Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events
Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events
August 2004 to September 2004
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.
AUGUST 2004
Dunedin Centre
Southern Sinfonia - Li-Wei
Brilliant young cellist Li-Wei makes his Dunedin debut with Tchaikovsky’s virtuosic Variations on a Rococo Theme plus Cello Dreaming by leading Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. Only 22 years old, he is already well known on the international circuit. The programme begins and ends with two charmingly lyrical works: Mozart’s ‘Serenade for Winds’, and Schubert’s ‘Symphony No. 3.’ Directing the Sinfonia for this concert will be Nicholas Braithwaite, the Sinfonia’s Principal Guest Conductor.
1 August 2004, 3.00pm
Glenroy Auditorium, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Philippa Harris, phone (03) 477 5623
Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Southern Sinfonia - Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez
Australian Karin Schaupp is one of today’s most outstanding young guitarists. She performs widely on the international stage, and with the Sinfonia will perform the best-loved guitar concerto: Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo. Internationally acclaimed conductor Werner Andreas Albert has established a formidable reputation, performing mainly in Europe. Under his baton, the Sinfonia will perform Brahms’s powerful ‘Symphony No. 1’, as well as Dvorak’s ‘Serenade for Winds’.
14 August 2004, 8.00pm
Dunedin Town Hall
Contact for enquiries: Philippa Harris, phone (03) 477 5623
Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
New Zealand String Quartet with Hariolf Schlichtig (Viola)
A double-dose Mozart, beginning with a wealth of melody and sense of optimism, then moving to a mood of warm delight and vitality, with a red-blooded and joyful work from Brahms to finish with.
16 August 2004, 8.00pm
Glenroy Auditorium, Moray Place, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
University of Otago Coleman Lecture - After Gaudi - Architecture of Anticipation - Professor Mark Burry
“You don’t slate somebody for designing the impossible. You use human ingenuity to achieve the possible.” The ongoing construction of what is acclaimed as one of the great works of architectural imagining of the modern era, La Sagrada Familia, is under the project direction of New Zealander Mark Burry, Professor of Innovation at RMIT, Australia. Professor Burry is consultant architect to Temple Sagrada Familia, Barcelona. Utilising cutting edge computer modelling to continue the realisation of architect Antoni Gaudi’s visionary plan; a radical fusing together of art and science to construct a work in time as well as space. The Department of Design Studies at Consumer and Applied Sciences hosts the lecture .
4 August 2004, 5.30pm
Castle 2 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago
Contact for enquiries: Elizabeth Kerr, NZIA Southern Branch , phone 03 479 1064
Globe Theatre - She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith; director David Corballis
The Globe Theatre’s second 18th century work for this year is comedy that is more slapstick, less satirical than that of their last production, The Beggar’s Opera . While money and social status are of prime importance to the older characters it is love, rather than sex, that occupies the minds of the younger generation (on stage anyway). This is a comedy of errors, of confused identities, romantic confusions and, of course, happy endings.
5 - 14 August
2004 (excluding 9 August)
Globe Theatre, 104 London
Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries; Rosemary
Beresford, phone (03) 479 7273 (day); (03) 478 0248
(evening)
Contact for bookings: Globe Theatre Box Office,
phone (03) 477 3274
University of Otago - Lunchtime Theatre: Bite size Shows
Lunchtime Theatre is a twenty-seven year old innovation of Theatre Studies at the University of Otago and has been pleasing audiences since its conception. There are a huge variety of performance styles - from improvised theatre to naturalistic plays, to simply the most bizarre material encountered.
The Real by Scott Ransom
"It's as though my world has shrunken into this little box inside my head…" John Wilson's life is a lie that can no longer sustain itself. How would you know if you were awake or dreaming? Do you ever ask yourself just what is real?
5 - 6 August 2004, 1.00pm
Don’t Tell by Carmen Wilson
Oppressed by religion, her sex and poverty, Annie is forced to leave Ireland and start a new life in New Zealand.
12 - 13 August 2004, 1.00pm
Medeaplay by Heiner Muller
Medeaplay is an image-based production, which expresses a dark look at life and death. It could pay to wear waterproof clothing. It's gutsy!
19 - 20 August 2004, 1.00pm
Cinderella Has Syphilis by Amber McPhee
Set in the Editorialle Hospital for mentally challenged characters, Dr. Seuss is confronted with a challenge: to persuade Cinderella, the Wolf, the Queen and the Jack to go back to their respective stories and miserable lives; or face losing his most beloved hospital.
26 - 27 August 2004, 1.00pm
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Union Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Fiona McLaughlin, phone (03) 479 8896
Contact for Bookings: Allen Hall, phone (03) 479 8896
Otago Festival of the Arts
The Otago Festival of the Arts [29 September to 9
October 2004] will again envelope Dunedin in a whirlwind of
captivating music, thought-provoking theatre, magical dance,
avant-garde opera and much, much more. Otago’s major
cultural event presents a stellar array of international and
New Zealand performers - along with Dunedin’s finest
artists. With no less than six premières of new works, and
guest artists coming from eight countries, the Otago
Festival promises to be a startling celebration of creative
endeavour. The Festival programme will be rich and varied.
