The Art of the Torres Strait

Gallery 2

Highlanders v Rebels
Friday 30 March 2012
7.35pm
Held a Rugby Park Stadium, Tweed Street Invercargill
For all pricing and information visit:
www.rugbysouthland.co.nz

The exhibition features 40 works by Rita Angus covering the span of her career, from 1929 to 1969.

Each Artist exists on the edge of society, invisible yet still with a visual voice. This work encompasses a view of the experience of living in the borderlines of the commonplace, a look into the culture that exists within a culture.

The twelfth annual Shakespeare in the Park production will take audiences on a journey discovering (or rediscovering) some of Shakespeare's greatest hits--Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, along with many other plays in "snapshot form".

Escorted by a guide, the hour long production moves around both spectacular and familiar places in the park, with characters and scenes popping up in surprising places.

It's Shakespeare, but in bite-sized chunks, full of humour, tragedy, magic and love.
Please note: no performances Monday or Tuesday, Feb 20-21. Sunday Feb 19 performance is at 1:00pm

This exhibition draws the viewer’s attention to the brief and ill-fated 1850s whaling settlement on the Auckland Islands. The sculpture, which takes the form of garments, allows the viewer to reflect on the existence of the settlement in such a remote and inhospitable place. Imagery of whales, endemic flora and fauna and vestigial physical evidence, are referenced in the works.

Enjoy a community atmosphere with friendly people & a wide variety of stalls. Stalls include arts & crafts, jewellery, plants, knitting, second hand goods & much more.
We offer opportunities for fundraising, busking & performing.

Held on the last Saturday of every month, 9.30-12.30 in the Yarrow St car park of the Glengarry Shopping Centre (Eastside Baptist if wet)

Contact us for more information.

Gala Day on 25th February 11am - 2pm, at Surrey Park Early Learning Centre, situated on the old Surrey Park School site, next to the Velodrome. Free Entry - Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, Choclate Wheel, Tombola, Market Stalls, The Big Dig, Hot Food, Crazy Hair, Jumbo Clothes Sale and much much more!

*Family Fun Bike Day Challange
*Decorate Your Bike Competiton
*Free Sausage Sizzle

Bring:
*Your bike & helmet, drink bottle, & family
(friends are welcome too!)

Contact Lisa / Clair at IEC to register (free) & for further details
iec@paradise.net.nz
2184404

My pick of venues for orienteering near Invercargill - great views, open farmland, bush. Courses for all levels of experience and help given. Not suitable for buggies. No dogs.

Being held at Balfour Sports Ground Association on Sunday 26th of February from 10am - 4pm. There will be a display of local cars and machinery, both old and new as well as market stalls, lolly scramble, chocolate wheel, cash bar and bbq and more. There will be something for everyone.

The Annual General Meeting of the Invercargill Tap Dancing Association is to be held on SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY @ the Musical Theature rooms, corner of Don & Doon Streets, Invercargill, 7pm.

All Welcome.

If you require further information on Tap Dancing please contact tapping.ingill@woosh.co.nz

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE
What are the universal principles of outstanding leadership?

The principles and practices of Four Quadrant Leadership are founded on centuries of accumulated evidence from history, philosophy, science, ethics, knowledge and wisdom. When these principles are being constantly demonstrated, competent managers can become excellent leaders.

This practical system focuses on leader/colleague relationships, leadership principles and practical application in the work place. Improve your leadership skills and the effectiveness of your colleagues.


DESIGNED FOR
Four Quadrant Leadership is a comprehensive leadership system used in thousands of organisations around the world - to assist individuals in both recognising their capabilities as a leader and demonstrating those capabilities with clearly defined, proven, leadership practices.

Developed by Wilfred Jarvis, Four Quadrant Leadership introduces the core concepts and develops essential leadership skills for managers and leaders.


LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will have the tools to be able to
• Understand the differences between leading and managing
• Accurately assess a colleagues’ task efficiency for any given task
• Lead your team to increased productivity, profitability and commitment to continuous improvement
• Effectively set goals and allocate tasks
• Enhance your techniques for monitoring, supervising, delegating, coaching and counselling
• Obtain team commitment to achieving goals
• Implement performance reviews more effectively


LEARNING CONTENT
• Distinctions between managing and leading
• The characteristics of your best and worst leaders
• The empathy triangle
• Calculating job efficiency
• The techniques of Four Quadrant Leadership
• Using Four Quadrant Leadership with your colleagues and family
• Facts and fallacies about human energies
• Leader-colleague relationships
• Diagnosing performance
• The credentials and characteristics of effective leaders
• Leadership strategies analysis
• Estimating and increasing your personal resources to manage stress

Participants are challenged to examine the effectiveness of their current leadership approaches from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

You receive comprehensive notes, questionnaires and other related programme material.


FACILITATOR | Robin Rawson.

Robin has a strong management, leadership and sales background developed in roles within Flectcher Building and Placemakers.

He is an experienced adult educator/facilitator with over 20 years experience teaching, coaching and mentoring people in the areas of advanced sales, management training, leadership, coaching and mentoring.

Robin has been an accredited Four Quadrant Leadership facilitator since 1990 and is in constant demand throughout New Zealand, Australia (and more recently South Africa) teaching these well researched and highly regarded leadership principles and practices. His belief in, and commitment to, these universal truths are evidenced in the passion, energy, and authority he brings to every programme he is responsible for.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE
An introduction to the Essential Selling Skills required to succeed in customer service and sales roles today.

Participants will learn and apply an easy-to-remember 5-point sales process that will equip them to sell well every day, with every customer! These non-negotiable sales disciplines will ensure your staff demonstrate the right attitudes, skills and techniques to be a stand-out sales professional and to consistently achieve superior sales results.


DESIGNED FOR
• Anyone involved in front line sales and service, including new staff who need to learn the best techniques, right attitudes and deliberate behaviours expected in the delivery of sales and service excellence
• Experienced staff who need to re-evaluate or fine tune their current sales and service skills
• Managers/store owners who want to lead from the front



LEARNING OUTCOMES
As a result of attending this programme, Participants will be able to
• Sell more - through a more developed understanding of, and commitment to, the fundamental disciplines of the sales process
• Maintain excellent attitudes towards customers and other staff
• Better understand the customers needs and wants and how to effectively meet them
• Communicate more effectively as interpersonal skills are improved
• Become a more collaborative problem solver for their customers thereby creating the best possible outcomes/results for both parties
• Take the grey out of features and benefits
• Win over the tough nuts/difficult customers with poise, calm and absolute professionalism
• Influence other team members within their organisation with the new and improved skills, attitudes and behaviours being demonstrated on-the-job!


