Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events June-July

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Issue date: 1 June 2007
Dunedin, New Zealand

Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events
June 2007 to July 2007

Following is a schedule of confirmed events in the City of Dunedin. The Dunedin City Council (DCC) City Marketing distributes the information on behalf of the attractions that appear below. Please contact event organisers directly for further information and confirmation of dates and times.

JUNE 2007

Globe Theatre
‘Home’ by David Storey
The setting is a sunny day in a lovely park. Two elderly gentlemen chat for a while before being joined by two equally chatty and elderly ladies. All is bright and cheerful, the chat, like that heard in any bar or bowling club, ranging over all manner of different topics. But all is not as it seems.
104 London Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 477 3274
www.globetheatre.org.nz

Salisbury House Gallery
Japanese Calligraphy & Sumi-e Workshop
(Also Known As Ink And Wash Painting) Tutor Miwa Kitaoka has been learning Japanese calligraphy from the age of 5, including 12 years learning at the Japanese calligraphy Association. Now living in New Zealand she has built a reputation for her textile work with kimono fabrics and for teaching calligraphy. Miwa describes the processes and flow of calligraphy and sumi-e painting as creating a spiritual calm and silence that gives you the sense of being in a different world. Come and experience this for yourself while immersed in the appropriate environment - the SA MI DA RE exhibition which celebrates Japanese art and influences @ Salisbury House Gallery.
Costs $85 for the workshop and the workshop kit. When booking your place please indicate your preferred time. Only 5 places available in each workshop, to ensure your place please pay when booking.
3 June 2007, 11am and 1:30pm
The Manse, 5 Smith Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 479 0123 or email: salisburyart@mac.com

Dunedin Midwinter Carnival
Lantern Workshops
Light up the longest night of the year with your very own lantern. The public are invited to attend lantern-making workshops to make a hand-held lantern to carry in the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival procession. Constructed out of toi toi and tissue and powered by a single candle, the lanterns are a beautiful object in their own right. Harvesting the toi toi is an ongoing activity for Carnival organisers and volunteers. Only native toi toi is used and only the dead stalks. Maori have traditionally used these for kite making. Anyone can make a lantern and its heaps of fun. All materials are provided for a koha/donation. An adult must accompany children. It takes approximately one hour to make a lantern. See venue and dates information below:

Workshop # 1
Venue: Otago Settlers Museum
Dates: Saturday 2 June/Sunday 3 June
Times: 10am-4pm
Workshop # 2
Venue: Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Dates: Saturday 9 June/Sunday 10 June
Times: 10am-4pm

Workshop # 3
Venue: Otago Settlers Museum
Dates: Saturday 16 June/Sunday 17 June
Times: 10am-4pm
Contact Paul Smith phone: (03) 477 3350 or 021 150 9207
www.dunedinmidwintercarnival.co.nz

Mayfair Theatre
The Mikado
The Really Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan Performance Trust (RAGSPT) preforms "The Mikado" in true Dunedin style! This promises to be a true night to remember!
9 – 16 June 2007
100 King Edward Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 455 3816

Fortune Theatre
Who Needs Sleep Anyway?
Written by Roger and Pip Hall, directed by Conrad Newport and produced by the Fortune Theatre, 'Who Needs Sleep Anyway?' is going on tour!
Following a sure-to-be-successful world premiere season in Dunedin, the production is set to travel around Central Otago and Southland, bringing the regions the hilarious, heart-warming tale of 100 years of Plunket history in New Zealand.
Runs until 8 June 2007

Edwin Derricutt Symmetry NZ Tour
In association with World Vision & the Rhema Radio Network Edwin Derricutt stoked to announce that along with the full band, he will be performing 14 concerts between the 8th & 24th of June at small theatres and other cosy venues across the country that promises to create a nice intimate kinda vibe. Hopefully you'll all laugh, cry, get all deep and introspective, be thoroughly entertained... and buy a CD or t-shirt at the end!
15 June 2007
231 Stuart St, (cnr Stuart Street & Moray Place), Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 477 8323
http://www.edwinderricutt.com/

Milford Galleries Dunedin
Karl Maughan: New Paintings
Painting on a large scale enables Karl Maughan to capture not only the essence of the ideal impeccably manicured garden but also his superb skill and technique in painting. Maughan grew up in the Manawatu region, living near Cross Hills. His mother, a landscape designer and gardener, often took him on visits to the gardens in the vicinity of Kimbolton. Rhododendron’s play a key role within Maughan’s compositions. Utilizing a rhythmic, gestural brushstroke, he paints the glowing deep purples, celebratory reds pale apricot shades of the flowering rhododendron providing a contrast to the vast sun dappled green foliage. Maughan captures the gardens in the heart of spring, encapsulating the bright Southern hemisphere light and vivid hues of the regions flowers and foliage. Here he intermingles New Zealand natives with traditional English species, kowhai flowers flourishing onto a neighbouring rhododendron (Rangiwahia).
16 June – 4 July 2007
18 Dowling Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 477 7727, email: info@milfordhouse.co.nz

