Only one week to go! Buy tickets now for Strings Amore on Thursday 8 September

Presented by Chamber Music New Zealand, in partnership with ACAS, string quintet Strings Amore will be led by the complicated but beautiful “viola d’amore" in a performance that features pieces by Telemann, Bach, Vivaldi, and Graupner.

One of the rarest, sweetest instruments played in Baroque chamber music, it brings dramatic highlights to this much-anticipated Arrowtown concert. There are only four such instruments in New Zealand – such is its rarity, and its difficulty to master.

A viola has four strings and is pitched slightly lower than a violin. However, the viola d’amore, first made in the seventeenth century, has fourteen strings in two layers of seven. The top layer is played by the musician’s bow, while the seven underneath resonate the played notes on “sympathetic” strings.
 

Strings Amore brings together Donald Maurice (viola d’amore), Martin Riseley (violin), Rupa Maitra (violin), Sophia Acheson (viola), Margaret Guldborg (cello) in a programme that showcases the viola d’amore.
 

With this rare instrument, the audience can anticipate a sweet and gentle sound where the underlying sympathetic strings create an extra resonance that seems like a portable cathedral acoustic.
 

• Cash bar available and canapés served from 5.30pm for a 6pm concert start.

• PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE: Arrowtown Community Centre, 12 Centennial Avenue, Arrowtown.

WHEN: Thursday 8 September - cash bar and complimentary canapes from 5:30pm with the event starting at 6pm

WHERE: Arrowtown Community Centre, 12 Centennial Avenue, Arrowtown.
 

TICKETS: ACAS Member $50.00 / General Admission $60.00. Purchase yours today from eventfinda or the Arrowtown Pharmacy.

Join us for the very first ART CAFÉ @ Te Atamira - free for ACAS members

Come along to the first ART CAFÉ @ Te Atamira session - a new support and advice initiative from ACAS and the Queenstown Arts Society.

In this informal 1.5-hour session we will be joined by artist and tutor Megan Huffadine who will be offering feedback and encouragement around any aspects of your work that you desire to discuss.

Bring along any work that you want feedback on, and Megan will give some fresh perspective and suggest directions to pursue. Megan will also bring along and critique some of her own work. We will also have a few of our experienced members available for comments and help.

Megan has tutored art making for many years. Her ability to see and gently guide in the right direction is a rare gift that has been hugely appreciated by all her students.

Bring along – your work, note taking material, and camera/phone to capture any image advice.

*There will be access to the workroom after the session to paint for an hour or so should you wish to.

Refreshments will be available.

This first session is free to members of Queenstown Art Society or Arrowtown Creative Arts Society and $20 for non-members.

EVENT DETAILS
WHEN: Tuesday 20 September from 10.30am-12.30pm.

WHERE: Te Atamira, Remarkables Park Town Centre
 

TICKETS: ACAS and QAS members FREE / General Admission $20.00. Refreshments will be available.

BRING ALONG: Your work, note taking material and a camera/phone to capture any image advice.

More Great Events!

Just five weeks to go before the At the World's Edge Festival 2022! Take your place at the edge of the world. With six festival programmes, free Queenstown events, and AWE community performances, there’s something for everyone in the heart of the Southern Alps from 8-21 October 2022.

Launched last October within our stunning Central Lakes region, the 2022 programme has more performances, more free events and even more reasons to be a part of this annual chamber music festival.

In Wānaka, Cromwell and Queenstown from 8-21 October, this year’s festival boasts an impressive line-up of artists from Poland, UK, Estonia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. With solos and duos through to sextets and octets, six thematically interlinked programmes will explore the roles solitude and togetherness play in the creative process. 

Gareth Farr is the AWE 2022 Composer in Residence with six of his chamber works woven through the performances, in addition to a new commission for premiere by Artistic Director Benjamin Baker and Polish cellist Maciej Kułakowski.

Performed in three acoustically gorgeous locations, all amidst the stunning landscapes of the Central Lakes region, there is much to love about AWE. It’s simply not to be missed.

Bloom My Heart | 8 Oct | Rippon Hall, Wanaka

Tranquil Bay | 9 Oct | Rippon Hall, Wanaka

Nine Seas Away | 12 Oct | Te Atamira, Queenstown

Sei Solo | 13 Oct | Cloudy Bay Shed, Cromwell

Free But Lonely | 15 Oct | Te Atamira, Queenstown

Into The Night | 16 Oct| Te Atamira, Queenstown

BOOK NOW for AWE 
 

Visit the AWE website for more information on performances and multiple free events.

Remarkable Theatre presents Gone to Seed - a true-blue Kiwi story of friendship, loss, community and growth, Tim Hambleton's award-winning play Gone to Seed promises to be a side-splitting night out. The familiar and hilarious characters discover being a member of an ageing gardening club is more risque than it sounds.
 

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CAST
Elizabeth: Cheryl Collie
Pam: Phena Byrne
Maureen: Athole Harvey
Esme: Shirley Armitage
Sandra: Rachel Rose 
Alec: Martin Bell
Nigel: David Cantwell 
Reverend: Greg Dorn 
Detective Toogood: Mike Legge

Bring your voice and SING in our open-to-everyone choir. 7pm, the first Tuesday of the month. Next event: 6 September | PUĀWAI

Hosted by various choir masters in the district, our community sing-along will teach us to sing two-part harmony for a variety of popular songs. Song sheets provided, no experience necessary. Bring along your voice and join in!

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For more information, contact Margaret O’Hanlon info@whirlwindnz.com