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Something different at the Nelson Arts Festival
October
15-26 2009
The Nelson Arts Festival lights up the city from mid October, and this year the Manifest Sculpture Symposium has a fresh focus under a new coordinator, local artist Nic Foster.
Nic says he wanted to change the direction from making an object for auction, to a more discussion focused event.
“I’ve developed a symposium where the audience can engage with the sculptors, their work and their inspiration,” Nic said. “We have internationally recognised sculptors such as Phil Price and Andrew Drummond taking part in lectures and forums; and Drummond, Marte Szirmay and local sculptors Christine Boswijk and Tim Wraight walk and talk about their sculptures in the Vineyard Tour at Woollaston Estates.”
There is a series of lunchtime lectures at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology and a forum at the Festival Café with resident satirist Te Radar, courting controversy by questioning the importance of funding art in troubled economic times.
Four local sculptors, Tim Royall, Andy
Waugh, Fiona Sutherland and Ken Laws will be setting up
their workshops in the Festival Village at Founders Heritage
Park during the two weekends of the festival.
The
festival’s visual arts component also includes two film
installations by UK artists now based in Nelson, Heather
and Patrick Burnett-Rose. Between Love and Dreaming
examines the different meanings and cultural interpretations
of love, while Necessary Illusions I looks at the role of
air travel and its environmental effects. Details of
screening times in the Nelson Arts Festival programme.
The Nelson Arts Festival programme this year has a great line up of talent from New Zealand and further afield, covering the range of dance, theatre, music, comedy, cabaret, children’s shows and talks and readings from writers and poets.
The festival is produced by the Nelson City Council
as an added attraction for visitors and a celebration for
locals.
More information at www.nelsonartsfestival.co.nz
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