EXHIBITIONS
Space Studio and Gallery, 64 Taupo Quay: Cush X - New works by Patrick Cush Opens 5.30pm, Saturday, July 1, Viewing until. Friday, July 7, Gallery Hours - Tuesday to Thursday 9am-1pm. Friday and Saturday 9am-1pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Quartz Museum of Studio Ceramics: 8 Bates St. Rick Rudd collection of more than 400 ceramic works. Wanganui Potters' Society exhibition plus Rayner Brothers' pop-up gallery.
Sarjeant on the Quay: 38 Taupo Quay, Winter Season featuring Euan MacLeod - The Painter in the Painting, until August 6. Roberta Thornley - A Serious Girl, until August 6.
Whenua Hou: New Maori ceramics, upstairs at 31 Taupo Quay, June until August 27.
WHMilbank Gallery: 1B Bell St, Earthwise by Hamish Horsley, 11am - 5pm Tuesday to Sunday
Fine Arts Whanganui: 17 Taupo Quay, Lindsay Marsh's Gone but not Forgotten and works by Fine Arts Collective artists. Open 10am - 3pm. Closed Mondays.
Yellow House Cafe, cnr Pitt and Dublin Streets: The Quiet Curve of Surrender, Collaborative photographic responses to a poem by Jane O'Shea.
Marton Barbers Art Gallery, 26 High Street Marton. Featuring a new range of work from local potter Lorraine Barnett. Also works by John Archbold, Lorraine Barnett, Gay Downing, Raewyn Green, Don Hill, Craig Hooker, Judy Johnstone, Desiree Singer and David Taylor. Open 10am - 2pm Tuesday to Saturday.
Cooks Gallery, Trafalgar Pl: Wanganui Arts Society Winter Exhibition. Saturday 9am-1pm Monday and Tuesday 10am-12pm.
Gallery on Guyton , 62 Guyton St: Whitiwhiti Kōrero - Dialogue - Manawa Ora's Puanga 2017 exhibition. Works by Maiangi Waitai, Mere Keating, Rere Sutherland, Raukura Waitai, Marilyn Vreede, Adrian Campbell, Leonie Sharp, Craig Winton and Rena Star.
Opens today at 2.32 pm. Gallery Hours 11am - 4pm Wednesday to Saturday until July 15.
EVENTS
Iolanthe, Royal Wanganui Opera House, Tonight 7.30pm: Presented by Wellington G&S Light Opera with echoes of Yes, Prime Minister, parliament and the judiciary are joyfully lampooned in Gilbert's farcical Comic Opera. All this and Sullivan's great music too.
Book at Royal Wanganui Opera House or online.
Liam Wooding Piano Recital, Wanganui Collegiate Prince Edward Auditorium, Friday July 7 at 7.30pm: Pianist Liam Wooding returns from Melbourne to present a recital featuring works by Haydn, Liszt, Messiaen, McLoud and Ginastera. Proceeds to the Wanganui Collegiate Organ Restoration fund. Tickets at the door: $20 adults, $5 students.
It's Rainin' Men. Whanganui War Memorial Hall Concert Chamber, Watt St, Wanganui. July 13, 11am. Book toll-free 0508 266 237 or at Operatunity.
The NZ Guitar Quartet Thursday, July 20, 7.30pm Royal Wanganui Opera House
Adult $28, Senior $25, Friend OH, $23, Student $15, Special rates for school groups
Book at royaloperahouse.co.nz or at venue.
