Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events
Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events October 2003 to November 2003
Following is a schedule of confirmed events in the City of Dunedin. This list was prepared by Dunedin City Council (DCC) City Promotions on behalf of the attractions that appear below. Please contact event organisers directly for further information and confirmation of dates and times.
OCTOBER 2003
Dunedin Public Art Gallery The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate collection This stunning exhibition takes place in Dunedin and is New Zealand's only venue where visitors will see 71 exquisite works of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints from the Per-Raphaelite period. The Pre-Raphaelite Dream includes major masterpieces such as John Millais' Mariana, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine and William Holman Hunt's The Awakening conscience. Presented by the National Business Review and supported by the Dunedin City Council and The Community Trust of Otago. 25 October 2003 - 15 February 2004 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin Contact for enquires: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243
Artsenta - Cold Play Guitar Auction
Dunedin is set to welcome a slice of Hollywood tinsel town
glamour to the City by hosting a charity art auction with a
big difference. The star attraction at the Coldplay Guitar
Auction will be a guitar signed by Coldplay lead man Chris
Martin, and US Oscar winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who
visited the city in January 2003 for the filming of "Sylvia
and Ted". The auction will also include artworks donated by
16 celebrated New Zealand artists and musicians a further
attraction will be a special performance by Auckland based
singer/songwriter Mahinarangi Tocker, who will be playing
the Coldplay guitar. Friday 10th October was chosen because
it is World Mental Health Day. The Cold Play guitar will be
on display at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, other artwork
for auction can be viewed at Nevill Studio, 35 Crawford
Street, Dunedin from Monday 6th October. 10 October 2003,
7pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Robert West Director
Artsenta, tel/fax: 03 477 9566, cell: 025 608 0641, or
e-mail : artsenta@es.co.nz The
National Bank Dunedin Rhododendron Festival 2003 Each year
Dunedin celebrates the rhododendrons of the area with an
array of workshops, events and exhibitions to create the
Dunedin Rhododendron Festival. This year marks the 20th
anniversary of the festival and an exciting programme has
been developed to commemorate this milestone. With an array
of entertaining and informative events, there promises to be
something for everyone. A highlight of this year's festival
is the 'Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from
the Tate Collection' held at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Guests will have the opportunity to visit this outstanding
exhibition, which will be in its first week of a four-month
season in Dunedin. Join festival guest John Patrick, the
highly respected lecturer, author and Australian television
presenter, for his two-day seminar. John will focus on a
wide range of topics relating to plants and garden design
and will be happy to answer any garden related questions.
John is highly entertaining and this seminar promises to be
an inspirational experience. For more information on
programmed events visit www.rhododunedin.co.nz
Cleveland
Living Arts Centre Cleveland Art Awards 2003 Over 300
works will be on display, painting, prints, jewellery,
ceramics, sculpture, stained glass windows and more. This
celebrated event attracts entries from throughout the South
Island and offers artists a total prize pool of $9,000.
These annual art awards are now in their seventh year,
showcasing established and emerging artists. All work is
for sale. 3 - 19 October 2003 - 10an to 4pm
daily Children's Art Exhibition Timed to celebrate
Children's Day showcases stunning and vibrant display is a
celebration of Children's creativity. Children can choose
to offer their works for sale by silent auction. Great
prizes are offered as well as spot prizes. 23 October 2003 -
5 November 2003 Quilters & Patchworkers Otago This
national quilt challenge is inspired by Rhododendrons and
judged on skill, use of colour, originality of design and
overall creativity. 27 October 2003 - 3 November 2003 In
association with the Dunedin Rhododendron Festival. Lyn
Kelly Acclaimed jeweller Lynn Kelly presents four pieces
inspired by 17th century Botanic illustrations of
Rhododendrons. Works are for sale. In association with the
Dunedin Rhododendron Festival. 23 October 2003 - 5 November
2003 Cleveland Living Arts Centre, 1st floor, Dunedin
Railway Station, Anzac Avenue, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291 Fortune
Theatre - A Passionate Women - by Kay Mellor On the morning
of her son's wedding Betty seeks refuge in the attic. Faced
with her imminent loss she finds solace in the fond memories
of her younger days. What she discovers however, is far
more than she bargained for. This uniquely touching comedy
takes us on a journey from a mundane marriage to a magical
future. Let your heart take flight. This is one for all
the romantics out there. 10 October 2003 - 1 November 2003
Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: (media) Lisa Scott, phone (03) 477 1695 or Box
Office (03) 477 8323 Milford Galleries Dunedin - Overview
- Is As: Landscape as metaphor Overview is a major survey
exhibition of contemporary NZ art in three parts. It will
provide an unparalleled opportunity to experience in one
major location the extraordinary achievement that is our
country's contemporary art. Overview 'Is As: Landscape as
Metaphor' features artists Ann Robinson, Karl Maughan,
Michael Hight, Elizabeth Rees, Nigel Brown, Michael Smither,
John Walsh, Peter James Smith and others. As well as
looking at the physical landscape, this exhibition also
closely looks at the emotions content of the NZ environment,
(both now and in the past), as well as to the flora and
fauna. 18 October 2003 - 2 December 2003 Milford Galleries
Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Diana Hennessy, phone (03) 477 7727 Globe Theatre -
Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall, Directed by Lewis
Ablett-Kerry Spoonface Steinberg was first conceived and
performed in 1997 as a radio play and adapted later by the
author for the stage. It is a play that pulls out all the
emotional stops as it takes audiences inside the mind and
all-too-brief life of its only character, a young, autistic
girl who loves opera, is Jewish and, yes, is dying of
cancer. This funny, sad and beautiful and, to quote a
review of its production at last year's Edinburgh Festival -
"fills one's being with the miracle and heart-stopping
reality of being human and what it is to live and die." 9 -
18 October 2003 (excluding Monday, 13 October) Globe
Theatre, 104 London Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
(media) Rosemary Beresford, phone (03) 479 7273; or Box
Office (03) 477 3274 Regent Theatre The Siberian
Cossacks The most spectacular and beautiful Russian company
ever to tour Australia returns for an extensive tour of
Australia and New Zealand. With over 40 people on stage,
the World Famous Siberian Cossacks present a show for the
whole family. From the thrilling sword dances, and large
ornate horses, to the beauty and spectacle of the female's
breathtaking gowns and head dresses, this sensational
ensemble rates alongside the Bolshoi Ballet as the most
successful entertainment export ever to leave Russia. This
stunning new $4 million production for 2003 with incredible
scenery, new dances and breathtaking customers will once
again be a sell-out. 5 October 2003, 4.00pm A Tribute to
the Rat Pack Direct from Vegas. Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
and Sammy Davis JR teamed up as friends to perform together,
creating what was soon to be known as the legendary Rat
Pack. Steve Apple (Dean Martin), Gary Corsell (Frank
Sinatra), and Lonnie Parlor (Sammy Davis Jr) return you to
the early '60's to recreate this legendary package. From
the top-rate shows in Las Vegas and Chicago, each performer
is considered by most critics to be the best in the world at
portraying their period counterparts. With combined
experience of over 25 years, they captivate audiences with
wit, humour, charm and vocal performances that are second to
none. The show features a live orchestra direct from Vegas.
