Both the tribute, and a screening of the film Warwick Broadhead: Rubbings From a Live Man, were the work of Dunedin musician Dudley Benson.
Broadhead, who died aged 70 in January, presented both outdoor epics with casts of dozens and elaborate costumes, and intimate one-man shows in living rooms across the country. He lived and worked in Dunedin for a six-month period in the 1980s.
Benson, who befriended Broadhead after being inspired to write to him after seeing Rubbings For a Live Man in 2009, said after last night's showing the audience was invited to drink green tea in the ceramic cups he and friends made this week at the Otago Polytechnic.
Each person was asked to metaphorically imbue the cup with something they wanted to let go of, before the cups were smashed on the ground.
The ritual was something Broadhead had done with a large group at his home on Waiheke Island, and later with Benson.
It was an ''empowering and contemplative experience''.
Of the event, Benson said: ''I did it because Warwick was my friend, and he died in January.''