For eleven dynamic days and nights, there will be something
for everyone, from vocal ‘pop art’ to rare indigenous music;
from our country’s finest ballet to cutting-edge
contemporary dance-theatre; from side splitting comedy to
stimulating theatre. The city will be infused with festival
fever as churches and museums are turned into theatres, and
an enticing medley of lunchtime concerts and late-night
cabaret is on offer. Once again, the Otago Festival of the
Arts will confirm this region’s passion for the arts. The
Festival programme will be officially launched at 6.00pm
Friday 6 August. Check out the Festival’s website
www.otagofestival.co.nz Official Programme Launch, 6 August 2004
Contact for enquiries: Jessica Garland, phone (03) 477
7600 or 021 504 524 Contact for Bookings: NZ Ticketek
outlets Blue Oyster Gallery Don Hunter
Jugger-naught Don Hunter has built a machine that
processes identity cards, which are marked with individual
human fingerprints. The fingerprints are authentic,
collected from real people. The machine processes the cards,
rejecting those that are different. Hunter is playing with
the idea of how we (societally) react to real and perceived
differences. The rejected cards are shredded and blasted
into the gallery space thereby forcing the
viewer/participant to walk on the remains. Those cards
accepted by the machine pass through a slow but inexorable
production process, eventually emerging to start the whole
process again. The rejections that we suffer on each other
socially and politically are usually visible. The value
system that the Jugger-naught uses is opaque. Not being able
to predict how acceptability is decided could create a sense
of insecurity. How normal are you in the eyes of the
commercial industrial machine? 3 - 21 August 2004 Blue
Oyster East Side Richard Reddaway Wellington artist
Richard Reddaway questions the object and the idea of
‘object ness’, as well as space itself, thereby continuing
his line of exploration into non-linear models of time/space
structuring. This line of inquiry is intended to create
models that could be useful in an attempt to understand
apparent dichotomies, such as between the individual and
society, and other oppositions in which ‘many’ conflicts
with ‘one’. At the Blue Oyster Reddaway will be continuing
to develop a project that he installed at Show (in
Wellington) in February. The inquiry will be specifically
focused on restructuring representations of the body that
were originally made for voyeuristic pleasure, working with
paper material sourced from magazines, ranging from
soft-core pornography to fashion. In the artists own words:
“The intention of this project is to investigate some of the
mechanisms used in pornographic representations of the body
in order to better understand how pornography “works”. It
involves the development of an operation, or set of
operations that “lower” imagery, rendering it more (or less)
pornographic. At Blue Oyster I intend to present an
installation of cut, folded and assembled paper objects that
will infect the space of the gallery in ways analogous to a
virus infecting the body”. 3 - 21 August 2004 Blue
Oyster West Side Gala Kirke The Magic Charm This
multimedia installation looks at the ways in which the
distinctions between the real and unreal have become blurred
in our media saturated lives. Integrating the worlds of
commercialism and fine art, Kirke explores the obvious
delusion the public has developed in recent years, an
obsession with false charm and idealised ideas of the real.
In portraying this fantasy, this ‘virtual truth’, the art
balances between the humorous and the sad, the short-lived
and the timeless. 24 August - 11 September 2004 Blue
Oyster West Side Nick Dewar In this project Dunedin
artist Nick Dewar continues to explore disintegration and
deterioration. His recent thinking is specific to the damage
and effects of war. He comments: “Many of us, myself
included, sat at home and watched on television the first of
thousands of missiles landing in Baghdad with Fox
newscasters commentating on the progress as if it was the
kick off to the Super Bowl.” We begin to understand these
works through the unconventional materials he is using
including soot, ash, fire, dirt and used car oil. Our
initial response to these materials brings us directly into
contact with broken sites, as we remain in the safety of the
gallery. Dewar also uses light and sound to increase
atmospheric affect The controlled deterioration of the
works is intended to act as a parallel to the progressive
disintegration of our society. 24 August - 11 September
2004 Blue Oyster East Side Blue Oyster Gallery, 137
High Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Ali
Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197 Regent Theatre The
International Film Festival 2004 Founded in 1977, this
Festival presents a highlights package of fifty features -
plus shorts - in the beautiful South Island university city
of Dunedin. A superbly preserved venue, Dunedin's Regent
Theatre combines the spacious elegance of a '20s movie
palace with state-of-the-art projection and sound. The
world's southernmost Film Festival is not only a very
popular local event; it is also one of the best places in
the world to see and hear your film. Runs Until 8 August
2004 Royal New Zealand Ballet - The TOWER Season of
Madame Butterfly The tragic story of Madame Butterfly's
love and betrayal is vividly portrayed in dance. Flying in
the face of tradition, the beautiful geisha Madame Butterfly
sacrifices everything to follow her heart. She renounces her
faith and her family to marry Lieutenant Pinkerton, the
dashing but cynical American naval officer. He soon deserts
her. Years later, Pinkerton returns with a new American wife
and delivers a final crushing blow. Set to Puccini's
haunting score, featuring the Southern Sinfonia, Stanton
Welch's Madame Butterfly is a richly shaded and passionate
rendition of the famous love story . 27 - 28 August 2004,
7.30pm Elton Joel Elton Joel features two modern day
Mozarts’ dual out the greatest hits of Elton John and Billy
Joel, featuring Kim Hoffman as Elton John and Deryn Trainer
as Bill Joel. This is a recreation of the much-loved songs
in an intimate venue, supported by a full backing band.
30 August 2004, 8.00pm Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone
(03) 477 8597 Dunedin Public Art Gallery Phil
Dadson: Polar Projects Phil Dadson reveals Antarctica’s
wide white landscape as an extraordinary soundscape in this
project. Winner of a recent New Zealand Arts Foundation
Laureate Award for his work as a sound artist, Dadson is
presenting for the first time the results of his 2003 trip
to Antarctica. In darkened galleries, he offers a winding
journey through a field of ventifacts; watches (and listens)
as high winds turn power lines into an Aeolian harp; and
generally finds in Antarctica a place that looks and sounds
like no other on earth. Produced with generous support
from Antarctica NZ, Creative New Zealand and Sony (NZ) 8
August - 19 September 2004 Home and Abroad Home and
Abroad is an exhibition of watercolours from the Dunedin
Public Art Gallery’s Smythe Collection. Tony Green, formerly
Head of the Department of Art History, University of
Auckland, curates the exhibition. A Dunedin Public Art
Gallery exhibition Runs Until 6 September 2004 Chris
Braddock: Sanitate Chris Braddock's Sanitate punctuates
the vast white expanse of the Gallery's Big Wall with a
hundred strange chrome boxes, each connected to the next by
laced and plaited electrical cord. Glowing internally with a
green medical light, Braddock's elegant network of objects
suggests both religious art (the museum as shrine) and the
gleaming artifacts of contemporary medicine (the museum as
clinic). Runs Until 6 September 2004 Daniel von
Sturmer Daniel von Sturmer is the Gallery’s first
Visiting Artist for 2004. This expatriate New Zealand artist
has a rising profile in Australia. Working mostly with
video, von Sturmer creates art works that are quiet, patient
- and mesmerising. Using tabletop and domestic materials (a
polystyrene cup, a piece of BluTak) and seeming sleights of
hand (objects float, topple, and appear to defy gravity),
von Sturmer crafts small loops of time that enthral and
enlighten. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artists
Project, supported by Creative New Zealand Truth’s Mirror Truth’s Mirror is a
witty and thought-provoking juxtaposition of treasures from
the Gallery’s permanent collection. Curated by Tony Green,
formerly Head of the Department of Art History, of the
University of Auckland A Dunedin Public Art Gallery
exhibition Runs Until 10 October 2004 Frances
Hodgkins: Daughter of Dunedin Daughter of Dunedin is the
second exhibition in t he gallery permanently devoted to the
works of one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded artists,
Frances Hodgkins. The exhibition offers the viewer an
insight into the artist’s early life and work. A Dunedin
Public Art Gallery exhibition Runs Until 31 October 2004
Sara Hughes: Love Me Tender Sara Hughes, the 2003
Frances Hodgkins fellow at University of Otago, brings
colour and life to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Otago
Daily Times Gallery with her distinctive variations on the
Paisley patterns that Scottish settlers brought to Dunedin.