Under the direction of Mr John Peace, it is a compilation of
the finest musicians from some of the greatest orchestras:
Harry James, Nelson Riddles, Brian Setzer, Billy May, Don
Costa, Charlie Barnett and Les Brown. These musicians have
fronted for Tony Bennett, Frank Sinartra, Sammy Davis, Jr,
Dean Martin, just to name a few. The Tribute to the Rat
Pack includes such popular songs as Everybody Loves
Somebody, Lady Is A Tramp, My Way, Come Fly With Me, Mack
The Knife, That's Amore, You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves
You and many more. 12 October 2003, 8.00pm Neil Diamond
in Concert Tour - The Ultimate Tribute to the man and his
music Once in a lifetime there is one act that stands out
from the rest. The one that looks the spitting image of the
person they are impersonating, one that as soon as they open
their mouth you honestly believe you are listening to the
real thing, who gives a unique and outstanding performance
of one of the worlds greatest and most popular stars over
the past 30 years, Neil Diamond as portrayed by Canadian
entertainer Bobby Bruce. Since the untimely death of Elvis
Presley, Neil Diamond has become the world's biggest concert
and recording star in the 35 plus age group. 24 October
2003, 8.00pm Peter Powers - Hypnotist Sensational
'X-rated' Hypnotist, peter Powers, is back to tour New
Zealand in the outrageously naught Hypno Show. In each
decade a great hypnotist emerges on the global scene. In the
new Millennium this extraordinary talent is Peter Powers. UK
based Powers will tour the Tasman for a third time after
huge success on Australian television, 'The Footy Show'.
Powers is a is an appealing master of his art and will
perform some favourites skits including 'the Orgasmic
Handshake', 'the Great Willie Search' and the best of his
2002 show. He will also include some special skits
highlighting the Rugby World Cup. 31 October 2003,
7.30pm Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon, Dunedin Contact for
bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477
8597 Metropolitan Club - Rock 'n' Roll Bonanza Show Rock
'n' Roll Bonanza show performed by "Shine On" Show Band
featuring songs including "Rockin Robin", "Peppermint
Twist", "Rock Around the Clock" and songs from "Grease". 18
October 2003, 7.30pm Metropolitan Club Contact for
bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Westpac
Trust Mayfair Theatre - H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of
Penzance The two Gilbert and Sullivan nautical operas in
tandem, second season in the complete series of G & S
operettas to be staged by the Trust in historic sequence and
in a traditional manner until 2012 - perhaps a once in a
lifetime experience. Don't miss this unique opportunity to
see authentically staged annual productions of all the G & S
operas in Dunedin, where the arts flourish and a special
Victorian heritage exists. Stage Director: Guest British
professional Alan Spencer, Associate Director: Hilary
Norris, Musical Director: Michael Andrewes. The Southern
Sinfonia will play Sullivan's full orchestral accompaniment
in the pit. Leading young British tenor Stephen Brown will
play Ralph Rackstraw and Frederic and the cast includes some
of Dunedin's finest performers. Various Showings throughout
26 October 2003 - 8 November 2003 Westpac Trust Mayfair
Theatre, 100 King Edward Street, Dunedin Contact for media
enquiries: Michael Andrewes, phone (03) 477 8463 Contact
for bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 ReFuel
Bar Refuel - The D4 Dion and Jimmy both playing guitar and
vocals were North Shore boys hanging around listening to
rock n' roll. Dion had been a member of punk rock slackers,
Nothing at All, and still hankered to spread the gospel of
rock n' roll salvation. They got two acolytes in Vaughn
(bass) and beaver (drums) and revved up the machine that was
to become the D4. 15 October 2003, 7.30pm The Datsuns The
Datsuns were winners of four Tuis at this year's New Zealand
Music Awards and are finalists in five awards at the
upcoming bNet Awards on September 19. The show will include
some the their new material as well as favourites from their
last album. 21 October 2003, 7.30pm Misery Misery from
Melbourne play live and bring with them White Line Fever;
the Motorhead tribute band featuring members of Misery. 29
October 2003, 9.00pm The Verlaines The Verlaines play live
as part of the "Best of" CD release tour. Having played in
the Uni MCR back in 1981 it completes the circle, somewhat,
to have a gig here in the MCR again 22 years later. Will
you EVER have the opportunity to see this seminal band
again? Not to be missed. 31 October 2003 ReFuel Bar,
Underground, University of Otago, 640 Cumberland Street,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Scott Muir, phone (03) 479
3875 Contact for bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477
8597 Blue Oyster Gallery Ali Bramwell, Curator -
Drawing For Sculpture A Group Exhibition Dunedin based
artist Ali Bramwell will curate a show of fellow sculptors'
drawings that focuses on the process of producing work; the
ongoing dialogue between theory, concept and practice.
