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Summer City (Wellington)
Summer City was a summer entertainment programme staged throughout Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It was run from January 1979 to 1987 by the Wellington City Council’s Parks and Recreation Department and the Wellington Community Arts Council, utilising the Department of Labour (New Zealand), Department of Labour’s Temporary Employment Programme (TEP), the Project Employment Programme, and the Student Community Services Programme. After the Government's funding ceased the programme was continued by the city council directly. Two of the guiding philosophies of the programme were the encouragement of more diverse public use of Wellington’s many parks, reserves, and beaches, and to be a positive inducement for families to conserve energy by remaining in the Capital for their summer holidays. It was typified by the “Dell Season”, the anchor point of the programme, which attracted annual totals in excess of 100,000 attendees. Artists and technical staff were emplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sunday Afternoon Crowd In The Dell (Wellington Botanical Gardens) During The 1979 Summer '79 Programme
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''a'' (pronounced ), plural English alphabet#Letter names, ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Greek alphabet#History, Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The Letter case, uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, "English articles, a", and its variant "English articles#Indefinite article, an", are Article (grammar)#Indefinite article, indefinite arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre
The Toi Pōneke Arts Centre (61–69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington), is the New Zealand capital's creative production facility and support complex. It was established between 2003 and 2005, and was formally opened by Mayor Kerry Prendergast in July 2005. For twelve years previous, the city's arts centre had been based at the much smaller Oriental Bay Rotunda. The new complex, spread across two buildings and seven floors, has a focus on active creative production in all disciplines, and on the further advancement of cultural identity in New Zealand. It is located in the bustling and dynamic Upper Cuba Street neighbourhood of Wellington. The arts centre houses a combination of 29 artist studios, rehearsal spaces, music rooms, and administrative offices. It is home to over a dozen producers, festivals, or arts organisations, including Cuba Street Carnival, the New Zealand Fringe Festival, Dance Aotearoa NZ, Sticky Pictures, and Arts Access Aotearoa. Other cultural concern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Hyde
Timothy Hyde is an Australian-based magician, born in New Zealand. Biography Timothy was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1955. While training as a primary school teacher at Wellington Teachers College (1974–1976), he also appeared in numerous productions at Wellington's Unity Theatre, Downstage Theatre and helped establish the Wellington Children's Theatre Co-op.Reilly, Jim – Magicana, (1995 Aug/Sep) pp.12–13 '' " one of the busiest professional magic acts in Sydney " '' After two years teaching he began a full-time career as a performer, joining the experimental Chameleon Theatre Group, later known as Chameleon Circus. They toured extensively throughout New Zealand with support from the Department of Internal Affairs, appearing at universities, prisons and arts festivals. Timothy moved to Sydney in 1980, where he undertook busking for three years, before establishing himself as a regular at Sydney's Comedy Store and building a career in both family and corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hambleton
Peter Hambleton (born 1960) is a New Zealand stage, film and television actor, and stage director. Hambleton graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1982 with a Diploma in Acting. In 2002 Hambleton was a New Zealand Shakespeare’s Globe International Actors’ Fellow. Well known in the Wellington theatre scene, he has played ornithologist Walter Buller in the 2006 play ''Dr Buller's Birds'' and Charles Darwin in the 2009 play ''Collapsing Creation''. He played the Dwarf Glóin in ''The Hobbit'' film series and Mike Johnson in an episode of the 1999 TV miniseries '' A Twist in the Tale.'' He has also featured in television advertisements, including as the businessman in the Ansett New Zealand Ansett New Zealand was an airline serving the New Zealand domestic market between 1987 and 2001. It was a subsidiary of Ansett Transport Industries. In order to comply with regulatory requirements relating to the acquisition of Ansett Trans ... "Fluffy" advertiseme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodger Fox
Rodger Denis Fox (born 7 January 1953) is a New Zealand trombonist, jazz educator, recording artist and leader of the Rodger Fox Big Band. He founded his jazz band in 1973 and has toured extensively in New Zealand and overseas, playing at international jazz festivals including Montreux and Monterey. He is a jazz educator and teaches at the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington. Early life Fox was born in Christchurch in 1953, the son of Louis and Betty Fox. Both his parents were musicians. Betty taught piano and Louis played in and conducted brass bands, becoming head of music at Mana College in Wellington where his son was educated. Fox initially played the trumpet, changing to the trombone when that instrument was needed in the Mana College band. He played in the local brass band, the Wellington Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra in 1969 and 1970. He passed the Royal College of Music trombone and theory exam in 1970. His brother play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fane Flaws