LEARNING CONTENT
• Understanding competitive advantage
• Understanding what selling is really all about?
• Bringing both the art of conversation and the science of a proven sales process to the fore – every time
• Getting it right internally, with attitudes and motives that create a sales EDGE
• Delivering best-fit solutions based on a new understanding of and commitment to genuine customer intimacy
• Consistently demonstrating five minimum sales disciplines – every customer – every time
• Handling objections with confidence and competence
• Closing the sales – without being pushy
• The importance of ethical selling and honouring promises made
• Personal goals and action plans back on-the-job


Applying deliberate accelerated learning techniques, all course participants will be actively engaged in syndicate discussion groups, a wide range of sales based exercises, challenges, case studies and be developing their own targeted goals and action plans for on-the-job implementation throughout the two-days.

This high energy, high impact programme will challenge attitudes, change behaviours and inspire a culture of service and sales excellence in your organisation.

It's time for New Zealand country music fans to celebrate! In March 2012 for the first time iconic 80's TV show "Thats Country" will hit the road on an extensive national tour.The shows will feature stars from the original series - Suzanne Prentice, Ray Columbus, Australia's Jade Hurley, Tony Williams, Maree Humphries plus members of the original "That's Country" band.

As an additional bonus they will br joined by special guest star, 2011 Country Music legend Award winner, Dennis Marsh.

Each society will bring their best blooms to put on show to compete for the Rose Ranfurly Trophy.
Hybrid Tea, Miniature Classes, Floral Art and Special Awards.

The 144th annual Southland A & P Show will be held on the first Saturday in March at the new venue of Donovan Park.
It will be a celebration of animals, featuring horses, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, donkeys, a petting zoo that the kids will love, and much more!
With a great selection of entertainment all day and plenty of competitions to be part of, be sure to bring the whole family to the SBS Bank Southland A & P Show!

A narrative installation of jewellery, sculpture and mixed media paintings.

A weekend workshop where students chose a set project of a round or rectangular mirror or a flat torso. Tutored by Janis Steele.

Gish is one of New Zealand's top comedian's taking the piss out of everyone and everything. check out some of his material at the link below:
http://www.wherestheparrot.com/gish.html

A tryathlon for kids aged 8 years to 14 years which can be completed individually or in teams of up to 3.

Programme objective | To gain knowledge and practise skills in planning and delivering professional presentations.


Designed for | People who are required to give high-impact business presentations. It will cater for people with little or no previous experience through to those who have given many presentations with little help or training.


Learning outcomes | Participants will have the tools to be able to
• Plan, prepare and deliver a professional business/marketing presentation
• Add variety and interest to presentations
• Gain maximum audience attention
• Deliver presentations that will enhance the reputation of both the presenter and the business


Learning content
• Planning and preparation of the high impact business/marketing presentation
• Opening and closing for maximum impact
• Structuring the presentation
• PowerPoint and other presentation software
• Use of visuals
• Presentation of self, including stance, body language, eye contact, gesture, voice and language
• Building confidence and controlling nerves
• Rehearsal techniques
• Stage management


Facilitator | David Dewhurst

David is a highly experienced business consultant, facilitator and coach. With a Master of Business Administration from Otago University and a background in general management in UK, Europe and New Zealand, David works with clients to improve performance at an organisational, team and individual level. Specialising in leadership, team development, performance management, interpersonal skills and change management, David has delivered training and coaching to a wide variety of sectors including public companies, state owned enterprises, cooperatives, SME’s, councils and charitable trusts. He also coaches business executives and managers in improving performance through organisatinal and behavioural change.

Programme objective
Managing the day-to-day performance of your colleagues is no easy task. It’s one that many new and even experienced managers struggle with. Knowing how to create a degree of professional separation from the people who are your team mates takes courage.


Designed for
This programme is essential for all people in management and leadership positions.


Learning outcomes
Participants will have the tools to be able to
• Overcome obstacles to achieving better performance
• Provide consistency and fairness to their leadership
• Effectively manage workplace performance and behaviour
• Provide effective feedback on individual and team performance
• Set individual and team performance/behaviour related goals
• Understand the effect of leadership style on work performance and choose an appropriate leadership style for different situation
• Develop strategies for improving team and individual motivation
• Understand the link between motivation and productivity


Learning content
• Understanding and defining performance
• The factors that impact on performance - the organisation, situations or events, the leader and the person
• Leadership style and its effects on productivity, motivation and quality
• The issue of control - what happens when you under or over control a colleague and/or work activities
• Getting the level of control exactly right - the leadership/control matrix
• Understanding motivation - placing value on achievement
• The twin concepts of performance management - consistency and fairness
• Creating a work culture of achievement
• The cost of getting it wrong

Wildly popular music-comedy sensation The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra are back on the road with their newest record, “I Love You…”, another serving of infectious, ukulele-infused hit songs.

This tour sees the orchestra play new towns never before explored by the band, who look forward to bringing their charming swagger to new corners of New Zealand. Heavenly harmonies and stunning solos are juxtaposed against hilariously budget special effects, madcap antics and questionable banter, delighting crowds of all ages.

Lead by Age Pryor (Fly My Pretties, Woolshed Sessions), the band formed six years ago at a tiny café in Wellington and have since become a cult favourite, causing a mad scramble for tickets wherever they go.

“Resistance is futile” – Sunday Star-Times
“Heading towards national treasure status” – TVNZ
“Entertainment of the highest order” – TV3
“An unmissable funfest” – Rip It Up magazine

One-day workshop
09:00am – 03:00pm (approximate)

Preparing for your exit from a business is as important as planning for business success.

You probably have some idea of the lifestyle and benefits for you and your family that should come from all your hard work, so it makes sense to ensure that vision becomes a reality. This workshop is designed to encourage and enable you to move towards a life and business that is by your design and not happening by default.

