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CALENDAR 2 - 20 MARCH 2011

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Events for
Saturday 12th March

Paper Sky: A Love Story

Paper Sky: A Love Story

Following the international success of The Arrival, NZ’s Red Leap Theatre returns with their magical new work, Paper Sky – A Love Story…
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La Odisea

La Odisea

A rich, enchanting retelling of Homer’s Odyssey passionately rendered with live music and flair by Bolivia’s Teatro de los Andes…
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The Manganiyar Seduction

The Manganiyar Seduction

A dazzling concert of Rajasthani music layered with infectious beats, The Manganiyar Seduction has drawn sell-out audiences around the globe…
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The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

Award-winning comedian and storyteller Daniel Kitson relates the sad and funny story of Gregory Church, his life and his deferred death…
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May B

May B

A choreographic masterpiece based on Samuel Beckett characters, Maguy Marin’s May B (1981) continues to excite and surprise audiences worldwide…
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Havoc in the Garden

Havoc in the Garden

A play about families – about the lies that parents tell, and children reveal; what holds families together and what tears them apart...
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A Symphonic Odyssey

A Symphonic Odyssey

An exhilarating and inspiring concert taking its cue from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey...
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Vietnamese Water Puppets

Vietnamese Water Puppets

The enchanting ancient art of Vietnamese water puppetry comes to New Zealand for the first time...
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Smoke & Mirrors

Smoke & Mirrors

A vaudevillian tap dancer, twisted chanteuse, sublime aerialist, death defying acrobats, an ooh-ahh magician – and the odd white rabbit…
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Passing Wind

Passing Wind

Enter the imaginative world of Linsey Pollak where clarinets made of carrots create magical and funky music for the whole family...
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Héctor Zamora

Héctor Zamora

White Noise: A unique project in three parts by Sao Paulo-based artist Héctor Zamora…
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Jim Allen: Contact 2011

Jim Allen: Contact 2011

Jim Allen's seminal 1974 work Contact will be restaged, with performances each Saturday of Auckland Arts Festival…
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Alicia Frankovich / Laresa Kosloff / Ruth Proctor

Alicia Frankovich / Laresa Kosloff / Ruth Proctor

Using objects, film and the printed image, Frankovich, Kosloff and Proctor explore ideas of movement and the performing body...
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Viewfinder

Viewfinder

Viewfinder will project a survey of moving image works into Auckland’s public space 24 hours a day, seven days a week…
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Nuds

Nuds

Acclaimed British artist Sarah Lucas exhibits her compelling new sculptural works...
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Look, Here

Look, Here

Auckland artist Finn Ferrier invites us to connect to the little acknowledged fabric of the city….
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Daniel Crooks

Daniel Crooks

Daniel Crooks develops a new work for Auckland public space exploring time and motion...
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Ngā Hau E Whā - The Four Winds

Ngā Hau E Whā - The Four Winds

Leilani Kake's powerful new work challenges cultural taboos around nudity...
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Video Life

Video Life

Ko Nakajima and Kentaro Taki offer a fascinating view of the historical and contemporary faces of Japanese video art.
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Upstream Midstream Downstream

Upstream Midstream Downstream

John Malcolm and CLUI offer a sobering view of the Petroleum Industry…
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Fly-Tower: Performance Design Installation

Fly-Tower: Performance Design Installation

FLY-TOWER showcases New Zealand innovation in the field of performance design…
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Incompatible Elements

Incompatible Elements

Using video projection, soundscape and photographic imagery Incompatible Elements creates an immersive experience…
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Pūrākau

Pūrākau

Leading artists from NZ, Cuba and Mexico exchange indigenous myths and legends through poster design…
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Nollywood

Nollywood

Pieter Hugo recreates the stereotypical characters from Nigeria’s Nollywood films, casually posed and stunningly photographed…
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The Heart of Everything

The Heart of Everything

Fourteen artists and two distinct painting practices from Far North Queensland point to the intimate connection between people and land...
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Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Fifty years of Auckland Studio Potters is celebrated in three exhibitions putting clay back on the visual arts map...
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Richard Parker: Master of Craft

Richard Parker: Master of Craft

Richard Parker's substantial influence on the New Zealand ceramic tradition is revealed in this exemplary exhibition.
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White Night

White Night

For one magical evening, Saturday March 12, Auckland’s museums and galleries will stay open till midnight, featuring special exhibitions, activities and performances.
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In Conversation

In Conversation

Enrich your Festival experience every weekday from 12.30pm – 1.30pm in the Pacific Crystal Palace Spiegeltent, Festival Garden Aotea Square.
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Master Classes and Workshops

Master Classes and Workshops

Master classes and workshops - some free, some with an associated cost - offer participants the chance to learn from some of the bold and visionary artists performing at Auckland Arts Festival.
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Free Festival Garden Grooves: TV3 Garden Stage

Free Festival Garden Grooves: TV3 Garden Stage

The TV3 Garden Stage hosts a free daily music programme in the Festival Garden in Aotea Square, from 5pm on weeknights and 2pm on weekends.
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Free Movies In Parks Special Screening

Free Movies In Parks Special Screening

Four free programmes of short films from top Kiwi filmmakers will screen under the stars in the Festival Garden, as part of Auckland Council’s Movies in Parks.
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Formica Formations

Formica Formations

Enter the world of Formica Formations, an extraordinary collection of sculptured chairs created by nine world-renowned architects each challenged to design a chair for sitting, lying or playing upon.
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