Culture: Go guide
Riot at Blue Smoke
Clap Clap Riot are bringing their Dull Life Summer Tour to Woolston’s Blue Smoke this evening from 9pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Celebration of global football
Linfield Park will host a junior Global Football Festival on Saturday between midday and 4pm. The free event, organised by the Christchurch City Council in association with Coastal Spirit Football Club, promises to offer an afternoon filled with football, food and fun for those aged five to 12 years.
Art talk
Internationally acclaimed artist Keith Morant will give a free public talk on The Necessity of Art at Riccarton’s Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery at 2pm tomorrow. Visit eventfinda.co.nz
Shakespeare at his bloodiest
Billed as ‘‘all of Game of Thrones in one evening’’, The Court Theatre’s latest production – Titus Andronicus – opens tomorrow night. The play stars Owen Black, Eilish Moran and Tom Trevella and the season is scheduled to run until March 3. See courttheatre.org.nz
Sparks in the park
Now in its 35th year, the 2018 edition of Sparks returns to Hagley Park tomorrow night and will feature the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Kenneth Young, performing a range of classical and contemporary pieces. Preshow entertainment begins at
5.30pm and The Night Noodle Markets will run from 1pm that day. Fireworks finale around
9.30pm. See ccc.govt.nz/summertimes
Rising stars in town
Politically charged, punk fourpiece Rise Against will perform at Horncastle Arena tomorrow night. Touring to celebrate the release of their eighth studio album Wolves, the Chicago band will be preceded on stage at the 7.30pm concert by SWMRS. Book at Ticketek.
Pianist performs
Pianist Ben Waters, described by Jools Holland as one of the best, will perform at Akaroa’s Gaiety Theatre tomorrow night. Tickets for the 7pm concert are available from eventfinda.co.nz
Modern Requiem
New Christchurch vocal group, the Atlas Voices Ensemble, will present a special concert to commemorate the anniversary of the city’s February 22 earthquake on Sunday. Requiem for the Living, which premiered at last year’s Christchurch Arts Festival, will be performed in The Transitional Cathedral from 2pm.
Swan Sisters’ Sunday
Fresh from their performance at last weekend’s Nostalgia Festival, The Swan Sisters are this week’s Lazy Sundays Concert performer on the Christchurch Botanic Gardens’ Archery Lawn from 3.30pm. See summertimes.co.nz
Double-bill
Spreydon’s Irish Society Hall will host an international double bill on Sunday. Scottish singer and concertina player Alistair Brown performs at 3pm, followed by English banjo artist Dan Walsh at 7.30pm.
Saxophonist goes Orange
Acclaimed New Zealand saxophonist Hayden Chisholm will be joined by fellow Kiwis Norm Meehan and Paul Dyne for a concert at Ferrymead’s Orange Studio on Sunday night. Tickets for the 7.30pm show are available from eventbrite.co.nz
Revisiting HIStory
Top Michael Jackson impersonator Dantanio will bring his Michael Jackson HIStory Show to the Isaac Theatre Royal on Monday night. Tickets for the 8pm show are available from Ticketek.
Irish Operatunity
Luck of the Irish is the latest show to visit Christchurch. Promising ‘‘great singing, virtuoso fiddling and the odd Irish joke’’, Operatunity will be performed at Upper Riccarton’s La Vida Centre on Tuesday from 11am. The ticket price includes lunch with the performers. See operatunity.co.nz.
Anniversary service
The Civic Service to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the February 22 Earthquake will be held at the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial on the corner of Montreal St and Cambridge Tce on Thursday at 12.30pm. The event will also be livestreamed on the council website, ccc.govt.nz.
Timely performance
Created to mark the seventh anniversary of the city’s deadly February 22 earthquake, Earthquakes & Butterflies will be performed at The Transitional Cathedral in Latimer Square from next Thursday night. Based on the novel by Kathleen Gallagher, the Helen Moran-directed and Fleur de Thier-choreographed show focuses on the stories of a ‘‘cluster of people whose lives criss-cross‘‘. It will be performed twice daily until February 25. For more information and tickets, see eventfinda.co.nz