What’s on in the region this week
TODAY Seasons
Capital E National Theatre for Children, Circa Theatre, until Saturday, 10am and 1pm, $10 Seasons transports children through song, music, and puppetry into the four seasons – raumati, ngahuru, ho¯toke and ko¯anga. Journey into nature’s world of living creatures, colours, and sounds. Tickets Capital E
Rossini’s L’occssione fa il ladro (Opportunity makes the Thief) Boutique Cinema Te Auaha, Dixon St, 7pm, $18-$22, door sales
Opera screening from The New Zealand Opera Society. A delightful one-act ‘‘farsa’’ of mistaken and swapped identities that is a true delight. 1992 Schwetzinger Festival. 1hr 34min.
RNZB Dance Workshops
Te Marae, Level 4, Te Papa, 11am11.50am & 12.30pm-1.20pm, free Learn dance steps from The Ugly Duckling with Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Chloe Bishop – especially for kids aged 5-9 years. No bookings required.
RNZB Performance: The Ugly Duckling
Soundings Theatre, Level 2, Te Papa, Monday and Tuesday, various times, free
This playful performance retells Hans Christian Andersen’s timeless fairytale with a distinctly New Zealand twist. It’s a heartwarming, coming-of-age story that focuses on the challenges of growing up, fitting in, and finding your flock.
TOMORROW Up Down Girl
Circa Theatre, 20 April-1 May, 6.30pm (Tuesday-Saturday) & 4pm (Sunday), $15-$25
Mattie is off to college in an hour – and she’s left it to Mum to pack her case. Mum won’t miss the blaring music, slamming doors and massive phone bills. But Mattie is no ordinary teenager, and will Mum cope without her? Tickets circa.co. nz
1998 Photo Diary Exhibition Thistle Hall gallery, 293 Cuba St, until Sunday, opens 11am, free The 1998 Photo Diary Exhibition has been created using
photographs taken during 1998, all around Wellington, and a few beyond. These photographs act as a diary of one person’s life. The exhibition will promote the establishment of a New Zealand Diary Project, which would rescue, collect, preserve and archive diaries donated by any New Zealander.
Rainbows and Fishes
BATS Theatre, until Sunday, 10.30am and 12.30pm
Rainbows and Fishes is a new theatre piece that uses puppets to weave a colourful story. English, Te Reo and Samoan are freely used throughout the performance. Suitable for all tamariki, parents and Grandparents.
Tickets bats.co.nz
WEDNESDAY Orion Quartet
St Andrew’s on the Terrace, 12.15pm, Koha entry
The Orion Quartet, together with guest violist Victoria Jaenecke, performs Mozart’s extraordinary String Quintet in G minor KV 516. The group plays on historical instruments with gut strings and
are members of the NZSO and Orchestra Wellington. They are Anne Loeser and Rebecca Struthers (violin), Sophia Acheson and Victoria Jaenecke (viola) and Jane Young (cello).
Lunchtime talk: Eli Elinoff on the Social Properties of Concrete. Adam Art Gallery, Victoria
University, noon, free
Join Eli Elinoff, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, for the second in our series of lunchtime talks devised to elaborate on the histories and uses of the materials and practices Kate Newby draws upon in her full gallery exhibition YES TOMORROW.
THURSDAY
Duets for Two Sopranos
St Andrew’s on the Terrace, 12.15pm, Koha entry
A sublime concert with music by Chausson, Delibes, Mendelssohn and Mozart. Sopranos Georgia Jamieson Emms and Barbara Paterson combine with pianist Mark Dorrell for a lunchtime concert. Feel free to bring a bag lunch and enjoy the music.
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