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Press, 12 October 1988, Page 22

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Porcelain exhibition The Canterbury Porcelain Art Association will hold an exhibition of handpainted china this week. The display will be in the Great Hall of the Quality Inn Chateau in Kilmarnock Street. . Members of the association will demonstrate their craft. The exhibition will be open tomorrow and Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Male voice choirs A South Island festival of five male-voice choirs will be staged in Christchurch on October 15 at the Assemblies of God church in Tuam Street. The Christchurch Liedertafel Choir, under the direction of Francis Dennis, will be joined by the Addington Workshops (W.E.A.) Male Voice Choir, the Royal Dunedin Male Choir, the Dunedin R.S.A. Choir, and the Nelson Male Choir. Each choir will perform individual items and the 200 voices will combine for massed items that include the “Soldiers’ Chorus” from Faust, “Goin’ Home” by Dvorak, and two Welsh hymn-tunes. The conductors of the choirs are Arthur Dixon, Dunedin R.S.A., Harry Madden, Royal Dunedin, Alistair Graham, Addington Workshops and Ron Smale. Nelson. Members of the Liedertafel, which instigated the festival, believe it is the first time a gathering of male choirs has been organised in the South Island. They hope a regular festival can be arranged alternating between Christchurch, Dunedin and Nelson. Four of the participating choirs are expected to take part in a Sunday church service the following morning at the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. Jewellery show Mitsuyo Matsumoto is a Japanese silver jeweller who has been living in Christchurch since April. She has worked in and taught the art of jewellery making for many years in Japan, Europe, the United States and New Zealand. Her work is at present exhibited in the Gefn Gallery in Cashel Street. She makes neck pieces, bracelets, earrings, rings and pins, using silver, gold, copper, Japanese rice paper, Japanese maple, lacquer, and precious stones. On display are one neck piece, one bracelet and other items such as earrings, rings and pins. The exhibition closes on October 22. Qu Yong recital A young Chinese pianist, Qu Yong, will be holding a recital at the Great Hall in the Arts Centre on Friday at 8 p.m. Qu Yong, aged 24, will play pieces by Schumann, Mozart and Chopin. He arrived in New Zealand recently to do post graduate study in piano at the University of Canterbury. A graduate of music conservatories in Peking, Shanghai and Sichuan, Qu Yong last performed at the Arts Centre in a group recital in July. “There is never enough time to play all the beautiful pieces of music I’d like to play,” he says. Auditions The Riccarton Players are producing the stage version of C. S. Lewis’s popular book for their Christmas production. Playing dates will be December 7 to 17. Auditions for “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” will be held in the Mill Theatre, Wise St, during the week-end of October 15 and 16. The director, Christina Stachurski, will be looking for a cast of about 20 actors, aged between 15 and 70, to play the large range of human, animal and magical characters. For audition appointments and details please telephone 489623 evenings. Characters in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” includes the evil and powerful White Witch; Aslan, a brave, large and charismatic lion; the four children, Lucy, Susan, Peter and Edmund; Mr and Mrs Beaver; Father Christmas; Maugrim, a grey wolf in charge of the White Witch’s Secret Police; Giant Rumblebuffin, a polite but exceedingly dim fellow; the old and wise professor; Mrs Macready, the housekeeper; a group of caricature American tourists; Mr Tumnus, a sensitive and kind faun; four ugly hags; dwarves, dryads, naiads and a variety of animals. ‘Offspring’ “Offspring,” a Christchurch-written and produced play at the Free Theatre, looks at pregnancy and parenthood. The play is the third original work staged by the Women’s Action Theatre and will run from October 14 to 22 at the Rolleston Street Theatre at 8 p.m. Alison Dalziel is the producer, Katy Yiakmis, the director, and Jen Rippingale and Kathleen Gallagher, the writers. The group staged “Mothertongue” in 1986 and “Herlbt” in 1987. The third show was written after interviews with 20 parents actively involved in parenting young children. The aim is to take a look at pregnancy, childbirth, and early child rearing and the range of experiences parents have. Five women make up the cast, some playing young children. “We are trying to portray the reality of parenting for both mothers and fathers. The play is a lot of episodes but linked by one central mother character and her day,” Alison Dalziel says. Artists exhibit Recent work by Peter Gilmore, Shaun Murphy and Richard Van der Aa is on display at the Several Arts Gallery until October 28. Peter Gilmore’s work is a combination of religious imagery and mass media symbols. “My art is a product of the society to which I belong, past and present.” Richard Van der Aa’s inspiration for his work comes from old icons and church architecture. His paintings are done on fence palings in an attempt to link the spiritual and everyday life. Shaun Murphy uses painted vinyl stretched on wood to explore relationships. The three artists say their works are created in response to experiences in their lives.