MTG Century Theatre, 9 Herschell Street, Napier Thursday 22 May 2014 at 6pm.
Suggested donation: MTG Friends and Historic Places Hawke’s Bay Members $5, General Public $10.

Historic Places Hawke’s Bay and MTG Hawke’s Bay present this special one-off screening in conjunction with the New Zealand Film Archive. The films showcase the construction of civic buildings and monuments, domestic architecture and the architecture of industry, taking the viewer on a lively journey through 1920s New Zealand, from footage of the temple at Rātana, to evidence of the devastation of the Murchison earthquake, to street-scenes from Lambton Quay to Napier’s lively waterfront.
The 1920s was a period conventionally typecast as conservative during which architects were frustrated with the public's seeming lack of appreciation of the importance of architecture. Timber shortages, the rise of town-planning and the pervasiveness of the automobile all impacted on the new shape of the built environment.
Curated by Christine McCarthy, VUW Architecture School, from the collection of The New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua.

MTG Century Theatre, 9 Herschell Street, Napier Thursday 22 May 2014 at 6pm.

Suggested donation: MTG Friends and Historic Places Hawke’s Bay Members $5, General Public $10.

No pre-booking, pay on the night.

Join us for a drink and nibbles from 5.30pm.

Sourced from: HPHB NEWSLETTER 1 (May 2014)