Events

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Impro Showdown!

18/3/2012 - 20/3/2012 — XII Below

Join Improsaurus as they foray into the Fringe once again, this time with their new show – Impro Showdown! Fuelled and inspired by the audience's imagination, the actors weave your suggestions into furiously fast-paced and sometimes off-the-wall stories. Quality comedic theatre made up entirely on the spot! And only one improviser will come out on top. We'll see you there!

Dates: March 18, 19, 20
Venue: XII Below
Time(s): 8pm
Duration: 60 min
Prices: Full $15, Concession: $12
Tickets: dashtickets.co.nz, ph 0800 327 484 Booking fees apply
Website: www.otagocomedy.co.nz
Notes: Adult Themes, wheelchair access

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Tangled Waters

19/3/2012 - 20/3/2012 — The Church

Tangled Waters tells the absolutely true, behind-the-camera story of scientist-comedian Andrew Scott and his strange year-long journey to make a film about Dunedin's anti-shark nets and their eventual removal. Serving as a companion piece to the documentary of the same name, Tangled Waters is a comedy with bite. Because it's about sharks! Geddit?

Dates: March 19, 20
Venue: The Church
Time: 8:00pm
Duration: 60 min
Price: Full $10
Tickets: Door sales only
Facebook: Tangled Waters
Notes: Adult Themes, door Sales - Cash only, wheelchair access

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Music to Repel

15/3/2012 - 25/3/2012 — Age Concern Car Park, Bath St

Classical music is usually played in the car park to deter loiterers. Pearl with a Girl Earring says classical is not repellent enough! Pearl's private kazoo orchestra has recorded a series of tracks specifically for the purpose of clearing all humans from the concrete enclosure. A different looped track will be loaded into the venue's speaker every weeknight of the Fringe.

Dates: March 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Venue: Age Concern Car Park, Bath St
Time(s): Nights only
Duration: 3 mins
Prices: Free
Website: pearlwithagirlearring.bandcamp.com
Notes: Suitable for all ages, wheelchair access

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Song Sale

19/3/2012 - 21/3/2012 — The Church

A metal song about tarmac? The "Toyboy Swing"? Cheese-themed plainchant? These are all past products of Song Sale! Five bucks buys you a song. Commission the Fringe's finest musical minds to compose to your chosen topic and genre, which they then perform that evening. It's entertainment where you call the tune. Free entry, make a night of it!

Dates: March 19, 21
Venue: The Church
Time(s): 7:30pm
Duration: 150 mins
Prices: Free entry
Facebook: Song Sale Dunedin
Notes: Suitable for all ages, wheelchair access

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Catch-All

20/3/2012 — Globe Theatre

Catch-All explores the relationship between performers and audience. Using live instructions and pre-determined rules the game Monopoly is used to create an entertaining performance which unfurls before the audience, who control the experience, whether intentionally or inadvertently. The show is topped off with a powerful dance exploring how readily a body can communicate, even when habitual movement is restructured.

Dates: March 20
Venue: Globe Theatre
Time: 7:00pm
Duration: 60 min
Prices: Full $15, Concession $10
Tickets: www.dashtickets.co.nz, ph. 0800 327 484, booking fees apply
Notes: Suitable for all ages

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Richard Meros Salutes the Southern Man

20/3/2012 - 23/3/2012 — Fortune Theatre Studio

He tried to save New Zealand by becoming Helen Clark's young lover... He failed. Now our pioneer culture faces extinction again, from a gaggle of globalised Fonterra® farmers with Facebook® accounts. Richard Meros returns with a new nuclear-PowerPoint® to find our salvation - that craggy hardness still glimmering within the most urbane of latté-drinkers: the spirit of The Southern Man.

Dates: March 20, 21, 22, 23
Venue: Fortune Theatre Studio
Time(s): 7:00pm
Duration: 60 min
Prices: Full $20, Concession $15
Tickets: fortunetheatre.co.nz, ph. 03 477-8323
Notes: Adult Themes, wheelchair access

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Sex*Death*Magic: Renaissance Poetry Unbound

20/3/2012 - 21/3/2012 — Vertical Aerial Dance Studio

Before reality TV, there was poetry – illicit sex and thwarted desire, queer romance and cross-dressing, witchcraft, suicide, and bloody murder. Renaissance poets saw it all. Celebrate International Poetry Day with the verse of Spenser, Wyatt, Marlowe, and Shakespeare as you’ve never quite heard it before. Mistress Hilary Norris presides over a motley but talented troupe of actors, musicians, and dancers.

Dates: March 20, 21
Venue: Vertical Aerial Dance Studio
Time(s): 8:30pm
Duration: 70 mins
Prices: Full $15, Concession $10
Tickets: dashtickets.co.nz, ph. 0800 327 484 Booking fees apply
Notes: Adult Themes, nudity, violence, door sales – cash only, wheelchair access

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Billboard Sixty Special

15/3/2012 - 25/3/2012 — Anderson's Bay Rd (By rail bridge)

The public billboard where a huge place to play in and explore; childlike aspirations are supersized. This project has become a wonderful collaboration, with the truly amazing generousity and support of the Dunedin Fringe, APN Outdoors, Fairmaid Chance & Crawford optometrists and my constant supporters at Tansley Electrical Ltd.

Dates: March 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Venue: Anderson's Bay Rd (By rail bridge)
Time(s): Ongoing
Duration: Ongoing
Prices: Free
Notes: Suitable for all ages

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Blue Oyster Performance Series

16/3/2012 - 24/3/2012 — Blue Oyster Gallery

The Blue Oyster Performance Series is a biennial event that showcases the most innovative and experimental performance and visual art from practitioners throughout New Zealand. This year 10 artists will be taking part across the duration of the Fringe Festival. Please see the Blue Oyster website for full event information about this nationally significant event.

