Saturday 18 July 2009 at 7.30pm

Nota Bene Inc

presents

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

"The audience enjoyed an untroubled, funny, simpler world, tinged with nostalgia, sustained by Geoff Robinson’s subtle balancing of style and substance and excellent singing" - Lindis Taylor, Dominion Post, 18 June 2007

Don’t miss Wellington’s most innovative vocal ensemble, Nota Bene. Their Wellington performance of Sentimental Journey was a sell-out, and the choir now brings this ‘old-time Saturday night request show’ to Upper Hutt’s Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre.

Geoff Robinson, from Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report, will guide you on a Sentimental Journey around the world, with music by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Debussy, Vaughan Williams and many more.

Directed by Jacqueline Coats (director for the popular Nimby Opera production of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen) the show also features singer Joanne Hodgson and pianist Julie Coulson in a collection of jazz standards, with Irish fiddle tunes from Oscar Bullock.

"This concert will appeal to lovers of choral, jazz and folk music alike. Our audience can sit back, relax and let us transport them to another time and place," says musical director Christine Argyle, a presenter with Radio New Zealand Concert.

Nota Bene combines the world’s best vocal music with a theatrical twist. Its singers include many former members of the New Zealand National Youth Choir as well as current members of the Voices NZ Chamber Choir.

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $25 Adult, $15 Concession, $15 Child

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Wednesday 22 July 2009 at 6pm

Experience Upper Hutt

presents

UPPER HUTT

BUSINESS EXCELLENCE

& ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Join us for a prestigious mid-winter celebration of the achievements of local businesses.

This is a black tie/cocktail dress event. You will be treated to complimentary bubbly on arrival, a delicious three-course meal, entertainment, a cash bar for further drinks and the award presentations.

Guests will be seated in tables of 10.

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $80 Adult or $750 for a table of 10

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Monday 27 July 2009 at 8pm

Classical Expressions 2009

presents

JOHN CHEN - piano

Award-winning New Zealand pianist, John Chen is building an impressive international career from his current base in Los Angeles where he studies at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. His Expressions programme ranges from a Gallic first half of Poulenc's miniature Melancolie, Debussy's Images of 1894, and Ravel's monumental Gaspard de la nuit. This contrasts with Beethoven's 'Late Period' Sonata Op 101 and, from Tchaikovsky's Six morceaux, the Theme and Variation Op 19.

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $40 Adult & $35 Concession

Concessionary tickets available to Friends of Expressions, Members of the Upper Hutt Music Society and Expressions Piano Club Members

John Chen

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4 July - 16 August 2009

A ROSY VIEW

70 Years of The Upper Hutt Leader

An exhibition celebrating 70 years of the Upper Hutt Leader in the community through the eyes of Editor Rosemary McLennan.

A partnership project between Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre and The Upper Hutt Leader.

Exhibition Opening

4pm Thursday 9 July 2009

Please join staff from Expressions and the Upper Hutt Leader for the opening A Rosy View.

Floor Talk

10.30am - 11.30am

Thursday 23 July 2009

Upper Hutt Leader Editor Rosemary McLennan will be discussing her last 25 years at the Upper Hutt Leader and how that is reflected throughout the exhibition.

3 - 16 July 2009

The Rotary Foyer

19th Century Printing in New Zealand

To accompany the exhibition A Rosy View, The Printing Museum at Silverstream Retreat, Reynolds Bach Drive, Silverstream, Upper Hutt have compiled a display of early 19th Century printing processes.  The display features a working press and there will be a free demonstrations at Expressions from

10.30am - 11.30am on the following dates; 4th, 5th, 6th and 11th, 12th and 13th of August 2009.

Floor Talk

1.30pm - 2.30pm

Thursday 13 August 2009

Bill Nairn and Ted White from The Printing Museum will be giving an illustrated floor talk and demonstration focussing on early 19th Century letterpress printing processes in New Zealand.

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4 July - 16 August 2009

STUDIO 21

An exhibition of new works from members of the Upper Hutt Art Society.