Cut from pre-painted sheets of sticky vinyl, Hughes’ Paisley
shapes stretch and flex as if manipulated on a computer
screen - nineteenth century forms refreshed by twenty-first
century technology. 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 Otago
Museum Otago Wildlife Photography Competition This is
Otago photographers’ shot for top spot. Take a photograph
of an animal, a plant or an example of human impact on the
environment and enter the 2004 Otago Wildlife Photography
Competition . For the fifth year the Otago Museum, NHNZ,
Jonathan’s Camera & Video and Nikon have come together to
bring this exciting photographic competition to Otago
residents. Otago residents who have taken a great photo
since 1 January 2003 are encouraged to enter - to be in to
win a first prize of $1500 worth of Nikon equipment from
Jonathan’s Camera & Video. There are excellent category
prizes from NHNZ, Nikon and Jonathan’s Camera & Video.
The photography categories are ‘Plant’, ‘Animal’ and
‘Human Impact on the Environment’ and entries are welcomed
from all amateur photographers, with the age categories
being 14 years and under and 15 years plus. The calibre of
last year’s entries was superb and the judges are looking
forward to the standard rising again this year. Entry forms
can be collected from the Otago Museum, NHNZ, Jonathan’s
Camera & Video or they can be downloaded from the Otago
Museum website. Entries must be submitted to the
Otago Museum as 6” x 8” un-mounted prints by 5pm Friday 6
August, and a panel of judges will select the category
winners and overall winner. There is a maximum of four
entries per entrant, which can be across all categories but
are restricted to no more than two entries per photo
category. Following the conclusion of the competition, the
Otago Museum will host an exhibition displaying photographs
from all five years of the ‘Otago Wildlife Photography
Competition’. Will your photos be amongst them? Entries
close 5pm, Friday 6 August 2004. Exhibition will be in
the Special Exhibitions Gallery, 14 August - 3 October 2004
Mission Earthling Discover the secrets of the human
body upon entering Mission Earthling . Participants assume
the role of an alien visitor from another planet who
'morphs' into human form to discover how humans survive on
this planet and how well our bodies are adapted to life on
earth. Your mission is to have fun finding out about the
sensory, reproductive, defence, digestive and circulatory
systems of the human body. Mission Earthling was created by
Scitech Discovery Centre in Perth and developed in
consultation with biological experts. The exhibition has
toured internationally and has shown that complex science
can be understandable and enjoyable for both children and
adults alike. It not only explains how we humans work (from
the perspective of an alien), it also contains important
messages about how we can better take care of our wondrous
bodies. Special Exhibitions Gallery, Runs Until 8 August
2004 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 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 and Saturdays between 12noon and 1.30pm Discovery
World Science Shows These excellent shows are now run by
the Museum’s Science Communicators. Discovery World,
Saturdays & Sundays at 11am, 1pm and 3pm 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 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 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. Otago
Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Ryan Helliwell, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845
Peter Rae Gallery Michael Greaves - Recent
Paintings Without looking too hard one can see something
of Turner’s atmospheres in Greaves’ works. Or the abstract
expressionism of Richter with restricted palette and jagged
edges brushed soft. Greaves considers his work to be based
on abstract expressionism but will not allow himself to be
tied down to prescribed schools or idioms. Rather, he
prefers to feed off concepts inherent in various movements
rather than to follow them - this allows him to use the
influences as means of stimulation rather than as close
guidelines. He describes his current work simply as
‘contemporary’. Runs Until 10 August 2004 Cabinet of
Curiosity by Dale Copeland, and Voyage of Discovery by
Alison Swan Dale Copeland’s art education has been an
informal, ongoing process, but it was not until the Taranaki
Artist’s Co-operative (TACO) encouraged her that she began
to let her artistic inclinations play a more significant
role in her life. Currently living at Puniho, Taranaki, she
has her works represented in the collections of the Dowse
Art Museum, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Gisborne Museum and
Arts Centre, Massey University and the James Wallace Art
Trust as well as in private collections. Copeland regards
her assemblages as ‘sort of making themselves and says: “I
collect all this lovely stuff…hold it, find things that sing
with it - that look as though they belong together - that
start to make their own story.” Alison Swan holds a
degree in Graphic Design from the Central School of Art &
Design, London - specialising in Typography and book design.
At present, she is attending a mechanical engineering course
to learn welding and metalwork, which she sees as a further
medium of artistic expression. Inspired by the powerful
natural images around her Otago Peninsula home, Alison¹s
works include images in sand and clay on found timber
grounds using processes she has self-developed. Works on
paper are developed from her love of the biblical language
of the King James Bible coupled with her background in
typography and graphic design. Runs Until 18 August 2004
Lynn Taylor - invisible bridge Lynn Taylor is a visual
artist who lives by, and is continually inspired by, the sea
on the Otago Peninsula. She exhibits in New Zealand,
Australia, Korea, Japan and the United States with her work
held in many national and international private collections.
