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By Sue Newman The days of discussing Ashburton’s art gallery and museum behind closed doors are over, says district councillor Ken Cutforth. On the agenda for yesterday’s Ashburton District Council meeting was an in-committee item on the Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre. Mr Cutforth was quick to request the item move on to the open agenda.
“I see it says commercial sensitivity. I don’t see it is commercially sensitive, it’s more politically sensitive. I see no reason to have this discussed in-committee.” Councillor Stuart Wilson was quick to offer his support saying public discussion of the project was long overdue. “The public’s perception of the way we handled the art gallery museum project was unfortunate. Now is our chance to take ratepayers along with us.
“If we go into committee to have this discussion on funding there will be innuendoes that we’re doing something under-handed, and we’re not,” he said. That meant art gallery representatives Anne Carr and Bernard Davidson had to make a pitch for the money needed to cover fixtures and fittings for the new complex to the public gallery. Mrs Carr said her committee was fed up with being questioned and challenged about what was needed
in the new gallery and with having to make to make compromises. “Council suggested we jot down our wish-list. It was $605,000 and we’ve revised that over two years to $467,000. The gallery has had to compromise on its wish-list and it saddens me that our quite young curators are constantly being questioned by people who have no idea what they do,” she said. “We’re adamant that what’s on our revised list is not extravagant or not needed on day one.”
Mr Davidson took a swipe at the designwork of the gallery saying some of the costings gallery staff had been required to provide to the council had been because of inadequate architectural design planning. To hammer out what was actually needed, the council decided to establish a funding committee to oversee the funding and acquisition of furniture and fixtures for the complex. Council property manager John
Cast keep up gruelling audition schedule By Susan Sandys “Tickly throats” have plagued a couple of the Miss Saigon cast members as they gear up for the show’s opening night in one week. But more serious bugs have kept well away, despite the gruelling rehearsal schedule cast members are on. Director David Williams said he was pleased his cast and crew had kept healthy. “Flu hasn’t hit us, no-one has broken a leg. One or two of the cast have had tickly throats and that’s it.” Good food and plenty of sleep were priorities with members having been given dietary notes on what to eat at rehearsals. Fast food was discouraged, as was going to the pub after rehearsals. “We used to go to the pub after rehearsals many years ago, but we sort of discourage that now because they are better home in bed than boozing all night,” Mr Williams said. There are 30 adults and 18 children in the show, and rehearsals have been 6pm to 10pm on weeknights. There will be a full day on Sunday before another week of big nights before the show opens on Friday. Keeping healthy has been a priority for lead actors Matt van den Yssel, 22, and Jas Andrada, 17, who play Chris and Kim. Jas is a busy Year 13 pupil at Ashburton College, while Matt works full-time at Smith and Church. They each have big days before going to rehearsals, and usually go to bed at midnight, with it taking some time
to “wind down” afterwards. “You are doing such emotional scenes, it’s hard to sort of just relax,” Matt said. It is more important than for most cast members that the pair stay healthy, as if one of them catches something the other would be likely to get it as well. This is because the pair have to kiss each other several times throughout each show. They are both enjoying their roles and have gotten over the initial awkwardness they encountered after first meeting and having to lock lips at audition call-backs. Most of their on-stage passionate moments are unscripted, and are instead simply part of their brief to show intimacy towards each other. Matt and Jas both have partners which have been with them since before the start of rehearsals, and they said they were not worried about the close relationship the pair had to show. “There’s no actual feelings behind it, I’m not Matt kissing Jas, I’m Chris kissing Kim,” Matt said. Jas admitted it had been awkward to start with, but she was now enjoying throwing herself into her role. “It’s more we do it because that’s how the characters feel,” she said. Meanwhile, ticket sales for Miss Saigon are going well, and have almost sold out for opening night. The show is the highest budget show, at $147,000, the Variety Theatre of Ashburton has ever done. It will stage at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre to May 31, and include a Sunday matinee.
Rooney said the gallery couldn’t expect to open with all spaces occupied and all furniture in place on day one. “It’s built with a functional life of 30 years and it would be a disaster if from day one we filled every space in the building.” When it came to common space such as staff rooms and reception, that had always been intended, Mr Rooney said. “We need to see this in everything we do in terms of maximising the
efficiency of an operation. There will always be compromise in buildings where there are multi functions.” The total cost estimate for fixtures, fittings and exhibition display space is $990,000. About $670,000 of this has already been confirmed, leaving about $300,000 to be secured. The council’s funding committee will be chaired by councillor Don McLeod and will include councillors Jac Sparks, John Leadley and Alan Totty.
Christchurch to get extra $2b to rebuild By Isaac Davison The Government has allocated $900 million of new money from the asset sales programme as part of the $2 billion increase in funding for the rebuild of quake-damaged Christchurch. Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee confirmed the Budget would increase funding for the city’s recovery from $13b to $15b. “This Government has recognised the substantial financial support Christchurch needs, not just to get back on its feet, but to position itself on the world stage as a great, small city where people want to live, visit and invest,” Mr
HOW IT’S SPLIT Christchurch recovery - $900m for hospitals, universities, justice and emergency services - $303m for Christchurch central city - $200m for land zoning, CERA costs, education initiatives - $642 for health and education projects
Brownlee said. This $2b increase over five years included $642m of funding from existing balance sheets. The total cost of the rebuild was revised earlier this year from $30b to $40b. The new funding included $924m from the Future Investment Fund, which held the earnings from the Government’s asset sales programme. The money from the partial float would go towards the redevelopment of Christchurch and Burwood hospitals, and would also help fund tertiary institutions in the city and the justice and emergency service precinct. The Government has set aside $300m for the central city, which Mr Brownlee said would help redevelop Christchurch into a world class city. “Plans are well under way for how the city will look in the years to come. This funding is about enabling that to happen.” Of the $15.2b the Crown has contributed to the rebuild, $7.6b has come from the Earthquake Commission and other Crown entities. Direct Government support has paid for the remainder. The total cost of the rebuild was equivalent to 20 per cent of New Zealand’s GDP. - APNZ English stays on track, P5
Ready to make snow By Susan Sandys
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Miss Saigon’s Matt van den Yssel and Jas Andrada have got over their initial awkwardness when it comes to onstage intimacy.
Mt Hutt Ski Area is gunning towards being the first ski area in New Zealand to go on-line with snow-making this winter. Manager James McKenzie said yesterday that snowmaking staff were ready and raring to go, they just needed temperatures to drop. This was expected to happen on Monday. Temperatures needed to be from between zero to minus four degrees, depending on humidity. “We might get on-line on Monday night,” Mr McKenzie said. And unlike most Mid Cantabrians who will be hoping for the mercury to rise after a cold evening, Mt Hutt snowmaking staff will want conditions to stay chilly. “We love it when it gets cold, our
snowmakers are all primed up and ready to go, the prospect of maybe being the first ski area to go online in New Zealand is good,” Mr McKenzie said. Monday’s cold temperatures were expected to come with snow showers on the mountain, which could bring about five centimetres to the ski area’s current 30 centimetre base. And when it came to man-made snow, the ski area would like to have pumped out an extra 10 centimetres on main trails within 24 hours. The ski area’s snowmakers can pump out 60 million litres of snow over 30 hectares per day. The ski area has its own water reservoir on the mountain, and this was enough to keep the snowmakers going for four days straight. Mt Hutt is to open on June 15.
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