EXHIBITIONS
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. Amodern-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 Hutt Valley Scout and Guide Gang Show: Lower Hutt Little Theatre, September 19-23 at 7.30pm, Saturday, September 24 at 2pm and 7.30pm. Fun musical theatre for the whole family presented by the Scouts and Guides ofWellington. For more information see . Wild Child Dance with Java Dance: Capital E, 4 Queens Wharf, a half-hour introduction to contemporary dance, with twirling, slinking and sliding, 10am - 10.30am, Tuesdays, free. 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. WarMemorial 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 Gallery 212 Knights Road.
THEATRE, FILM & DANCE
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: Koru Trio - Anne Loeser (violin), Sally Isaac (cello), Rachel Thomson (piano). St Marks Church, Woburn Rd, Lower Hutt, Wed, September 21, 12.15-1pm. Koha entry. Hutt Valley Community Choir:
MUSIC & COMEDY
Knox Church Hall, 574 High St, mixed choir open to all ages with no experience needed and no auditions, meets Tuesdays, 7pm. The Hutt Valley Ukulele Orchestra: Hutt Irish Society Club, 12 Raroa Rd, meetsWednesdays, 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. Ukulele Classes in Naenae: Naenae Community Hall, Everest Ave, all welcome to play the ukulele, and enjoy a coffee and chat, Thursdays, 1pm-2.30pm, entry by koha, contact Christine 567 7446. Upper Hutt Country Music Club: Masonic Hall 27 Islington Street, Trentham, all welcome, meets every second Sunday from 6.30pm.