In 2003, supported by Creative New Zealand and Otago
Polytechnic, Taylor undertook a residency at the Department
of Industrial Design, Woosuk University, Korea. This Dunedin
exhibition forms a parallel to the 2003 invisible bridge
held in Woosuk University in Jeonju, Korea. The work is the
result of a seven-week residency at the University recording
text, textures and images between our countries while
exploring aspects of communication and investigating the
potential of photopolymer plate as an art medium. Taylor
presents the viewer with a subtle wallpaper of 250 blind
emboss prints to blur the boundaries between reading for the
sighted and non-sighted, to make the information accessible
and inaccessible in the same breath and to utilise the sense
of touch as a shared human response. The corresponding
print plates are laid out on the floor to be walked on
without shoes so the viewer too becomes a print. In the
language of printmaking an artist may print an edition and
if you own one of the prints you have a connection, an
invisible bridge, to other the people who own a print from
the same edition, like being part of a family. Korean
viewers who selected prints recorded their email details
that will be available to Dunedin viewers so the invisible
bridge between countries that can be further activated with
media communications migrating in electronic space. Prints
in the exhibition are available for purchase by paper koha
with the artist donating proceeds to create the Reiko
Scholarship for undergraduate students at the School of Art.
This Scholarship intends to provide financial assistance to
students undertaking international exchange study with other
institutions. 20 August - 9 September 2004 Peter Rae
Gallery, 215 Stuart St, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Peter Rae, phone (03) 470 1022 or 0274 585 424,
www.peterraegallery.co.nz Refuel Auckland band 8FT
Sativa play live (19 August); Kaleidoscope Records World
Series Tour comes to Dunedin for the first time, featuring
Ed Gains, Joed Out and Feyodor, Bob Scott, Onaon and local
musicians (20 August). The OUSA Air Guitar competitions are
back (25 August) and Alphabethead , Wellington Turntablist
extraordinaire, showcases his skills in a one off Dunedin
performance (26 August). 19 - 26 August 2004 Otago
Settlers Museum Living Memories Each of us has
treasures, things we value. These treasures often reflect
who we are and where we have come from. They sometimes
provide an insight into our achievements or the most
important events in our lives. The Living Memories
exhibition is the culmination of a three-month exploration
of the lives, memories and treasures of twenty local people.
It is an account of ordinary people each with their own
unique story to tell - written down, captured on film and
portrayed through the things they treasure. Living
Memories is an Age Care Otago, Queens High School and the
Otago Settlers Museum partnership project Runs Until 13
August 2004 Water Like Wine: a History of the Kaikorai
Valley and Stream The Kaikorai stream defines Dunedin’s
western margins. Its catchment is a border zone where town
meets country and industry holds the middle ground. It is
almost a secret, a part of Dunedin life we seldom notice.
But from the first Maori who passed this way and named it,
the Kaikorai stream and its eco-system have underpinned life
here. This exhibition is about the places that flank the
stream, from Halfway Bush and Wakari down the Valley to
Burnside, Green Island and Fairfield. It features old
established suburbs as well as more recent housing schemes
like Brockville, Concord and Waldronville. Explore one of
Dunedin’s edges, where history and nature are inextricably
entwined. Runs Until 19 September 2004 Across the
Ocean Waves What was it like crossing the oceans to come
here in a sailing ship? The core of this new display is an
accurate recreation of the steerage quarters of an immigrant
ship bound for Otago in the days of sail. Visitors are
welcome to climb into a bunk or sit at the central table and
imagine what life would have been like cooped up for 100 or
more days at sea. Short video presentations bring the era
to life. Death and disaster, fun and romance, the misery of
seasickness and the excitement of arrival are all showcased.
A baby dies, fighting breaks out among the single girls, and
there is dancing and a stolen kisses. This is an
interactive exhibit, which will seize the imagination and
transport you back to the epic voyages made by Otago’s
nineteenth century ancestors. “Climb aboard” and see for
yourself what their great migration was all about.
Ongoing Exhibition Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens
Gardens, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Tim Pollock,
phone (03) 474 3243 Fortune Theatre - 30 anniversary
season 1974-2004 proudly providing 30 years of excellent
professional theatre for the Otago community. The Pied
Piper The town of Hamelin is under rat-attack. Hoards of
scurrying scampering rats, beady-eyed and plague ridden fill
every nook and cranny. When a colourful stranger appears,
offering a solution to the town’s problem, the town fathers
are dubious - should they trust this raggle-taggle piper?
This musical retelling of the classic tale is fantastic fun
for children young and old! Runs Until 14 August 2004
Othello - by William Shakespeare, directed by Martin
Howells ‘O! Beware my lord, of jealousy; It is the green
eyed monster, Which doth mock the meat it feeds on.’
Following the success of the recent Fortune Theatre
productions of Shakespeare, the tradition continues with
this most powerful of plays from the pen of the world’s
greatest playwright. Like all of Shakespeare’s magnificent
works, Othello is as ageless as the emotions that fuel its
tragic force. Supposed-adultery, jealousy, envy and revenge
all make for a mesmerising night of theatrical brilliance.