Making Art is often mythologised. However, by exhibiting
drawings and small sculptural explorations, Bramwell will
frame the process of sculpture as the artists experience it.
Bramwell will provide what is usually a very private process
for spectator pleasure and consumption, interrogating where
art begins, as well as what constitutes an art product. Runs
Until 11 October 2003 Rainy McMaster - Pink Slip Emerging
Dunedin installation artist Rainy McMaster will use the
walls of the Blue Oyster as a resting place for vinyl
blow-ups of extracts from her diary in the exhibit, Pink
Slip. The aesthetic shall suggest a giant book and the
intimate nature of the text will create an unnaturally and
sometimes uncomfortably close relationship with the viewer,
challenging the boundaries of an audience's access to the
thoughts of the artist and the acceptance of personal
revelation in art. 14 - 25 October 2003 Daniel Malone -
Brick City Exciting, hip and fashionable Auckland-based
artist Daniel Malone often creates performance and
installation works that are subversive and ephemeral
gestures. At Blue Oyster, Malone will install a series of
works in his exhibit titled Brick City based around one of
our most common and favourite building materials - the
brick. When isolated, the images that make up this work
have a distinct banality, but when viewed on mass, with the
images stacked in a brick wall configuration, some very
sharp and playful associations are evoked. There will be
objects made for the show too, bricks actually. 28 October
2003 - 8 November 2003 Blue Oyster Gallery, 137 High
Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Robyn Dold, phone
(03) 479 0197 Botanic Gardens - "Photographing Nature -
in your garden or the wild" A free public slide show by
internationally award winning natural history photographer,
Rod Morris, from Dunedin's NHNZ. A fantastic opportunity
for the public to gain tips and hints from an expert. 3
October 2003, 12.00pm "Permaculture - a holistic approach
to gardening" A free public talk by Trish Korth,
permaculturist. Find out more about his sustainable
practice with links to the past. 5 December 2003,
12.00pm Botanic Garden Centre, in upper Lovelock Avenue,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Clare Thomson, phone (03)
474 9469 Dunedin Public Art Gallery The Pre-Raphaelite
Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate collection This
exhibition consists of 71 works including oil paintings,
watercolours, drawings and prints. The Pre-Raphaelite Dream
includes major masterpieces such as John Millais' Mariana,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine and William Holman
Hunt's The Awakening conscience. Presented by the National
Business Review and supported by the Dunedin City Council
and The Community Trust of Otago. 25 October 2003 - 15
February 2004 Dan Arps: Third Kind Dan Arps' starting
point for this installation is 'Devil's Peak', the
mysterious mountain constructed by Richard Dreyfuss in the
1977 movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. Arps
combines plasticine, furniture, felt, drawings and video
monitors to create his own mountain, and scatters the space
with clues about its maker's motivations. Runs Until 12
October 2003 John Reynolds: The Deposition This
exhibition features works by a New Zealand artist best known
for his vast, elegant, word-spinning paintings. It includes
works recently acquired for the Gallery's collection,
including a sculptural version of Reynolds' trademark
road-sign motif. Playing on the resemblance of roadside
signs to a cruciform, Reynolds has called his fallen sign
The Disposition. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
Runs Until 12 October 2003 Paula Modersohn-Becker and the
Worpswede Artists - Drawings and Prints 1895-1906 Born in
1876 Paula Modershohn-Becker belongs to the circle of artist
around the turn of the century who found themselves in
opposition to the strict academic line of opinion on art.
Her paintings and drawings belong to early Expressionism and
she was greatly influenced by the work of Gauguin, Cezanne
and van Gogh, who she had met in Paris. This exhibition is
organized by Germany's Institut for Foreign Affairs, Ifa,
and is being toured by the Goethe Institut. Runs Until 25
January 2004 Judy Millar: I is She, as You to Me Judy
Millar is an abstract painter whose recent works feature
sweeping strokes and ribbons of paint, made not with a brush
but by hand. In her Dunedin project, she will fill the
walls of the Trustbank Galleries with her colour-rich,
adventurously physical paintings. A Dunedin Public Art
Gallery Visiting Artists Project, supported by Creative New
Zealand. Runs Until 12 October 2003 Truth's Mirror Witty
and thought-provoking juxtapositions of treasures from the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery's permanent collection. Curated
by Tony Green, formerly Head of Department of Art History,
University of Auckland. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery
exhibition. Ongoing Exhibition Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin Contact for enquires:
Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243 Hocken Library Joanna
Margaret Paul: Poet and Painter In 1983, Joanna Paul was
Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago. >From
then until her death earlier this year, she generously
gifted paintings, drawings and prints to the Hocken Library
Pictures Collection. The exhibition comprises a selection of
her art work along with some of her poetry from the
publications collection. Runs Until 4 October 2003 John
Turnbull Thomson: nineteenth century painter and surveyor of
the south Last year saw the unveiling of a monument to John
Turnbull Thomson at Ranfurly to commemorate the role he
played in shaping the unique culture of Central Otago and
the Maniototo. Names like Eweburn, the Horse Range and the
Pig Root all owe their origin to Thomson who was chief
surveyor for Otago. This exhibition traces Thomson's
origins as a civil engineer in England, and his years in
Malaya as well as his involvement in mapping the interior of
the south of New Zealand. For the first time in more than a
decade a large collection of the 225 oils and watercolours
by Thomson in the Hocken Library pictorial collection will
be on display together, along with a range of previously
never before exhibited works from the Hall-Jones family
collection. Runs Until 4 October 2003 McCahon: A Typeface
by Luke Wood In McCahon: A Typeface, University of
Canterbury School of Fine Arts lecturer Luke Wood has
developed a typeface based on a serious of McCahon's
paintings which have the now familiar theological narratives
scrawled across New Zealand landscapes and abstract grounds.
The project attempts to play with the relationship between
an artist's signature style when it is reconfigured into a
generic set of shapes, and what happens when a designer
starts selecting only a particular aspect of an artwork so
it can be used in a new set of contexts. The question Wood
addresses is, does the designer, through his editing and
stylising of the painter's handwriting, remove the important
bits that are at the heart of this artist's work.
