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Come and enjoy live piano

We are sad to report the passing of our dear friend Harry Hazewinkel, aged 82, who generously volunteered to share his music with us every Wednesday for the past 4 years. There will be no Wednesday piano lunch hour until further notice.

Penny Brown plays on Friday from 12.30 - 1.30pm.

Come and enjoy!

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Saturday 27 June 2009

UPPER HUTT SALON

ART AUCTION

Expressions is pleased to welcome back all previous exhibitors to the 2009 Upper Hutt Salon.

You are invited to sample a selection of visual art from a diverse range of artisans alongside featured works from the Pumpkin Cottage Collection.

Artworks excluding works from the collection are available for purchase by Tender or Auction.

The Upper Hutt Salon Art Auction will be a night to remember!  Guests are invited to dress in 19th Century period costume and soak up the atmosphere of the evening.

6.30pm

Please join us for musical performances on the Expressions Steinway Concert Grand Piano in the Genesis Energy Theatre prior to the auction commencing.

7pm

Guests Auctioneer Wayne Shindler from Shindler Auctions will begin auctioning works from the Upper Hutt Salon.

Contact us now for your buyer number.

A fundraising event for the newly gifted

Pumpkin Cottage Paintings Collection

Exhibition - Mount Marua Gallery

15 May 2009 - 28 June 2009

Free Entry

Art Auction - Genesis Energy Theatre

Saturday 27 June 2009

Gold Coin Entry

 

 

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Tuesday 7 July 2009 at 11am & 1pm

Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre

presents

The Capital E National Theatre for Children

TALE OF A DOG

It's time to learn new tricks from an old Dog!

Meet Dog: our much-loved, excitable circus performer!

Dog is eager to wow his audience with inspired new tricks, much to the vexation of the ill-tempered Ring Master who is determined to keep Dog on a short leash.

Be mesmerised as Dog faces challenges - some trickier than tight-rope walking - that teach him to always shoot for the moon!

Tale of a Dog is a tail-wagging, toe-tapping tale of triumph over adversity that is bound to leave you begging for more.

From the creators of the much-loved PAPER SHAPER and BOXES comes this delightful new circus-inspired production drawing skills of Circus Oz's Deborah Pope and written by Peter Wilson.

Genesis Energy Theatre

All tickets: $10.50

Groups of 6+ $8.00

 

Circus Master                                                  Dog  

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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.

Poulenc Melancolie (1940)
Debussy Images Book 2
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Beethoven Sonata in A major Op 101
Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations Op 19 No 6

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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Friday 28 August 2009 at 8pm

Seethrewmusic

presents

THE PIONEERS

Ex-pat Kiwis The Pioneers have wowed audiences in Britain with their multi media portrayal of their ancestors' journeys to New Zealand. Now, they're about to repeat that journey themselves, bringing their acclaimed show to this country.

Using original acoustic music, texts by leading New Zealand poets, story telling and character portrayal, The Pioneers, tell the stories of three of their ancestors who travelled from England and Ireland to a very different New Zealand from the one they had imagined.

Set against a backdrop of stunning New Zealand scenery and rarely viewed archival images, this powerful poignant show features the combined talents of vocalist Angeline Conaghan, Ben Brewer on guitar and David Leahy on double bass. Interweaving the stories they heard growing up in new Zealand with poetry and song, the trio brings to life the experiences of early European settlers attempting to create a place they had imagined.

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $25 Adult, $20 Child

& $20 Concession

The Pioneers

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Thursday 3 September 2009 at 2.30pm

Friday 4 September 2009 at 7.30pm

Saturday 5 September 2009 at 7.30pm

Massive Company

presents

WHERO'S NEW NET

by Albert Belz

featuring an adaptation of short stories

by Witi Ihimaera

Directed by Sam Scott

Designed by Tracey Collins

Lighting Designed by Jeremy Fern

Original Music by Tama Waipara

CAST

Wesley Dowdell

Kura Forrester

Natalie Medlock

Bree Peters

Jarod Rawiri

Blair Strang

Tainui Tukiwaho

London. Auckland. Gisborne.

Whero Mahana is a musician with songs of grit and tears pulsing through her veins. In London to chase a dream far away from New Zealand , she is presented with a diary that confirms her longing for home. As the lines between her past and present fracture, her father’s stories force Whero to make painful choices about where her dreams really lie. A play about Aroha.

“Whero’s New Net will be a New Zealand classic. Be one of the first to see it” - Renee Liang, Lumiere Reader.

EARLY BIRD TICKET OFFER

$22.40 per ticket

for tickets booked before

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2009

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $28 Adult, $24 Children,

$24 Concession (Student, Senior, Freinds of Expressions, Actors Equity Members)

$22.50 Groups of 6+

 

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Monday 21 September 2009 at 8pm

Classical Expressions 2009

presents

JACK LIEBECK - violin

STEPHEN DE PLEDGE - piano

The London-born violinist, Jack Liebeck's career has included appearances with such orchestras as the Philharmonia and the London Philharmonic. New Zealander Stephen de Pledge, based in the UK, has given solo performances around the world from Beijing to New York.

Beethoven's 'Spring' Sonata was completed in 1801 and West of England composer, Herbert Howells, wrote music reflecting a pastoral setting. During a happy summer holiday in 1886 Brahms composed his Op 100 and Elgar wrote his 1918 Violin Sonata in war-time England.

Beethoven Sonata in F major Op 24 'Spring'
Howells Sonata No 1 in E major
Brahms Sonata No 2 in A major Op 100
Elgar Sonata in E minor Op 82

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

Jack Liebeck

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Monday 5 October 2009 at 8pm

Classical Expressions 2009

presents

DIEDRE IRONS - piano

NEW ZEALAND STRING QUARTET

Canadian, Diedre Irons moved to New Zealand in 1977 and tours extensively for Chamber Music New Zealand. The New Zealand String Quartet is the country's premiere classical music export undertaking regular tours to America, Europe and Asia.

JS Bach's Goldberg Variations for harpsichord was written around 1740 and this arrangement was performed to much acclaim by the NZSQ in 2007. Elgar's Piano Quintet was composed in the peaceful Sussex countryside during 1918 prior to writing his famous Cello Concerto.

J S Bach Goldberg Variations arr William Cowdery
Elgar Piano Quartet in A major

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $50 Adult & $45 Concession

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

  

Diedre Irons

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All tickets are available by phone (04) 527 2168, by visiting Expressions, or by booking online. Transaction fees apply to online bookings.

Door sales from one hour prior to performance. Genesis Energy Theatre doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance.  Latecomers may not be admitted.

 

To book pre-show meals at Café Cibo

ph 527 3020.

The above descriptions of presentations are supplied by the individual promoters of events.  The promoters reserve the right to alter the artists and content of these programmes.

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For venue bookings and further information

Ph: 04 527 2168
Fax: 04 527 2180
or email us

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PO Box 40 594
UPPER HUTT

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Last updated: June 2009