Arts diary

What's on in and around Marlborough?

PERFORMANCE

Women from Cardiff to Canberra – and now New Zealand – are uniting behind a common fear of greying hair and sagging rears. Grumpy Old Women comes to the Marlborough Civic Theatre tonight at 8pm. Adults $61.90, or $57.90 if with a group of eight or more; children $47.90.

The Havelock Mussel Festival on Saturday features MC Frankie Stevens, The Lady Killers, Aaron Gilmore, Richard Till, Pom Pom the Clown, Marlborough Boys' and Girls' College Jazz Combo and Queen Charlotte College rock band Recommended By Your Mum. The festival is at the Havelock Domain from 10am to 6pm. Tickets $20 adults, $6 children, family $45.

Jazz on Bells this Sunday features Hot Club Sandwich, supported by local singers, bands, solo artists and professional musicians. Organised by Blenheim South Rotary to raise money for the region's young musicians, it goes from 12.30pm to 4.30pm at the junction of Bells and New Renwick roads. Adults $22, children under-10 free.

EXHIBITIONS

Two new exhibitions open at the Millennium Gallery, Blenheim, for public viewing on Saturday. Harvest combines photographs by winemaker-wine photographer Kevin Judd and Marlborough photographer Jim Tannock with artist Sharon Vickers' paintings showing a grape harvest at Auntsfield Estate. In the main gallery, there is a fusion of paintings and drawings by Christchurch artist Nigel Buxton in Appropriation and Interference. Both exhibitions will be shown until April 25.

Oceanic: The Sarjeant shows works inspired by Melanesian and Oceanic motifs created by artist Dennis Knight Turner during his 1992 residence at The Sarjeant Art Gallery in Wanganui. It opened at The Diversion gallery, Grove Mill, last night and continues until May 22.

Viewing at The Stevenson Collection, Wynen St, Blenheim, is by arrangement for groups only during March. To see some major works by artists like Bill Hammond, Judy Millar, Peter Robinson and Alan Pearson, phone Bernadette on 021443891. Entry by gold-coin donation for Hospice Marlborough.

Painter and sculptor Kim Gabara and wood and steel sculptor Bruce Fergus are the artists in residence at Lochmara Lodge Arts Centre. Works by Rick Edmonds, Rachel Olsen, Deborah Walks, Tim Mains, Chrissie Sallis and Roy Grose are also showing.

New works by Annemieke Farmilo can be viewed at Riverlore Gallery, State Highway 6, from Tuesdays to Saturdays, noon to 5pm. A selection of limited-edition fine-art prints and original oils on canvas by Joanna Dudson Scott are also showing.

The Spaces in Between is an exhibition by Marlborough artists Craig Bluett, Wendy Murphy and photographer Jim Tannock, along with new print and plate works by Olav Nielsen and rare early works by Kathryn Madill. This is its final week at the Marlborough Vintners Hotel, 190 Rapaura Rd.

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- The Marlborough Express

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