Commercial success was not a motivation for Wood; the
typeface is not licensed or available for sale. However, it
has been named: McCahon, as, according to Wood, an honest
indicator to its origin. 11 October - 17 January
2004 Hocken Library, cnr Anzac Avenue & Parry Street,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone (03) 479
5648 Dunedin Centre New Zealand String Quartet with
Edith Salzmann Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ) presents the
always-memorable New Zealand String Quartet; now in its 15th
year this tour will premiere a new work by Jack Body
commissioned by CMNZ. They will be joined by one of the
country's most eminent cellists, Edith Salzmann. The
programme includes Dvorak - Andante Con Moto Opus in E
minor, Ligeti - Quartet No 1, Jack Body - a new commission
by CMN, and Schubert: - Quintet in C Opus 163. The
performance features a song without words from Dvorak's
abandoned quartet, Ligeti exploring 'modern' sounds from
behind the Iron Curtain, a new offering from a colourful and
electric NZ composer, and Schubert's luscious quintet,
written on his deathbed. 1 October 2003, 8.00pm Southern
Sinfonia - Basically Baroque Dunedin's professional
orchestra presents yet another of its extremely popular
Basically Baroque programmes. Featuring the Auckland
Philharmonia's Principal Oboe Martin Lee in Marcello's Oboe
Concerto, the programme also contains two Baroque
favourites: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3 and Handel's
Water Music Suite III. Sunday, 12 October 2003, 3.00pm
Contact for enquiries: Philippa Harris, phone (03) 477
5623 Glenroy Auditorium, Harrop Street, Dunedin Contact
for bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Otago
Museum Chinese Dinosaurs One-hundred-and-fifty-million
years ago, they roamed what are now the plains of China.
Now, these towering prehistoric creatures have taken over
the Otago Museum where the newest attraction in New Zealand
will also be the oldest. Ten complete dinosaur skeletons,
together with 43 other dinosaur fossils, have inhabited the
Museum upon the arrival of Chinese Dinosaurs, the Otago
Museum's biggest ever exhibition. Among the attractions is
a gigantic 23 metre long sauropod, the Mamenchisaurus and
the awesome Velociraptor - made infamous by the film
Jurassic Park. Chinese Dinosaurs was developed by the
Australian Museum in association with two major natural
history museums in China, the Beijing Natural History Museum
and the Zigong Dinosaur Museum. The exhibition is made
possible with the support of the Community Trust of Otago.
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Runs Until 2 November
2003 Children of Lebanon: The Story of the Dunedin
Lebanese Community On display in the Otago Museum's People
of the World Gallery, Children of Lebanon is a beautiful
exhibition that delves into many intriguing aspects of the
Lebanese culture and looks at how the Lebanese people
contributed to, and became a part of the city of Dunedin.
Love, work, food and religion are just a few of the areas
that are investigated in this engaging exhibition. The
Museum invites visitors to the Children of Lebanon to
celebrate the customs of this culture and view stunning
Lebanese objects, including household items, jewellery and
clothing. People of the World Gallery, Runs Until 12
October 2003 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). Ongoing
Service - 11.30am and 3.30pm daily 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. Each presentation runs
for about 20 minutes and will be repeated for a month before
the next presentation begins. Weekends at 11.30am and
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. 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. 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 new
computers, microscopes, modern journals and a great variety
of new 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. Ongoing
Service Lunchtime Music A range of musicians will liven up
the atrium with live performances each week. This is now a
regular fixture but is subject to change according to
function demands. Museum Foyer, Fridays between 12noon and
1.30pm Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Ryan Helliwell, phone (03) 474 7474
ext 845 NOVEMBER 2003 Dunedin Town Hall - New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra - The Lion Foundation - Mainland Tour
2003 The NZSO's Mainland Tour 2003 sponsored by The Lion
Foundation comes to town with a programme of Classical and
Romantic masterpieces. The concert is conducted by leading
Australian musician Nicholas Milton, and features the young
internationally renowned cellist Tatjana Vassiljeva in
Tchaikovsky's 'Virtuosic Rococo Variations'. The concert
also includes something to delight every musical taste with
symphonies by Schubert and Beethoven, and two folk-inspired
Romanian Dances by Bartok. 7 November 2003, 7.30pm Town
Hall, Moray Place, Dunedin Contact for bookings: Regent
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Westpac Trust Mayfair
Theatre - H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance The
two Gilbert and Sullivan nautical operas in tandem, second
season in the complete series of G & S operettas to be
staged by the Trust in historic sequence and in a
traditional manner until 2012 - perhaps a once in a lifetime
experience. Don't miss this unique opportunity to see
authentically staged annual productions of all the G & S
operas in Dunedin, where the arts flourish and a special
Victorian heritage exists. Stage Director: Guest British
professional Alan Spencer, Associate Director: Hilary
Norris, Musical Director: Michael Andrewes. The Southern
Sinfonia will play Sullivan's full orchestral accompaniment
in the pit. Leading young British tenor Stephen Brown will
play Ralph Rackstraw and Frederic and the cast includes some
of Dunedin's finest performers. Various Showings until 8
November 2003 Westpac Trust Mayfair Theatre, 100 King Edward
Street, Dunedin Contact for media enquiries: Michael
Andrewes, phone (03) 477 8463 Contact for bookings: Regent
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Arc Café - Songbong Tap your
toes to Songbong, Dunedin's premier percussion group.