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Dunedin
Subscription Tour 3 - Featuring Cellist Gautier Capuçon
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON These Arms to Hold You Commission for Children’s Voices and Orchestra
WALTON Cello Concerto
DVORAK Symphony No 9 From the New World
ARVO VOLMER Conductor
GAUTIER CAPUÇON Cello
The centenary of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society is marked by a commission for children’s voices and orchestra from Eve de Castro-Robinson. Walton’s bittersweet lyricism, this time also tinged with a brittle quality, surfaces in his mid-1950s Cello Concerto.
20 June 2007, 6.30pm
Dunedin Town Hall
Contact Kate Lovell phone: (03) 477 5623 email: info@southernsinfonia.org

Fortune Theatre
Who Needs Sleep Anyway?
Written by Roger and Pip Hall, directed by Conrad Newport and produced by the Fortune Theatre, 'Who Needs Sleep Anyway?' is going on tour!
Following a sure-to-be-successful world premiere season in Dunedin, the production is set to travel around Central Otago and Southland, bringing the regions the hilarious, heart-warming tale of 100 years of Plunket history in New Zealand.
Runs until 8 June 2007

Edwin Derricutt Symmetry NZ Tour
In association with World Vision & the Rhema Radio Network Edwin Derricutt stoked to announce that along with the full band, he will be performing 14 concerts between the 8th & 24th of June at small theatres and other cosy venues across the country that promises to create a nice intimate kinda vibe.
15 June 2007

Mum’s Choir
Playwright and Shortland Street star Alison Quigan’s acclaimed play Mum’s Choir will hit all the high notes from June 22nd in true church choir fashion when it opens at the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin: once the Trinity Methodist church, converted into a theatre in 1974. A beautiful, heartwarming tale about family, Mum’s Choir is a celebration of life, laughter, love and music. We find ourselves in the O'Reilly family home in the days following the death of Molly, their mother. She had ambitious plans for her children when they were young and she has ambitious plans for them now - she's requested that they sing Faure's famous Requiem at her funeral service. What with sibling rivalry, emptying the liquor cabinet, home baking and organizing the funeral arrangements, Mum's choir have their work cut out to learn their parts in time. But they're determined to give her the send-off she deserves! It is hoped the Fortune’s famous stained glass Rose Window survives the soprano.
22 June 2007

Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky’s 20th Opus is one of the most famous and critically acclaimed ballets of all time. The Royal New Zealand Ballet brings you this beautiful classic, of a young princess cruelly transformed in to a Swan. Will the love of a handsome Prince conquer all?
28 – 30 June 2007
Contact phone: (03) 477 1695 or email marketing@fortunetheatre.co.nz
Dunedin Midwinter Carnival
Start counting down the days until the longest night of the year! This year’s Dunedin Midwinter Carnival will take place on Saturday 23 June with a dazzling procession of hand-held and giant lanterns, music, performance, and fireworks.
The 2006 Midwinter Carnival attracted an audience of 5,000 with hundreds of families involved in making their own lanterns in the weekends prior to the event. This is a unique celebration of winter specifically designed around Dunedin's central Octagon. This visually stunning spectacle transforms the central city into an otherworldly environment. Giant lantern sculptures float above a sea of hand-held lanterns. This year new lantern sculptures will be constructed by local artist Katrina Thomson who inspired audiences at the 2006 Carnival with will her magnificent flying birds, giant wetas and other creatures. Plus there's music, food stalls and an intimate fireworks finale.
23 June 2007, 6pm
The Octagon, Central Dunedin
www.dunedinmidwintercarnival.co.nz