27 August - 18 September 2004 Fortune Theatre, 231
Stuart Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Lisa Scott,
phone (03) 477 1695 Contact for Bookings: Box Office,
phone (03) 477 8323 Cleveland Living Arts Centre
Garden Art - no weeding required Get ready to spring
back into your garden after winter with this selection of
sculpture ready to enhance your garden; accompanied by
botanic drawings and paintings. Garden Art exhibition
features established and emerging artists from Dunedin and
Otago including, Moira Crossman, Nick Duval-Smith, Julie
Davidson, Danny Holland, Jonathan Otley, Carissa Proffit,
Anna Shin, Magnus Sinclair, and Phyllis Smith. Painters
include Rod Eales, Monica Peters and Sue Ballantyne 17 -
28 August 2004; Weekdays 10.00am - 4.00pm; Saturdays 10 .
00am-2.00pm Tales from Tibet - The Enchanting Story of
Tibetan Carpets If a picture paints a thousand words, a
Tibetan carpet certainly tells a thousand tales. Tales from
Tibet exhibition showcases more than 50 traditionally
crafted carpets of varying sizes. Each carpet is hand
knotted from wool by refugees from Tibet living in India and
Nepal. Their carpet-making skills are a legacy of more than
100,000 refugees who fled Tibet in 1959 to live in exile
after the Chinese invasion of their country. Trade Aid
brings Tales from Tibet exhibition for the first time to
Dunedin; these rugs are the genuine article made by Tibetan
refugees who are provided with a fair wage for their work
while preserving a cultural tradition. 17 - 28 August
2004, Weekdays 10.00am - 4.00pm; Weekends 10 .00am- 4 .00pm
Cleveland Living Arts Centre, 1st floor, Dunedin Railway
Station, Anzac Avenue, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Kari Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291 Hocken Library -
Winter Seminar Series Barbara Brookes - Head of the
History Department Mark Stocker - Senior Lecturer, Art
History Representation and
Reaction: Modernism and the New Zealand Landscape Tradition
1956-77 This exhibition brings together fifty paintings,
drawn principally from the collections of the Kelliher and
Fletcher Trusts. >From 1956 to 1977 Dominion Breweries
sponsored the Kelliher Art Awards that were the brainchild
of Sir Henry Kelliher - one of the founders of Waitemata
Brewery and later managing director of Dominion Breweries.
Entry conditions called for oil paintings of realistic and
traditional representations of New Zealand's landscape and
coast, and entries from award winners went on to form the
basis of the Kelliher Trust Collection. The Fletcher
Collection was founded by Sir James Fletcher in 1962 and
initially devoted to collecting historic New Zealand
watercolours. However in 1967 it was decided to embark on
collection of contemporary paintings and under the guidance
of its first curator Peter Bromhead, went on to establish
one of New Zealand's most significant corporate collections.
Exhibition curator Peter Shaw has used these two collections
to explore the often acrimonious and polarising debate that
existed in the post-war period between the two camps of
representational and abstract art. Representation &
Reaction is the first exhibition to bring the two opposing
traditions together on a direct and equal footing in an
environment in which the distinctive qualities of both can
be appreciated and re-assessed. Runs Until 29 August 2004
Hocken Library, cnr Anzac Avenue & Parry Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone (03) 479 5648
Botanic Garden - HortTalk Presents - Art in the Home
Garden - and how to shift a 3 tonne sculpture ! Rachel
Gibb of the Renaissance Gallery and Sculpture Garden and
Kari Morseth of Cleveland Living Arts Centre join forces to
deliver tips on finding sculpture in Dunedin gardens. 13
August 2004, 12noon Botanic Garden Centre, Upper Lovelock
Avenue, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Clare Fraser,
phone (03) 474 9649 Arc Café Arcoustic
Fortnightly evening of beautiful acoustic music for a
gold coin... 2, 16 & 30 August 2004; 9.00pm Glottis
Fortnightly open mic meeting of poetry enthusiasts… 9
& 23 August 2004; 8.30pm Arc Café, High Street, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Emmanuelle Gomez, phone: 03 474
1135 SEPTEMBER 2004 Hocken Library - Winter Seminar
Series Brian Turner - Writer , “Where the hell did that
come from?” What I've been writing recently, how, and why -
as far as I can tell 2 September 2004, 12.10pm
Mladen Bizumc - Frances Hodgkins Fellow , on his own
practice 16 September 2004, 12.10pm George D.
Valentine, A 19th Century Photographer in New Zealand
curated by Ken Hall, and toured by the Christchurch Art
Gallery. Serious ill health and the need for a warmer
climate brought leading Scottish photographer George
Valentine (1852-1890) to New Zealand in 1884 (on a visit to
Dunedin he was heralded as 'a noted home photographer and
art critic'). Despite his illness, and spending just six
years here before his untimely death, Valentine produced a
remarkable body of work. In 1885 his photographs of Te
Kapuarangi and Te Tarata (the celebrated Pink and White
Terraces) won him immediate acclaim. Following the eruption
of Mount Tarawera in 1886 (and the loss of the Terraces)
Valentine returned to the devastated region to complete a
series that was unmatched for its quality and drama. This
compelling exhibition includes many classic, iconic
photographs of an earlier New Zealand. These include geyser
studies in the Thermal Region (using the newly-invented
'drop shutter' photographic technique) and celebrations of
New Zealand bush and waterfalls in the Waitakere region.
Background into George Valentine's life and work, the famed
Rotomahana Terraces, and events surrounding Tarawera's
eruption are provided by a video and interpretive displays,
together with curator Ken Hall's book that accompanies the
exhibition. 4 September - 23 October 2004 Gardens of
Erewhon: Photographs by Paul Thompson toured by Idiom
Studio, Wellington Both this exhibition and Paul
Thompson's earlier series The Illustrated Erewhon draw on
the nineteenth century English writer Samuel Butler's
sojourn in New Zealand. Butler arrived in Canterbury aged
24, and with no previous farming experience he developed the
ideas for his most famous novel, Erewhon. Thompson's
photographs show details of sub-alpine landscape marked out
by a rectangle of yellow nylon cord, which he says instantly
transforms a natural feature into a garden or cultured
space. " Erewhon was inspired by the South Island high
country, but in fact it's an imaginary place. Gardens of
Erewhon creates imaginary gardens, given a brief existence
by inserting boundaries into a seemingly natural landscape."
