MEDIA ALERT!
Issue date: 26 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand
Dunedin Arts and Cultural Events April 2004 to May 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.
APRIL 2004
Dunedin Centre
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Subscription Season 2004 Musical Director James Judd opens the 2004 Season with soprano
Margaret Medlyn and some of the most heart-rending music ever written: The concert features Richard Strauss' Four Last
Songs, which are perfectly complemented by Mahler's large-scale and thrilling Seventh Symphony. 1 April 2004, 8pm
Dunedin Town Hall Contact for enquiries: Hannah Evans on (04) 801 3833/ (025) 300 680
Chamber Music New Zealand - Jerusalem Quartet (Israel) Chamber Music New Zealand presents the Jerusalem Quartet direct
from Israel and features Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler on violin, Amihai Grosz, viola and Kyril Zlotnikov,
cello. The concert programme includes works by Beethoven String Quartet in G Opus 18 No.2; Shostakovich: String Quartet
No.4 in D Opus 83; Rakhmaninov: Romance in G minor; and Dvorak: String Quartet in F Opus 96 'American'. 22 April 2004,
8.00pm Glenroy Auditorium Contact for enquiries: Dot Duthie, phone (03) 481 1382; 0800 266 2378
Dunedin Centre, Harrop Street, Dunedin Contact for bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
ReFuel Bar
Shapeshifter The Christchurch four-piece band has established themselves as the most devastating live dance act in New
Zealand. 'Been Missing features the soulful vocal talents of MC P-Diggity, easily one of the best MCs in NZ. On this
track he switches to a singsong approach and the results are quite breathtaking, coming off as some kind of Antipodean's
Marvin Gaye over a fat, rolling backing track. Sheer brilliance. 2 April 2004, 10.00pm
Salford Lads Club The Salford Lads' Club, the ultimate Smiths Tribute Band formed at the end of 2001 and overcame 'a
shyness that is criminally vulgar' to finally take to the stage in 2003. Since then fans have burst out of closets
everywhere, travelling from around the country to witness the debut gigs in their hometown of Wellington. Over 150 were
turned away from their first show due to a capacity crowd. 10 April 2004, 8.00pm
ReFuel, Underground, University of Otago, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Scott Muir, phone 021 440 160
Milford Galleries Dunedin - Wayne Barrar - Sightlines South Sightlines South alludes to the geographical location and
nature of Wayne Barrar's stunning black and white photographs in this up-coming exhibition. It comprises of earlier
Mason Bay works and a new series of landscape works from the southern South Island, including around Monowai. 3 - 21
April 2004 Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Diana Hennessy, phone (03) 477
7727
Hocken Library
Digital Mosaics: Exhibition by Sara Hughes Frances Hodgkins Fellow 2003 Using a range of methods and materials to create
large-scale painting and installations, Sara Hughes is spending her Frances Hodgkins Fellowship year in Dunedin
researching textile history in the City. Her imagination has been captured by the story of the weavers from Paisley in
Scotland who immigrated to Dunedin to form the settlement of Little Paisley in the south of the city. Sara has been
working as an artist for ten years, and in previous exhibitions has reproduced fabric patterns on walls as a metaphor
for how structure is applied in all aspects of human existence. Another interest is in the invisible digital
transmission of images whereby complex codes of pattern reassemble images across the Internet pixel by pixel. Her
practice is described as "painting" but not in the traditional paintbrush and easel sense. Through her use of new
imagery and site-specific locations she is suggesting that painting has entered a new era in the digital age, and it is
the modern painter's task to address what painting is and how it can operate. Runs Until 8 April 2004
Thomas Morland Hocken: Collector of Maori Artefacts The Hocken Library and Otago Museum are collaborating to present
this stunning exhibition, which addresses a largely unexplored aspect of Dr Hocken's collecting activities - namely his
interest in Maori artefacts. Well known now for his library of New Zealand-related books and manuscripts gifted to the
people in 1910, Hocken's ethnographic collection also subsequently formed the core of the Maori holdings at the Museum.
