Arts & Music
Culture Nature’s volume by Ian Wedde
MY HI-FI MY SCI-FI, City Gallery, Wellington, June 18 – September 24Art Videodrome by Andrew Paul Wood
DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE, Pete Wheeler, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch (until June 17)
5.30AM … WHAT I SAW, Philip Trusttum, Ng Gallery, ChristchurchCDs Milligan’s fantasia by Nick Bollinger
MR PHUDD AND HIS NOVELTY ACT, Phil Judd (www.philjudd.com)
THE HUNT BRINGS US LIFE, Samuel Flynn Scott (Loop) and more...Classical Vulcanalia by Ian Dando
Ruaumoko, Gareth Farr. NZSO/Kenneth Young. Trust MMT2042
Taurangi. Bridget Douglas (flute), Rachel Thomson (piano). MMT2053-4. 2CDs and more...Film Junkyard by Philip Matthews
CANDY, directed by Neil ArmfieldMusic No more heroes by Rod Biss
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with Madeleine Pierard (mezzo-soprano) and Feng Ning (violin), conducted by Bundit Ungrangsee, Auckland Town HallTheatre Songlines by Natasha Hay
MUM’S CHOIR, by Alison Quigan; directed by John Callen; ATC, Skycity Theatre (until June 24)Theatre Full throttle by Ian Dando
Christchurch Symphony, conducted by Marc Taddei, Christchurch Town Hall.
Books
Reconsider the 1830s by Gavin McLean
FATAL FRONTIERS, by Paul Moon (Penguin, $39.95)
WHITE CHIEF, by John Nicholson (Penguin, $39.95)Reading aloud by David Larsen
Woolvs in the Sitee (Viking, $29.95)
Dimity Duck (HarperCollins, $19.99) and more...