Larnach Castle
Famous Annual Winter Ball
This year is the 24th Annual ball. The ball was originally an idea of the Waitati Militia and the tradition has been continued by the Barker Family. Once a year Larnach Castle comes to life as it was over 100 years ago...a magic evening. For more than two decades guests have been attending the fabulous Winter Ball at Larnach Castle. It is a wonderful event - soak up the unique atmosphere with everyone in Victorian Period evening attire dancing the night away. Guests comment that it is like a night of Victorian fantasy, away from the 21st century modernity to a time when ladies and gentlemen behaved like ladies and gentlemen... The music style is old time country dancing. Don't worry if you don't know the dances - they are walked through first before everyone throws himself or herself energetically into a whorl of activity, with a few waltz's sprinkled through for those more intimate dances. Most of the fun is looking at the beautiful Victorian creations that both women and men are attired gorgeously in. Bows, feathers, satin and silks abound. The evening's entertainment also includes Dunedin's favourite – a traditional Scottish Haggis Ceremony with a chance to taste the Haggis on the supper buffet.
Ticket numbers are limited. Phone 03 4761616 or email larnach@larnachcastle.co.nz to purchase now. $80 per person. The price includes transport to and from Dunedin City, supper, band and entertainment in New Zealand's only Castle.
23 June 2007
Larnach Castle
Pukehiki, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 476 1616 email: larnach@larnachcastle.co.nz

Otago Settlers Museum
Josephine
New Zealand's oldest surviving locomotive. The northern end of the Otago Settlers Museum is home to Otago's most celebrated steam train, Josephine. Josephine was designed in England by Robert Fairlie and built by the Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, arrived by ship in August 1872 and was assembled at Port Chalmers. A load of beer was hauled from Burkes Brewery in September and passengers were carried for the first time in October 1872.

Appliance Emporium: Housekeeping Made Easy
Whenever you start to grumble about doing the chores, spare a thought for how housekeeping was conducted in the old days. There were no washing machines to load, set and forget. Instead it was a hard day of scrubbing and slaving over a boiling copper to get the clothes clean. No one-touch microwave cooking, instead a daily battle with a coal stove.

Whalers, Jailers, Poets & More: Extraordinary People from Dunedin's Past
By visiting various locations throughout the city centre, this tour introduces you to a fascinating range of characters who helped shape Dunedin's history.

Walk the High Street
View some of Dunedin's amazing residential architecture whilst discovering part of our intriguing social history. This walk requires a degree of fitness due to the steep terrain.

Dunedin's Historic Hotels
Dunedin's hotels were much more than just a place to drink. This stroll of discovery includes refreshments at one of our historic establishments.

Women of Dunedin
Enter into the lives of some of the women of Dunedin's past: wealthy and poor, respectable and disreputable.

Theatres of Dunedin: From Dens of Iniquity to Picture Palaces
Join members of the Southern heritage trust on a guided tour of Dunedin's inner city theatres. Experience the stars, stories and scandals from the unruly gold rush to the golden era of cinema.

Victorian Cemeteries
Guides from the Historic cemeteries trust of New Zealand will relate the stories, the tragedy, the heartache and the successes in the lives behind 20 headstones in the Northern and Southern cemeteries. Each tour focuses on one cemetery. Proceeds will be used for cemetery conservation.

Towers and transoms: Signature Themes in the Architecture of R.A. Lawson
Beginning in the museum with a viewing of some of George O'Brien's images of Lawson's work, the tour then visits several central city Lawson buildings.

H.F. Hardy: Dunedin's Homegrown Architect
From woodcutter to gold rush builder to architect! Discuss Hardy's life and view his contributions to Dunedin's early skyline. The Museum welcomes group bookings and are happy to discuss tours and times outside the above scheduled itinerary.

Portrait of a People: The Southernmost Jewish Congregation in the World
In gold rush times the throng of immigrants who flocked to our region included a noticeable Jewish presence. A congregation was formed, a synagogue established and for more than a decade Dunedin’s Jewish congregation was numerically the strongest in the country. The contributions and legacies of Jewish identities such as Hallenstein, Vogel and Theomin are highlighted as we explore the history of the southernmost Jewish congregation in the world and mark the centennial of Olveston, the stately home and present-day tourist attraction built for David Theomin in 1906.
Until 23 June 2007
31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 4775052 email: osmmail@dcc.govt.nz
www.otago.settlers.museum.co.nz

Hocken Collections
Working Drawings: Sarah Munro
Sarah Munro was the 2006 recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago. This exhibition showcases the body of work Munro produced during her tenure. The bright, wall mounted sculptures are based on CAD software’s representation of light falling across a three-dimensional surface. Their seductively glossy surfaces are the result of her painting them with automotive sprays. A digital projection depicting 240 drawings of the studio interior is a fascinating insight into her working methods.
Runs until 28 June 2007
90 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 479 5600 email: Natalie.Poland@otago.ac.nz

Radio One Market Day
Once a month on Thursdays, the university union is beset with bargain-hunting students looking for a good deal on second-hand music, clothing, knick-knacks, trinkets, gee-gaws and original arts and crafts. Students love it, Radio One pipes music down to the adoring masses, and everyone has a pretty good time.
640 Cumberland Street, Dunedin
Contact Jen Stokes, phone: (03) 479 5343 email: sa.assistant@ousa.org.nz