The exhibition combines a selection of original Maori artefacts with photographs, pictures and written material
providing a fresh insight of a benefactor intent on putting the record straight and preserving the nation's heritage
before it was lost. Hocken Library, corner Anzac Avenue & Parry Street, Dunedin 16 April - 10 July 2004 Hocken Library, cnr Anzac Avenue & Parry Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Pennie Hunt, phone (03) 479 5648
Fortune Theatre - 30 anniversary season 1974-2004 proudly providing 30 years of excellent professional theatre for the
Otago community.
Love Off the Shelf, book by Roger Hall, lyrics by A.K. Grant and music by Philip Norman As a part of our thirtieth
anniversary celebrations the Fortune Theatre is proud to present a revival of one of Roger Hall's most popular shows -
and a musical to boot. First premiered at The Fortune Theatre in 1986 and subsequently staged in Australia and the UK,
Love off the Shelf parodies every cliché of the romantic novel genre. John and his assistant, Mary, are working on a
project with great literary merit, but one that's hardly a money-spinner. They both dream of what it could be like to be
famous and successful writers. To keep the wolf from the door, and possibly to exorcise some romantic demons of their
own, both John and Mary, unbeknown to each other, request instructions from True Love Publishers on how to write and
sell romantic fiction. The result is a hilarious musical journey where fact and fiction collide. Runs Until 10 April
2004
The Daylight Atheist - written by Tom Scott The Daylight Atheist is a bittersweet New Zealand comedy...with sarcasm. The
Fortune Theatre presents the Dunedin premier of this tragic comedy, which has performed to capacity audiences throughout
the country. The show has garnered great success with John Daly-Peoples, The National Business Review, stating: 'Scott
delivers a theatre milestone' and Timothy O'Brien, Dominion Post: 'Room with a view of a truly great theatrical drunk'.
April 16 - May 8 2004
Fortune Theatre, 231 Stuart Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: (media) Lisa Scott, phone (03) 477 1695 or Box Office
(03) 477 8323
Otago Settlers Museum
Fashion on Wheels: The New Zealand Gown of the Year 10 April - 7 June 2004
New Rugby: Photographs by Stephen Rowe and Brett Whincup Photographers Stephen Rowe and Bret Whincup have been using
their cameras to capture the essence of New Zealand's number one sport since 1999. The resulting body of work embodied
in this exhibition gives an interesting focus on the sport - the teams, the traditions, the spectacle and the upheavals
- from grass roots to the professional level. Runs Until 7 June 2004
Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Val-mai Shaw, phone (03) 474 2728
Cleveland Living Arts Centre
Rod Eales Dunedin Artist Rod Eales presents a solo show of her latest paintings 13 April - 27 April 2004
Telling Our Stories Work created by women who have suffered head injuries during an eight-week course working with
artists. 26 April - 2 May 2004
Cleveland Living Arts Centre, 1st floor, Dunedin Railway Station, Anzac Avenue, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Kari
Morseth, phone (03) 477 7291
Globe Theatre - Mothers and Fathers (2002) - by Joe Musaphia and directed by David Manley Joe Musaphia's comedy is one
of New Zealand's most commercially successful plays. The play's theme was much ahead of its time (mid 1970s) because it
dealt with a couple's desperate desire for parenthood and their decision to satisfy that desire through surrogacy. At
that time, however, there was no artificial way of ensuring pregnancy of the surrogate mother; fertilisation had to be
accomplished by conventional means - and did not always occur at the first attempt. The effect of this 'connection' on
the characters, two couples, forms the heart of this play. Musaphia has recently updated his script and characters to
make them more relevant to the 21st century. Nevertheless, the play's themes of love, despair - and can your really
trust your wife or husband? - remain as pertinent as ever. 15 - 24 April 2005, (excluding 19 April) Globe Theatre, 104
London Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries; Rosemary Beresford, phone (03) 4797273 (day); (03) 4780248 (evening)
Contact for bookings: Globe Theatre Box Office, phone (03) 4773274
Blue Oyster Gallery
Iain Cheesman - If this is your desire Using objects of desire and the advertising that accompanies such desire,
Cheesman looks at shopping and our culture of want in terms of the big picture. He imagines Captain James Cook,
staggering through the mall with King George's shopping list in one hand "Cook! Bring me lands and precious gems from
mines..." Here we get a chance to view Cheesman's bags, small paintings that refuse to make walls their home, as they
interact with his feet/shoes, part molten and alive, part sedentary in their petrifaction. Runs Until 17 April 2004
Belinda Grace Curran - Alice Alice is a machine, in the form of a generic insect that draws parallels between the
mechanics of human and insect societies: the daily grind. Alice is about the individual's lack of power to affect the
mass human psyche, and asks if society is formed by the patterns of the individual, where does the onus for change lie?
