August 2010
Grease - The Musical
Date: 5 - 29 Aug 2010
Venue: The Civic, THE EDGE
City: Auckland
London's West End smash hit musical Grease - voted the No.1 greatest musical of all time by Channel 4 UK, is coming to New Zealand this August.
Packed with explosive energy, London's high-octane rock n' roll party is ready to rumble in Auckland from August 5 for a strictly limited season.
The 25-strong, spectacular international cast will turn The Civic into Rydell High School in a stage production that's truly electrifying!
Shapeshifter Winter Tour
Date: 13-14 Aug 2010
Venue: Lake Wanaka Centre
City: Wanaka
This July and August, high-octane live act Shapeshifter bring the fire, making their first long awaited solo performances in Wellington and Dunedin in over three years, as well as two exclusive dates in Wanaka.
Having recently completed an unprecedented three night series of sold-out shows at The Powerstation in Auckland, performed to over 26,000 punters during their sold-out provincial summer tour, headlined at the Coromandel Gold NYE festival, and achieved platinum sales with their new album The System Is A Vampire anticipation levels for Shapeshifter's upcoming winter performances is supernova, to say the least.
As of lately, Shapeshifter will release of a high profile collection of remixes respected English record label Hospital Records and will be touring the UK/Europe to promote it later this year. Additionally, their website, designed by local interactive agency RESN, was also recently nominated for the prestigious 2010 Webby award for Best Use Of Animation Or Motion Graphics'.
With support on all dates handled by the legendary Sunshine Soundsystem and emerging conscious hip-hop artist J Dubs, attendees should expect nothing less than stadium heavy soul and beyond.
Concert of Contrasts
Date: 15 Aug 2010
Venue: Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Evangelist
City: Napier
New Zealand's foremost choral composer, David Hamilton is guest conductor for the Napier Civic Choir to present an exciting programme with former Hawke's Bay resident, organist Richard Apperley from Wellington Cathedral. Vocal soloists are mezzo-soprano Kate Spence, tenor Jeffrey Chang from Auckland, and baritone Richard Harris and Soprano Caroline Hickman from Napier.
The programme features Haydn's well-known "Nelson Mass" and the world premier performance of Hamilton's "Awful Ogre's Awful Day", a delightful and easy-to-listen-to fun composition. Richard Apperley and Kate Spence will perform solos.
Orchid Show
Date: 20 - 22 Aug 2010
Venue: Kelston Community Centre
City: Waitakere
Waitekere Orchid Club Spring Show
This is a region wide show, with participation also from the New Zealand Orchid Society, Howick Orchid Society, South Auckland Orchid Society, Cymbidium Society of America (NZ Branch), and growers as far as Whangarei in the North through to Palmerston North in the South, and Napier in the East.
Come and see beautiful native and exotic orchids. Buy plants direct from hobbyists and professional growers.
Talk to them and learn how to grow orchids.
NZ Film Festival: Last Paradise
Date: 23 Aug 2010
Venue: Lido Cinema
City: Hamilton
A zealous, ingenious cinematographer from an early age, Clive Neeson delivers a glorious greatest hits compilation from a lifetime so far of filming adventure sports in the great outdoors. Neeson's parents were wildlife photographers on safari in East Africa. When they moved to New Zealand in the '60s the Neeson boys discovered an even better wilderness: one they could actually play in. Mum's still behind the camera in this film's earliest sequences: boys bouncing down paddocks on bone-jolting, jerry-built trolleys.
Neeson's own earliest footage vintage Raglan surf cuts, shot from a board-mounted camera he knocked up himself dates from later in the '60s. From there it's Noosa, then the fabled surfie Bohemias of the '70s: Petacalco, Spain, Portugal and Bali. Boy's Own Paradise never looked so lush. He's continued to film adventure sports ever since, keeping pace literally and metaphorically with the constant adaptation of surfing technologies and its diversification into different environments, most spectacularly the mountains.
The inventiveness of Kiwi adventure sportsmen bungee entrepreneur A.J. Hackett amongst others is a favourite theme. Those '70s Bohemias aren't looking so hot 40 years later and Neeson's paean to paradise contains painful evidence of the damage done by industrialisation and mass tourism. Our childhood playgrounds shape our dreams', runs the text which opens the film. A then-vs-now montage underlines the ominous title Neeson has chosen. The shadows hanging over these thrilling images loom larger than ever in the New Zealand of 2010. BG
The Runway Fashion and Entertainment Show 
Date: 26 Aug 2010
Venue: Subculture
City: Queenstown
Come along and support this fantastic Fundraising Charity Fashion Show at an entertainment evening to raise money for Queenstown Youth QLFC!!
Ticket cost is only $30.00 and includes glass of Lindaur, a delicious Ninja Noodle Box, a Russian Standard Vodka cocktail and a goodie bag!!!!
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