Arts diary

Press, 20 December 1989, Page 25

Arts diary

VISUAL ARTS ARTISAN FIBRE CENTRE (Arts Centre) "Merry Christmas” (until December 31). ART ON THE RAILINGS (Rolieston Avenue) Works by local artists for sale, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. BOTANIC GARDENS INFORMATION CENTRE Photographs of the Botanic Gardens by Ruth Heyward. (December 21 - January 31). CANTERBURY GALLERY (48 Papanui Road) Christmas exhibition: works by Bing Dawe, Ralph Hotere, Doris Lusk, Raymond Jennings, Eion Stevens, Roger Hickin, John Parker, Stephen Gleeson, Llew Summers, Trevor Moffitt, Marian Maguire (until December 24). CAVE ROCK GALLERY (Arts Centre) Pottery by Len Castle, Raewyn Atkinson, Beverley Luxton (until December 30). CONNEXION (Arts Centre) Jewellery (until December 31). Holiday pieces (January 131). CORNERSTONE GALLERY (Arts Centre) Glenda and Philip Hadfield — dragons and pottery (until January 14). COURTYARD POTTERY (69 Rutland Street) “Highlights ’B9" — pottery and glass (until December 28). C.S.A. GALLERY (66 Gloucester Street) Josie Jay-Martin, Helen Rockel, Martin Whitworth, David Reid — paintings; Mary Zohrab, Stephen Gibbs, Liz Hancock — drawings and paintings (until January 21). DESIGNER GALLERY (Guthrey Centre, City Mall) Christmas gifts by New Zealand designer/makers (until December 25). GEFN (City Mall) Pot-pourri of special gifts (until January 13). GINGKO GALLERY (Arts Centre) Tom Burnett — new prints (until February 3). HEART OF THE CITY MARKET (Cathedral Square) Arts, antiques, craft stalls, food fair, entertainments, every Friday. MCDOUGALL ART ANNEX (Arts Centre) “Return to Sender” — Ken Orchard (December 19 — January 29). McDougall art GALLERY (Botanic Gardens) “The Dunedin Years 1925-45” — R. N. Field: sculpture, drawings, paintings, prints, pottery (December 15 — January 7). PETER SMALL GALLERY (Shades Arcade) Annie Baird — paintings,

Royce McGlashen — paintings, Ralph Hotere — lithographs (until December 21). PICTURESQUE GALLERY (Akaroa) “Folk, fiction, fantasy”: poker burnings on rimu by Bonita Enn (December 22 — January 3). RITCHIES FINE ARTS (70 Gloucester Street) Jane Pecheur — “Christchurch Gardens” (until December 22). WINDSOR GALLERY (153 High Street) .Erie Sturgeon — prints, Cyn-" thia Taylor — etchings, Karen Baddock — bird studies (until December 24). Prints, watercolours, oils by South Island artists (December 28 — January 31). WORCESTER HOUSE (15 Worcester Street) Marine paintings, early New Zealand paintings, ship models (until December 22). THEATRE COURT THEATRE (Arts Centre) “Once Upon a Mattress,” 8 p.m., except 6 p.m. Thursday (until February 3), Saturdays, 2 p.m. Professional theatre. ELMWOOD PLAYHOUSE (Fulton Avenue) “The Maids,” by Jean Genet: Troupers Theatre, 8 p.m. (until December 23). POETRY STATE TRINITY CENTRE (Worcester Street) Poetry readings — Mathew Robertson, accompanied by Zoki Donkor (guitar); Stefan Alderson, accompanied by Alistair Scott (guitar), 8 p.m. (December 22). MUSIC ARTS CENTRE QUADRANGLE Christmas carols, 4 p.m. (December 24). Gospel, blues, jazz: Robin Shingleton, Gordon Goodinson, Shane Bolingford, until 12.30 p.m.; Bags Groove Plus — jazz quintet, from 12.30 p.m. (December 26). DURHAM STREET METHODIST CHURCH Wallace Woodley — piano, Deborah Woodley — viola: music by Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, 1.10 p.m. (December 21). DEADLINE The deadline for items for consideration for “The Living Arts” is 10 a.m. on the Friday prior to publication. Information should be sent to Mavis Airey, Arts Editor, “The Press,” Private Bag, Christchurch. No Arts Diary will be published on December 27 or January 3. REVIEWS Reviewers’ tickets, with programmes for supporting information where possible, should be clearly marked “Review Tickets” and sent to Mavis Airey, Private Bag, Christchurch, to arrive no later than one week before the performance.