wintec | Te Pūkenga celebrated the success of its top adult learners through the annual Adult Learners Awards. The celebration is a part of Adult Learners’ Week, He Tangata Matauranga, an initiative Wintec has been supporting since 2004.
Mechanical engineering tutors at Wintec |Te Pūkenga, Matt Foulkes and Joseph Gentilcore, have recently embarked on a multipronged mission to improve sustainability across the Wintec | Te Pūkenga campuses.
Wintec | Te Pūkenga educator and researcher Kent Machpherson is continuing his sound data research, this time examining specific Waikato sites impacted by human inhabitation. Macpherson has been researching in this area for thirteen years, but this project is the first time he has invited young school-aged ecologists, to help him gather the data.
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