Explore New Zealand Culture on Sept. 25 at the Thorne Gallery

Aroha Dahm (below), New Zealand artist and Fulbright scholar, will discuss New Zealand culture and the art exhibit “Earth and Spirit: Contemporary Indigenous Art from New Zealand and Australia” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 25, at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. New Zealand’s Honorary Consul to New England, Simon C. Leeming, will join the discussion.

After the discussion, the KSC Film Society will screen two New Zealand films at the Putnam Arts Lecture Hall: Alex, which follows a New Zealand swimmer training for the 1960 Rome Olympics, starts at 7 p.m., and Old Scores, about two old men recreating the controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match in New Zealand, shows at 9 p.m. Admission is free to films, the discussion, and the exhibit. For further information, call 8-2720 or visit http://www.keene.edu/tsag/.

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