Lunchtime Music
A range of musicians liven up the Atrium with live performances each week. Museum Atrium, Fridays & Saturdays between 12 noon & 1.30pm.
419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact phone Sarah Urbanak (03) 474 7474 email: mail@otagomuseum.co.nz www.otagomuseum.govt.nz

JULY 2007

Hocken Collections
Innocents Abroad: Touring the Pacific
This exhibition showcases an extraordinary selection of 74 images taken by the New Zealand photographer Alfred Burton (of Burton Bros. Dunedin) on a cruise of the Pacific in 1884. The photographs are accompanied by extracts from Burton’s diary of the trip and newspaper comments, which give a view of the times, the ‘colonial lens.’ Innocents Abroad is touring exhibition from Te Papa. Developed as a partnership between Te Papa and the Museum of Wellington City and Sea with the support of Imagelab.
1 July – 25 August 2007
90 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 479 5600 email: Natalie.Poland@otago.ac.nz

Milford Galleries Dunedin
Anita De Soto
Beautiful works from Anita De Soto will be on display.
7 - 25 July 2007

Michael Hight
Beautiful works from Michael Height will be on display.
28 July – 15 August 2007
18 Dowling Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 477 7727, email: info@milfordhouse.co.nz

Fortune Theatre
Murder By Chocolate
Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis the creators of the hit show ‘Biscuit & Coffee’ once more weave together food, death and comedy in their new production ‘Murder by Chocolate’.
In 2005/6 Phil and Alex toured Flaxworks first production, ‘Biscuit & Coffee’ throughout New Zealand. Travelling on a shoestring budget in an ancient van affectionately dubbed the Biscuit Tin, ‘Biscuit & Coffee’ played in over 50 venues nationwide. From the Gaiety Hall in Akaroa to the Meteor Theatre in Hamilton, from the Swamp Palace in Oruru to BATS Theatre in Wellington. In the Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre THE EDGE in Auckland and coming in April 2007 to the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin. Their new work, ‘Murder by Chocolate’, premiered at BATS in January and is a comic tribute to not only the original murder mystery, but to art, the cult of celebrity and of course, chocolate.
10 – 14 July 2007
Contact phone: Alex Ellis 021345784 email: alex@flaxworks.com
www.flaxworks.com

Cargill’s Hotel
Chocolate, Jazz & Shiraz Evening
A decadent chocolate menu, live jazz band and excellent wine - perfection!
Treat yourself to an evening of chocolate indulgence in a relaxed atmosphere and beautiful surroundings. Indulge in a three-course meal, chocolate treat. The Calder Prescott Jazz quartet will whisk you onto the dance floor.
$45 per person.
11 July 2007, 6pm
Atrium on George at Cargills Hotel, 678 George St, North Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 477 7983

Dunedin Town Hall
Cadbury Chocolate Cabaret
Revel in a night of glitz, glamour and chocolate. The finale of the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival will be themed ‘Indulge Your Dark Side’, perfect for wearing that ‘Little Black Dress’, digging out your faded black T-shirt or creating something imaginative? Chocolate fountains, fresh entertainment, music and dancing, a night not to be missed. Proceeds go to Cure Kids.
$80 per person.
13 July 2007, 7pm
Glenroy Auditorium, 1 Harrop Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: 0800 438 633 or (03) 474 3614

Larnach Castle
Teddy Bears Picnic
Teddy Bears Big Day Out! Dress your Teddy Bear in a fantastic outfit you've made from Cadbury Chocolate wrappers for the Teddy Bear Fashion Parade and win chocolate prizes. Enjoy a chocolate filled morning tea and a chocolate egg and spoon race around the Castle carriageway. A magical Castle outing for you and your best Teddy friend. Tickets $10 for gardens and party. Special all access ticket including Castle entrance $15.00.
13 July 2007, 10am
Pukehiki, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 476 1616 email: larnach@larnachcastle.co.nz

Otago Museum
2007 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition
Appreciate the talents of Otago’s amateur photographers while enjoying the stunning results of this year’s competition.

MAINLAND - Landscapes by Andris Apse
Journey through the diverse landscapes of the South Island and discover the richness of this extraordinary place. One of New Zealand's finest landscape photographers, Andris Apse captures the beauty of the Mainland in this first major exhibition showcasing his outstanding work.

Hello Dolly! The Collectables of Dunedin’s Jan McLean
From French Floozies, Flowers of the Heart to Lollipops, dolls are big news - Discover an enticing collection of Jan McLean’s best designs.

