Wellington’s finest put on a mighty fine show
6 December 2007
Wellington’s finest put on a mighty fine show next week
The silly season is upon us already and what better way to celebrate than to head down to Mighty Mighty in Cuba Street next week for an evening of drama and comedy with the Six O’clock Swill.
The Six O’clock Swill is a series of one-act plays that take place monthly at Mighty Mighty. They are funded by the Creative Communities Wellington local funding scheme, administered by Wellington City Council.
Six O’clock Swill producer Mark Westerby says the Creative Communities scheme ensures the plays take place every month.
“The Swill is a brilliant opportunity for practitioners to fine-tune their craft in front of an audience,” says Mr Westerby. “We have a mix of plays from well-known playwrights, local scripts under development, and of course our infamous improvised saga, Magnum: The Lost Episodes. What this series does is allow artists to try their hand at new, edgy and interesting work, and allow audiences easy access to this work with cheap entry and in a non-traditional space.”
Next week’s shows, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 December, offer a sneak peak at On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover adapted from the book by Richard Meros; American playwright Quincy Long’s The Muse; and the next instalment of Magnum: The Lost Episodes.
Many of the projects that were allocated grants from the latest Creative Communities round will be part of the 2008 New Zealand Fringe Festival, which runs throughout February.
Various projects such as workshops, performances, short-term arts events, artist in residence schemes and arts-related promotional activities are all eligible for funding.
The next round of the Creative Communities Wellington local funding scheme closes on 31 March 2008.
Information on the scheme and other Wellington City Council grants can be found on the Council’s website, www.Wellington.govt.nz, or people can phone the Council’s grants team on 499 4444.
Information on the Six O’clock Swill series can be found at www.sixoclockswill.com
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Creative
Communities Wellington Local Funding Scheme
Allocations
September 2007
Organisation Name Project
Description Amount Granted
3 Shades presentation of new
theatre piece Godzone $2000
Afterburner premiere of
original theatre work by Afterburner $1800
Bach Choir of
Wellington performance of complete B minor Mass by
Bach $1500
Bard Productions comedy piece called "The Wind
Speaks to Wellington" $1500
Brave to stage a new NZ play
for Fringe 2008 $2000
Broken Cat theatre production at
Syn bar during Fringe Festival $2000.
Champs chamber
music training for school students, plus
concert $2000
Claire Middleton to introduce Argentine
Tango to people with visual
impairments $1000
Conjunction for the 29th NZ National
Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention $1000
Dave
Wiggins marketing costs for two comedy shows for 2008 Fringe
Festival $500
Hellenic New Zealand Congress
Inc contemporary production of Aristophanes' Wasps $1500
Island Bay Community Centre fence mural, eight large
panels for side fences and paint for side fence $2000
Jamie Burgess a play entitled "Shoes" $2000
Kidzstuff Theatre for Children play for children "Which
Witch is Which" $2000
Lightweight Theatre a one-woman
play "The Beckoning of Hope" at Fringe Festival $1500
Mana Tiaki Incorporated Society roadshow for schools
promoting kapahaka roopu $2000
New Zealand Comedy
Trust Class Comedians learning programme for secondary
school performers $2000
Nota Bene two choral concerts in
June and November 2008 $2000
Operatunity Class Act
Opera professional performers presenting professional opera
to schools $2000
Orpheus Choir a Come and Sing day's
workshop for community singers $1000
Pablos Art Studios
Inc to provide support to Outsider Art artists for solo
exhibition $800
Pablos Art Studios Inc provide
Artist-in-Residence programme to develop skills $1000
Paul Forrest an "artist in residence" event exhibiting
up to 40 new paintings $1000
Prunella Wilde The Seaweed
Experiment III - seaweed art installation $1570
Rankle
Productions theatre production looking at the tradition of
the 21st Party $2200
Six O'Clock Swill a monthly series
of one-act plays at Mighty Mighty $2000
The
Bacchanals production of "A Renaissance Man", a new NZ
play $1940
The Magniloquents a new tap show for Fringe
2008 $1500
The Victoria Broadcasting Club Ltd 88.3 FM a
CD sampler of local Wellington bands for sale and
promotion $2000
Theatre Militia theatre work for the
Fringe Festival 08 $1950
Vicki Knight - Spirit of the
Solomons Spirit of the Solomons exhibition at Websters
gallery $389
Vincents Art Workshop to have an active
involvement in Newtown Festival and Fringe Festival
2008 $2000
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul an exhibition
to provide a platform for art and crafts people $1000
Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) Inc performances of
improvised comedy shows in Wellington during Fringe
Festival $620
Wellington Playback Theatre promotion of
20th birthday performance from Playback $500
You Can &
You Will Productions a new comedy play developing new genre
'mock-u-theatre' $1500
Total : $55,269
ENDS