Calendar of Events: Friday 1 May 2009
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MUSIC Ben Eastwood
Ben has been hugely inspired by the southern landscape and has performed around Wanaka for a couple of years now. He comes back to us from a sojourn in Sydney to give us that gentle easy flavour of h... > See More
     
     
  NZ Army Dance Band with Fabio and Ana Robles
This twelve-piece dance band will set your toes tapping. Come along for a night of great dance music and we’ll make sure there’s room for you to get up and enjoy some dancing, whatever your age or st... > See More
     
     
  SJD
Sean James Donnelly and his band are fresh from a national tour launching their fifth CD Dayglo Spectres. Their previous appearances include 95bFM’s Summer Series, the Big Day Out, WOMAD and not forg... > See More
     
     
  Waves of Laughter - A visual and musical collaboration
A Visual and Musical Collaboration DJ Anton Carter and artist Michel Tuffery DJ Choice One/MC Antsman digs deep in the record crates to provide a musical journey from the 1970s Viking Records st... > See More
     
     
  The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
Pulling together some of the capital’s favourite musicians and commanding the four-string like you’ve never heard it before, the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra’s merry strummers have becom... > See More
     
   
THEATRE AND DANCE Le Sud
A brand new play by Dave Armstrong Le Sud is a rollicking political satire that warmly pokes fun at three cultures, two islands and one country. This specially commissioned play assumes that the... > See More
     
     
  Strange Resting Places
Italy, 1944: the Allied onslaught stalls at Monte Cassino and the 28th Maori Battalion finds themselves centre stage. A young Maori soldier goes out to steal food; an Italian takes cover in a stable.... > See More
     
     
  Witches over Wanaka
Flat Out Productions with Jo Randerson and Geoff Pinfield Witches over Wanaka is an intriguing piece of locally devised theatre. It weaves elements of Shakespeare's Macbeth into our local scene. Th... > See More
     
   
ASPIRING CONVERSATIONS Christina Lamb - Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe
Writer at war Christina Lamb is an author, an award-winning foreign correspondent and a mother. She was named 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards and continues to cov... > See More
     
     
  Christina Lamb - War reporting
Writer at war Christina Lamb is an author, an award-winning foreign correspondent and a mother. She was named 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards and continues to cov... > See More
     
   
VISUAL ARTS Pouwhenua - Markers on the Land
Markers on the land Simon Kaan, Areta Wilkinson, Martin Hill and Michel Tuffery Four artists are working for a week in Wanaka during the Festival. They will work from the area and its stories a... > See More
     
 
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