Guided Tours
Take a ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tour and learn some inside knowledge about various aspects that the Museum has on offer and/or take a guided tour of ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ and gain a greater understanding, of the Southern region. ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tours are available at 11.30am and ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ guided tours are available at 3.30pm (and other times by prior arrangement). $10 per person and FREE to Otago residents bringing non-Otago visitors.
Everyday

Lunchtime Music
A range of musicians liven up the Atrium with live performances each week.
Museum Atrium, Fridays & Saturdays between 12 noon & 1.30pm

Discovery World – Science with a Difference!
Experience heaps of hands-on science at its best in Otago Museum's interactive science centre, Discovery World. There's so much cool stuff that you won't know where to start! You can engage yourself with the IBM TryScience Kiosk, challenge your friends to a game of air hockey or table soccer, inflate a hot air balloon, warp yourself with the trick mirror, stomp out a tune on the giant foot piano or test your skills with our tricky puzzles. And if you have a fondness for animals you can visit the fishy enclosure of the Discovery World Aquarium on your way to our frogs, geckos and red-eared terrapins. Plus, if you're brave enough you can take a peek at our tarantulas!
Everyday

Discovery World Science Shows
These excellent shows run by our Science Communicators are sure to entertain you!
Discovery World, Saturdays & Sundays at 11.00am, 1.00pm & 3.00pm

Gallery Talks
From Prehistoric Penguins to Pounamu, from Ferns to the Falkland Fox, there is sure to be something to interest everyone. Every day at 2pm there is a free short presentation by our Otago Museum Communicators based on artefacts and displays in the Museum.
Everyday

Search Centre
Otago Museum’s Search Centre research facility provides an inviting opportunity for visitors to engage in further research on objects or themes in the galleries of interest to them. It will also be the first stop for the identification of items members of the public bring into the Museum, a service that annually attracts a huge number of objects or specimens. Well resourced, with swift computers, microscopes, modern journals and a great variety of books, the Search Centre offers a variety of options for seeking further information. Set in a comfortable and relaxing environment, the Search Centre is the perfect place in which to think, read, study, or research.
Everyday

Search Centre Weekend Presentations
The Museum’s Search Centre Communicators have developed a series of Search Centre Weekend Presentations designed to help familiarise people with the excellent resources provided by this facility. Held in the weekends at 11.30am & 2.30pm.

Ongoing Exhibitions
The Museum’s timbered Victorian gallery, the Animal Attic, houses an extensive collection of natural history specimens from around the world, re-displayed as they would have been in the late 1800s. A ‘museum within a museum’, this gallery is unique in New Zealand. Explore the Tangata Whenua Gallery with its impressive displays of Maori Cultural artefacts, including a stunning collection of Southern Maori material. The Pacific Culture Galleries display outstanding collections from Polynesia and Melanesia. People of the World has world archaeological treasures including ancient Greek pottery; a mummy and other fascinating artefacts from Ancient Egypt; a striking collection of swords; exquisite decorative arts from Asia and Europe and a superb array of costume and textiles. Walk the length of the giant Fin Whale in the Maritime Gallery, and then take in the intricate detail of a wealth of nautical artefacts. Discover Otago’s natural heritage in the Nature Galleries and come face to face with the extinct giant moa in the Extinction and Survival area and see one of the few complete moa eggs in the world.419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 474 7474 email: mail@otagomuseum.govt.nz
www.otagomuesum.govt.nz

Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Cream: European Paintings from the Collection
From Machiavelli to Monet, Dobson to Derain, Turner to Tissot – the all-time favourites from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s European collection go on show in a luscious confection of portraits, landscapes and religious and allegorical paintings.

Nicky Deeley: A Little Bird Lit Down on Henry-Lee
Head through the corridor to the rear foyer for a view of the honky-tonk signage and cast of eccentric characters in Nicky Deeley’s new mural, the latest artwork to directly colonise the walls of the Gallery.

Evoking the 18th Century: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection
Furniture, ceramics, sculpture, paintings and works on paper will be combined to evoke the aesthetics of an English 18th century interior and highlight the intellectual and aesthetic interests of 18th century collectors and designers.