Specialising in catchy West African rhythms, they showcase
the original source of the music that's been coming out of
black America for most, if not all your lifetime. Supported
by Musoo - mixing song, dance and percussion. 8 November
2003, 8.30pm ARC Café 135 High Street, Dunedin Contact for
media enquiries: Emmanuelle Gomez, Venue Manager, phone (03)
474 1135 Contact for booking: Arc Café, phone (03) 474
1135 ReFuel Bar - The Brunettes Returning from their Euro
summer tour and releasing a new CD the Brunettes bring us
their unique brand of Indy bubblegum pop styles. 8 November
2003, 9.00pm ReFuel Bar, Underground, University of Otago,
640 Cumberland Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Scott
Muir, phone (03) 479 3875 Otago Museum - Chinese
Dinosaurs One-hundred-and-fifty-million years ago, they
roamed what are now the plains of China. Now, these
towering prehistoric creatures have taken over the Otago
Museum where the newest attraction in New Zealand will also
be the oldest. Ten complete dinosaur skeletons, together
with 43 other dinosaur fossils, have inhabited the Museum
upon the arrival of Chinese Dinosaurs, the Otago Museum's
biggest ever exhibition. Among the attractions is a
gigantic 23 metre long sauropod, the Mamenchisaurus and the
awesome Velociraptor - made infamous by the film Jurassic
Park. Chinese Dinosaurs was developed by the Australian
Museum in association with two major natural history museums
in China, the Beijing Natural History Museum and the Zigong
Dinosaur Museum. The exhibition is made possible with the
support of the Community Trust of Otago. Special
Exhibitions Gallery, Runs Until 2 November 2003 Otago
Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Ryan Helliwell, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845
Cleveland Living Arts Centre Children's Art Exhibition
Timed to celebrate Children's Day showcases stunning and
vibrant display is a celebration of Children's creativity.
Children can choose to offer their works for sale by silent
auction. Great prizes are offered as well as spot prizes.
Runs Until 5 November 2003 Muka Print Studio Two days
only, the under 18 print fair offers collectors to view and
buy prints from New Zealand's leading print makers of
country's well-known artists in the future. 5-6 November
2003, 10.00am-5.30pm Alfred Berland Extraordinary and
sublime, Alfred Berland's work captures an almost surrealist
glow of landscape paintings with a difference. 4 - 18
November 2003 Artists in Residence Working and exhibiting
in the Centre; Heather Jennings is a specialist spoon maker
and pole lathe turner, combining with hand carving to create
astonishingly beautiful spoons from a variety of fruit
woods. Jane Pearce uses seagrass, cane, tree prunings and
found materials to make baskets and sculpture based on
basketry techniques. Work will be for sale. 24 November
2003 - 8 December 2003. Weaving Master Class - 'training
the trainers' Top Pacific and Maori weavers will share
skills and techniques for four days in a weaving master
class. The public will have the opportunity to watch them
work for two days. 24 - 29 November 2003, open to the
public 28-29 November 2003 John White's Natural World
Highly crafted paintings of animals and landscapes by this
Christchurch based artist. 8 - 21 November 2003 Moira
Crossman Moira Crossman is known for her large-scale public
sculptures this skilled stone carver will present a display
of work being created in response to her Masters of Fine
Arts. The works consist of delicate Oamaru stone cradled in
tiny flax kete, cast bronze and drawings. 25 November 2003
- 5 December 2003. Cleveland Living Arts Centre, 1st
floor, Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477
7291 Dunedin Public Art Gallery Ardour for Art: Frances
Hodgkins' Path to Modernism The opening exhibition in the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery's permanent gallery devoted to
the works of one of Dunedin's most famous daughters:
Frances Hodgkins. Curated by Linda Tyler, it offers the
viewer an insight into the artist's life and work. A Dunedin
Public Art Gallery exhibition. Runs Until 30 November
2003 Louise Weaver: Moonlight Becomes You A menagerie of
crochet-covered animals seem s to have been unleashed from
museum cabinets and let loose in a glittering disco culture.
Moonlight Becomes You was first commissioned by the
Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne and was
recently exhibited at City Gallery, Wellington. Runs Until
16 November 2003 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The
Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin Contact for enquires: Tim
Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243 Blue Oyster Gallery
Daniel Malone - Brick City Exciting, hip and fashionable
Auckland-based artist Daniel Malone often creates
performance and installation works that are subversive and
ephemeral gestures. At Blue Oyster, Malone will install a
series of works in his exhibit titled Brick City based
around one of our most common and favourite building
materials - the brick. When isolated, the images that make
up this work have a distinct banality, but when viewed on
mass, with the images stacked in a brick wall configuration,
some very sharp and playful associations are evoked. Runs
Until 8 November 2003 Nathan Pohio Ngai Tahu artist and
filmmaker Nathan Pohio's work is infused with an enjoyment
of the quirks and idiosyncrasies of those around him.
Highlighting bizarre obsessions and quests, his work is a
playful celebration of the weird and wonderful in us all.
It is often infused with layers of history that Pohio draws
from his Maori and Pakeha ancestry, creating works which are
both good humored and challenging. For his debut appearance
at Blue Oyster, Pohio will travel work that will also have
been exhibited at the new Christchurch Art Gallery. 11 -
22 November 2003 Cameron Bishop - Excesskin Cameron
Bishop wants to break the logic of the tourist, to release
it from its perfected, paid-for-in-advance and on credit
image. In this show he will recognise a different kind of
tourist the one that never quite makes it, the tourist that
is constantly threatening the body/state¹s margins but is
never allowed entry. These tourists are the asylum seekers,
the indigenous, the poor and the absent of this world.
Bishop will approach these issues with his inflated absences
a series of latex baths, each more decayed than the other,
each of them floating in the space and moving with the
rhythms of the atmosphere. 25 November 2003 - 6 December
2003 Blue Oyster Gallery, 137 High Street, Dunedin Contact
for enquiries: Robyn Dold, phone (03) 479 0197 Otago
Settlers Museum - Fabulous Frocks! - Glorious 19th Century
Gowns from the Otago Settlers Museum Collection Settler
women arriving in nineteenth century New Zealand brought
with them dress conventions and a fashion sense formed in
the very different societies of Europe. Once in 'the
colony' they hardly adapted their clothing to suit local
conditions at all. Even amidst the mud and dirt of early
Otago, women's clothing was still essentially what was being
worn at 'home'. This exhibition unveils some of the
fabulous frocks worn by pioneer Otago women, including ball
gowns, wedding dresses and the smartest street attire. An
Otago Settlers Museum exhibition. Runs Until 23 November
2003 Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Val-mai Shaw, phone (03) 474 2728
Fortune Theatre A Passionate Women - by Kay Mellor On the
morning of her son's wedding Betty seeks refuge in the
attic. Faced with her imminent loss she finds solace in the
fond memories of her younger days. What she discovers
however, is far more than she bargained for. This uniquely
touching comedy takes us on a journey from a mundane
marriage to a magical future. Let your heart take flight.
