Collage

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

It is part of a collection of collages 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 particular panel includes photographs taken at Johnny Croskery's 60th birthday celebrations, a selection from Chrissy's own 50th birthday party, Sonja Davies and Georgina Beyer in Parliament and  snapshots taken at the Evergreen and in Chrissy's apartment upstairs above the Evergreen.

Some of the people featured in this panel are:
Andrew Manuel, Symon Witoko, Frank Lund, Dana de Milo, Carmen Rupe, Jacqui Grant, Chrissy Witoko, Sonja Davies, Georgina Beyer, and Johnny Croskery.

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