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22 AUGUST – 22 SEPTEMBER 2013 REBUILDING THE HEART HIKITIA TE MANAWA FIVE AMAZING FESTIVAL WEEKENDS 2 3 The Festival this year is spread over five weekends and three FESTIVAL ENJOY FIVE main venues. Larger-scale shows are held at the Aurora Centre, Memorial Avenue. Theatre and some music will feature at the PARTNERS FESTIVAL Rudolf Steiner School, Opawa. WELCOME WEEKENDS The main music programme and Ideas Festival will be held at the Fletcher Building Festival Club, Market Square, The Arts Centre (facing on to Worcester Boulevard). We’ve kept our prices low, some events are free, some for adults and some for family. Come and celebrate the best of Christchurch, the best of New Zealand and the best international shows we could bring. CORNERSTONE PARTNERS INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS Photo: Ng Pae o te Mramatanga o te Ng Pae Photo: SIR TIPENE O’REGAN BOB PARKER CLARE MURRAY / Honorary Festival Patron Honorary Festival Patron LAUREN SEMPLE Co-Chairs Naia te mihi kau A major arts festival is a PHILIP TREMEWAN atu a Ngai Tahu, significant feature on the Festival Director STRATEGIC PARTNERS MEDIA PARTNERS Naia te uruhau a cultural landscape of any city. As we survey our city and look PHILIP CARTER Aoraki e paorooro ana. We are delighted to bring you FAMILY keenly towards the future, we this year’s festival, spanning five Ko tatou te ia kawe can take heart that an event like exciting weekends filled with haora, ko tatou te ia the Christchurch Arts Festival shows and activities to pull you kawe toto continues to bolster spirits and out of winter and reinvigorate Ki tenei te manawa inject vitality and enthusiasm. the senses for spring! o Otautahi Planning and rebuilding this Kick up your heels, move to E patukituki nei, city and ensuring our buildings music, be astonished by circus e whetukituki nei and physical infrastructure are and cabaret performers, and CORPORATE PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNERS second to none is a key focus for Hai oranga tonutanga enjoy quality theatre. It’s all on many. Equally important is the mo tatou. show for you in a burst of energy restoration of the infrastructure and vitality to amuse, enliven that nurtures and sustains the and invigorate. heart of our city and makes Greetings and Make the festival part of your salutations to you all Christchurch a great place to live. The Festival and the power year and bring Christchurch From the people of of live performance play key alive! We have kept our prices Ngai Tahu and our ancestral roles in this essential task. as low as possible so you can mountain, Aoraki. come to a different show every WITH SUPPORT FROM FESTIVAL PARTNERS You can be mightily impressed The people are the soul, weekend with your friends and at the wide-ranging and top family. ADRIENNE, LADY STEWART BDO GREENWOOD ROCHE CHISNALL the essence, we are resilient quality programme being rolled FARINA THOMPSON CAMELOT MOTOR LODGE MCCARTHY DESIGN That which makes the heart out over five weekends. There Enjoy! CHARITABLE TRUST CHRIST’S COLLEGE MONTEITHS of Christchurch beat. are stunning live performances FESTIVAL PATRONS AND FRIENDS CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY MURRAY & CO for all ages and all interests. FOODSTUFFS COMMUNITY TRUST CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC NV INTERACTIVE I urge you to take part. Enjoy ROBERT AND BARBARA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (CPIT) STEWART TRUST THE GEORGE your festival. Enjoy your city. ERNST AND YOUNG WHITEBAIT TV Cover image credits: Main image - Traces: Michael Meseke, Featured images from: I, George Nepia; Strike Percussion; Percussion; Strike Nepia; George I, from: images Featured Meseke, Michael Traces: - Main image credits: image Cover Cantina the Streets; to Took The Animals and Children Are; You Where To Me Up Fly Lines; Fault Calexico; Six; at Live 5 4 VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS VISUAL FLY ME UP TO WHERE YOU ARE …A TRULY BREATH TAKING SIGHT. THIS THX 4 THE INSTALLATION IS MORE THAN JUST AN ARTWORK. IT IS AN IMPORTANT TAONGA THAT PROVIDES MEMORIES A PLATFORM FOR A COLLECTIVE VOICE RARELY HEARD. THE VOICE OF NEW ZEALAND’S CHILDREN. – METRO Photo: Robert George Photo: Bridgit Anderson Photo: TIFFANY SINGH / The flags unite in a WHEN: PLACE IN TIME / This large-scale outdoors WHEN: THURS 22 AUG – SUN 22 SEP THURS 22 AUG – SUN 22 SEP NEW ZEALAND stunning public installation, CHRISTCHURCH exhibition by Place In transforming part of the WHERE: Time, the Christchurch WHERE: central city with a WORCESTER BOULEVARD, ENTRANCE documentary project, WORCESTER BOULEVARD, Fly Me Up To Where You Are TO CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL As the devastating RUNNING FROM THE MUSEUM mass of joyous colour. records stories and images UP TOWARDS THE SQUARE begins with Christchurch’s In this very special project, series of earthquakes in from one such place, the children and culminates in each child will create a flag Christchurch continued, suburb of Avonside and the heart of our city in a riot expressing their personal residents