Facilitator: Deane Purdue

The Rock presents
I AM GIANT ANNOUNCE SUMMER TOUR
With special guests Cairo Knife Fight

I Am Giant have to returned to NZ for their biggest national tour ever! 2011 was a massive year for I Am Giant – their debut album ‘The Horrifying Truth’ debuted No 2 in the charts and is nearly GOLD! It was the highest selling NZ rock album of 2011 and produced five massive number 1 Rock hits – ‘City Limits’, ‘Neon Sunrise’, ‘Living The Crash’, ‘And We’ll Defy’ and ‘Let It Go’.

The I Am Giant ‘Let It Go Summer Tour’ sees the band touring the depth and breadth of New Zealand from Russell all the way to Invercargill.

Joining them on most of the dates are the electrifying powerhouse that is Cairo Knife Fight. CNF who released their second EP “II” via Liberation Music in August 2011, is comprised of drummer / lead vocalist Nick Gaffaney and Aaron Tokona on guitar. Together, this potent pair issues forth pulsating guitar riffs illuminated with haunting vocals and phantasmal effects which have taken the stage alongside Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures and Queens of The Stone Age.

The Rock presents
I AM GIANT ANNOUNCE SUMMER TOUR
With special guests Cairo Knife Fight

WED MARCH 7TH Invercargill – Saint and Sinners
With Cairo Knife Fight and special guests

Tickets on sale now from NZ Tix www.nztix.co.nz and Selected Venues

Programme objective
Building good relationships with our colleagues is essential to getting things done.

How we interact with, how we speak to and what words we choose to speak with, will have a very large bearing on outcomes. It will determine what gets done and how well it gets done.

This programme will provide participants with practical tools to ensure they make sound professional relationships and communicate clearly and easily.


Designed for
All people with leadership responsibilities or in customer relationship roles will benefit.


Learning outcomes
Participants will have the tools to be able to
• Understand and meet the communication needs of your work colleagues and customers
• Build rapport with colleagues
• Understand their work related needs
• Listen with empathy
• Understand the role of attitudes and habits and their impact on workplace communication
• Motivate your colleagues and deal effectively with feedback
• Role-model effective leadership behaviours


Learning content
• Defining your audience
• Communication rules
• Barriers to communication in the workplace
• Attitudes, habits and communication
• Role modelling appropriate behaviours in the workplace
• Developing empathy, listening with empathy and testing your empathy
• Listening skills
• Techniques for questioning and answering
• Understanding the work related needs of your colleagues
• How to motivate your colleagues
• Dealing effectively with feedback
• Building rapport

One of the best-known ensembles in the world on their first ever visit to New Zealand, I Musici from Rome, Italy.

In this special programme for New Zealand, I Musici takes audiences on a journey of the Italian serenade, with music by Rossini, Respighi, Paganini, and film composer Nino Rota ('The Godfather'). Featuring string playing that is both pulsing with energy and delicately sweet, this programme will leave you exhilarated!

Programme objective
Effective Business Writing provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to write highly effective business communications.

Become an effective business writer and increase your personal productivity, by increasing the clarity and power of all your written communications.


Designed for
This programme is especially suited for those who are required to frequently write business letters, memos and e-mails.


Learning outcomes
Participants will have the tools to be able to
• Plan and prepare a professional business letter
• Identify the purpose of and plan effective letters
• Deliver letters that will enhance the reputation of both the presenter and business
• Use words simply and effectively
• Construct easily understood sentences and paragraphs
• Simplify written instructions
• Write effective letters and memos
• Write for clarity and understanding


Learning content
• Choosing words
• Clarifying, understanding with words
• Composing sentences and paragraphs
• Writing for simplicity
• Checking the tone for friendliness and positivity
• Structuring letters
• Identifying the purpose of letters

New Zealand Quilters Association

Cancer Society "Relay for Life"
Held at Rugby Park Stadium
Starting 12noon Saturday 10th March 2012 until 11am Sunday 11th March 2012

Tutored by Stuart King. Saturday 10, Sunday 11 March 2012 10am-4pm at Aurora College. Bookings essential by phoning 2188180

The season finale at Teretonga Park presented by Downer featuring the Noel McIntyre Drainage Clubmans Saloons, Sports & Racing Cars and Motorcycles.

A unique musical journey by two legendary UK artists. Sharing intimate stories of their life and times, including all their individual hits, plus duets of their favourite artists, musicians and composers. Live on stage together, for the entire concert.

Roy Phillips and Georgie Fame were two of the most successful stories in British popular music of the 1960s and 1970s – both sporting a spare, minimalist image they each played their own individual brand of pop-jazz that was far removed from the rock 'n' roll they had played or the rock music that was sprouting around them, but they scored more than enough successes to keep going for several decades and today still have individual sell out concerts around the globe. And now for the first time together…

Their voices are so well matched for duets it’s like a cocktail of gravel and molasses. Great depth in the harmony added variance to their performances. Their music embraces numerous genres, including pop, rock, blues, soul, country, gospel and jazz. Top that off with their enigmatic and irascible personalities, and you have a mainstay of modern music and an inimitable concert experience not to be missed.

Brief overview
This workshop is designed for those involved with implementing a restructure - it is important to get the process and people issues right!

Even in the most genuine cases of business restructuring and/or resulting redundancies, the potential for fall out from incorrect or insufficient process is huge. Recent case law has further refined the process requirements for employers, and this workshop will help you understand the key principles.

Who should attend
All employers, managers and human resource advisors involved in restructuring within a workplace.

Workshop content
• Why restructure?
• Legal framework and principles
• The planning phase
• Consultation-what is it, why do it, and how to make it worthwhile
• The process- common pitfalls for employers
• Effective selection process for redundancy
• Recent case law
• Assisting employees to cope with change
• Communicating the changes

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Plan a restructure and document appropriately
• Understand the steps that must be followed
• Recognise and mitigate possible pitfalls
• Minimise negative impact of restructuring and redundancy on the workplace
• Reinforce and build on the positive reason[s] for implementing the restructuring

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

Brief overview
The phone is the most used tool in business. If you are looking to turn your phone into a sales and marketing weapon then attend the Better Business by Phone workshop.

Who should attend
This is an ideal program for all those that use the telephone as a selling tool.

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Have telephone skills to deal with every type of call
• Overcome the fear of cold calling with a simple, successful system
• Handle such common objections as “I’ve got no money”, “I’m just too busy”
• Use customer care techniques to retain clients and increase your business with them too!
• Have winning ways to secure face-to-face quality appointments
• Handle tricky customers and complaints and keep their business
• Get past screeners and PAs to reach your prospect
• Use closing skills for sales and field visits
• Lead management techniques to help grow your client database
• Effectively deal with “send me mail”

Duration 2 hours

Presenter Matthew Mewse, ‘The Telephone Man’, Dunedin

Programme objective
Accounting for Non Accountants - Stage One enables you to understand and interpret accounting reports and to use accounting skills to assist in making effective business decisions.


