🚵 Screening TOMORROW night (Saturday, 11 June)......Have you got your tickets yet? 🚵 ⁠ ⁠ Tickets available online ➡️ trybooking.co.nz/EHE and from the front desk at MTG. Door sales will also be available on the night.⁠

🎤 TUNE IN to RNZ at 2pm this Sunday to hear #Rūrangi's Arlo Green on the 'Laugh Track'! 🎤rurangiofficial screens at #NZIFFAthomeonline from Sun 26 Jul and at ASB Waterfront Theatre, Monterey Howick & Takapuna, Lumière Cinemas, MTG Hawke's Bay, Rialto Tauranga and CityGalleryWellington.

NZIFF schedules and tickets are now available from the front counter at MTG! Tickets can also be purchased online through Eventfinda, head to our website for details of each screening mtghawkesbay.com/whats-on #nziff2020

Only 3 days to go - thank you to everyone that has donated so far! If you would like to help make Arotahi happen, please click on the link below. boosted.org.nz/projects/make-…

The NZIFF kicks off tomorrow.......join us for opening night and watch the premier of TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG. Tickets are $20. Door sales will be available, screening begins at 6pm, join us from 5.30pm for refreshments. bit.ly/2OQBNvQ

From the archive This 1920s portrait features Miss Muriel Alice Finnis with an AJS motorcycle in Herschell Street, Napier. Muriel was the daughter of Mrs Alice Finnis and Mr Albert Hardy Finnis, described in his obituary as ‘a well-known and highly esteemed resident of Napier’.

The NZIFF is well underway at MTG! We are the only cinema in Hawke's Bay to hold in-house screenings, check out this week's films on our website and grab your tickets. #nziff mtghawkesbay.com/whats-on/

Click below & take part in Stuff Travel's Back your Backyard survey to go in the draw to win a Hawke's Bay getaway! The prize pack includes accommodation, winery experiences, travel costs and meals as well as an exclusive art tour with our Art Curator. bit.ly/3hGbK6X

The end of the #NZIFF is fast approaching....our in-house screenings finish this Sunday, 2 August. There are some amazing films left. Head to our website to check them out - mtghawkesbay.com/whats-on/

Exploring the links between art and activism The fascinating links between art and activism, in many forms, is explored in a new exhibition opening here at MTG Hawke’s Bay this Saturday (1 August). Read more - bit.ly/2BKaLn6

Amalia Hall with Stephen De Pledge. Performing tomorrow night (Tuesday 4 Aug) at 7.30pm here in the MTG Century Theatre. Tickets available through Ticketek - premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.asp…

🥁 From the archive - This week is Cook Islands language week! Known as a pate (slit drum) or tokere in Aitutaki, this beautifully carved musical instrument comes from the Cook Islands. Wooden drum purchase Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 37/17

From our collection- this ceremonial adze (ruatangaeo) originated from the island of Mangaia in the Southern Cook Islands. The decoration, polished head & triple triangle lashings of a ruatangaeo are unique to Mangaian adzes. Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 40/58

From our collection- John Moore was an Artist and printmaker of natural history subjects, he spent much of his professional career in Havelock North. Fantail, John L. Moore (b.1896, d.1965), 20th Century, collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 2009/153/3

Kia ora whanau. With COVID-19 Level 2 restrictions being in place from midday today (Wed, 12 August) we would like to reassure you that we’re open and will be following Ministry of Health guidelines. For more info - mtghawkesbay.com/visit/news/art…

Click here -bit.ly/3g02KZo to read more about our new display, "Lewis Evans: of time and place" which is open now. 📸 Image: Lewis Evans: of time and place display

From our collection- The Royal Navy submarine HMS Thorough visited several New Zealand ports in 1950 to carry out defence exercises with the Royal New Zealand Navy. The vessel is shown here at Breakwater Wharf, Napier, in August of that year.

Sneak peek......... Our team are hard at work installing our next exhibition - Billy Apple: A Brand Looking for a Product 1962-2020. Exhibition opens Saturday, 26 September 2020. Watch this space!

Woohoo! Three of our Māori themed exhibitions are finalists in this year's Best Design Awards. Read more here - mtghawkesbay.com/visit/news/art…

Floor talk this Saturday | All welcome! Billy Apple and Christina Barton, author of the forthcoming monograph on the artist, will be in conversation in the Arnott Gallery at 11am, Saturday 26 September. Free public programme. No booking required.