4 September - 23 October 2004 Glenn Busch: My Place ,
toured by the Centre of Contemporary Art This exhibition
of photographs, oral histories and documentary writing
celebrates identity and a sense of place through 68
photographs and commentaries by people living in
Christchurch who have been photographed in places "of
special significance to them." The accompanying text with
each image reveals not only a "window on a community", but
also a window on all communities. 4 September - 23
October 2004 Hocken Library, cnr Anzac Avenue & Parry
Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone
(03) 479 5648 2004 Dunedin Fringe Festival Programme
Launch The South Island’s largest Fringe arts festival
will launch its programme on Friday 3 September presenting
an outstanding programme of local, national and
international artists. The 2002 Dunedin Fringe featured 100
acts in 10 days at over 20 venues. All art forms are covered
including many collaborative and innovative projects
utilising unusual spaces and breaking traditional boundaries
between art disciplines. Presale tickets will be on
available immediately following the Programme Launch and the
full programme will also be available on the Fringe website
- www.dunedinfringe.org.nz Programme Launch, 3 September 2004 Arc Café, 135
High Street, Dunedin Dunedin Fringe Festival 2004 The
Dunedin Fringe Festival kicks off 10 days of innovative art
and performance on September 24. The Fringe takes to the
streets with a programme of street performances every day in
the Octagon, an arts trail of installations in shop windows,
a drive-in short film festival and the ever popular and
amazing Suburban Circus - a devised human circus which tours
Dunedin’s suburbs to sell-out shows. A festival within a
festival of experimental music, Lines of Flight, presents 16
hours of free noise and improvisation by New Zealand’s
leading exponents of this genre. International guests
include a dance troupe from Nepal and three world-class
comedy acts from Melbourne. The three artists will arrive at
the Dunedin Fringe fresh from sell out shows at Melbourne
Fringe where they won best solo and best comedian choice.
The trio will make their New Zealand debut at the Dunedin
Fringe Festival. Well known Christchurch multimedia theatre
group The Clinic will also attend this year’s Festival to
perform The Peculiar Case of Clara Parsons. National Radio’s
Off the Wire live recording will be on location at the
Fringe Club. Add to this over 80 other events by New Zealand
artists from all over the country and you have one hell-of-a
festival you won’t want to miss! For further information
check out the Festival’s website at www.dunedinfringe.org.nz
24 September - 3 October 2004 20+ venues throughout
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Carmen Wilson, phone (03)
477 3350; 021 178 1782 ; info@dunedinfringe.org.nz
Globe Theatre - Fringe Festival 2004 - Two new one-act
plays; Sweet Meats by Emily Duncan, and The Takeover!!! by
Nathan Matthews; each play directed by the playwright
Sweet Meats is a play inspired by anti-slavery poetry of
the Romantic period. The Takeover!!! is more difficult to
describe but provides a sci-fi look at how humans are wiping
out everything they touch - even the memory of what was is
no longer safe! 25 - 29 September 2004 Globe Theatre,
104 London Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries;
Rosemary Beresford, phone (03) 479 7273 (day); (03) 478 0248
(evening) Suffrage Exhibition - Women Artists Respond
September 19th is Women’s Suffrage Day, a day to
celebrate, and a day to remember. 3 - 16 September 2004; Weekdays 10.00am
- 4.00pm; Weekends 11.00am-2.00pm Embroiderer’s Guild
Stunning array of works by members of the Otago
Embroiderers Guild; including guest exhibitor Gay Eaton,
embroiderer and author; and the annual embroidery challenge
- this year’s theme is tassels. 8 - 12 September 2004;
Monday - Sunday 9.30am - 5.00pm Cleveland Living Arts
Centre, 1st floor, Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Avenue,
Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Kari Morseth, phone (03)
477 7291 Mayfair Theatre - The Really Authentic Gilbert
And Sullivan Trust Presents - Patience Patience is the
fifth opera in the Trust’s complete G & S cycle 2002-2012.
Patience is a witty satire on artistic pretentiousness in
late nineteenth-century England at the time of the
Pre-Raphaelite painters with a cast of lovesick maidens,
self-indulgent poets and Dragoon Guards. Featuring the
Southern Sinfonia, the company is led by brilliant ‘one
woman’ Wellington performer Jane Keller as Lady Jane with
Dave Solomon as Reginald Bunthorne, Joel Allen as Archibald
Grosvenor, Donald Evans as Colonel Calverley and Kerry Scurr
as Patience. 5 September 2004, 2.30pm; 7 & 8, 10 & 11
September 2004, 8.00pm Mayfair Theatre, South Dunedin
Contact for enquiries : Michael Andrewes, phone 03 477
8463 Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone (03)
477 8597 Dunedin Public Art Gallery Chris Braddock:
Sanitate Chris Braddock's Sanitate punctuates the vast
white expanse of the Gallery's Big Wall with a hundred
strange chrome boxes, each connected to the next by laced
and plaited electrical cord. Glowing internally with a green
medical light, Braddock's elegant network of objects
suggests both religious art (the museum as shrine) and the
gleaming artefacts of contemporary medicine (the museum as
clinic). Runs Until 6 September 2004 Daniel von
Sturmer Daniel von Sturmer is the Gallery’s first
Visiting Artist for 2004. This expatriate New Zealand artist
has a rising profile in Australia, Working mostly with
video, von Sturmer creates art works that are quiet, patient
- and mesmerising. Using tabletop and domestic materials (a
polystyrene cup, a piece of BluTak) and seeming sleights of
hand (objects float, topple, and appear to defy gravity),
von Sturmer crafts small loops of time that enthral and
enlighten. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artists
Project, supported by Creative New Zealand Contact for enquires: Tim
Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243 Regent Theatre A Festival
of Russian Ballet Following sell out performances of "The
Nutcracker" in 2003 the Imperial Russian Ballet Company
return with a stunning and diverse medley from some of the
world’s great ballets including Act I & II of Don Quixote,
excerpts from Bolero, Carmen, Walpurgis Night, and French
Can-Can Surprise. 8 September 2004, 7.30pm Evita
The New Zealand tour opens in Auckland on 20 August 2004,
after previews, and will subsequently play in four other
cities until late October. With the international cast to be
announced in the next few weeks, the production will be on a
40-foot revolving stage and accompanied by a 14 piece live
orchestra. Don’t miss this new 2004 Production, part of the
Otago Festival of the Arts programme. 30 September - 2
October 2004 Regent Theatre, 17 The Octagon, Dunedin
Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477
8597 University of Otago - Lunchtime Theatre: Bite
size Shows Lunchtime Theatre is a twenty-seven year old
innovation of Theatre Studies at the University of Otago and
has been pleasing audiences since its conception. There are
a huge variety of performance styles - from improvised
theatre to naturalistic plays, to simply the most bizarre
material encountered. Freesias by Welby Ing "Saul
didn't come home for two hours…when he did…they'd gone…Mum
was washing the dishes, round and round the kitchen sink,
just staring out the window. The water had gone cold."
