Today
7pm: Queenstown singer-guitarist Brian John Foder plays jazz and blues favourites in the Friday Jazz Club in Les Alpes. Free.
8pm: The live stage production of California Dreaming: The Summer of '69 continues in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall tonight and tomorrow night. Wakatipu talents sing, dance, act and play instruments in an original story about a rock star, a film star and a cult leader who converge at the "Peoples Park Sit-in" anti-war rally in Berkeley, California, in 1969, to the music of Jefferson Airplane, the Beach Boys, Janis Joplin, Burt Bacharach, Santana, the Doors and many more. Tickets, $40, from the Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown, i-Site Queenstown Visitor Centre and on the door.
Saturday
7.30pm: Singer-songwriter-harpist, recording artist and MC Katie Targett-Adams makes her performing debut in New Zealand in the Thomas Brown Gallery, Speargrass Flat. Tickets, $85, available from the gallery, the Lakes District Museum and Unichem Wilkinsons Pharmacy. Doors open at 7pm. The event includes a silent auction and all proceeds go to Cure Kids.
Sunday
7pm: Remarkable Theatre presents its final playreading in Dux de Lux as a venue. Wakatipu thespians Ruth Joiner, Mike Legge, Nick McNeil, Lisa Nilsen and Andrea Reeve read aloud the script of The Birthday Boy written by award-winning New Zealand playwright Carl Nixon and directed by Tanya Surrey, of Queenstown. When Stuart and Elizabeth meet their oldest friends, David and Kathy, to celebrate David's 40th birthday, they are not expecting the announcement that changes all their lives. Admission $10 on the door and includes a free drink.