Simon Denny
Simon Denny recombines humble materials in precarious, witty and poetic ways. His show Old Things in Auckland last year was an ebullient obstacle course of hung, draped and leaned forms, prompting critic Tessa Laird to call Denny one of Auckland’s ‘rampant young maximalists’. He's also an artist with a light touch, whose recent works include 'abstracts' held to the wall by nothing more than static electricity, and constructions that teeter elegantly on the brink of collapse. Most recently featured in Prospect 2007 at City Gallery Wellington, Denny is the first of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Visiting Artists for 2007. The Visiting Artists Programme is supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

Given: Jewellery by Warwick Freeman
For over twenty years Warwick Freeman has been making jewellery that speaks about the complexities of living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Prominent amongst a number of self-taught jewellers who revolutionised contemporary jewellery practice in Aotearoa in the 1980s, Freeman is unique in his continued questioning of cultural identity and jewellery practice. As this selection of 35 works illustrates, nothing is taken for granted in Freeman’s work. Given showcases the output of a maker who has rigorously asked difficult questions about the politics, aesthetics and finally ethics of jewellery in a colonial/settler society like Aotearoa New Zealand.

Reuben Paterson: When the Sun Rises and the Shadows Flee
Part retro billboard, part South Pacific fantasy, part cultural tribute, When the Sun Rises and the Shadows Flee is one of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s major acquisitions of 2006. Well known for his glitter paintings, Reuben Paterson says, “whenever something shimmers, we go to it”. Here he expands his trademark specks of glitter to a scale he calls “God-sized”.

Frances Hodgkins: Earthly Pleasures
Frances Hodgkins: Earthly Pleasures takes its cue from the many paintings and drawings by Frances Hodgkins that have food, flowers and gardens - the fruits of the earth - as their subject matter. It is clear from the artist's letters that, despite periods of privation, she took great pleasure in the sensory experiences offered by delicious food and beautiful gardens and delighted in the inspiration they offered her.

Salla Tykkä: Cave and Zoo
Finnish artist Salla Tykkä’s works explore moments of emotional and physical transformation experienced by young women in a combination of natural (landscape) and constructed (suburban, urban) settings. The situations are intentionally ambiguous, highly charged emotionally and sexually, and utilise cinematic devices in order to heighten tension.
30 The Octagon, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 474 3240 email: dpagmail@dcc.govt.nz
www.dunedin.art.museum

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Dunedin
Series 1, Concert 4
MEDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS En Saga
SIBELIUS Symphony No 5
PIETARI INKINEN Conductor
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ Violin
The Violin Concerto cost Mendelssohn more time than its effortless spontaneity would suggest. Sibelius’s En Saga features inspired Sibelian national-Romanticism and his unerring mastery of the orchestra. Repeated patterns abound, preparing us for the logic and taut organisation of the Fifth Symphony, with its sweeping power and energy. Begun in the dark days of World War I, it was revised as the Russian Revolution was just about to embroil Finland in civil war.
26 July 2007, 6:30pm
Dunedin Town Hall
Contact Kate Lovell phone: (03) 477 5623 email: info@southernsinfonia.org

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Issue date: 1 June 2007
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AUGUST 2007

Radio One Market Day
Once a month on Thursdays, the university union is beset with bargain-hunting students looking for a good deal on second-hand music, clothing, knick-knacks, trinkets, gee-gaws and original arts and crafts. Students love it, Radio One pipes music down to the adoring masses, and everyone has a pretty good time.
640 Cumberland Street, Dunedin
Contact Jen Stokes, phone: (03) 479 5343 email: sa.assistant@ousa.org.nz

Lunchtime Music
A range of musicians liven up the Atrium with live performances each week.
Museum Atrium, Fridays & Saturdays between 12 noon & 1.30pm.
419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact phone Sarah Urbanak (03) 474 7474 email: mail@otagomuseum.co.nz www.otagomuseum.govt.nz

Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Cream: European Paintings from the Collection
From Machiavelli to Monet, Dobson to Derain, Turner to Tissot – the all-time favourites from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s European collection go on show in a luscious confection of portraits, landscapes and religious and allegorical paintings.

Nicky Deeley: A Little Bird Lit Down on Henry-Lee
Head through the corridor to the rear foyer for a view of the honky-tonk signage and cast of eccentric characters in Nicky Deeley’s new mural, the latest artwork to directly colonise the walls of the Gallery.

Evoking the 18th Century: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection
Furniture, ceramics, sculpture, paintings and works on paper will be combined to evoke the aesthetics of an English 18th century interior and highlight the intellectual and aesthetic interests of 18th century collectors and designers.
Simon Denny
Simon Denny recombines humble materials in precarious, witty and poetic ways. His show Old Things in Auckland last year was an ebullient obstacle course of hung, draped and leaned forms, prompting critic Tessa Laird to call Denny one of Auckland’s ‘rampant young maximalists’. He's also an artist with a light touch, whose recent works include 'abstracts' held to the wall by nothing more than static electricity, and constructions that teeter elegantly on the brink of collapse. Most recently featured in Prospect 2007 at City Gallery Wellington, Denny is the first of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Visiting Artists for 2007. The Visiting Artists Programme is supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

Given: Jewellery by Warwick Freeman
For over twenty years Warwick Freeman has been making jewellery that speaks about the complexities of living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Prominent amongst a number of self-taught jewellers who revolutionised contemporary jewellery practice in Aotearoa in the 1980s, Freeman is unique in his continued questioning of cultural identity and jewellery practice. As this selection of 35 works illustrates, nothing is taken for granted in Freeman’s work. Given showcases the output of a maker who has rigorously asked difficult questions about the politics, aesthetics and finally ethics of jewellery in a colonial/settler society like Aotearoa New Zealand.

