Greytown Arts Festival

Greytown Arts Festival

Project 2012-07-10 01:25:26 +1200

The 8th Greytown Arts Festival is held on Labour Weekend, 18 -22 October 2012, and we need some help to make sure we can roll out all we’ve planned. We have seed money from our previous festivals and we have already received some community funding, but we still need to pay for essential materials, performers and a contribution for some of the hard working people involved.

This Festival, we have asked musicians, artists, poets, dancers and even cooks: “if you could produce only one final work of art, what would it look, sound, feel or taste like?”

Already the response from artists and the community has been fantastic. Some of the highlights of the Festival will be:

• The Kitchen at the End of the World, created by Steffen Kreft and writer William Connor, has its premier at the Greytown Festival. The puppet play tells the story of a cynical poet and a love-sick musician trying to compose the last original song, enacted by a cast of marionettes and puppets made by Steffen, and by schools and community groups in advance of the Festival.



• A night out with a range of popular bands and a DJ to get you moving on the dance floor.

• Visual artists from the Wairarapa, New Zealand and Europe, including renowned filmmaker and artist Vincent Ward, respond to the theme in an exhibition curated by well-known local painter Jane Kellahan.

• After 15 years of bellydancing, Joy Evans performs her dramatic swan song, dancing up a storm with friends at a ‘Bellydance Flashmob’ in the town centre, and a Bellydance Bazaar.

• New Greytowner Steve Carlin entertains with his charming Frank Sinatra show that fittingly includes a rendition of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ The Last Dance.

• Tape-Art on a monolithic Greytown façade by dynamic Wellington duo Erica Duthie and Struan Ashby.



• A community Treasure Hunt for the whole family.

• A classical chamber music concert featuring only the last works of famous composers.

• Sylvie’s Last, an original new work by Tangle Community Dance Company, follows Sylvie Tanner’s last night on earth, and the audience will follow Sylvie from her hospital bed in a local hall to a dream sequence in Stella Bull Park.

• A community Fair with Clydesdale horse and cart rides, local produce, stalls, a petting zoo and live music.



• An opportunity for the community to create art on a large-scale collaborative quilt project.



For more information visit our website on www.greytownartsfestival.co.nz
and like us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GreytownArtsFestival

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