Designed for
Proprietors, managers and staff who
• Use accounting information to monitor performance or to plan future operations
• Need an improved understanding of financial terminology, practices and principles


Learning outcomes
Participants will have the tools to be able to
• Read, comprehend and explain the purpose of the balance sheet
• Apply ratio analysis for interpretation of data
• Utilise cash flow data for budgeting purposes


Learning content
• Statement of financial position
- The structure of a business
- Liabilities or debt
- Shareholders’ funds or equity
- Assets

• Statement of financial performance
- Components of accounting profit
- Revenues
- Expenses
- Importance of the period
- Inventory valuation and management
- Depreciation
- Accruals and prepayments

• Analysis and interpretation of accounts
- Introduction
- Liquidity ratio
- Leverage ratio
- Activity ratio
- Profitability ratio
- Key performance indicators

• Cash flow and budgeting
- Cash flow management
- Benefits
- Preparation of the budget

• Basic forecasting techniques
- Estimating cash flows
- Making results work
- Understanding variances
- Managing cash flow variation
- Reviewing and revising the budget


Facilitator | Paul Duggan from Christchurch

Paul has 33 years accounting experience and in 1991 he established his own chartered accounting practice in Christchurch, specialising in financial and business advice for small and medium sized businesses.
Paul is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Associate Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.
He enjoys using his communication and interpersonal skills to assist participants on his courses gain an understanding of basic business accounting - finance concepts.

Listen to local storytellers as they share traditional and contemporary stories. A chance to have a go or just sit back, relax and listen. Supper provided. Raffles available.
Lindisfarne Community Centre, Miller Street, Invercargill, 7.30pm

Multicultural Food Festival at James Hargest Senior Campus,288 Layard Street, Invercargill Saturday March 17 2012, from 10.30am to 3.00pm. 14 ethnic food stalls, plus multicultural entertainment. Entry is free but you pay for food at the food stalls.

Great family sport with views over Foveaux Strait. Pit your brain against the map. Courses and help for all levels of experience

Who should attend
• Anyone in a credit management role
• Sole traders
• Business owners
• Financial controllers
• Finance/administration managers
• Employees new to a credit focused role
• Anyone who wants to increase the cash flow of their business
• Anyone that is responsible for an electricity bill that is over forty thousand or in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum
• Anyone who manages electricity purchasing for a large number
of sites. E.g. a landlord with several hundred residential sites or a property manager with several sites

Content includes
• How the electricity market works – generation, retail,
transmission, distribution
• Who you can buy from – the retailers – the players and their
contact details
• Understanding your electricity invoices
• Understanding electricity pricing plans
• Accessing invoices on the web
• Putting together a smart RFP for electricity supply which will get the most responses from retailers
• Evaluating the offers – comparing apples with apples – electricity prices – compare to the Energy Link index – local losses – market fees – line charges – types of charges
• How to switch retailers and avoiding common traps

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Paul Chapman from Dunedin

Brief overview
A high level of responsibility is placed on principals who engage
contractors and sub-contractors by the Health and Safety Employment Act 1992. This workshop will assist in clarifying your liability in relation to the labour and services you purchase, it will also assist you to identify the workplace health and safety aspects when engaging contractors. You will be provided with information that will enable you, as the principal or contractor to manage effectively the workplace health and safety requirements when employing contractors.

Who should attend
Any principal responsible for engaging, managing or supervising
contractors plus any contractor. If your business is considering
contracting out as a future business option, general managers,
human resource managers, engineering managers, and maintenance managers will benefit from attending.

Workshop content
• Duties of principals and persons with control of places of work
and associated case law
• Contract types - health and safety management matrix
• Preparing a contract - workplace health and safety considerations
• Assessing a contractor's safety record
• Establishing contractor health and safety documentation
• Assessing the contractor's health and safety management plan
• Health and safety performance assessment of the contractor
• Reporting by the contractor to the principal
• Establishing the health and safety project file

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Prepare a contract with workplace health and safety
considerations
• Conduct health and safety performance assessments on
contractors
• Assess a contractor's safety record
• Prepare/audit contractor health and safety documentation
• Assess a contractor's health and safety management plan
• Know your health and safety responsibilities as a principal or
contractor

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

Brief overview
This practical workshop will help participants to understand and practise essential payroll calculations.
Fully worked examples covering a range of different situations will be provided that can then be applied back in the workplace

Who should attend
Payroll practitioners who want to improve their understanding of the provisions of the Holidays Act 2003.

Workshop content
Entitlement and calculations for
• Annual holidays
• Public holidays
• Sick leave
• Bereavement leave

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Understand New Zealand employment legislation relating to payroll
• Have a sound understanding of employees’ leave entitlements, and how to calculate them
• Understand the relationship between annual holidays and other leave

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

A 3-day symposium to explore ideas and solutions for managing and protecting New Zealand's wetlands. Presentations will cover four topics: community engagement, communicating science to the public, integrated management of wetlands for ecosystem outcomes and non-regulatory vs. regulatory approaches to protecting wetlands. There will be field trips to Waituna Lagoon and Rakatu wetlands in Western Southland. A conference dinner with entertainment is included. Landowners, scientists, community group volunteers and anyone with an interest in wetlands should not miss this event. Starts 21 March 2012 and 8:30am
The field trip on Friday returns to Invercargill at 5:30pm.

Swing along with Operatunity, special guest singers and instrumentalists with songs and music of Glen Miller, the Rat Pack and more.

C.C. is proudly delivering the best stand up comedy in the country, with the Canadian Club Real NZ Comedy Tour. The stars of 7Days, Ben Hurley, Dai Henwood, Steve Wrigley and Vaughn King are embarking on an extensive tour of the towns in heartland New Zealand, bringing you the best night of comedy since ages ago.

This really is the best comedy New Zealand has to offer, and it’s coming to a town near you. R16.

The Contact TriWoman Series is for all women, whether that’s taking part in your first triathlon or taking on the challenge year on year. We’re all about the taking part, not the winning, the fun, not the competition and women across the country take part to achieve all sorts of goals, whether that’s getting fit, building your confidence or taking some time out from daily life and joining in on the fun!