Reuben Paterson: When the Sun Rises and the Shadows Flee
Part retro billboard, part South Pacific fantasy, part cultural tribute, When the Sun Rises and the Shadows Flee is one of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s major acquisitions of 2006. Well known for his glitter paintings, Reuben Paterson says, “whenever something shimmers, we go to it”. Here he expands his trademark specks of glitter to a scale he calls “God-sized”. An evocation of life’s journey toward the home of Hinenuitepo, the Goddess of Death, this wall of blue sky and black-silhouetted palm trees is at once a celebration of life and a reminder of our mortality.

Frances Hodgkins: Earthly Pleasures
Frances Hodgkins: Earthly Pleasures takes its cue from the many paintings and drawings by Frances Hodgkins that have food, flowers and gardens - the fruits of the earth - as their subject matter. It is clear from the artist's letters that, despite periods of privation, she took great pleasure in the sensory experiences offered by delicious food and beautiful gardens and delighted in the inspiration they offered her.

Salla Tykkä: Cave and Zoo
Finnish artist Salla Tykkä’s works explore moments of emotional and physical transformation experienced by young women in a combination of natural (landscape) and constructed (suburban, urban) settings. The situations are intentionally ambiguous, highly charged emotionally and sexually, and utilise cinematic devices in order to heighten tension.
30 The Octagon, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 474 3240 email: dpagmail@dcc.govt.nz
www.dunedin.art.museum

SEPTEMBER 2007

Globe Theatre
‘The Road To Mecca’ By Athol Fugard
Lisa first started to direct this play at the Fortune Theatre almost 20 years ago before being told some weeks into rehearsal that rights were not in fact available. This production at the Globe is thus "unfinished business", she says. (We do have the rights!) The play tells the story of an elderly, reclusive artist who tries to preserve her all-important independence of mind and body in the face of outside efforts to 'take care of her.' It is a play that forces us all to think about our lives and how they may end - and how they should be allowed to draw to a close, with dignity.
104 London Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 477 3274
www.globetheatre.org.nz
Otago Museum
2007 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition
Appreciate the talents of Otago’s amateur photographers while enjoying the stunning results of this year’s competition.

MAINLAND - Landscapes by Andris Apse
Journey through the diverse landscapes of the South Island and discover the richness of this extraordinary place. One of New Zealand's finest landscape photographers, Andris Apse captures the beauty of the Mainland in this first major exhibition showcasing his outstanding work.

Hello Dolly! The Collectables of Dunedin’s Jan McLean
From French Floozies, Flowers of the Heart to Lollipops, dolls are big news - Discover an enticing collection of Jan McLean’s best designs.

Guided Tours
Take a ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tour and learn some inside knowledge about various aspects that the Museum has on offer and/or take a guided tour of ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ and gain a greater understanding, of the Southern region. ‘Highlights of the Museum’ guided tours are available at 11.30am and ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ guided tours are available at 3.30pm (and other times by prior arrangement). $10 per person and FREE to Otago residents bringing non-Otago visitors.
Everyday

Lunchtime Music
A range of musicians liven up the Atrium with live performances each week.
Museum Atrium, Fridays & Saturdays between 12 noon & 1.30pm

Discovery World – Science with a Difference!
Experience heaps of hands-on science at its best in Otago Museum's interactive science centre, Discovery World. There's so much cool stuff that you won't know where to start! You can engage yourself with the IBM TryScience Kiosk, challenge your friends to a game of air hockey or table soccer, inflate a hot air balloon, warp yourself with the trick mirror, stomp out a tune on the giant foot piano or test your skills with our tricky puzzles. And if you have a fondness for animals you can visit the fishy enclosure of the Discovery World Aquarium on your way to our frogs, geckos and red-eared terrapins. Plus, if you're brave enough you can take a peek at our tarantulas!
Everyday

Discovery World Science Shows
These excellent shows run by our Science Communicators are sure to entertain you!
Discovery World, Saturdays & Sundays at 11.00am, 1.00pm & 3.00pm

