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30 WEEkEnD GALLERY SERIES
COLOuR In ART: pHILIp BALL
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 10.15-11.15AM AuCkLAnD ART GALLERY AuDITORIuM
From the lapis lazuli of dynastic Egypt to the oranges of Titian in the Venetian Renaissance, the scarlets of the Impressionists to the hues found in digital imagery, UK science whiz Philip Ball tracks how art, chemistry and technology have interacted down the years to produce the colours on our walls and in our galleries and museums. Inspired by his book Bright Earth: Art and The Invention of Colour. Supported by Auckland Art Gallery
Toi o Tämaki and Royal Society
of New Zealand.
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THE BOnE CLOCkS: DAVID MITCHELL
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 10.30-11.30AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CEnTRE
UK author David Mitchell returns to the Festival following the publication of his Booker-longlisted The Bone Clocks. In this and other novels such as Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green he playfully uses realism, fantasy,
timeshifts and interlocking stories
to create some of the most engaging fiction around. Mitchell updates us on his writerly sojourns in conversation with Catherine Robertson. Supported by Platinum Patrons Carol & Gerard Curry.
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THE GAMES WE pLAY
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 10.30-11.30AM LOWER nzI ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
Sport dominates culture on both sides of the Tasman. Peter FitzSimons, former Wallaby turned author, joins Greg McGee, one-time junior All Black and playwright of the rugby critique Foreskin’s Lament, and sports psychologist and writer Karen Nimmo in an examination of the place of sport in national consciousness. Refereed by Alison Mau. Questions fielded at the final whistle.
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TInY nIuE
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 10.30-11.30AM uppER nzI, AOTEA CEnTRE
The uplifted coral atoll Niue, all 260 square kilometres of it, lies in the South Pacific. Far from the main shipping routes, its steep
cliffs rising from the ocean, Cook’s “Savage Island” was not an inviting proposition, yet it has a rich history of European contact. As the wife of New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Niue, Margaret Pointer spent several years there and has now produced a highly readable 200-year history of Niue up to the establishment of self- government in 1974. Damon Salesa leads the discussion.
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SpECIAL EVEnT DALLOWAY
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 10.30-11.55AM WInTERGARDEn, CIVIC
Austen’s Women’s Rebecca Vaughan returns with her latest hit: a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, that Modernist mapping of interior states in the aftermath of World War I. This five-star Edinburgh 2014 success has been hailed as accomplished and incredibly moving. Adapted and directed by Elton Townend Jones. A Dyad Production. One of four performances.
Earlybird $30; Standard $35; Patrons $28; Students $17.50.
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