Enter as an individual, a mother and daughter team, take part with your workmates. Do a duathlon instead. However you do it, you’ll be a TriWoman by the end of the summer!

Hailing from the United States, Connie Regan-Blake will be in Southland from 28-30th March for a series of free school visits in Invercargill, Gore and Winton, as well as a concert for adults which will highlight her genius as a storyteller.

Concert for adults: Invercargill Public Library Meeting Room, 8pm, Friday 30 March.

Workshop: Donovan Primary.

Storytelling for children: SGHS, Winton Primary, Donovan Primary, Fernworth Primary, Longford Intermediate

Contact Liz Miller for further details.

On 30 March the Rugby World Cup Roadshow will showcase New Zealand rugby's prized trophies, including:
* Webb Ellis Cup
* Bledisloe Cup
* IRB Women's Rugby World Cup
* IRB Junior World Championship Trophy
* Hillary Shield
* HSBC Sevens World Series Trophy

The Roadshow will be visiting four Southland schools, followed by a public display of the trophies at Elles Road Reserve, Invercargill, from 3.30pm till 7.30pm.

Please contact Rugby Southland for more details.

Enjoy a community atmosphere with friendly people & a wide variety of stalls. Stalls include arts & crafts, jewellery, plants, knitting, second hand goods & much more.
We offer opportunities for fundraising, busking & performing.

Held on the last Saturday of every month, 9.30-12.30 in the Yarrow St car park of the Glengarry Shopping Centre (Eastside Baptist if wet)

Contact us for more information on 027 225 2664 or thebookstop@xtra.co.nz

A full day of harness racing action at Ascot Park Raceway, Invercargill.

A fun filled, sports specific Holiday Programme coming to your region. Please see www.sportsouthland.co.nz for dates, times and available sport options.

Directed by Jonathan Tucker, Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924. A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, the play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss family and their outlandish behaviour when they each invites a guest to spend the weekend. The self-centred behaviour of the hosts finally drives their guests to flee while the Blisses are so engaged in a family row that they do not notice their guests' furtive departure.
Book at Ticketdirect

The ILT Holiday Sports Programme is a partnership between the ILT Foundation, Sport Southland, Stadium Southland and a number of Regional Sports Organisations.

Your child has the opportunity to take part in up to four different sports per day, or could try either a half or full day sport specific camp.

For a list of the sport opportunities available please visit: www.sportsouthland.co.nz

Brief overview
This workshop will help you as an employer understand aspects of employment legislation and build mutual trust in employment relationships. To foster good faith behaviour to grow your business and ensure that participants have a fair understanding of all aspects of employment legislation in relation to their workplace.

Who should attend
Managers, supervisors, employee representatives, and team leaders. Also people who are presently, or will be, in a position to influence employment practices in their workplace.

Workshop content
The aim is to assist employers to improve their understanding of
• The principles of good faith in employment relationships
• Employer/employee rights
• Holiday entitlements
• Parental leave entitlements
• Discrimination provisions under the Human Rights Act 1993
Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Understand the aspects of employment legislation
• Foster good faith behaviour to grow your businesses
• Ensure your employees have a fair understanding of employment legislation
• Understand aspects of best practice with interactions with
employees

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

Programme objective
This programme will enable participants to deliver quality customer care which enhances customer relationships and minimise the chances of losing the customer to a competitor.


Designed for
Anyone in your organisation who has contact with the customers and can make or break relationships.



Learning content
• We all talk about customer care but do we
really know what it is?
• Why should your organisation be taking
customer care very seriously?
• What does it take to deliver great customer
care?
• What do your customers want from you?


Facilitator Vanessa Hockaday from Dunedin

Vanessa Hockaday was trained originally in the newspaper industry in the UK, in sales and sales management. After leaving the industry where she was originally taught to train, she became a director of a large training company where she was responsible for eight full time trainers who worked all over the UK. As well as developing seminars she delivered a variety of training workshops herself for many clients. She now delivers workshops all over New Zealand and elsewhere.

Sales, telephone skills, customer service and other subjects are available for all levels of delegates, from business owners and managers to receptionists and junior staff.

Vanessa is known for her practical approach, sharing skills which staff can use immediately upon their return to work.

Programme objective
What you can personally do to handle the situation of difficult customers confidently and professionally.

Designed for
Anyone in sales, customer service, accounts or reception who may have to deal with difficult or irate customers.

Learning content
• Why can some customers be difficult to deal with?
• How are those difficulties expressed?
• The importance of assertive behaviours
• Understanding the roles that people play
• Tips and guidelines for how to behave and win through

Facilitator Vanessa Hockaday from Dunedin

Vanessa Hockaday was trained originally in the newspaper industry in the UK, in sales and sales management. After leaving the industry where she was originally taught to train, she became a director of a large training company where she was responsible for eight full time trainers who worked all over the UK. As well as developing seminars she delivered a variety of training workshops herself for many clients. She now delivers workshops all over New Zealand and elsewhere.

Sales, telephone skills, customer service and other subjects are available for all levels of delegates, from business owners and managers to receptionists and junior staff. Vanessa is known for her practical approach, sharing skills which staff can use immediately upon their return to work.

Programme objective
This programme will equip participants with the skills they need to fulfil their potential in a demanding and fast moving role.

Designed for
Office supervisors, team leaders, secretaries and personal assistants.

Learning content
• Why do managers need to be managed?
• How does a successful office actually run?
• How to manage your own time and help other people manage theirs
• The importance of effective communication in a successful office
- How to deal assertively with manager and colleagues
- How do you work with more than one manager?
- How do you work as a team?
- Managing personal stress
- Personal action plan

Facilitator Vanessa Hockaday from Dunedin

Vanessa Hockaday was trained originally in the newspaper industry in the UK, in sales and sales management. After leaving the industry where she was originally taught to train, she became a director of a large training company where she was responsible for eight full time trainers who worked all over the UK. As well as developing seminars she delivered a variety of training workshops herself for many clients. She now delivers workshops all over New Zealand and elsewhere.

Sales, telephone skills, customer service and other subjects are available for all levels of delegates, from business owners and managers to receptionists and junior staff.

Vanessa is known for her practical approach, sharing skills which staff can use immediately upon their return to work.