Gallery Talks
From Prehistoric Penguins to Pounamu, from Ferns to the Falkland Fox, there is sure to be something to interest everyone. Every day at 2pm there is a free short presentation by our Otago Museum Communicators based on artefacts and displays in the Museum.
Everyday

Search Centre
Otago Museum’s Search Centre research facility provides an inviting opportunity for visitors to engage in further research on objects or themes in the galleries of interest to them. It will also be the first stop for the identification of items members of the public bring into the Museum, a service that annually attracts a huge number of objects or specimens. Well resourced, with swift computers, microscopes, modern journals and a great variety of books, the Search Centre offers a variety of options for seeking further information. Set in a comfortable and relaxing environment, the Search Centre is the perfect place in which to think, read, study, or research.
Search Centre Weekend Presentations
The Museum’s Search Centre Communicators have developed a series of Search Centre Weekend Presentations designed to help familiarise people with the excellent resources provided by this facility. Held in the weekends at 11.30am & 2.30pm.

Ongoing Exhibitions
The Museum’s timbered Victorian gallery, the Animal Attic, houses an extensive collection of natural history specimens from around the world, re-displayed as they would have been in the late 1800s. A ‘museum within a museum’, this gallery is unique in New Zealand. Explore the Tangata Whenua Gallery with its impressive displays of Maori Cultural artefacts, including a stunning collection of Southern Maori material. The Pacific Culture Galleries display outstanding collections from Polynesia and Melanesia. People of the World has world archaeological treasures including ancient Greek pottery; a mummy and other fascinating artefacts from Ancient Egypt; a striking collection of swords; exquisite decorative arts from Asia and Europe and a superb array of costume and textiles. Walk the length of the giant Fin Whale in the Maritime Gallery, and then take in the intricate detail of a wealth of nautical artefacts. Discover Otago’s natural heritage in the Nature Galleries and come face to face with the extinct giant moa in the Extinction and Survival area and see one of the few complete moa eggs in the world.419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 474 7474 email: mail@otagomuseum.govt.nz
www.otagomuesum.govt.nz

Otago Settlers Museum
Josephine
New Zealand's oldest surviving locomotive. The northern end of the Otago Settlers Museum is home to Otago's most celebrated steam train, Josephine. Josephine was designed in England by Robert Fairlie and built by the Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, arrived by ship in August 1872 and was assembled at Port Chalmers. A load of beer was hauled from Burkes Brewery in September and passengers were carried for the first time in October 1872.

Appliance Emporium: Housekeeping Made Easy
Whenever you start to grumble about doing the chores, spare a thought for how housekeeping was conducted in the old days. There were no washing machines to load, set and forget. Instead it was a hard day of scrubbing and slaving over a boiling copper to get the clothes clean. No one-touch microwave cooking, instead a daily battle with a coal stove.

Whalers, Jailers, Poets & More: Extraordinary People from Dunedin's Past
By visiting various locations throughout the city centre, this tour introduces you to a fascinating range of characters who helped shape Dunedin's history.

Walk the High Street
View some of Dunedin's amazing residential architecture whilst discovering part of our intriguing social history. This walk requires a degree of fitness due to the steep terrain.

Dunedin's Historic Hotels
Dunedin's hotels were much more than just a place to drink. This stroll of discovery includes refreshments at one of our historic establishments.

Women of Dunedin
Enter into the lives of some of the women of Dunedin's past: wealthy and poor, respectable and disreputable.

Theatres of Dunedin: From Dens of Iniquity to Picture Palaces
Join members of the Southern heritage trust on a guided tour of Dunedin's inner city theatres. Experience the stars, stories and scandals from the unruly gold rush to the golden era of cinema.

Victorian Cemeteries
Guides from the Historic cemeteries trust of New Zealand will relate the stories, the tragedy, the heartache and the successes in the lives behind 20 headstones in the Northern and Southern cemeteries. Each tour focuses on one cemetery. Proceeds will be used for cemetery conservation.

Towers and transoms: Signature Themes in the Architecture of R.A. Lawson
Beginning in the museum with a viewing of some of George O'Brien's images of Lawson's work, the tour then visits several central city Lawson buildings.

H.F. Hardy: Dunedin's Homegrown Architect
From woodcutter to gold rush builder to architect! Discuss Hardy's life and view his contributions to Dunedin's early skyline. The Museum welcomes group bookings and are happy to discuss tours and times outside the above scheduled itinerary.
31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Contact phone: (03) 4775052 email: osmmail@dcc.govt.nz
www.otago.settlers.museum.co.nz

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