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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

August 19-25 2006 Vol 205 No 3458

Arts & Music

  • Culture Making light by Ian Wedde
    Conviviality and the art of Bill Culbert.

  • Art Weathering by David Eggleton
    Inge Doesburg, Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin; HARBOUR MYTHOLOGIES, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin; DIFFERENT JOURNEYS, Salisbury House Gallery, Dunedin; VICTORIA CHAMBERS, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (until September 3).

  • Dance Ménage à trois by Francesca Horsley
    TRINITY, Royal New Zealand Ballet; Aotoa Centre, Auckland.

  • DVDs The iron maiden by Chris Knox
    North Country (Warner)
    The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Warner) and more...

  • Film Bloody Tuesday by Helene Wong
    UNITED 93, directed by Paul Greengrass

  • Music All very nice, but by Peter Shaw
    Is dependability really what is needed in a conductor?

  • Music Hats off to Panama by Jim Pinckney
    Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75, Various (Soundway)
    Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up, Various (Numero Group, www.numerogroup.com)

  • Theatre Blonde love by Anna Chinn
    HITCHCOCK BLONDE, by Terry Johnson; directed by David Lawrence, Fortune Theatre, Dunedin (until August 19)


Books

  • As sad as winter rain by Siobhan Harvey
    BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN, by Haruki Murakami, (Harvill Secker, $36.99)

  • The tiny hordes by David Larsen
    A children’s book festival is the best way to find out what the kids want to read.

  • For the birds by Hugh Roberts
    ONE SHAPELY THING: Poems and Journals, by Dinah Hawken (VUP, $29.95)

  • Blue Wednesday by Philip Matthews
    BORN ON A BLUE DAY, by Daniel Tammet (Hodder & Stoughton, $49.99)

  • Enlighten me by Diana Balham
    PASSIONATE MINDS: THE GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT LOVE AFFAIR, by David Bodanis (Little, Brown, $35)