A regional forum with the aim of creating an environment where heritage groups can work together more, share ideas, and collectively are working together towards the bigger picture of heritage in Southland. The forum will include: national and local guest speakers on relevant topics, interactive workshops, networking opportunities, heritage group presentations, and strategic planning sessions.

The forum will begin with a powhiri on the Friday night. Saturday will involve the speakers, workshops, and presentations followed by a heritage dinner on Saturday night. A special farmers market will be held on Sunday including heritage demonstrations.

The finals of the Macca Lodge/Nevele R Stud Southland Oaks Final, the Alabar Southern Supremacy Series and the Hecton Products Southern Country Cups Final plus great entertainment for all ages.

The Southland Photographic Society is proud to be hosting the 60th Annual PSNZ (Photographic Society of New Zealand) National Convention in Invercargill from 25 – 29 April 2012 at the Ascot Park Hotel. This is the major event on the amateur photographic calendar and will bring photographers from throughout New Zealand, Australia and overseas.
We are excited to have secured guest speakers Tom Ang, Derek Henderson, Julian Apse, Grahame Sydney, Jackie Ranken and more who will also participate in some inspirational workshops.
The convention provides a judging platform for the National Exhibition (NATEX) which attracts judges of high calibre and is open to viewing by the public.
Indulge in your passion while exploring our wonderful region and making friends for life. See you there!
For further information and booking visit http://www.sps-southernfocus.co.nz/

Brief overview
Leadership for Women is an intensive and dynamic two-day course designed to help you become a more effective leader through integrating up-to-date principles, skills and tools with deep personal development work. The sessions are highly interactive, drawing on the experience of all participants. The objective is for you to leave with a more expanded sense of your own potential, and the confidence to “step up” to the level of leadership you aspire to.

Who should attend
This course is relevant to all team leaders, managers, business owners, those with leadership roles in the community and those aspiring towards leadership. It is also relevant to those who have no direct responsibility for others, but simply want to develop confidence and expertise in managing themselves, relationships, and workplace dynamics.

Course content
• Understanding leadership
• Developing your innate leadership capability
• Advanced skills in communication and conflict resolution
• Staying on top of your game

Productivity improvements
7 Great reasons to attend this course designed specifically for women:
1. Develop the confidence to “step up” to the level of leadership you aspire to.
2. Identify and address the fears, inhibitions, habits, and other factors that may be holding you back.
3. Explore ways of achieving better work/life balance and coping with the often intense pressures on women in the workforce.
4. Understand the models and principles of effective leadership not just intellectually but physically, emotionally and spiritually.
5. Communicate with confidence and compassion, resolving conflict with courage and grace.
6. Learn strategies for dealing with organisational politics, power and gender issues.
7. Create the energy you need to sustain a demanding leadership role.

For full course details please email sarah@osea.org.nz

Duration 2 Days

Presenter Robyn Wynne-Lewis from Hawkes Bay

10.30am to 5.00pm Daily
The exhibition includes retrospective and current works by John Husband, some of which are for sale.

Enjoy a smorgasbord of artistic events--performance, visual,literary and Free events, from April 29 to May 13, 2012.

The New Zealand String Quartet celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012 with a special project, BEETHOVEN!,
Experience this great composer through his string quartets – music of passion, drama and great beauty.
2012.

The string quartets of Beethoven’s “middle” period, full of heroic and revolutionary sentiments, are symphonic in scope. The group includes the three Quartets of Opus 59, commissioned by Count Razumovsky, Russian Ambassador to Vienna.

Revolution will be toured by Chamber Music New Zealand in April and May, complemented by local presenters in Whangarei, Upper Hutt and Waikanae.

* BEETHOVEN! is a partnership project between the New Zealand String Quartet and Chamber Music New Zealand in association with the New Zealand International Arts Festival.

Enjoy a community atmosphere with friendly people & a wide variety of stalls. Stalls include arts & crafts, jewellery, plants, knitting, second hand goods & much more.
We offer opportunities for fundraising, busking & performing.

Held on the last Saturday of every month, 9.30-12.30 in the Yarrow St car park of the Glengarry Shopping Centre (Eastside Baptist if wet)

Contact us for more information on 0272252664 or thebookstop@xtra.co.nz

Pit your wits against terrain and map. Courses for all abilities. Great for families. Help readily given. No dogs. Some courses may be suitable for buggies. Native bush, exotic forest, large sand dunes

Brief overview
This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to improve your investigative skills, to gather the facts and objectively assess those facts to arrive at appropriate measures to prevent any further injuries. You will get the tools to be able to determine and analyse the facts, identify the contributing factors, and discover the root cause. The first steps of securing the area, through the final stages of taking corrective actions and follow-up will be covered.

Who should attend
All business owners small and large, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and members of a health and safety committee, who are involved in the investigation process after an accident or incident.

Workshop content
• What does the law require?
• What is an accident?
• How do accidents occur?
• The investigation process
• The objective of the investigation
• Planning the investigation
• Interviewing techniques
• Steps of the investigation
• Important areas to focus on
• Preparing and writing the report
• Forty helpful questions for the investigator

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Identify legal requirements when investigating and reporting
accidents and incidents
• Identify the objectives of an investigation
• Plan and conduct an objective investigation
• Define important areas to focus on during all aspects of an
investigation
• Write the report
• Recommend controls to add to your regular hazard management process

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Kristen Gawn, Employers’ Association

Angelina loves to dance and dreams of becoming a famous ballerina. Miss Lilly is her ballet teacher and Alice Nimbletoes, her best friend – characters that cannot fail to charm with their love of colour and pretty costumes.

Angelina Mousling is a fictional mouse and the star of some twenty enormously popular children’s books, which became an animated TV series in 2002, then a musical and now a ballet.

In this production Angelina prepares for her most important performance ever … in front of the Camembert Academy judges.

Definitely one for all those budding ballerinas and we guarantee you’ll love it too

One minute you are graduating from high school and the next minute you are perilously close to 60. How did this happen?

Jane Keller presents a fabulous one-woman cabaret show that focuses on the baby boomers--and what they get up to: cougars on the prowl, grandchildren from Hell, divorce parties, Botox botch-ups, middle-age revenge porn, internet dating successes...and tragedies.

Combining her special style of story-telling with her virtuoso Broadway voice, and piano accompaniment from Michael Nicolas Williams, Jane tells tales in an evening of shock, tittle-tattle and raucous hilarity.