Fane Michael Flaws (16 May 1951 – 17 June 2021) was a New Zealand musician, songwriter, and artist. Career Flaws was a member of bands including Blerta, Spats, and The Crocodiles. Until joining Blerta he was known by his second name Michael: Bruno Lawrence of Blerta insisted ''Fane'' was a better name. When he was in The Crocodiles, he wrote the song "Tears" with Arthur Baysting. The single reached number 17 in the New Zealand charts. He wrote songs for the films ''Braindead'' and ''Meet the Feebles'', even voicing the Musician Frog in the latter. He animated the revamped titles for Radio with Pictures in 1986, a Television New Zealand programme featuring popular and alternative music. He was co-author, with Arthur Baysting and Peter Dasent, of the children's book ''The Underwater Melon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes.'' The book was published in 1998, a CD in 1999. In 2011, an edition was published with a DVD. Musicians appearing include Chris Knox, Jenny Morris, Neil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond (born 1952 in Ohakune) is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. He is the son of writer Lauris Edmond. Biography Edmond studied Anthropology and English, graduating MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington. He spent a year working as a junior lecturer before joining avant garde theatre group Red Mole, with whom he spent five years as a writer and actor. He has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1981. He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University with his dissertation on Australian artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira. Writing career Edmond has written screenplays for several New Zealand feature films, including '' Illustrious Energy'' (1987); '' The Footstep Man'' (1991) and '' Terra Nova'' (1996). Edmond has written over 20 books. They include ''Streets of Music'' (1980), ''Houses, Days, Skies'' (1988), ''The Autobiography of My Father'' (1992), and ''The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont'' (1999). ''The Autobiogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dasent
Peter Dasent is a New Zealand born composer, pianist and songwriter who has lived and worked in Sydney, Australia since 1981. He played keyboards in the bands Spats, and The Crocodiles. He leads the chamber-jazz group the Umbrellas, is writing a book on the music of Nino Rota and currently works in music composition for film and television, most notably in the children's television series '' Play School''. Some of his more famous works were with Peter Jackson in three of his early films : ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989), '' Braindead'' (1992) and ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994). He also composed the music of three other movies : '' Channelling Baby'' (2000), ''Cubbyhouse ''Cubbyhouse'' is a 2001 Australian horror film, directed by Murray Fahey and starring Joshua Leonard (of ''The Blair Witch Project'' fame) and Belinda McClory (''The Matrix''). It screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. It was produced ...'' (2001), and '' Voodoo Lagoon'' (2006), plus some music for TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Bustin
Debra Kaye Bustin (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist. Her work is in the permanent collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Sarjeant Gallery and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Bustin was born in Wellington in 1957. Her art is characterised by bright colours and plastic materials, often covering whole walls and floors of a space. In 2010, Bustin worked with children living in Wellington City Council's Te Ara Hou housing estate to redesign the area's playground as part of a major redevelopment of the neighbourhood. She has also designed public outdoor sculptural art for the Paraparaumu Paraparaumu () is a town in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Kapiti Coast, north of the nation's capital city, Wellington. Like other towns in the area, it has a partner settlement at the coast called Paraparaumu Bea ... Library. References 1957 births Living people Artists from Wellington City 20th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Brunton
Alan Mervyn Brunton (14 October 1946 – 27 June 2002) was a New Zealand poet and playwright. Biography Brunton was born in Christchurch and educated at Hamilton Boys' High School, the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. He was founding editor of Freed, and in 1970 Brunton moved to Europe and Asia, publishing Messengers in Blackface (1973, London). From 1974 to 1978 he co-founded an experimental theatre group, Red Mole with his partner Sally Rodwell. He co-edited Spleen 1976–77. He lived his latter years at Island Bay, a suburb of Wellington. He died in Amsterdam in 2002 during a visit to Europe. Works Alan Brunton's work was interwoven between his poetry and theatre. He performed as part of the troupe in Red Mole in many venues including in the 1970s Carmen's Balcony in Wellington, New Zealand. Carmen's Balcony was a notorious nightclub run by Carmen Rupe Carmen Rupe (10 October 1936 – 14 December 2011), was a New Zealand drag performer, brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Betts
Jean Betts is a New Zealand playwright, actor and director. Background Jean Betts emigrated with her parents (both founders of Unity Theatre, London), to Christchurch, New Zealand. She obtained a degree at University of Canterbury in English Literature and New Zealand and Pacific History. Betts graduated from Toi Whakaari: the New Zealand Drama School in 1970, the inaugural year when its founder, Nola Millar, was principal. Her classmates were Elizabeth Coulter, Jennifer Ludlam, Denise Maunder, Joanna Miekle, John Otto, William (Bill) Petley, Darien Takle and Bevan Wilson. Career She has written many plays including Revenge of the Amazons, Ophelia Thinks Harder, The Collective and The Misandrist. The Collective is a dramatisation of the story of Brecht's theatre collective based on the book "Brecht & Co" by John Fuegi. She worked for many years as actor and director at Gateway, BATS, Downstage Theatre and Circa Theatre. She was involved with the development of professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Beauchamp
Rose Beauchamp (26 October 1946 – 10 January 2022) was a New Zealand puppeteer, actress, musician, and member of the Red Mole and Hens' Teeth theatre companies. Life and career Rose Beauchamp Thomas was born in Auckland in 1946. In her 20s and 30s she travelled and lived in the Middle East and England, attending puppetry festivals in Europe. She married poet Ian Wedde at age 20; they were married for 20 years and had three sons. She began performing, mostly as a musician, with White Rabbit Puppet Theatre, a branch of the Red Mole Theatre Company. She joined Red Mole in 1975 and began doing puppetry. Beauchamp studied and performed puppetry in Japan. She attended the UNIMA World Puppet Festival in 1988 and was funded by the New Zealand–Japan Exchange Programme to study and perform with a puppet company in 1989. In 1990 she made her third trip to Japan to perform at a puppet festival on Shikoku Island. She travelled around Japan performing her puppet show with an anti-n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
