Events next week:

Wednesday, August 22, 9.30 am, 11am (sold out!) and 1pm, ACTivate in Bisley Road: the TWSO Children’s Education Concerts in which the orchestra presents Max and the Alien interwoven with recognisable music played by the orchestra. Contact phone 949 9315

Wednesday, August 22, 7pm, Hillcrest High School: The Music Department Annual Concert is an opportunity to enjoy some of the quite remarkably entertaining, polished, and award-winning music being produced by this high school.

Saturday, August 25, Frankton Art Gallery, 10 High Street,

noon-5pm Tuesdays to Saturdays: A new exhibition, Two Redheads and a Paintbrush, featuring the work of Djuanne Rusden and Tanya Cook with a series of remarkably evocative abstracts.

Sunday, August 26, 3pm, Museum: The Cambridge Brass Quintet plays music from musicals, magnificently.

Watch for:

Friday, August 31, 7pm, Gallagher Academy for the Performing Arts: the Waikato Schools Symphonic Band and Waikato Diocesan’s Bel Suono Choir presents its Spring Serenade.

Opening on Saturday, September 1: The Cambridge Repertory Society production of Domestic Bliss, a play by New Zealand playwright Christina Stachurski, will replace the advertised Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which would have opened on the 25th of August. Looks very interesting – three women, living in different time periods – 1950s,

1970s and the present day – share the same kitchen.