This is one for all the romantics out there. Runs Until 1
November 2003 A Slice of Saturday Night - by the Heather
brothers Put on your dancing shoes - this is one for all you
"rockers" out there - young and old. It's the 60's again.
This long running West End musical hit makes its
professional debut in Dunedin with a whole lot of feel good
favourite tunes in tow. O.K. It's a boy meets girl, boy
loses girl kind of thing, but your blue suede shoes won't
stop tapping all night. Bring the kids: bring your
parents! We promise you a great night out to remember. 14
November 2003 - 13 December 2003 Gunner Inglorious This
one-man show deals with the personal experience of a soldier
in the second World War. A poignant and at times harrowing
account-visceral and must see theatre. 5 - 9 November 2003
(downstairs in the studio theatre) Fortune Theatre, 231
Stuart Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: (media) Lisa
Scott, phone (03) 477 1695 or Box Office (03) 477 8323
Sinfonia Rooms - Bow and Bang! Sinfonia's percussionists
team up with some of the orchestra's string players to
present a novel blend of music: from traditional Ugandan
music, music by John Cage, through to a new work by
Dunedin-based composer Anthony Ritchie. 30 November 2003,
3.00pm Sinfonia Rooms, Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Place,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries and bookings: Philippa
Harris, phone (03) 477 5623 Regent Theatre - Royal NZ
Ballet "The Lotto Season of Peter Pan" This swashbuckling
dance adventure Peter Pan was a huge hit with audiences when
it premiered in 1999. Based on James Barrie's original
play, Russell Kerr's choreography brings all the famous
characters to life through a playful combination of engaging
theatre and classical dance. With Kristian Fredrikson's
Edwardian picture book-inspired designs, dreamy lighting by
Joe Hayes and an exquisite score by Philip Norman, Peter Pan
will captivate and enchant. Tuesday, 11 November 2003,
7.30pm, Wednesday 12 November 2003, 6.30pm Regent Theatre,
17 The Octagon, Dunedin Contact for bookings: Regent
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 - end - For further
information, please contact Dunedin City Council City
Promotions, Kerry MacKenzie at phone (03) 474 3409, email
kmackenz@dcc.govt.nz - or Jennifer Hooker at phone (03) 474
3815, email
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MEDIA ALERT! Issue date: 20 September
2003 Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin Arts and Cultural
Events December 2003 to January 2004
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Following is a schedule of confirmed events in the City of
Dunedin. This list was prepared by Dunedin City Council
(DCC) City Promotions on behalf of the attractions that
appear below. Please contact event organisers directly for
further information and confirmation of dates and
times. december 2003 Cleveland Living Arts
Centre Artists in Residence Working and exhibiting in the
Centre, Heather Jennings is a specialist spoon maker and
pole lathe turner, combined with hand carving she creates
astonishingly beautiful spoons from a variety of fruitwoods.
Jane Pearce uses sea grass, cane, tree pruning and found
materials to make baskets and sculpture based on basketry
techniques. Runs Until 8 December 2003. Moira Crossman
Known for her large scale public sculptures this skilled
stone carver will present a display of work being created in
response to her Masters of Fine Arts. Delicate Oamaru stone
cradled in tiny flax kete, cast bronze and drawings. Runs
Until 5 December 2003. Aaron Parkin Commanding large scale
nudes are created using conté and sculpted with sand,
landscapes and abstracts similarly are created with painting
on sand. Aaron's fascination with metal is reflected in the
presentation. 10 - 24 December 2003 The Affordable Art
Fair The Affordable Art Fair is timed especially for
Christmas. Local and regional artists are invited to submit
works of this artistic feast. In true art fair style, sold
works are replaced with new ones, everyday becomes
different. 4 December 2003 - 9 January 2004 Cleveland
Living Arts Centre, 1st floor, Dunedin Railway Station,
Anzac Avenue, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Kari Morseth,
phone (03) 477 7291 Fortune Theatre - A Slice of Saturday
Night - by the Heather brothers Put on your dancing shoes -
this is one for all the "rockers" out there - young and old.
It's the 60's again. This long running West End musical hit
makes its professional debut in Dunedin with a whole lot of
feel good favourite tunes in tow. O.K. It's a boy meets
girl, boy loses girl kind of thing, but your blue suede
shoes won't stop tapping all night. Bring the kids: bring
your parents! We promise you a great night out to remember.
