Collage

This collaged panel once hung in Wellington’s Evergreen Coffee Lounge in Vivian Street. 

It is part of a collection of panels and other items that relate to the life of Chrissy Witoko, the  Evergreen Coffee Lounge, and the communities of people who congregated in the cafés and night clubs around Cuba and Vivian streets between about 1970 – 2002.

Each panel includes a combination of photographs featuring people that Chrissy associated with, news or magazine clippings, business cards and other ephemera.

This collage features images of family and friends (1990s and early 2000s). It includes Chrissy on a Devotion parade float wearing a wide-brimmed rainbow hat, ticket stubs for "Ms Evergreen, 144 Vivian Street" attending the 2001 season of "Chicago: the Musical" in Auckland, and a wedding invitation to Chrissy, Anaru and Nikora to attend the marriage of Karen and Peri Te Wao.

Some other people featured in this panel are:
Chrissy Witoko, Tania, Millie Witoko (Chrissy's mother), Larry and Janiel Phillips, Rikki Love, Dana de Milo, Jacqui Grant, Graham (owned Barnie's Bar, next to Bojangles gay bar), Frank Lund, Andrew Manuel, Koni Kon (KK), Chris Lawrence, Phil Smees, Hori Ahipene, Alexis Kennedy, Stella (Neil Graham), Karen and Peri Te Wao, Symon Witoko, Miria Te Hau, Margo Fargo (Graham Henan), Phillip Healy, Mike, Geoff Fortune, Anthony Butler, Glenda Hughes, Trevor Lawlor, Todd and Brian (performer pictured in the "Chicago" promotional material.

Te Papa is working in collaboration with LGBTI communities and individuals to discover the histories represented in the panels. If you have any information you would like to share in relation to this panel please contact a history curator at Te Papa on +64 (0)4 381 7000 or email Evergreen@tepapa.govt.nz