Golden travels
An exhibition which explores remote Otago gold-mining areas has opened in Gallery De Novo.
"All That Glistens" follows artist Catherine Garrett's summer travels around Otago in a 4WD visiting gold sites such as Skippers Canyon, Macetown and Nevis.
Garrett says she is inspired by the idea "of simplifying the natural landscape into blocks of colour while still catching the essence of a place".
"All That Glistens" by Catherine Garrett is on at Gallery De Novo until next Thursday.
Cutting edge
Dunedin artist Adam Douglass has converted his Bath St studio into an artwork for his latest installation, "Tomahawk".
It will be Douglass' first project since he highlighted mental health issues with his acclaimed community art project "Life, the Universe and the 420 Centre".
The Blue Oyster Gallery site-specific project is spread around the bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, bathroom and corridor in his Bath St studio.
"Tomahawk" opens in Bath St, behind the Bath St nightclub, at 5.30pm tomorrow and runs till July 3.
Blonde ambition
The Christchurch theatre company which brought the spectacularly dark Faust Chroma to the Dunedin Fringe Festival in April returns next week with its latest production.
Enigma Emmy Göring and Nico Sphinx of Ice are monologues by Faust Chroma playwright Werner Fritsch about two German blondes who have been traumatised by Germany's fascist past.
Emmy Göring was the wife of Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, while Nico became famous when she was chosen by Andy Warhol to join The Velvet Underground.
The play features music by the Rolling Stones, Lou Reed and Jim Morrison.
Free Theatre presents Enigma Emmy Göring and Nico Sphinx of Ice at 7pm on Tuesday and 9pm on Wednesday in the Allen Hall Theatre.
Dance of support
The University of Otago 2008 Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance, Barbara Snook, will join with Burns Fellow Sue Wootton, Mozart Fellow Chris Watson, Writer in Residence Bill O'Brien and Otago Girls High School dance students in a collaboration in support of the Otago cancer community at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery this weekend.
Caroline Plummer, a University of Otago dance student, was just 24 when she died of cancer in 2003.
Snook's mother, daughter and husband also died of cancer.
The performance starts at 3pm on Sunday in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Musical afternoon
St Peter's Church in Hillside Rd will host an afternoon of music this weekend in support of Dunedin Hospital chaplains.
The concert features local singers Arnold Bishop, Darrell Craig-McKenzie, Sarah Oliver, Erin Pickering, Kathryn Redpath, Helen Scott, Justin Scott and Nicola Steel, accompanied by Frances Brodie, Heather Clough and organist David Hoskins.
The Dunedin Floral Art Society has also prepared floral displays for the event.
The concert starts at 2pm on Sunday and admission is $10.
Exhibition results
Results of the Otago Art Society's 132nd annual exhibition held at the Art Station were:Josephine Regan (Shades of Blue), 1; Bruce Hodgson (Houses and Gardens I), 2; Gill Hammond (Light from Above), 3; Elaine Anderson Shades of Autumn) won the Lula Currie Award chosen by non-artist members and Ricky Drew (The Gallery) won the Lula Currie Award chosen by artist members.
The judge was Pat Corballis.