Runs Until 13 December 2003 Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart
Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: (media) Lisa Scott,
phone (03) 477 1695 or Box Office (03) 477 8323 Globe
Theatre - Prisoners of Mother England by Roger Hall,
Directed by Nigel Ensor Roger Hall's play about the
experiences of a group of immigrants from Britain into New
Zealand follows his characters from the 1950s through
several decades of New Zealand's history. Although some of
their experiences would not be repeated today, many more
will have immediate relevance to anyone who has come to this
country in more recent years. These immigrants too will have
experienced the same sense of dislocation, of homesickness
mixed with excitement for the opportunities offered by their
new life, of the sense of being divided by a common
language. Hall's play is full of empathy for his characters
(Indeed, he freely confesses to having a based one of the
characters on his young self.) as he follows them through
their various problems and delights as they settle into (or
flee from) their new home. 4 - 13 December 2003 (excluding,
Monday, 8 December 2003) Globe Theatre, 104 London Street,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: (media) Rosemary Beresford,
phone (03) 479 7273 or Box Office (03) 477 3274 Milford
Galleries Dunedin Overview - Is As: Landscape as metaphor
Overview is a major survey exhibition of contemporary NZ art
in three parts. It will provide an unparalleled opportunity
to experience in one major location the extraordinary
achievement that is contemporary NZ art. The first part of
Overview is entitled Is As: Landscape as Metaphor. Artists
will include Ann Robinson, Karl Maughan, Michael Hight,
Elizabeth Rees, Nigel Brown Michael Smither, John Walsh,
Peter James Smith and others. As well as looking at he
physical landscape, this exhibition also closely looks at
the emotions content of the NZ environment, (both now and in
the past), as well as to the flora and fauna of it. Runs
Until 3 December 2003 Overview - Notions of the Figurative
The second part of Overview is entitled Notions of the
figurative. Artists include Joanna Braithwaite, WD Hammond,
Lisa Reihana, Tony de Lautour, Robert Ellis, Terry Stringer,
Jeffrey Harris, Ross Ritchie, Paul Dibble, Julia Morison and
others. What might seem disparate at first, it is the
collision (and collusion) of idea, purpose and visual
intention through utilisation of the representational
language that unites a central core of contemporary NZ art.
Incisive and decisive: this exhibition presents a powerful
portrait of interior and exterior intellect. 6 December 2003
- 13 January 2004 Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling
Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Diana Hennessy,
phone (03) 477 7727 Blue Oyster Gallery - Cameron Bishop
- Excesskin Cameron Bishop wants to break the logic of
the tourist, to release it from its perfected,
paid-for-in-advance and on credit image. In this show he
will recognise a different kind of tourist the one that
never quite makes it, the tourist that is constantly
threatening the body/state¹s margins but is never allowed
entry. These tourists are the asylum seekers, the
indigenous, the poor and the absent of this world. Bishop
will approach these issues with his inflated absences a
series of latex baths, each more decayed than the other,
each of them floating in the space and moving with the
rhythms of the atmosphere. Runs Until 6 December
2003 Portable: The Blue Oyster Import/Export Company This
exhibition sees our travelling show return home from a tour
of Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington and High Street
Project in Christchurch. Part of a three-way swap with these
two galleries, this show features work by trust members as
well as a few Dunedin based invited artists. The exhibition
looks at Dunedin¹s history as an industrial port and extends
these issues to encompass the transient nature of the city
that we know today. Although we as a gallery often import,
we are now proud to present Blue Oyster¹s latest export. 9 -
20 December 2003 Blue Oyster Gallery, 137 High Street,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Robyn Dold, phone (03) 479
0197 Botanic Gardens - "Permaculture - a holistic
approach to gardening" A free public talk by Trish Korth,
permaculturist. Find out more about his sustainable
practice with links to the past. 5 December 2003, 12.00pm
Botanic Garden Centre, in upper Lovelock Avenue, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Clare Thomson, phone (03) 474
9469 Otago Museum 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). Ongoing
Service - 11.30am and 3.30pm daily Communicator
Presentations Each day, the Otago Museum Communicators
present fascinating 15-minute presentations on objects or
themes of particular interest from the Museum's galleries.
Ongoing Service, 2.00pm Daily 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. Each presentation runs
for about 20 minutes and will be repeated for a month before
the next presentation begins. Weekends at 11.30am and
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. 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. 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 new
computers, microscopes, modern journals and a great variety
of new 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. Ongoing
Service Lunchtime Music A range of musicians will liven up
the atrium with live performances each week. This is now a
regular fixture but is subject to change according to
function demands. Museum Foyer, Fridays between 12noon and
1.30pm Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Ryan Helliwell, phone (03) 474 7474
ext 845 JANUARY 2003 Dunedin Public Art Gallery Paula
Modersohn-Becker and the Worpswede Artists - Drawings and
Prints 1895-1906 Born in 1876 Paula Modershohn-Becker
belongs to the circle of artists around the turn of the
century who found themselves in opposition to the strict
academic line of opinion on art. Her paintings and drawings
belong to early Expressionism and she was greatly influenced
by the work of Gauguin, Cezanne and van Gogh, who she had
met in Paris. This exhibition is organised by Germany's
Institut for Foreign Affairs, Ifa, and is being toured by
the Goethe Institut. Runs Until 25 January 2004 The
Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate
collection This stunning exhibition takes place in Dunedin
and is New Zealand's only venue where visitors will see 71
exquisite works of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and
prints from the Per-Raphaelite period. The Pre-Raphaelite
Dream includes major masterpieces such as John Millais'
Mariana, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine and William
Holman Hunt's The Awakening conscience. Presented by the
National Business Review and supported by the Dunedin City
Council and The Community Trust of Otago. Runs Until 15
February 2004 Truth's Mirror This witty and
thought-provoking exhibition juxtaposes treasures from the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery's permanent collection and is
curated by Tony Green, formerly Head of Department of Art
History, University of Auckland. A Dunedin Public Art
Gallery exhibition. Ongoing Exhibition Dunedin Public Art
Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin Contact for
enquires: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243 Blue Oyster
Gallery - Graduate Show 2004 This show exhibits a selection
of work from the graduating class of 2003 from the Otago
Polytechnic School of Art. Curated by the Blue Oyster Arts
Trust, this is always an exciting start to the Gallery's
year and is the first chance for audience to view their
newly renovated space. 27 January 2004 - 14 February 2004
Blue Oyster Gallery, 137 High Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Robyn Dold, phone (03) 479 0197 Hocken
Library McCahon: A Typeface by Luke Wood In McCahon: A
Typeface, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts
lecturer Luke Wood, has developed a typeface based on a
serious of McCahon's paintings which have the now familiar
theological narratives scrawled across New Zealand
landscapes and abstract grounds. The project attempts to
play with the relationship between an artist's signature
style when it is reconfigured into a generic set of shapes,
and what happens when a designer starts selecting only a
particular aspect of an artwork so it can be used in a new
set of contexts. The question Wood addresses is, does the
designer, through his editing and stylising of the painter's
handwriting, remove the important bits that are at the heart
of this artist's work. Commercial success was not a
motivation for Wood; the typeface is not licensed or
available for sale. However, it has been named: McCahon,
as, according to Wood, an honest indicator to its origin.