Performance length: 90 minutes
Presented by the Southland Festival of the Arts, in association with Arts on Tour.

Saturday 5 May 2012
Invercargill Workingmen's Club
10am - 3pm

All the people, products and services to assist you all under the one roof on the same day.

The 2012 May Day theme is "Independence". How to get more or keep what you've got.

FREE HEALTH CHECKS, BARGAINS, PRIZES AND GIVEAWAYS

Schools will be advised of details

Brief overview
Workplace bullying is a concern for all organisations. It is not a new concept, nor, unfortunately, does it seem to be going away. There is however, a growing awareness of the effects bullying behaviour can have on individuals and organisations. Bullying can affect health, reduce productivity, drain resources, and have legal implications for the employer and managers.

Who should attend
All employers and employees. It is especially beneficial to managers operating at all levels of seniority, because behaviours change quicker and for the long-term if the ‘buy-in’ is from the top down. The organisation itself also benefits.

Workshop content
• What is workplace bullying?
• Identifying whether bullying is currently present in your workplace and what to do about it
• If there is no bullying in your workplace, how are you going to keep it that way?
• Responsibilities of employers and employees in having a safe,
supportive and bully-free environment

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Increase awareness of what bullying is and what it is not
• Identify ways to provide a safe and supportive workplace
• Provide tools that assist in identifying bullying behaviour and how to make changes
• Provide tools that will support the person(s) targeted by bullies
• Provide tools to help the bully identify that their behaviour is
unacceptable and how to change those behaviours
• Provide tools for the organisation to obtain and maintain a bullyfree environment
• Identify the responsibilities that employers and employees have under current legislation

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

Brief overview
Being able to express yourself clearly and assertively both in the
workplace and in your relationships is beneficial to you, your employer and those you have relationships with. But we are often not used to saying what we think, feel or want, and can fear coming across as aggressive. There are many misunderstandings about what assertiveness is and we will address these in the workshop.

Who should attend
Anyone who wishes to improve their skills in self-expression in the workplace and in interpersonal relationships.

Productivity improvements
In this workshop you will learn
• To define assertiveness
• To understand the difference between assertive and aggressive
• To develop skills in assertive communication
• To learn to say no when it is needed
• To start learning how to express feelings, both positive and
negative

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Judith McDonald BA, Psychodramatist, Psychotherapist (interim registered), Dunedin

Take Gilbert and Sullivan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Irish ditties, lyrical Welsh medodies, stirring Scottish ballads, beloved English folk songs and combine them into a celebration of the Best of British

Menopause The Musical® - In Concert crystallises all of the magic, the entire script, songs, laughter and tears of the original stage show, slips it into a cocktail dress, and pours it into an evening of fun and elegance in equal measure.

Imagine if Marlene Dietrich came from Dubbo, had borrowed Mae West’s sense of humour, and decided to share her experience of ‘The Change’ in Rick’s Cafe (Casablanca). If you can, you are close to the collusion of stylish cabaret, comedy, and musical genius that is Menopause The Musical® - In Concert.

This joyful musical parody set to classic tunes from the '60s, '70s and '80s (where My Guy becomes My Thighs, The Lion Sleeps Tonight becomes My Husband Sleeps Tonight and Lookin’ For Love becomes Lookin’ For Food) will have the audience cheering and dancing down the aisles.

2012 Guest Speaker

Still sizzling from her stint as iconic Cheryl West in Outrageous Fortune, Robyn Malcolm is one of New Zealand’s best-loved performers having appeared in some of this country’s most popular television shows and toured nationally with a number of hugely successful theatre productions.

She has won nearly every award open to her. In 2010, Robyn was voted Best Actress for the fifth consecutive year and New Zealand's Sexiest Woman for the third consecutive year. At the 2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards, she won the award for Performance by an Actress in General Television.

Robyn is affiliated with many worthy causes ranging from breast cancer to the environment and she’s interested in business, family and social issues.

This luncheon is sure to be a sell-out!


Kindly sponsored by Invercargill Licensing Trust, NZIM Learning & Development and Air New Zealand.

NOTE Saturday night
Pit your wits against terrain, map and the dark. Courses for all abilities. Help readily given. No dogs. Suitable for buggies. Bring warm clothing, torch and spare batteries. Lots of fun for all ages - kids love it!

A great day of harness racing action.

The Invercargill Tap Dancing Association presents our first Competitions for 2012.

Come along and support our local dancers competing in Speed Tap, Slow Tap, Waltz Tap, Song & Tap, Solo Tap, Duo Tap, Troupes, Trios from Beginners Aged 3yrs to our Experienced dancers and all the inbetweens.

A Canteen will be available along with Second hand costumes for Sale.

Brief overview
This workshop provides managers with a practical knowledge of
responsibilities to enable them to better understand their duties within the hierarchy of health and safety legislation.

Who should attend
• Managers and supervisors
• All employers
• Anyone with responsibility for staff

Workshop content
• Legal requirements for health and safety
• Employer/employee obligations
• Establishment of employee participation
• Role and duties of health and safety representatives
• Rehabilitation and contractor management

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will have a good knowledge of the skills needed to manage health and safety effectively, develop sound internal systems and build the right organisational attitudes and culture.

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

Brief overview
You will review and build upon the skills, knowledge and competencies developed in Stage 1 and the role of the representative. The main focus will be on specific hazard identification and control including the use of Approved Codes of Practice, using accident data to identify trends and internal self-assessment or audits, in order to prevent injuries.

Workshop content
• Revision of Health and Safety Representative Training Stage 1
• Gathering and interpreting accident and injury data
• Health and safety management systems internal audit or selfassessment
• Hazard identification - body mapping, critical health and safety
hazards
• Reading a material safety data sheet (MSDS)
• Hazard management - control of specific hazards in your
workplace
• Identifying applicable codes of practice
• Compliance with relevant codes of practice

Productivity improvements
On leaving this course you will be able to
• Understand the legal responsibilities of employers and employees
in the workplace
• Gather and interpret accident and injury data
• Conduct an internal audit or self-assessment
• Identify critical health and safety hazards
• Comply with relevant codes of practice

Duration 2 Days

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

Enjoy a community atmosphere with friendly people & a wide variety of stalls. Stalls include arts & crafts, jewellery, plants, knitting, second hand goods & much more.
We offer opportunities for fundraising, busking & performing.