Freesias is a hard-hitting NZ play, which chronicles the
break-up of a marriage. 9 - 10 September 2004, 1.00pm
Where Fame Lies by Teresa Louisell How do we conquer
taboo? Throw a party! Based on a true story, this show
reminds us that there are treasures to be revealed in loss
through its celebration of beautifully trashy human drama!
Magical yet grounded, uplifting yet insane, Where Fame Lies
is a dance floor, and mud is on everyone's heels. 16 - 17
September 2004, 1.00pm Lucky Dip Theatre Showcasing
the talent of THEA 301: Directing students. Different
selections each day from playwrights Sam Shepard, Dylan
Thomas, Samuel Beckett, Terence McNally and more, so just
come along and have a lucky dip… 23 - 24 & 29 September
2004, 1.00pm Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago,
Union Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Fiona
McLaughlin, phone (03) 479 8896 Contact for Bookings:
Allen Hall, phone (03) 479 8896 Lynn Taylor is a
visual artist who lives by, and is continually inspired by,
the sea on the Otago Peninsula. She exhibits in New Zealand,
Australia, Korea, Japan and the United States with her work
held in many national and international private collections.
In 2003, supported by Creative New Zealand and Otago
Polytechnic, Taylor undertook a residency at the Department
of Industrial Design, Woosuk University, Korea. This Dunedin
exhibition forms a parallel to the 2003 invisible bridge
held in Woosuk University in Jeonju, Korea. The work is the
result of a seven-week residency at the University recording
text, textures and images between our countries while
exploring aspects of communication and investigating the
potential of photopolymer plate as an art medium. Taylor
presents the viewer with a subtle wallpaper of 250 blind
emboss prints to blur the boundaries between reading for the
sighted and non-sighted, to make the information accessible
and inaccessible in the same breath and to utilise the sense
of touch as a shared human response. The corresponding
print plates are laid out on the floor to be walked on
without shoes so the viewer too becomes a print. In the
language of printmaking an artist may print an edition and
if you own one of the prints you have a connection, an
invisible bridge, to other the people who own a print from
the same edition, like being part of a family. Korean
viewers who selected prints recorded their email details
that will be available to Dunedin viewers so the invisible
bridge between countries that can be further activated with
media communications migrating in electronic space. Prints
in the exhibition are available for purchase by paper koha
with the artist donating proceeds to create the Reiko
Scholarship for undergraduate students at the School of Art.
This Scholarship intends to provide financial assistance to
students undertaking international exchange study with other
institutions. Runs Until 9 September 2004 Peter Rae
Gallery, 215 Stuart St, Dunedin Contact for enquiries:
Peter Rae, phone (03) 470 1022 or 0274 585 424,
www.peterraegallery.co.nz Botanic Garden - HortTalk
Presents - Plants May Fly Don’t understand the rules
about importing plants? MAF quarantine service and Dunedin
Botanic Garden’s Tom Myers will discuss MAF’s current
regulations of seed and plant import and the Botanic
Garden’s international seed exchange programme. 10
September 2004, 12noon Botanic Garden Centre, Upper
Lovelock Avenue, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Clare
Fraser, phone (03) 474 9649 Blue Oyster Gallery
Gala Kirke The Magic Charm This multimedia
installation looks at the ways in which the distinctions
between the real and unreal have become blurred in our media
saturated lives. Integrating the worlds of commercialism and
fine art, Kirke explores the obvious delusion the public has
developed in recent years, an obsession with false charm and
idealised ideas of the real. In portraying this fantasy,
this ‘virtual truth’, the art balances between the humorous
and the sad, the short-lived and the timeless. Runs Until
11 September 2004 Blue Oyster West Side Nick Dewar
In this project Dunedin artist Nick Dewar continues to
explore disintegration and deterioration. His recent
thinking is specific to the damage and effects of war. He
comments: “Many of us, myself included, sat at home and
watched on television the first of thousands of missiles
landing in Baghdad with Fox newscasters commentating on the
progress as if it was the kick off to the Super Bowl.” We
begin to understand these works through the unconventional
materials he is using including soot, ash, fire, dirt and
used car oil. Our initial response to these materials brings
us directly into contact with broken sites, as we remain in
the safety of the gallery. Dewar also uses light and sound
to increase atmospheric affect The controlled
deterioration of the works is intended to act as a parallel
to the progressive disintegration of our society. Runs
Until 11 September 2004 Blue Oyster East Side Sara
Hughes 14 September - 2 October 2004 Blue
Oyster Gallery, 137 High Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197 Arc Café
Arcoustic Fortnightly evening of beautiful acoustic
music for a gold coin... 13 & 27 September 2004; 9.00pm
Glottis Fortnightly open mic meeting of poetry
enthusiasts… 6 & 20 September 2004; 8.30pm Arc Café,
High Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Emmanuelle
Gomez, phone: 03 474 1135 Refuel - Shapeshifter
Returning from Melbourne this live Drum n Bass crew will
shake the foundations at ReFuel. 17 September 2004
Refuel Bar, Underground, University of Otago Fortune
Theatre - 30 anniversary season 1974-2004 proudly providing
30 years of excellent professional theatre for the Otago
community. Othello - by William Shakespeare, directed by
Martin Howells ‘O! Beware my lord, of jealousy; It is the
green eyed monster, Which doth mock the meat it feeds on.’
Following the success of the recent Fortune Theatre
productions of Shakespeare, the tradition continues with
this most powerful of plays from the pen of the world’s
greatest playwright. Like all of Shakespeare’s magnificent
works, Othello is as ageless as the emotions that fuel its
tragic force. Supposed-adultery, jealousy, envy and revenge
all make for a mesmerising night of theatrical brilliance.
