ANZAC AT KĀHUI ST DAVID'S - save the date(s)
Please save the date for ANZAC Eve (the night before Anzac Day), to Remember Them. An evening of inspiring music, moving image and warm hospitality in the company of very special guests - an historic event.... details to be revealed in your invitation (to follow, soon).
ANZAC Eve 2024 - WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
Wednesday 24 April @6pm
Kāhui St David's
70 Khyber Pass Road
Grafton, Auckland
ANZAC DAY 2024 - OPEN DAY
Can't come for ANZAC Eve? Join us on ANZAC Day to see through the building, and view the Sara Hughes artworks in the North Chapel.
Thursday 25 April 11am - 3.00pm
Kāhui St David's
If you would like to be involved hands-on to prepare the place to honour our soldiers, aviators and sailors for ANZAC Eve (tidying, cleaning, setting up, trimming hedges, installing the flagpole, polishing brass plaques!), or on the night, we would love to hear from you via our volunteer registration form below.
Or, come along to a short gardening bee - Sunday 14 April at 2:30pm. As you can see from the image above - the gardens are getting wild!
RE-OPENING FROM ANZAC DAY - taking bookings now!
On ANZAC Eve, Wednesday 24th April, we will re-open the doors of Kāhui St David's to the New Zealand public, after an intense period of restoration. We thank all who have made this possible.
The work has included a complete electrical rewire, the illumination of the Great Hall with house lights and stage lights, heating, restoration of more Oamaru stone and leadlight windows, new water lines, plumbing repairs, ceilings restored, emergency door openers, security cameras, and an accessible ramp for the stage so that everyone can participate. There is now an in-house sound system and projector for all your AV needs!
The Great Hall, with capacity for 400, and the North Chapel with seating for 70 are available for musical and performing arts events, funerals, weddings, conferences and meetings.
We are now developing the programme for 2024 and 2025.
If you're interested in booking Kāhui St David's - please fill in our KĀHUI ST DAVID'S | BOOKING & ENQUIRY FORM
A DECADE OF MIRACLES. Thanks to you.
A message of thanks, for YOU.
And now from the archives, made 9 October 2014. A couple of weeks prior, a young Luke Lockwood had walked into St David's for the first time, and asked, "how can I help?"
With an early drone, Luke captured the interior and exterior of St David's in a video that brought St David's to all New Zealand. It played a critical role in the building becoming a Category 'A' Historic Heritage Place.
LOOKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Please consider us.
While the Great Hall and North Chapel are re-opening from ANZAC Day, a huge amount of work remains to be done in the not-too-distant future to open the entirebuilding. We are a small trust, so your donation, bequest or pledge can make a big difference!
Kāhui St David's will soon be like a village on the hill - humming with life - and serve as a bridge to the city for those living out south, north, east and west. A series of music rooms, a recording studio, a third hall (currently called "The South Room") and the "village square" (carpark) will complete this centre for music and community. It will be a place for connection, opportunity and inspiration across the region and beyond.
To express your interest in becoming a Kāhui St Davdi's volunteer please complete our short - VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION FORM
ARTWORK PURCHASERS - update
Image by Jessica Chloe Photography
Thank you for your support. If you purchased an artwork early, you will receive yours shortly! The artist Sara Hughes, and the team at Artrite, have been working very hard. The final colours go on the artworks on Tuesday... then it's to the framers for presentation back-frames and boxing.
Colour Quartet artworks are available for special order. Visit www.KahuiStDavids.nz The artworks are available to buy individually, in pairs, as a triptych (3), quartet (4) or a larger installation. To pay for art over time (eg: over a year) email contact@kahuistdavids.nz and we will send you an invoice.
Due to very high production costs, we are taking orders, so that you can help fund the production of your artwork. You will bring it into existence! Artworks ordered now will be delivered in June or July.
Many thanks to Sara and Gow Langsford Gallery for their generous support.
LOOKING BACK, LOOK FORWARD
Thank you for being part of this exciting journey with the Trust.
With gratitude to our partners
Many thanks to our founding partners for your ongoing support of Kāhui St David’s. Without these generous benefactors, this project would not be possible.
Thanks to the trusts and businesses who are giving fully pro bono support and the many generous volunteers who we cannot name here individually.
Kāhui St David’s exists because of you.