Runs Until 17 January 2004 Paisley: An Installation by
Frances Hodgkins Fellow, Sara Hughes Paisley patterns have
been a focus for Sara Hughes throughout her year of the
Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in Dunedin because of their
association with the early Scottish settlers who wore
paisley shawls as fashionable Victorian accessory. There
was even a settlement of works from Paisley who were brought
to Dunedin. Working with fabric designs has been a
recurrent motif in Hughes' previous work where textile
references are made within a circular or "dot" motif. She
has a history of combining different fabric patterns
together to enhance their interaction and to point to
notions of the decorative within painting. This exhibition
will examine decorative patterns as a conveyor of meaning
showing how something like paisley can become a transporter
of memory and ideas of trade, history and politics. 23
January 2004 - 3 April 2004 Hocken Library, cnr Anzac
Avenue & Parry Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Pennie Hunt, phone (03) 479 5648 Milford Galleries
Dunedin Overview - Notions of the Figurative The second
part of Overview is entitled Notions of the figurative.
Artists include Joanna Braithwaite, WD Hammond, Lisa
Reihana, Tony de Lautour, Robert Ellis, Terry Stringer,
Jeffrey Harris, Ross Ritchie, Paul dibble, Julia Morison and
others. What might seem disparate at first, it is the
collision (and collusion) of idea, purpose and visual
intention through utilisation of the representational
language that unites a central core of contemporary NZ art.
Incisive and decisive: this exhibition presents a powerful
portrait of interior and exterior intellect. Runs Until 13
January 2004 Overview - Abstraction and Still Life The
third part of Overview is entitled Abstraction and Still
Life. Artists include Reuben Paterson, Philip Trusttum,
Mervyn Williams, Heather Straka, Jeff Thomson, Judy Millar,
Emily Wolfe, Neil Fraser, John Parker, Elizabeth McClure and
others. This exhilarating exhibition is a combination of
abstract painting, glass and sculpture with that of still
life. It demonstrates that while issues of abstraction
concerning form, texture and pictorial function are
fundamentally different than the traditional concerns of
still life painting. If still life is removed from the
conventional two-dimensional device of illusion and
presented entirely three-dimensionally then there arises a
commonality of interests that is as revealing as it is
illuminating. 17 January 2004 - 2 March 2004 Milford
Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Diana Hennessy, phone (03) 477 7727 Bush,
Schroeder Say Differences on Iraq Are Over Sept. 24, New
York President Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder said after their meeting in New York September 24
that their differences on Iraq are over. The two leaders
were in New York for the opening of the United Nations
General Assembly. Bush addressed the General Assembly
September 23; Schroeder was expected to speak September
24. "We've had differences and they're over, and we're
going to work together," Bush said he told Schroeder at the
outset of their meeting. Schroeder said that after talking
about the situation in Iraq with Bush, "we very much feel
that the differences ... have been left behind and put aside
by now." Bush said that he reaffirmed to Schroeder the
importance of German-American relations to his
administration, and that he appreciated Schroeder's efforts
to "help Iraq grow to be a peaceful and stable and
democratic country." The German chancellor explained that
Germany would "very much like to come in [to Iraq] and help
with the resources that we do have" such as providing
training for security personnel. In addition to Iraq and
Afghanistan, Bush said the two talked about the Middle East
and "proliferation concerns." Following is the White
House transcript: THE WHITE HOUSE REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BUSH AND CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER OF
GERMANY IN A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Waldorf Astoria PRESIDENT BUSH: Listen,
thank you all for coming. Gerhard and I just had a very good
meeting. The first thing I told him, I said, look, we've had
differences and they're over, and we're going to work
together. And I believe when Germany and America work
together we can accomplish a lot of positive things. We're
both committed to freedom; we're both committed to peace;
we're both committed to the prosperity of our people. And I
reaffirmed to Gerhard that American and German relations are
very important to this administration. I have said so
repeatedly. I said so in the Bundestag, and I reiterated it
today with the Chancellor. We will work together in
Afghanistan. I appreciate his efforts to help with a -- help
Iraq grow to be a peaceful and stable and democratic
country. We talked about the Middle East. We talked about
proliferation concerns. In short, we talked about the things
we can do together to benefit mankind. And I'm really happy
we had the meeting today. Thank you, sir. CHANCELLOR
SCHROEDER: I can only comment and very much confirm what the
President has just said. We addressed a whole range of
international topics, but we didn't just exclusively talk
about international affairs. We also addressed the economic
situation, because we feel that our problems, when it comes
to that, are similar, indeed. Both of our economies are by
now so closely intertwined that it really makes sense to
think about them conjointly. I cannot conceal that I was
very pleased, indeed, that the President did appreciate the
contribution Germany is making within Afghanistan. We very
much are trying to make this a sustainable contribution, and
I think our people on the ground are doing a good job, and
therefore, I have to say I'm proud of the work they're doing
for us, and for us together. We then proceeded to actually
talk about the situation in Iraq, and indeed, we very much
feel that the differences that have been, have been left
behind and put aside by now. We are both agreed that we want
to look into the future together. And I would like to
reiterate the fact that Germany has a very strong, in fact a
vested interest, in a stable and very democratic Iraq, and
to development to that effect. It is very important not just
for Iraq as such, but for the whole of the region, for
Germany, and therefore, also for Europe. We certainly have
emphasized the fact, and I have once more said this to the
President myself, how very much we would like to come in and
help with the resources that we do have. We could very much
envisage that we will assist in providing training for
security staff, be it police functions or be it some form of
military function. We do have the capacities for that
available in Germany, and we would very much like to put
them to that purpose. PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you, sir. Q:
Mr. President, what about the response to your speech
yesterday? PRESIDENT BUSH: I can only judge by your
reaction to it. (Laughter.)
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2003
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