Thursday, 2 December 2010
Auckland Museum’s LATE at the Museum innovation series finished on a high with speaker Sir Lloyd Geering attracting a standing ovation before an incredible line-up of new musical talents including Annah Mac and winners of this year’s Lion Foundation Songwriting Competition took to stages around the galleries.
Speaking about faith in the modern world, Sir Lloyd said the portrayal of Jesus as having supernatural powers has meant he has “disappeared into unreality” for many people. “[I think we come] closest to Jesus in the parables – the Good Samaritan, the Sermon on the Mountain, the Prodigal Son – he was a good man, a wise Jewish teacher. Jesus wept. He was truly human and it is his humanity we are drawn to.”
“We humans participate in the divine – ‘the divine’ literally means ‘that which transcends us’. Truth, justice in human relationships, love, these are the values that transcend us and that we can share in.”
The conversation with Sir Lloyd closed with a question from the audience about what the highest expression of a human could be.
“It is the potential to think, to feel, to love, to contribute to the communities we live in. We are all a product of our communities and without our cultural past we could not be what we are. We all draw from that and try to develop it into something we can pass on to the next generation.” “We are everything we value in ourselves and everything we have valued in those gone before us.”
Earlier in the evening audiences were treated to an incredibly professional set from the young musicians in Mt Roskill Primary’s Ukulele Band performing remakes of hits including “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”.
Local talent Annah Mac, who recently signed a recording contract with Sony, is one of the success stories for the Play It Strange Trust who curated all the music for this month’s LATE. Mac stunned LATE-goers with her voice and the other singers on show suggest there will be more Play It Strange success stories to follow.
Western Springs College’s Eden Roberts and ACG Senior College’s Issie Hallwright both earned thunderous applause for their original songs performed against the backdrop of the Museum’s Origins and Oceans Galleries and looked right at home among the night’s more established artists including Mac, Monique Rhodes and Jordan Luck.
15 minute highlights videos for the December LATE may also be viewed on http://www.youtube.com/user/aucklandmuseum#g/c/8C5F64FD9D48E2A4.
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 Thursday, 2 December 2010
Where: Auckland Museum
Time: 6.30pm - 11pm
Online Bookings: $20
(plus $3 booking fee)
Members: 2-for-1 tickets
Entry via Grand Foyer entrance
Enquiries: For enquiries please phone 09 306 7048.
Door sales: Limited general door sales from 6.30pm on the night, Members please present your membership card.
This year's season of LATE at the Museum events welcomes a year-long investigation into the theme of innovation – featuring panel discussions with this country’s leading innovators and music by our top performers.
Smart Talk
Finlay Macdonald, Sir Lloyd Geering
Auckland Museum is ending its LATE: Innovation series with a conversation with world-renowned theologian Sir Lloyd Geering, who at 92 is still encouraging people to re-think the way “faith” is framed in the modern world.
Sir Lloyd Geering is many things: he’s an ordained Presbyterian minister, a prolific author, a distinguished academic, and a public figure of some renown – in 1988 he was made a Companion of the British Empire, and in 2001 he topped New Zealand’s New Year’s Honours list, being made a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
He’s also a progressive thinker whose work has been the subject of a good deal of controversy. Read bios for the LATE Panel »
Great Music
Music entertainment will be curated by Mike Chunn (Play it Strange) on the night and audiences will be treated to performances in gallery spaces around the Museum from him and his son as well as veteran rocker Jordan Luck, Annah Mac, and young musicians from ACG College, Kaipara College, Western Springs College and Papatoetoe High School Girls.
Annah Mac, who won the songwriting competition at 15 and has since signed an exclusive four-album recording contract with Sony BMG, will perform four songs. Read bios for the LATE Artists »
Please enter through the Grand Foyer. Food and a cash bar will be available.
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Sir Lloyd Geering
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Play It Strange Trust
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Annah Mac
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Jordan Luck
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Evening Programme |
| 6.30pm |
Doors Open |
Grand Foyer Entrance |
| 6.50pm |
Ukulele Mt Roskill School Group |
Grand Foyer |
| 7.10pm |
Maori court doors open |
Maori Court |
| 7.30pm – 8.30pm |
Panel Discussion |
Maori Court |
| 8.30pm |
Annah Mac |
Maori Court |
| 8.45pm |
Papatoetoe High School Girls |
Grand Foyer |
| 9.05pm |
Eden Roberts with Mike Chunn |
Origins |
| 9.30pm |
Issie Hallwright |
Oceans |
| 9.50pm |
Kaipara College Band |
Grand Foyer |
| 10.05pm |
Annah Mac |
Grand Foyer |
| 10.15pm |
Jordan Luck and friends |
Grand Foyer |
| 11.00pm |
Museum closed |
| Please note this schedule is subject to change. |
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