The Bay community is being urged to support a funding-raising exhibition of underwater photos of Astrolabe Reef as part of a campaign calling for the Rena exclusion zone to stay.
Zeus gallery director Elliot Mason is hosting the Save the Astrolabe Reef exhibition event at the gallery on the corner of Chapel St and Marsh St.
A black tie launch will be held tomorrow night followed by public viewing at the gallery until 4pm on March 14 - the day submissions closed on the call for a two-year rahui.
Passionate local biologist Te Atarangi Sayers said the artworks which would be for sale by tender had been donated by well-known photographer Darryl Torckler and Maketu's freelance photographer Andy Belcher.