A look at what's happening in the world of art...
> Opera favourites
St Kilda Brass teams with
senior vocal students from the University of Otago for A
Night at the Opera, on Saturday night.
The concert, at the Mayfair Theatre includes classics by
Mozart, Puccini, Delibes, Bizet, Rossini and Wagner, among
others. The concert, which starts at 7.30pm, is conducted by
Steve Miles. Tickets are available from the Regent
Theatre.
Couple of rogues.
> Rogues return
That other show about antiques is returning, with dates around
Otago.
The Antiques Rogue Show 2010 twists the format of
the familiar BBC show of a similar name to comic effect.
Patrick Duffy and Greg Ellis ask the public to bring along
their favourite family antiques for an expert opinion of their
worth.
Their evaluations have no relevance to real history or
artistic appreciation or any worthwhile knowledge whatsoever.
The show stops in Wanaka's Cinema Paradiso on Tuesday, at
8.30pm; at Arrowtown's Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday at 7.30pm;
at Gore's Longford Function Centre on Friday August 27 at
8pm; at Coronation Hall, Mosgiel 8pm on Saturday, August 28;
at the Oamaru Opera House on Sunday August 29 at 7.30pm; and
at Waimate on Tuesday August 31, at 7.30pm, at the Criterion
Hotel.
> Guitar slinger
Politically-fired folk singer David Rovics brings his take on
revolution to Sammy's on Saturday.
The Connecticut-born troubadour developed his flat-picking
style busking in the Boston subways. His essays are published
on website CounterPunch, while his songs have been
downloaded, free, more than a million times.
Rovics is on stage from 10.30pm.
> Let there be light
None Project Space is running a studio-lighting workshop
tonight for "enthusiastic techno-phobes". The workshop, from
6.30pm to 9.30pm, will cover the basics of the art. No
experience or prior knowledge is required.
None is at 24 Stafford St, Dunedin.
> Active in Otago
Otago artists are well-represented in an exhibition "Artists
as Activists" at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts Galleries, in
Wellington, that opens tomorrow.
Among those featured are Project Hayes opponents Brian Turner
and Grahame Sydney, Dunedin painter Ewan McDougall and poet
Sarah McDougall, who composed a poem about Project Aqua. The
show runs until mid-September.
> In the running
The documentary Donated to Science, by Dunedin
physician Paul Trotman, made in connection with his
exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, "Still Life:
The Art of Anatomy", is nominated for a Qantas Film and
Television Award in the popular documentary section.
Another Dunedin-produced documentary, The Unnatural
History of the Kakapo, is nominated in the festival
section.
Winners are announced on September 18 at a flash red-carpet
ceremony in Auckland.
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