A new film by artist Grahame Sydney, Dreaming of Eldorado: the old Dunstan Rd, will launch next year's Festival of Colour in Wanaka.
Marjorie Cook looks forward to next week's events in Wanaka.
Luggate inundated with ukuleles, opera-singer Helen Medlyn is posing as a man, Joe Bennett is showing off his underpants - what is the country coming to?It is coming to Wanaka, for the third Southern Lakes Festival of Colour in April.
The third Festival of Colour of Wanaka is in the "pleasant" financial situation of having raised all its budget, festival chairman John Beattie said this week.
Fabio and Ana Robles are Australian tango dancers ranked 12th in the world.
Extra performances for several sell-out shows at the Festival of Colour have been scheduled because of high demand for tickets.
Wanaka arts event the Festival of Colour has benefited from three major grants from various community arts organisations.
The annual six-day Wanaka-based Southern Lakes Festival of Colour will this year include Glenorchy in its touring programme for the first time.
Lyttelton writer Joe Bennett was in a curmudgeonly frame of mind at Wanaka's Festival of Colour yesterday, and joyously, proudly so, as he extolled the virtues of everything politically incorrect, including drinking and smoking.