SPORT, EXERCISE & OUTDOORS
Music and Fitness sessions: Awaken Church, 1048 Fergusson Dr, Upper Hutt, movement and music sessions, Tuesdays, 10am. Public Rollerskating/ Rollerblading for all ages: Upper Hutt Rollerskating Club Rink, 4B Railway Ave, Upper Hutt, skates and Rollerblades for hire or use your own, 3pm - 5pm, Saturdays. St Hilda’s Garage and Boot Sale: Saturday, October 1, at 9am. Phone 526 3053 to book a car boot space. Walking Group: Petone Community House, 6 Britannia St, warmup this winter by joining in on mainly flat walks for the over 60s, Thursdays, twice monthly, info: Shirley, 589-8917. English Country Dancing: St Margaret’s Church, Silverstream, Monday afternoons, 1pm to 2.30pm, ph Stella 972 0783 or Ruth 528 8332. I Love You Because: Up-Stage Theatre, 26A Moonshine Rd, Upper Hutt. A modern-day musical love story. It is a sweet and funny romantic comedy about contemporary dating in New York City. Oct 5-Oct 15. Tickets 04 5272168 or The ABBA Show: Gillies Group Theatre. Expressions, Friday, October 28, 8pm. Tickets $59. Direct from Australia, and following more than 5000 international shows, the world’s premier live ABBA tribute – The ABBA Show – is coming to town! World of WearableArt™ Awards Show: TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf Wellington. September 22 to October 9. Tickets from $50 Using the human body as a blank canvas designers create works of wearable art to be exhibited in the annual World of WearableArt™ Awards Show. Designs are brought to life in this spectacular stage performance – a world where theatre, fashion and art collide. Dinosaur Footprints: a Story of Discovery: Hutt City Libraries is hosting a nationally-touring exhibition of 70 million-year-old dinosaur footprints discovered in coastal sandstone rocks in northwest Nelson. They are the first dinosaur footprints ever found in New Zealand, and the first evidence of dinosaurs found in the South Island. War Memorial Library, until 30 September. Free Three Amigos: MIX Gallery, 212 Knights Rd, Peter Hall’s Digital Menagerie, Graham Wolf’s Nelson Mandela Pop Art and Stacey Hughes’ Animal Friends, view by appointment, phone 569 3162. The Ultimate Collection: From artists Karen Collier and Kyle Creach. Plus prints + jewellery. Exhibition runs until September 30. Viewing by appointment, mix.org.nz MIX Gallery 212 Knights Road. Grand Upper Hutt: Gillies Group Theatre, Expressions, recital by Upper Hutt Concert Grand Piano Trust award winner Louis LucasPerry, Sunday October 30, 1pm, tickets $15. Hutt City Lunchtime Concert: Arohanui Strings - young musicians ensemble. St Marks Church, Woburn Rd, Lower Hutt, Wed, September 28, 12.15-1pm. Koha entry. The Hutt Valley Ukulele Orchestra: Hutt Irish Society Club, 12 Raroa Rd, meets Wednesdays, 6.30-8pm and on Thursdays, 7-8.30pm at the Petone Working Men’s Club. Sing Out: The Pettit Centre, Cnr Fergusson Dr and Palmer Cres, the Hutt Valley Singers are keen for new members, rehearsals Mondays, 7.10pm - 9.10pm, call Joanne 526-3091 or email info@huttvalleysingers.org.nz. Sunday Strum: Expressions, 836 Fergusson Dr, Upper Hutt ukulele group meets for a jam session, listen or join in, on the first Sunday of each month, 2-3pm. Upper Hutt Country Music Club: Masonic Hall 27 Islington Street, Trentham, all welcome, meets every second Sunday from 6.30pm.
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