Tribute to Graeme Tetley

The Festival season of Riverside Drive is dedicated to the writer Graeme Tetley who died suddenly last month.

Director Sara Brodie continues on the panel discussing "Truth History and Drama" on Thursday 14th April at 2.30pm. She will be joined by Festival director Philip Tremewan who commissioned the play from Graeme. Also by drama teacher Anna Shaw and senior drama student Jordaine Wilson who are both involved in the production.

Island Summer Christchurch fundraiser

The proceeds of the Island Summer concert on Thursday 14 April at 8.30pm will be donated to the Christchurch arts community affected by the February earthquake. Island Summer were strongly affected by the earthquake with Hemiquaver Lesatele escaping from St Paul’s church and band leader, Pos Mavaega, in a mall with his two children as it fell down around them. The concert provides the ideal opportunity for the Festival to put something back into the arts, helping to provide valuable resources in Christchurch.
Tickets available here for $36

Visual arts

The Festival of Colour is not only strong in the performing arts field but has a strong visual arts component too.

From this Friday 8 April you will be able to see five of our top artists painting large billboards down at the lakeside in Wanaka – just opposite Pembroke Park. Lonnie Hutchinson, Michel Tuffery (both pictured) , Flox, Simon Kaan and Fleur Elise Noble will be interpreting their own Pouwhenua – markers that tell something of people and place.

The artists will be creating their ‘markers on the land’ in situ, and you can go along and watch them at work. The billboards will be officially launched at the festival opening on Tuesday 12 April at 8am.

The billboards will be available to purchase and the festival will take offers from interested parties. You can then hear the artists talk about their work in the first session of Aspiring Conversations on Tuesday 12 April at 2.30pm.
Sponsored by Ngai Tahu, and thanks to Resene for their support in supplying all their paint and materials.

And look out also for the Fiona Pardington mural ‘Helping Hands’ that is on display at Remarkables Park. Fiona created this mural for the first Festival of Colour in 2005 and it was displayed on the Masonic Lodge in Wanaka. Fiona Pardington is represented locally by Nadene Milne Gallery in Arrowtown - www.nadenemilnegallery.com

Our thanks to Remarkables Park for helping us to display this beautiful work of art again.

Back in Wanaka we are delighted to have the Kelliher Collection on show with it’s wonderful collection of New Zealand landscape paintings. It will be on display in the Armstrong Room, Lake Wanaka Centre from Tuesday 12 to Sunday 17 April 11am to 7pm for gold coin donation.

It is brought to Wanaka with the assistance of the Sir Henry Kelliher Charitable Trust and the Trust’s curator Peter Shaw.

We will also be running the popular arts trail on Saturday 16 April where local galleries will be open to show their work. Click here to download a copy of the map, and copies will be available from the festival office in the Lake Wanaka Centre, and the isite.

Sculpture in Central Otago. The Wanaka Arts Charitable Trust presents Sculpture In Central Otago at Rippon Vineyard 5 February to 1 May 2011. An impressive outdoor exhibition of 35 sculptures from around New Zealand. Visit www.sculptureincentralotago.co.nz. Entry via Rippon tasting room.
Please respect the land and keep dogs on leads

The 45th Degree presents an exclusive exhibition of new work by Brenda Hartill – a British painter, collage artist and printmaker. Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of the landscape and ranges from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract images.

All of this plus theatre, music, dance and Aspiring Conversations. Lots of tickets still available for many shows in Wanaka, Queenstown, Cromwell and Glenorchy.
Book Now! Click here or phone (03) 443 4162

Be inspired … Be astounded … Be in Wanaka … Be there.
The next Festival of Colour takes place on 12 to 17 April 2011 and is generously supported by Central Lakes Trust, Community Trust of Otago, Creative New Zealand and Aurora.

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