With a strong background in industrial tool making, machining and structural welding, this artist brings her interest in
the tools that make the tools to this project. Runs Until 17 April 2004
Cathy Tuato'O Ross - The Winter Garden: An Engram An Engram is a memory trace, a supposed permanent change in the brain
accounting for the existence of memory. Tuato'O Ross is interested in memory not only as a property of individual minds
but also as the basis of social or collective knowledge, traditions and narratives. The Winter Garden traces memory from
experience to reconstruction, explores its structure, and emphasises that memory is also imagination and distortion. 20
April - 8 May 2004
Kah Bee Chow, Nurhan Qehaja and Catherine Garet Art is fun. Like business meetings on golf courses or garage DIY
projects, this collaborative show examines the inherent contradictions and ambiguities in the definitions of work and
leisure sustained by a co modified culture. These artists' interests lie in operating as an inter-play of identities
within a collaboration and generating commentary on conventions of art practices, and the process of art making. Thus
the show, using video and performance with an emphasis on an experimental approach, functions a bit like an aimless
weekend hobby, an ongoing investigation without any sought resolutions. 20 April - 8 May 2004 Blue Oyster Gallery, 137
High Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197
Otago Museum
Temple of Doom - Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru With a collection of around 200 very significant items from the Moche
civilization, which occupied the north coast of Peru for almost 800 years from 50AD, Temple of Doom explores the
mysteries of human sacrifice, power struggles, unimaginable treasures and supernatural deities in ancient Peru. Most of
the items have been excavated from looted tombs in northern Peru, many of which are several thousand years old. Temple
of Doom is toured by the Larco Museum with the support of the Peruvian National Institute of Culture. The exhibition is
made possible with the support of the Community Trust of Otago and is indemnified by the New Zealand Government. Special
Exhibitions Gallery, Runs thru April to 23 May2004
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 & 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
Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Ryan Helliwell, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845
Regent Theatre - Shanghai Circus This talented troupe arrives in Auckland in April direct from a sold out Broadway tour.
The new Shanghai Circus performs at 10 venues throughout New Zealand. These astonishing athletes defy gravity and
execute breathtaking feats as they stretch the limits of human ability in this spellbinding show. Fearless performers
with boundless energy bring audiences more than 2000 years of Chinese circus traditions. Shanghai's acrobats, jugglers
and contortionists perform with spectacular flair. Fabulous choreography, amazing lighting, enchanting scenery and
powerful music enhance this modern day circus. 30 April 2004, 7-30pm; and 1 May 1-30pm and 7-30pm Regent Theatre, 17 The
Octagon, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Teresa Andrews: Dis-grace - A Performative Installation/video/performance Teresa Andrew uses performance to generate a
'live' space that contains installation and video works, records that are active objects. The live performing body, the
videoed body and the body of the viewers participate in a performative experience, which negotiates time, space and the
repetitive everyday practices of gestured movement and watching. Runs Until 2 May 2004
Smythe Collection - Characters: High and Low The Dunedin Public Art Gallery presents an exhibition of watercolours from
the Gallery's Smythe Collection. Curated by Tony Green, formerly Head of the Department of Art History, University of
Auckland. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition. Runs Until 9 May 2004
Calf and Quill, Scribe and Limner: Medieval Manuscripts from the Reed Collections Step back in time to a medieval world
when books were rare, precious, beautifully written and crafted by hand. On exhibition are tenth-to-sixteenth-century
illuminated and decorated vellum manuscripts from the Dunedin Public Library Reed Collections. A Dunedin Public Art
Gallery exhibition. Runs Until 9 May 2004
Every Day Miracles: The Art of Stanley Spencer Stanley Spencer was one of the most original British painters of his
generation. Finding inspiration in his quiet village on the river Thames, Spencer drew on his familiar world to arrive
at an art of epic grandeur. His paintings of love and lovers retain their power to shock even today. His vision of a
vernacular Christianity also remains startling and profoundly moving. Every Day Miracles exhibition includes landscapes,
