Euroasia: Language, Culture and Travel

This Thursday, take an art (de)tour before Euroasia’s free language taster lessons at our Parnell centre.  Starting in July, on the second Thursday of each month Parnell galleries will be serving up a tempting smorgasbord of New Zealand art and live music.

For the first Late Night Art, on 9 July, Parnell has arranged for popular crooner Grant Chilcott singing outside International Art Gallery, Charles Dolbel playing with fire (literally!) outside Jonathan Grant & ARTIS Galleries, and The Margarita Club, featuring gorgeous vocals from Alannah Peterson, playing in the courtyard between Sanderson Contemporary Art and Aesthete galleries.

Galleries open until 7.30pm:
Aesthete Gallery, ARTIS Gallery, essenze, International Art Centre,
Jonathan Grant Galleries, Pankhurst Studio Gallery, Parnell Gallery, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Sarah Alexandra Tills Gallery (Bath St).

Also on Thursday August 13, September 10, October 8, November 12 and December 10

Free language lessons at Euroasia Parnell, for you to learn how to properly pronounce the names of those foreign artists, wines, cheese etc:

Tuesday 7 July: French, Japanese, German
Thursday 9 July: Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Italian
Time: 7.40-8.40pm
Venue: Euroasia, 10 Titoki Street, Parnell (next to Birthcare) – plenty of free parking at Auckland Domain or along Titoki Street.

Drake Jazz at the Rotunda
From Auckland City Council, this is a series of 12 weekly jazz concerts performed at the Auckland Domain band rotunda. All concerts take place on Sundays between 2pm and 4pm on the following dates:

Sunday 1 February: Kim Patterson Quartet
Sunday 8 February: Carolina Moon Vazz Group
Sunday 15 February: Pete Barwick Quartet
Sunday 22 February: Foghorn
Sunday 1 March: Grant Winterburn Experience
Sunday 8 March: Brian Smith Quintet
Sunday 15 March: David Edmundson
Sunday 22 March: Neil Watson Three
Sunday 29 March: Grand Central Band

For further information on this concert series look here.

Culture Garden series
From Auckland City Council, The Culture Garden is a series of concerts with a number held at the Wintergarden in the Domain, from 4.30 – 6pm on the following dates:

Sunday 1 February: Nigel Gavin
Sunday 8 February: npme
Sunday 15 February: Baroque on the Rock
For information on this concert series look here.

Summer Tea Dance - Parnell Thursday 26 March, 2-4pm
Dove-Meyer Robinson Park, Gladstone Rd. Featuring Bretts New Internationals. Be dazzled by a 16-piece jazz and dance orchestra with nifty beats from the 1920s, get in the groove to ‘Trad jazz’, or warm up to well-loved tunes by greats like Duke Ellington and Paul Whiteman.