25 May 2012

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2/03/2011 11:31:00 a.m.

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Experimental, off-beat, slightly peculiar dance performance Future Astronauts is on at Bats to March 5.

Experimental, off-beat, slightly peculiar dance performance Future Astronauts is on at Bats to March 5.

COMEDY:
Battle of Wits: Improvised stories, songs and sagas, The Fringe Bar, 7pm, March 6, 13.
How’s Wife: Life after marriage, The Fringe Bar, 6.30pm, March 2-5.

DANCE:

Future Astronauts: Society, manipulation, control, power, Bats Theatre, 8pm, March 2-5.

MUSIC:

Contrasts: Music by Bartok, Ives and others, The Adam Concert Room, 7.30pm, March 4-5.
Porcelaintoy Presents: Contrite Elegant Rebel: electro acoustic dance opera featuring Porcelaintoy, Bats Theatre, 9.30pm, March 3-5.
Simultaneon: Live performance between Berlin and Wellington, The Garden Club, 8pm, March 2-3.
The Seductobot: Musical comedy about matters of the heart, Perrets Corner, 8pm, March 2-5.

THEATRE:
Aliens of Poverty Bay: Doco about the most UFO sightings in the late 70s in Poverty Bay, Bats Theatre, 9.30pm, March 2.
Don’t Eat The Bed: Romantic feel good play, Bats Theatre, 6.30pm, March 2-4.
‘Flect-Reflect’: New music/theatre work, Circa Theatre, 8pm, March 1-5. Matinee 2pm, March 2-5.
Heroic Faun No. One: Descent into the world of hardcore faunography, The Fringe Bar, 8pm, March 2-5.
Quarantine as performed by the inmates on Somes Island: Somes Island, 7.30pm, March 4, 5.
Thin Air: New play by Seamus Arnel, The Box, 7.30pm, March 2-5.
This Rugged Beauty: The forecast is for golden weather, Studio 77, 7.30pm, March 2-5.
Writer’s Block: Solo black comedy by Thomas Rimmer, Whitereia Performing Centre, 7.30pm, March 3-4. 3pm and 7.30pm, March 5.

VISUAL ARTS:
First Time Around: An O with a twist, NZ Film Archive, 7.30pm, March 2. Matinee at 2pm.
Smother: Dunedin jeweller Victoria McIntosh, Quoil (149 Willis Street), 11am-5.30pm, to March 11.
The Rock Paper Scissors Battle: Choose rock, scissors or paper and hunt your opponents down, all day, March 5.
Where We Are: Video art exhibition, Bettys Function House and Bar, 5.30pm-7pm, March 2.
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  • Miss a meal 23/05/2012 11:30:00 a.m.

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