cityscapes, flower paintings and portraits from New Zealand and Australian public and private collections and also key
works from English public collections. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery exhibition partnership
project. Runs Until 16 May 2004
Kay Rosen: Big Talk The walls talk in this exhibition of twelve large wall paintings by internationally renowned word
artist Kay Rosen. Painted directly on to the walls of the gallery, Rosen's works combine the impact and immediacy of
billboards with a subtle and often subversive sense of humour. This is the first time the work of this Gary
Indiana-based artist has been seen in New Zealand. Runs Until 16 May 2004
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding: The Seventeenth Century and House II The Otago Polytechnic School of Art's latest
artists in residence are David Haines and Joyce Hinterding from Australia. At the Dunedin Public Art Gallery they show
two spectacular recent video works, in which extraordinary events engulf ordinary scenes. In The Seventeenth Century
vast clouds of smoke threaten to overwhelm a night-time cityscape. And in House II, a deluge pours endlessly from a
Pennsylvanian Neo-Gothic house. Runs Until 17 June 2004
Truth's Mirror Truth's Mirror is a witty and thought-provoking juxtaposition of treasures from the Dunedin Public Art
Gallery's permanent collection. Curated by Tony Green, formerly Head of Department of Art History of the University of
Auckland. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition. Ongoing Exhibition
Frances Hodgkin's Gallery A gallery permanently devoted to the works of one of Dunedin's famous daughters, Frances
Hodgkins. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition. Ongoing Exhibition
Sara Hughes: Love Me Tender Sara Hughes, the 2003 Frances Hodgkins fellow at University of Otago, brings some colour and
life to the gallery's Otago Daily Times Gallery with her distinctive variations on the Paisley patterns that Scottish
settlers brought to Dunedin. 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
MAY 2004
Dunedin Centre
Southern Sinfonia and Carey's Bay Historic Hotel - Mintz Plays Mozart The Southern Sinfonia's 2004 concert series opens
with one of the world's greatest violinists, Shlomo Mintz, performing and directing a concert of Mozart's music. A
highlight of the programme is the performance of two of Mozart's Violin Concertos, numbers 3 and 4. Mozart's great
masterpiece, his Jupiter Symphony (No. 41), ends this special evening. 1 May 2004, 8.00pm Dunedin Town Hall Contact for
enquiries: Philippa Harris, phone (03) 477 5623
Chamber Music New Zealand - Stroma (New Zealand) Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ) presents Stroma and features Patrick
Barry on clarinet, Vesa-Matti Leppänen on violin, Rowan Prior and Robert Ibell on cello and Emma Sayers on piano. The
concert is co-directed by Michael Norris and Hamish McKeich who is also conductor. The programme includes Crumb: Eleven
Echoes of Autumn; Boulez: Pour le Dr Kalmus; Harris: At the Edge of Silence a new work commissioned by CMNZ; and
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time. 17 May 2004, 8.00 pm Contact for enquiries: Dot Duthie, phone (03) 481 1382; 0800
266 2378
Dunedin Centre, Harrop Street, Dunedin Contact for bookings: Regent Ticketek, phone (03) 477 8597
Cleveland Living Arts Centre - Telling Our Stories Work created by women who have suffered head injuries during an
eight-week course working with artists. Runs Until 2 May 2004 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
Teresa Andrews: Dis-grace- A Performative Installation/video/performance Teresa Andrew uses performance to generate a
'live' space that contains installation and video works, records that are active objects. The live performing body, the
videoed body and the body of the viewers participate in a performative experience, which negotiates time, space and the
repetitive everyday practices of gestured movement and watching. Runs Until 2 May 2004
Smythe Collection - Characters: High and Low The Dunedin Public Art Gallery presents an exhibition of watercolours from
the Gallery's Smythe Collection. Curated by Tony Green, formerly Head of the Department of Art History, University of
Auckland. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition. Runs Until 9 May 2004
Calf and Quill, Scribe and Limner: Medieval Manuscripts from the Reed Collections Step back in time to a medieval world
when books were rare, precious, beautifully written and crafted by hand. On exhibition are tenth-to-sixteenth-century
illuminated and decorated vellum manuscripts from the Dunedin Public Library Reed Collections. A Dunedin Public Art
Gallery exhibition. Runs Until 9 May 2004
