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Events for 'All Attractions - 29 Aug 2008'
Scared Scriptless 1 Dec 07 - 31 Oct 09, (The Arts Centre)
Live & unscripted - by the Court Jesters!  New Zealand's Longest Running Comedy Show. ...
Location: Court I
Baghdad, Baby! 15 Aug 08 - 13 Sep 08, $30/$25. (The Arts Centre)
The Middle East gets a taste of Kiwi. Welcome to Iraq, liberated from a cruel dictatorship......
Location: The Forge at The Court Theatre
Group Exhibition 26 Aug 08 - 31 Aug 08, Admission free. (The Arts Centre)
Group Exhibition:  Paintings by Marie Bishop, Christine Maynard, Leane Prentice,...
Location: Cloisters Gallery
The Press Friday Lunchtime Concert Series 2008 14 Mar 08 - 31 Oct 08, $10 waged, $8 unwaged/seniors, $6 students, $2 children (2-18), discounted series subscription cards available.. (The Arts Centre)
A musical feast every Friday from March to October.  Enjoy a range of musical styles...
Location: Great Hall
The PRESS Friday Lunchtime Concert Series 2008 $10 waged, $8 unwaged/seniors, $6 students, $2 children (2-18), discounted series subscription cards available.. (The Arts Centre)
Principals of NZSO National Youth orchestra 2007.
Location: Great Hall
GHOST TOUR 13 Oct 06 - 31 Dec 08, $20 per head or $60 family ticket (x 4). (The Arts Centre)
Dare to accompany the infamous Dr Aloysius Mort on a night time journey into the...
Location: The Arts Centre
Heroes 2 Aug 08 - 30 Aug 08, (The Arts Centre)
Tom Stoppard's award-winning adaptation of Gerald Sibleyras' LE VENT DES PEUPLIERS...
Location: Court I
Original paintings by New Zealand Artists 1 Jun 08 - 31 Dec 09, Admission free. (The Arts Centre)
Location: The Art Department
Motorcycle speedway champion Ivan Mauger is regarded as one of the greatest riders in the history of the sport.
Location: Transport Gallery, Canterbury Museum
An exhibition exploring the stories, personalities and events relating to the evolution of nursing in Canterbury.
Location: Visitor Lounge
A delightful exhibition of characters from the highly-acclaimed books of pirate stories by New Zealand artists David Elliot and Pamela Allen. The exhibition is presented by the Te Tai Tamariki Trust.
Location: Outside Discovery
Canterbury Museum and Tchakat Moriori, the peaceful people of the Chatham Islands, invite you to share their heritage in this exhibition that explores the distinctive artefacts, landscapes and culture of their homeland.
Location: Ngā Taonga
From flying machines to war machines, the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci come to life in this fascinating special exhibition.
Location: Level 1
The extraordinary lounge of an ordinary Kiwi couple
Location: Level 1
The final in a series of artists’ interventions. The works of contemporary New Zealand artists Riki Manuel, Dagmar Dyck and Graham Bennett are sited adjacent to the collection objects that inspired them.
Location: Interventions throughout the Museum
Emerging Pacific Artists 26 Aug 08 - 7 Sep 08, Admission free. (The Arts Centre)
Location: Salamander Gallery
Ngaire van Grondelle & Marie Rusbatch Dawso 25 Aug 08 - 7 Sep 08, Admission free. (The Arts Centre)
Location: Canta Clay Pottery Studio at The Artists Quarter
Location: Annie's Wine Bar
SoFa, So Good 20 Aug 08 - 29 Aug 08, (The Arts Centre)
Annual School of Fine Arts Sculpture Show.
Location: SOFA Gallery
Deep 1 Aug 08 - 31 Aug 08, Admission free. (The Arts Centre)
Six artists display their unique new jewellery designs, featuring the work of Katrina...
Location: ConneXion Gallery
Top Dg Theatre presents SHAKERS 20 Aug 08 - 30 Aug 08, $20, $15 concession/students.. (The Arts Centre)
SHAKERS is an award-winning play set in a trendy cocktail bar in the north of England...
Location: University Theatre
Location: Cave Rock Gallery
Frederika Ernsten 6 Aug 08 - 2 Sep 08, Admission free. (The Arts Centre)
Work by local potter.
Location: The Pot Shop
A public display illustrating seasonal highlights, some history and the activities of the 'Friends of the Gardens'.
Location: Botanic Gardens Information Centre
Our Mummy - Tash pen Khonsu Until 31 Aug 09, 9am-5pm. (Canterbury Museum)
Canterbury Museum's most famous resident.
Location: Chathams Gallery
Ross Gray Modaulation 13 Aug 08 - 30 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. (Centre of Contemporary Art)
Ross Gray explores ideas about time and change in the city - its architecture, spaces and urban memory - are explored in the abstract manipulation of the grid, proportions, mark making and visual weights and spatial characteristics of colour.
Location: Mair Gallery
Liz Rowe - After shock 13 Aug 08 - 31 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. (Centre of Contemporary Art)
Aftershock is an installation and digital projection that references nineteenth and twentieth centrury landscape traditions and the aethetics and politics of the genre.
Location: Canaday Gallery
Sparking Your Interest 18 Aug 08 - 13 Sep 08, 10am-4pm. Mon-Sat. (Our City O-Tautahi)
Artist Hilaire Campbell explores the uninhabited space and beauty of our city’s substations
Location: Our City O-Tautahi Cnr Worcester Blvd & Oxfor Tce
FELT: like something different 18 Aug 08 - 13 Sep 08, 10am-4pm. Mon-Sat. (Our City O-Tautahi)
making a living from making stuff: inspirational Christchurch crafters
Location: Our City O-Tautahi Cnr Worcester Blvd & Oxfor Tce
Ewan McDougall - Open Slather 13 Aug 08 - 31 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. (Centre of Contemporary Art)
Seemingly naive, McDougall’s paintings are, in reality, slyly sophisticated dissections of art, consumerism and contemporary New Zealand culture.
Location: Front Gallery
Keeping Time 23 May 08 - 31 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. (Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu)
Exploring the moment when past and present collide, this exhibition considers how history, memory and tradition frame our experience of the world.
Location: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Dylan Taylor - ALL UP IN YR GRILL! 13 Aug 08 - 30 Aug 08, 10am-5pm. 7 Days. (Centre of Contemporary Art)
"Darkly humorous, cynical yet playful, 'ALL UP IN YR GRILL!' is both a critique of the human condition, and a tribute to emotional awkwardness."
Location: North Gallery
Canterbury artist Austen Deans – well-known for traditional landscape paintings depicting his beloved high country – visited Antarctica for three weeks in 1981, where he spent time sketching, painting watercolours and photographing the environment.
Location: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Knowledgeable guides introduce and explain the history and fabric of this fine English Victorian Gothic Cathedral.
Location: Visitors' Centre entrance to the Cathedral proper
Holy Communion
Location: ChristChurch Cathedral
Knowledgeable guides introduce and explain the history and fabric of this fine English Victorian Gothic Cathedral.
Location: Visitors' Centre entrance to the Cathedral proper
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