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April 2017
The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »May 2017
The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »The Black Rider: the casting of the magic bullets
Come on along with the Black Rider for a musical carnival ride where a lover sells his soul for magic bullets. Directed by Peter Falkenberg and featuring Arts Foundation laureate Delaney Davidson, this is a New Zealand première of a work originally conceived by collaborators Tom Waits (music), William S. Burroughs (text) and Robert Wilson (direction). It is based on the German romantic opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. Friday April 21, 8pm Saturday April 22, 8pm Wednesday…
Find out more »June 2017
Bulgasari at The Gym – Friday 30 June
Audio Foundation is very pleased to announce Bulgasari Aotearoa – a major project which brings leading South Korean sound artists and experimental musicians to Aotearoa. A collaboration between Altmusic and Party of Special Things to Do brings musical collaboration to Christchurch’s Old Gym where Lee Hanjoo (???), Lee Bong Gyo (???), Yukie Sato, Taekyung Seo (???) and Soojung Kae (???) will present solo and duo sets alongside improvisations with POSTTD regulars. Artists: Lee Hanjoo (???) is the founder of Yogiga…
Find out more »Bulgasari Aotearoa
Audio Foundation is very pleased to announce Bulgasari Aotearoa – a major project which brings leading South Korean sound artists and experimental musicians to Aotearoa. A collaboration between Altmusic and Party of Special Things to Do brings musical collaboration to Christchurch’s Old Gym where Lee Hanjoo (???), Lee Bong Gyo (???), Yukie Sato, Taekyung Seo (???) and Soojung Kae (???) will present solo and duo sets alongside improvisations with POSTTD regulars. Artists: Lee Hanjoo (???) is the founder of Yogiga…
Find out more »July 2017
Twin Peaks Ubu Night
Join Free Theatre at One Eyed Jack’s for an immersion into the unsettling and seductive universe of filmmaker and musician David Lynch. Welcome back to The Red Room where the mundane becomes terrifying and the terrifying becomes mundane. Live music, film, light and soundscape combine to provide a feast for the senses alongside which our chefs are preparing Lynchian delights – a menu from a midnight diner. Doors open at 6pm. Ubu Nights are quite unlike anything else - anywhere!…
Find out more »December 2017
Altmusic presents: Brötzmann / Leigh NZ Tour (Christchurch)
Altmusic and the Audio Foundation are proud to present a nationwide tour of renowned saxophone/pedal steel guitar duo, Brötzmann / Leigh. Peter Brötzmann is a living legend of improvised music who has embodied the leading edge of the European avant-garde for over 50 years, challenging audiences and convention alike with a relentless intensity. On pedal steel guitar, Heather Leigh is rapidly becoming a legend in her own right, both for her solo work (published by Not Not Fun Records, KSE,…
Find out more »March 2018
Ubu Through the Looking Glass
Ubu crashes through the looking glass to discover spectacular sights and surreal sounds inspired by Tom Waits, Cocteau Twins, Arcade Fire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush, Shocking Pinks, Willie Nelson, Chris Isaak and more. And what's in the soup? Ubu Nights are quite unlike anything else - anywhere! Combining theatre, music, film and hospitality, enter exhilarating, sensory environments where the unexpected is to be expected. Proudly supported by The Arts Centre - Christchurch and Christchurch Creative Communities,…
Find out more »May 2018
Alice (Tom Waits)
Childhood is the paradise we all appear to have lost, but where none of us has actually ever been. The yearning for this lost wonderland is expressed in Lewis Caroll‘s Alice tales and in the popular success that they still have so many years later. But the childish fantasies that we find here also harbour beneath all their alluring whimsy the bitter cruelties that are part of our childhood experience, which we tend to erase from our memories. In Robert…
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