Arts snips - What’s on this month and next
and melody interspersed with a number of recordings based upon the tune. Admission by gold coin donation.
Rose of Tralee
This event is held every year in the host region of the winning NZ Rose. In 2017 Niamh O’Sullivan won the NZ Rose title and travelled to Ireland to compete at the international festival.
The Rose of Tralee International Festival is one of the largest and longest running festivals in Ireland bringing young women of Irish descent from around the world to County Kerry, Ireland.
The National Selection weekend takes place June 7-10. The National Rose will be announced Saturday June 9 at The Devon Hotel. E-mail tisc.irishclub@gmail.com for more information and tickets.
Yours Truly
A Prince of England falls in love with a lowly shop girl, his best friend, artist Walter Sickert, and his muse, the prostitute Mary Kelly, are entrusted with a dangerous secret. Falling into the wrong hands, whispers and blackmail unleash the devil onto the streets of London. Now the ripper stalks the women of Whitechapel, painting his masterpieces in blood… Yours Truly is a terrifying love story, exposing our base humanity – love, fear, lust and humanity’s hunger for immortality. The play stars Karlos Drinkwater (Shortland Street, Spartacus) and Loren Armstrong (The Bright Lights of Taihape).
4th Wall Theatre, New Plymouth. May 24-June 2, 2018
Govett Brewster Art Gallery/ Len Lye Centre
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre changes out its exhibitions three times a year. The newly opened exhibitions are Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish, Free Radicals: Cinema on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, Len Lye: Pretty Good for the 21st Century, Open Collection: Ta¯tai Arorangi and Projection Series #10 Glitch Envy: Experimental Films by Jodie Mack. The documentary heART of the Matter about the post-war education programmes that put art, artists and Maori arts into the New Zealand classroom, screens in the Len Lye Centre Cinema on Monday May 21 at 2pm. Entry is free. Especially for Deaf and hearing impaired visitors, the GovettBrewster Art Gallery is hosting a New Zealand Sign Language interpreted tour of an exhibition followed by a session making sculptural forms with clay. The tour and workshop are on Monday May 21 at 2pm, entry is free. Venture Taranaki screen the documentary She Started It, and host a panel discussion between business women and female entrepreneurs, at the Len Lye Centre Cinema on Wednesday May 23 at 7pm. Entry is $10. The concert film Stop Making Sense featuring live performance by Talking Heads screens at the Len Lye Centre Cinema on Thursday May 24 at 7pm. Entry is $12 or $10 concession.