Every Day Miracles: The Art of Stanley Spencer Stanley Spencer was one of the most original British painters of his
generation. Finding inspiration in his quiet village on the river Thames, Spencer drew on his familiar world to arrive
at an art of epic grandeur. His paintings of love and lovers retain their power to shock even today. His vision of a
vernacular Christianity also remains startling and profoundly moving. Every Day Miracles exhibition includes landscapes,
cityscapes, flower paintings and portraits from New Zealand and Australian public and private collections and also key
works from English public collections. A Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery exhibition partnership
project. Runs Until 16 May 2004
Kay Rosen: Big Talk The walls talk in this exhibition of twelve large wall paintings by internationally renowned word
artist Kay Rosen. Painted directly on to the walls of the gallery, Rosen's works combine the impact and immediacy of
billboards with a subtle and often subversive sense of humour. This is the first time the work of this Gary
Indiana-based artist has been seen in New Zealand. Runs Until 16 May 2004
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin Contact for enquires: Tim Pollock, phone (03) 474 3243
Blue Oyster Gallery
Cathy Tuato'O Ross - The Winter Garden: An Engram An Engram is a memory trace, a supposed permanent change in the brain
accounting for the existence of memory. Tuato'O Ross is interested in memory not only as a property of individual minds
but also as the basis of social or collective knowledge, traditions and narratives. The Winter Garden traces memory from
experience to reconstruction, explores its structure, and emphasises that memory is also imagination and distortion.
Runs Until 8 May 2004
Kah Bee Chow, Nurhan Qehaja and Catherine Garet Art is fun. Like business meetings on golf courses or garage DIY
projects, this collaborative show examines the inherent contradictions and ambiguities in the definitions of work and
leisure sustained by a co modified culture. These artists' interests lie in operating as an inter-play of identities
within a collaboration and generating commentary on conventions of art practices, and the process of art making. Thus
the show, using video and performance with an emphasis on an experimental approach, functions a bit like an aimless
weekend hobby, an ongoing investigation without any sought resolutions. Runs Until 8 May 2004
Cathy Helps - Waiting for the Weekend The contemporary world is dominated by an abundance of information and events and
Marc Auge warns that our dependence on the 'world system' of information threatens to rob individuals of a sense of
meaning. If we take our cell phones to the movies, the mini TV to the batch, the laptop to the café and on camping
trips, when or where can we find time and space to really get away from it all? Or do we not want to anymore? Are even
our spaces of leisure constructed of and dependent on this excess of information? Cathy Helps explores these questions
in an installation of painted texts. 11 - 28 May 2004
Blue Oyster Gallery, 137 High Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Ali Bramwell, phone (03) 479 0197
Milford Galleries Dunedin - Michael Hight - New Works Michael Hight is an Aucklander who paints fantastic images of only
South Island landscapes, working with his main subject matter, namely beehives. This exhibition of all new works will
focus on Southern/Central Otago scenes and will be mainly larger scale works. These works are realist landscape images
with a striking clarity, bordering on the Abstract, of which he is also renowned for. Hight travels to the South yearly
and literally drives down every dirt road to find these wonderful hidden places. 15 May - 3 June 2004 Milford Galleries
Dunedin, 18 Dowling Street, Dunedin Contact for enquiries: Diana Hennessy, phone (03) 477 7727
Otago Museum - Temple of Doom - Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru With a collection of around 200 very significant items
from the Moche civilization, which occupied the north coast of Peru for almost 800 years from 50AD, Temple of Doom
explores the mysteries of human sacrifice, power struggles, unimaginable treasures and supernatural deities in ancient
Peru. Most of the items have been excavated from looted tombs in northern Peru, many of which are several thousand years
old. Temple of Doom is toured by the Larco Museum with the support of the Peruvian National Institute of Culture. The
exhibition is made possible with the support of the Community Trust of Otago and is indemnified by the New Zealand
Government. Runs Until 23 May2004 Special Exhibitions Gallery, Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin Contact for
enquiries: Ryan Helliwell, phone (03) 474 7474 ext 845
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