in a large part testifies to their resilience of colour. hopes and dreams and a of the eastern suburbs and to the very human Artist Tiffany Singh flag expressing their hopes began to hear the words strength of their stories. explores the power of “Red Zone” and as the and dreams for the city of Photographs by Bridgit art to build a community. Government decreed Christchurch. Anderson and Tim J. Veling. Inspired by the Tibetan Supported by that numerous homes in Come, with family and Text by Glenn Busch Sponsored by tradition of prayer flags, suburbs across the city friends, and contemplate Fly Me Up To Where You were to totally disappear, under this canopy of Are gathers the hopes and the lives of thousands of dreams, made by the dreams of thousands of people were suddenly and Supported by children of Christchurch. Christchurch’s children in irrevocably changed. the form of hand-painted Commissioned by Auckland Arts dream flags created in Festival and premiered at workshops with the artist. Auckland Arts Festival 2013. 7 6 A FASCINATING PIECE OF THEATRE NOT TO THEATRE BE MISSED. VISUAL ARTS VISUAL – DOMINION POST LIVE AT SIX 37 Photo: Philip Merry Photo: DOC ROSS / just as many words as WHEN: SHOW PONY AND are tested as the editors WHEN: there were seconds of THURS 22 AUG – SUN 3 NOV stitch together the night’s THURS 29 AUG, 6.30PM CHRISTCHURCH 9AM – 5PM OUT OF BOUNDS / FRI 30 AUG, 6.30PM shaking. For each portrait, NEW ZEALAND footage live on stage. SAT 31 AUG, 6.30PM each person was asked WHERE: 37 seconds doesn’t sound CANTERBURY MUSEUM Bring your smartphone WHERE: to sit completely still in and be part of the action. AURORA CENTRE very long, until you start to a chair and support their When footage of a count it out; one thousand 6pm news anchor A black comedy with a TICKETS: head while a 37 second thriller edge that will ADULT $25 one, one thousand two, one exposure multiple image misbehaving goes viral, STUDENT (WITH ID) $20 thousand three... suddenly both her network and the change the way you watch Service fee applies was taken. the news. it seems an eternity; an competition have less DURATION: eternity when time stands than 24 hours to package 1 HR 30 MINS, INCLUDING INTERVAL still but the earth heaves the story. Whose version BOOK: and shakes violently. will the public believe, and ARTSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ/LIVEATSIX Created by Christchurch more importantly, whose photographer Doc Ross, will they tune in to? this collection is of As a real-time deadline Sponsored by 37 portraits of people races towards them, affected by the February In collaboration journos, presenters and earthquake and their with executives on both sides Supported by stories compressed into 8 A FIX OF PURE URBAN ADRENALINE. MAD, PULSE-RACING MAGIC. CIRCUS – NEW YORK TIMES TIME MAGAZINE’S “TOP TEN EVERYTHING OF 2011″ EYE-POPPING ATHLETICISM, FLUID GRACE AND CHISELED PHYSIQUES MAKE FOR THE SEXIEST CIRCUS IN TOWN. – NEW YORK DAILY NEWS TRACES LES 7 DOIGTS This high energy, projections, music and WHEN: Thursday THURS 5 SEP, 6.30PM Sponsored by DE LA MAIN / enchanting circus show sheer physical prowess. FRI 6 SEP, 5PM & 8.30PM CANADA mixes jaw-dropping Traces is fun for the SAT 7 SEP, 2PM & 6.30PM acrobatic skills with a jet- whole family and will WHERE: propelled urban energy. leave you breathless and AURORA CENTRE Montreal’s Les 7 doigts de wanting more. TICKETS: Friday la main presents circus ADULT $45 Sponsored by CHILD $25 on a human scale using Service fee applies everything that comes to DURATION: hand from hoop tumbling 1 HR 30 MINS, NO INTERVAL to freestyle moves as BOOK: the performers of Traces ARTSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ/TRACES Saturday move effortlessly from one Sponsored by act to another – soaring, dancing, somersaulting, jumping, springing, balancing and catapulting in limitless variations backed by visual Photo: Michael Meseke 10 CABARET SPECTACULAR ACTS OF PHYSICAL STRENGTH, ENDURANCE AND ANATOMICAL UNLIKELIHOOD. – THE AUSTRALIAN A WINNING MIX OF CIRCUS-STYLE ATHLETICISM BLENDED WITH ELEGANTLY CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE…THERE IS THE ADDED FRISSON OF IMAGINING THE PERFORMERS MIGHT SPIN OUT OF CONTROL AND LAND ON YOUR LAP. – NZ HERALD CANTINA STRUT & FRET / Leave your everyday Seducing audiences WHEN: Sponsored by life behind and enter in London, Sydney and THURS 22 – SAT 24 AUG, 8PM AUSTRALIA SUN 25 AUG, 7PM the intoxicating world Auckland this year, TUES 27 – FRI 30 AUG, 8PM of CANTINA. Discover a CANTINA brings its SAT 31 AUG, 7PM Doors open 30 minutes place of faded glamour cocktail of skill, danger before showtime scorching with passion, and sensuality to WHERE: rapture and desire. Christchurch. FLETCHER BUILDING A showcase of heart- Featuring an outstanding FESTIVAL CLUB stopping acrobatic skills cast of circus performers TICKETS: set in a dusty world of backed by live music, GENERAL ADMISSION $45 Service fee applies vaudeville and seduction CANTINA is the dark where the line between chocolate of cabaret – DURATION: 1 HR, NO INTERVAL pleasure and pain is a little bit naughty, a little BOOK: increasingly blurred.