27 August - 18 September 2004 Fortune Theatre, 231
Stuart Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Lisa Scott,
phone (03) 477 1695 Contact for Bookings: Box Office,
phone (03) 477 8323 Otago Settlers Museum Water Like
Wine: a History of the Kaikorai Valley and Stream The
Kaikorai stream defines Dunedin’s western margins. Its
catchment is a border zone where town meets country and
industry holds the middle ground. It is almost a secret, a
part of Dunedin life we seldom notice. But from the first
Maori who passed this way and named it, the Kaikorai stream
and its eco-system have underpinned life here. This
exhibition is about the places that flank the stream, from
Halfway Bush and Wakari down the Valley to Burnside, Green
Island and Fairfield. It features old established suburbs
as well as more recent housing schemes like Brockville,
Concord and Waldronville. Explore one of Dunedin’s edges,
where history and nature are inextricably entwined. Runs
Until 19 September 2004 Across the Ocean Waves What
was it like crossing the oceans to come here in a sailing
ship? The core of this new display is an accurate
recreation of the steerage quarters of an immigrant ship
bound for Otago in the days of sail. Visitors are welcome
to climb into a bunk or sit at the central table and imagine
what life would have been like cooped up for 100 or more
days at sea. Short video presentations bring the era to
life. Death and disaster, fun and romance, the misery of
seasickness and the excitement of arrival are all showcased.
A baby dies, fighting breaks out among the single girls, and
there is dancing and a stolen kisses. This is an
interactive exhibit, which will seize the imagination and
transport you back to the epic voyages made by Otago’s
nineteenth century ancestors. “Climb aboard” and see for
yourself what their great migration was all about.
Ongoing Exhibition On the Move: Road Transport in
Otago One hundred years ago Thomas Sullivan invented the
tea bag, Charles Menches invented the ice cream cone and
vehicles were becoming increasingly familiar sights on
Dunedin streets. To find out more about local motoring and
transportation milestones check out On the Move: Road
Transport in Otago - an exhibition of vehicles, photographs
and memorabilia recalling not only the dawn of motoring in
Otago but also the heydays of horse-drawn coaches and drays,
tramcars and cycles. Be sure not to miss a ride on our
penny-farthing. Ongoing Exhibition The Smith Gallery
The ‘Otago Early Settlers Museum’ opened in 1908 with
just one room for displays. Now known as the Smith Gallery,
it was a memorial to Otago’s Scottish pioneers. Stern
Presbyterian faces glowered down from rows of photographic
portraits amidst artefacts of daily life from Otago’s early
days. Today, the Smith Gallery emphasises the importance of
the Early Settlers in the story of Otago. The portraits on
the walls have been rearranged in order of arrival; and a
variety of furniture and other artefacts, all drawn from the
pre- gold rush era, add character to this historic gallery.
Ongoing Exhibition Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens
Gardens, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Tim Pollock,
phone (03) 474 3242 Dunedin Centre - John Williamson -
Mates on the Road Tour John is very excited to announce
the commencement of a national tour of Australia and New
Zealand in 2004 with Pixie Jenkins and Warren H Williams and
the new title 'John Williamson Mates on the Road'. 28
September 2004, 8.00pm Contact for enquiries: Regent
Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597 Glenroy Auditorium, Moray
Place, Dunedin The Peculiar Case of Clara Parsons The
clinic stunned Christchurch Arts Festival (2003) audiences
with The Peculiar Case of Clara Parsons, through their
integration of a highly technological presentation with a
deeply moving story and well developed characters. Mixing
technology into theatre The Clinic unravels a universal tale
of love, betrayal and madness. 28 - 30 September 2004,
8.00pm Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box
5045, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek,
phone (03) 477 8597 Otago Festival of the Arts The
Otago Festival of the Arts will again envelope Dunedin in a
whirlwind of captivating music, thought-provoking theatre,
magical dance, avant-garde opera and much, much more.
Otago’s major cultural event presents a stellar array of
international and New Zealand performers - along with
Dunedin’s finest artists. With no less than six premières
of new works, and guest artists coming from eight countries,
the Otago Festival promises to be a startling celebration of
creative endeavour. The Festival programme will be rich and
varied. For eleven dynamic days and nights, there will be
something for everyone, from vocal ‘pop art’ to rare
indigenous music; from our country’s finest ballet to
cutting-edge contemporary dance-theatre; from side splitting
comedy to stimulating theatre. The city will be infused with
festival fever as churches and museums are turned into
theatres, and an enticing medley of lunchtime concerts and
late-night cabaret is on offer. Once again, the Otago
Festival of the Arts will confirm this region’s passion for
the arts. The Festival programme will be officially launched
at 6.00pm Friday 6 August. The full Festival programme will
be available on line and in the official brochure from 7
August 2004. Check out the Festival’s website
www.otagofestival.co.nz 29 September - 9 October 2004 Contact
for enquiries: Jessica Garland, phone (03) 477 7600 or 021
504 524 Contact for Bookings: NZ Ticketek outlets
Runs Until 11
September 2004
Refuel
Bar, Underground, University of Otago
Contact for
enquiries: Scott Muir, phone (03) 479 3875
A corresponding community: letters
between women doctors in the early twentieth century
5
August 2004, 12.10pm
It's only money: New Zealand coin designs 1933
and 1967
19 August 2004, 12.10pm
Contact for bookings: Globe Theatre Box Office,
phone (03) 477 3274
Cleveland Living Arts
Centre
111 years ago New
Zealand became the first country in the world to give women
the vote with the passing of the Electoral Act of 1893.
Suffrage enfranchised women here and provided an example for
women around the world. It is a time to reflect on the
status of women in this country and globally. Cr Leah McBey
will open the exhibition and launch the official programme
of celebrations.
Runs Until 11
September 2004
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The
Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin
Peter Rae
Gallery - Lyn Taylor - Invisible Bridge
The University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellow
for 2003, Sara Hughes returns to Dunedin to install some of
her recent work.
Contact
for enquiries: Scott Muir, phone (03) 479 3875