Held on the last Saturday of every month, 9.30-12.30 in the Yarrow St car park of the Glengarry Shopping Centre (Eastside Baptist if wet)

Contact us for more information on 0272252664 or thebookstop@xtra.co.nz

Two-day workshop
Day one: 8:00am – 5:00pm (approximate
Day two: 8:00am – 5:00pm (approximate)

Aimed at anybody who is responsible for the day-to-day supervision of staff and interested in finding out what they can do differently to lift team performance and consequently positively impact their business results.

You’ll learn proven communication, management, delegation, motivational and training principles, which will enable you to set clear goals and expectations, communicate effectively, give and receive quality feedback, improve staff performance through quality on-the-job training, manage performance issues as and when they arise and delegate work effectively amongst staff.

Facilitators: Claire Harvey & Kathy Jamieson

Changes in legislation in 2010 means that there is a clear distinction between a trial and probation period. All employers are now able to make use of the “grievance free” trial period however, there are some limitations on its use and some very clear procedural guidelines to be followed to ensure that such a clause can be relied on when a relationship does not work out.

Come along to this session to learn about your options for new employees and the requirements to implement these options.

Duration 1 & 1/2 Hours

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

Open 10.30am - 5.00pm Daily
Recent work by Oamaru artist Donna Demente. All work is for sale.
Demente has become renowned for her close-up portraiture with a predominant focus on the eyes. She draws influence from pre-20th Century European art, from a time before art became an individualist critique of society. This is a goal Donna strives to achieve in her own practice.

A great day of harness racing action

Brief overview
All persons irrespective of their place within an organisation. The target group is experienced health and safety representatives and other people involved with health and safety.

This two-day course is an advance on the skills and knowledge obtained from the Stage 1 and Stage 2 courses.

Note : Elected health and safety representatives must have completed Stage One and Stage Two Health and Safety Training as a prerequisite for this training.

Although there is no prerequisite for other participants, it is assumed that all participants will have a level of health and safety knowledge similar to that covered in Stage One and Stage Two training.

Workshop content
• How improvements in health and safety link to productivity
• Interpreting injury claims information
• Measuring what matters
• Calculating the costs of workplace injury
• Sources of injury information in the workplace
• The role of the representative in promoting improvements in health and safety

Productivity improvements
On leaving this course you will be able to
• Develop systems to measure health and safety processes
• Identify and report on links to productivity due to improved health and safety practices
• Collate various sources of injury information from within the
workplace for reporting purposes
• Determine injury causal factors from incident reports and provide detailed feedback to health and safety committee meetings for
further action
• Promote improvements within workplace to reduce costs of workplace injuries

Duration 2 Days

Presenter Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

Take the variety of vibrant music from Italy and mix it into one exciting concert full of popular Italian song and opera celebrating this wonderfully colourful country

NZ Indoor Bowls Championships to be played over 8 days consisting of singles, pairs, triples, fours and also a North Island v South Island event in two categories, Masters & Academy. Play will commence on Saturday 9th June at approx 8.30am with Singles. The field is open entry and there will be a number of NZ, North Island & South Island players playing as well as a lot of Southland bowlers. The last time we hosted this event was 1994.

Brief overview
One of the best ways to gain free publicity is through the media. But it can be fraught with danger.

This workshop will show you how to gain advantage for your business through effective public relations.

Who should attend
Marketing managers, company spokespeople, business owners and communication staff.

Productivity improvements
In this workshop you will learn
• What is public relations and why do you need it
• How to get the media interested in your story
• How to write a press release and prepare a press pack
• Interview techniques
• What to do when it all goes wrong

Duration 1 Day

Presenter Lynnaire Johnston from Dunedin

Brief overview
You will gain a comprehensive working knowledge of wage related law applicable to the wage function.

Who should attend
People responsible for the wage and/or personnel function that need to implement the employment laws, employer obligations, and other legislative requirements as they relate to the payroll function.

Workshop content
• Employment Relations Act 2000
• Understanding the difference between employees and contractors and the tests that can be used
• Equal Pay Act 1992
• Minimum Wage Act 1983
• Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001
• Privacy Act 1993
• Child Support Act 1991
• Wages Protection Act 1983
• Calculating final employee payment on termination of employment (voluntarily and non voluntarily)
• KiwiSaver Act 2006
• Income Tax Act 1994 (basic tax and record keeping obligations)

Productivity improvements
On leaving this workshop you will be able to
• Understand the wide-ranging legislative requirements
• Ensure correct payroll related records are kept and maintained

Duration 1/2 Day

Presenter Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

In the 1950’s a star-struck, plain and dumpy London schoolgirl imagines she could become a glamorous movie idol. Her parents tell her that her fantasies will never come true and not to dream the impossible dream. But nothing deters her. Blessed with an amazing voice and talent, she sets out to become a singer and a star. Soon, plain Mary O’Brien has transformed herself into the blonde pop icon, Dusty Springfield. But while Dusty, the gorgeous blonde star, is the image the world sees, it is an illusion behind which little Mary O’Brien still lives; the alter ego from which Dusty can never escape and who remains with her throughout her life.
In the 1960’s Dusty Springfield takes the entertainment world by storm with a score of hits, a top TV show and a legion of fans. But the success she wanted is hollow and real happiness eludes her. Driven by her sense of perfection, Dusty takes on the world even as she discovers a desperate need to be loved in a way that could cause her career to crash. At the pinnacle of international success, with triumphs in Britain and America, Dusty finds the pressure unbearable. Unable to be what other people expect, and finding the spotlight’s heat can burn, she retreats from the world into a dark place.
Finding strength in adversity, Dusty returns to soar to the top. With the world applauding again, she has one more battle to fight.

For those who make crafts and those who just love to buy them - Dunkleys' Great New Zealand Craft Shows are New Zealand’s most popular and exciting craft events.

2012 will be Dunkleys’ 30th year of organising New Zealand’s largest and most popular craft shows. To date we have held over 384 shows, and attracted more than 4 million visitors. Craft sales are in excess of $100 million.

Shows are held at locations throughout the country from Whangarei to Invercargill, giving craft-lovers everywhere the chance to meet directly with our nation’s most talented craftspeople. For further details, phone (03) 348 0572, shows@dunkleys.co.nz or check out www.craftshows.co.nz

ILT National Young Performer Awards at various venues (to be confirmed) in Invercargill.

Competitors from around New Zealand will be competing for prize money.

Details to be added shortly.