The Art of Conversation with Allan Xia

The Art of Conversation is back with a third season of artist talks, creativity, and coffee!

Introducing: Allan Xia

Allan Xia is an 1.5 generation Chinese New Zealand visual storyteller whose work span a broad spectrum of creative mediums and disciplines such as illustration, comics and game development. Outside of his creative practice, Allan is also the founder and director of Chromacon – a biennial Indie Arts Festival based in New Zealand.

Allan will chat about his work in multidisciplinary storytelling - from traditional forms of illustration to the emerging technologies of Virtual (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)!

About The Art of Conversation

This project aims to highlight artists that already have a connection with East Auckland or to bring artists in to build new connections within the East Auckland arts community. Each artist will talk about their arts practice and work in their favourite local cafe. This is a free series for audiences to attend, with the hope that we can break the formal nature of artist talks and support local businesses.

All we ask is that when you attend, you purchase a hot or cold drink to support our local and independent cafes!

This season of The Art of Conversation will focus on underrepresented forms of artmaking, such as comics, animation and zinemaking with an aim to uplift diverse communities. We hope these conversations will platform alternative ways of storytelling and thinking about arts beyond traditionally Western perspectives.

While this is a free event series, there are only limited spaces available - Make sure to reserve your spot now!

This is a project funded by Arts Out East, supported by Te Tuhi and the Howick Local Board.

Host or Publisher Jennifer Cheuk