Dates: March 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Venue: Blue Oyster Gallery
Time(s): Various
Duration: Various 
Prices: Free
Website: www.blueoyster.org.nz
Notes: Suitable for all ages, adult themes, nudity, wheelchair access

 

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Botanical Banners

15/3/2012 - 25/3/2012 — Dunedin Botanic Garden

These eye-catching banners offer revelation and mystery, inspired by the natural forms of the Dunedin Botanic Garden. Get up close to see as an insect; stand back to see cosmic connections. Our rich botanical world is reconfigured by photographic sleight of hand to delight the mind with vibrant, energetic rhythms, plant patterns and floral fantasies. They’re bloomin’ marvellous.

Dates: March 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Venue: Dunedin Botanic Garden
Time(s): 10:00am-6:00pm
Duration: Ongoing
Website: www.jennylongstaff.co.nz
Prices: Free
Notes: Suitable for all ages, wheelchair access

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Concrete Chimera

16/3/2012 - 23/3/2012 — Underground Bunker at Salisbury Boutique

Concrete Chimera is an analytical art exhibition that looks at the representational function of images and the paradoxical character of reality; whether it be virtual or actual. We aim to create a show that simultaneously offers a context for the discussion of contemporary practice, ideas and frameworks in this rapidly evolving arena where art and science connect.

Dates: March 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Venue: Underground Bunker at Salisbury Boutique
Time(s): 5:00pm Opening (16), 12noon – 3:00pm (17-23)
Duration: 180 min
Prices: Free
Website: concretechimera.wordpress.com
Notes: Suitable for all ages

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NONE DNA

16/3/2012 - 22/3/2012 — None Gallery

A nine-year DNA strand of digital media – audio installation featuring international and local artists. All artists have lived or shown work at None Gallery over the last decade of experimental art. Off-site works shown at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the University Link.

Dates: March 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Venue: None Gallery
Time(s): Opening 5:30pm (16), 12noon-4:00pm (17-22)
Duration: Ongoing
Prices: Free
Website: www.none.org.nz
Notes: Adult Themes, suitable for all ages

 

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Performative Painting

15/3/2012 - 23/3/2012 — Studio2 Gallery

Come see an exhibition created using performative painting where artists have used their whole bodies to create a painted installation. A sound beam will be set up during the painting that interprets movement into sound which will become the installation soundtrack. Audience members can add to the soundtrack just by viewing the exhibition. Studio2 and Jolt support people with disabilities.

Dates: March 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Venue: Studio2 Gallery
Time(s): 9:00am-4:00pm
Duration: Ongoing
Prices: Free
Notes: Suitable for all ages, wheelchair access

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The Moon Knows: New Work by Mary McFarlane

17/3/2012 - 25/3/2012 — Glue Gallery

The Moon Knows, a collection of large mirror paintings, is the culmination of years developing mirror plate as a painting medium. McFarlane's imagery taps into a world of collective and personal truths, the duplicity of surfaces, and the science and craft of metallurgy. Her mirrors force the viewer to not only see the work but to confront themselves.

Dates: March 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25
Venue: Glue Gallery
Time(s): Opening 3:00pm (17), 12noon-6:00pm (18, 22-25)
Duration: Ongoing
Prices: Free
Facebook: Glue Gallery
Notes: Suitable for all ages, wheelchair access

 

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Transit

17/3/2012 - 24/3/2012 — Glue Gallery

An exhibition of 11 works commissioned and gifted to Mr Sterile Assembly by leading contemporary visual artists including James Robinson, Andrew Ross and Kerry-Anne Lee. The artists’ works illustrate each of the 11 songs in the album Transit by Mr Sterile Assembly. Artist talk by Mr Sterile Assembly interspersed with live performance of selected songs from the album Transit.

Dates: March 17, 18, 22, 23, 24
Venue: Glue Gallery
Time(s): 12noon-6:00pm (17-18, 22-24), 5:30pm Artist Talk (23), 3:00pm Artist Talk/Music (24)
Duration: 90 min
Prices: Koha
Website: mrsterileassembly.com
Notes: Suitable for all ages, wheelchair access

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Weekend @ Burny's

17/3/2012 - 24/3/2012 — Wing Sang Building, 209 King Edward St

A screening of the alt/indie music videos Stuck in South Dunedin, as seen on Youtube, and international music sites. This will be followed by a discussion with Burny Brosnan, independent writer, vocalist and director. He will talk about the writing, filming and recording of the song. This will be followed by a tour of the Wing Sang building.

Dates: March 17, 24
Venue: Wing Sang Building, 209 King Edward Street
Time(s): 2:00pm
Duration: 50 mins
Prices: dashtickets.co.nz, ph. 0800 327 484 Booking fees apply
Tickets: Full: $15, Concession: $10
Facebook: Burny Brosnan
Notes: Adult Themes

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Ltd Festival Kiosk

15/3/2012 - 25/3/2012 — The Octagon

15-25 March, The Octagon, 12:00noon-6:00pm
The Ltd Festival Kiosk is your lifeline to Festival events, venues, artists and CHEAP TICKETS! Ltd.co.nz will be offering some whopping deals to some great Festival shows. All you need is a Ltd card, available half price from the Ltd Festival Kiosk. Then head to www.ltd.co.nz to secure your seats before someone else does!

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Rare Goods

15/3/2012 - 25/3/2012 — The Octagon

15-25 March, The Octagon, 12:00noon-6pm, Free
A rare shipment of digital art, film and animation will be on show in the Octagon for the Festival. This is an opportunity to enjoy original work by some exceptionally talented artists, designers and tertiary students. Don’t miss the Dunedin premier of the 3D Maori creation story that was developed by local company Animation Research Limited for the Rugby World Cup.