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		1 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	2 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... A Slow Stroll on the Waterfront A Slow Stroll on the Waterfront Starts: 10:00 am Ends: 02/12/2021 - 11:30 am Location: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: For those who couldn’t make or manage our 3 recent Wednesday Walks we bring you a shorter version which is adapted to be inclusive of our Friends who are less mobile. Sharon from the Friend’s office and Helen from our committee will lead you on a small group guided tour (with social distancing in place) around the art, sculpture, heritage and history of the central city. We will leave from Te Papa at 10am and walk for one and a half hours. You will get a guide leaflet to refer to and take home with links to the research and for further information. Walking shoes, warm layers, and water are suggested. There are conveniences along the route. Free parking at Te Papa is included, and this allows you time either before or after the walk to stop by one of their cafes for coffee and a treat ( not included) We will proceed unless the weather prevents safety and hearing. If we cannot proceed, the cancellation date will be the following day, Friday 3rd December Meet in Te Papa Foyer by 9.50am please, allowing time for scanning in. You must wear a mask. Member $15, Non-member $20 (Incl. free parking). More info. View in Google Calendar... Webinar: A Land of Lizards Webinar: A Land of Lizards Starts: 1:30 pm Ends: 02/12/2021 - 2:30 pm Location: https://app.livewebinar.com/182-995-751 Description: Did you know we have over 110 different species of native lizards and we're still discovering more? Carey Knox is a native lizard expert based in Central Otago. He has undertaken targeted searches for rare lizards and discovered new populations throughout New Zealand. Join Carey to find out more about these special creatures and what finding a new species entails. 1.30pm on Thursday the 2nd of December View in Google Calendar... • • •	3 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	4 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	5 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... Tauranga STEM Festival Tauranga STEM Festival Starts: 10:00 am Ends: 05/12/2021 - 4:00 pm Location: Durham Street, CBD, Tauranga Description: A free festival aiming to engage and inspire a new generation of scientists, technologists, engineers & mathematicians. It's a celebration designed for the whole whānau and community, for children, young people, and adults of all ages! Free tickets available here: https://events.humanitix.com/tauranga-stem-festival-2021 Whakauru – Take part in hands-on experiments and demonstrations, from the coolest cutting edge technology to some amazing science and innovative engineering. Whakatairanga – Meet some amazing people working in STEM and changing the world with their awesome skills and expertise. Whakawhanake – Learn how you can follow in the footsteps of your STEM heroes by meeting the companies and organisations who are responsible for bringing these innovations to life. More info View in Google Calendar... • •
6 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... Evolutionary computation for two-level resource allocation optimisation of cloud containers. A seminar by Taiwo Akindele IN PERSON or ONLINE Evolutionary computation for two-level resource allocation optimisation of cloud containers. A seminar by Taiwo Akindele IN PERSON or ONLINE Starts: 10:30 am Ends: 06/12/2021 - 11:30 am Location: Cotton Club, Cotton 350, VUW Description: Seminar - Evolutionary Computation for Two-level Resource Allocation Optimisation of Cloud Containers ECS PhD Proposal Speaker: Taiwo Akindele Time: Monday 6th December 2021 at 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Location: CO350, Cotton Building https://vuw.zoom.us/my/ecspostgrad Abstract The enormous carbon footprint from the energy usage of cloud data centers is currently in the spotlight. To help address this, the objective in container resource allocation is to consolidate computing workloads and applications deployed as cloud containers into virtual and physical machines, such that the number of physical machines deployed for the allocation, and their total energy consumption is minimised. Combining the beneﬁts of containers and virtual machines in the container-VM-PM platform of container clouds, create a two-level combinatorial optimisation problem of optimising the placement of containers to virtual machines and virtual machines to physical machines simultaneously. The overall goal of this research is to propose effective Evolutionary Computation approaches for optimising energy usage in two-level container resource allocation in the: 1) Static scenario, for which we propose a single-objective and a multi-objective genetic algorithm for service-agnostic and service-aware (microservices) initial resource allocation respectively. 2) Dynamic scenario, here weproposeaGeneticProgrammingHyper-Heuristicalgorithmtoautomatically generateheuristicsforreal-timeinitialplacementofnewcontainersinthecloud, and another for migration of existing containers to balance server workload View in Google Calendar... Conscientious objection in the new abortion law. A seminar by Holly Hedley ONLINE Conscientious objection in the new abortion law. A seminar by Holly Hedley ONLINE Starts: 1:00 pm Ends: 06/12/2021 - 2:00 pm Location: Online Description: Are you are health provider? Do you understand your current legal rights to conscientious objection? In March 2020 New Zealand’s abortion laws were substantially reformed and the provisions relating to conscientious objection updated. Following this law change, a challenge was brought before the High Court, with a group of health professionals testing the scope and lawfulness of the conscientious objection provisions. In this seminar Holly Hedley (from Buddle Findlay Lawyers) will provide an overview of the new conscientious objection provisions and the High Court decision, with discussion of the legal requirements for health providers and human rights implications. This ruling may have implications for interpretation of conscientious objection in relation to the End of Life Choice Act 2019. Angela Ballantyne will provide a brief response to Holly’s talk, presenting a bioethics perspective and analysis of conscientious objection. This seminar will be of interest to health providers wanting to better understand their legal rights to conscientious objection, as well as academics interested in this area. Holly Hedley Buddle Findlay Lawyers with response from Associate Professor Angela Ballantyne University of Otago Due to current Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, this seminar will take place online via Zoom. Meeting ID: https://otago.zoom.us/j/922351556 Meeting ID: 922 351 556 \| Password: 595584 To those joining online, we ask that you please mute yourself upon arrival to avoid any accidental interruptions. View in Google Calendar... • • •	7 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	8 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	9 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	10 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	11 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	12 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •
13 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	14 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	15 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	16 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	17 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	18 HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre HOLE: Play at Circa Theatre Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 18/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: Circa Theatre Cafe and Bar, 1 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand Description: An eco-powered black comedy about a scientist, a Greenpeace activist, a Navy SEAL and one huge ozone hole. In 1985, the world wakes to the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica. It’s Wild West days at McMurdo Station and Scott Base, a time of big hair, big make-up, and ice-cold wine coolers. It’s little more than a decade since the US Navy lifted their ban on women travelling to the Ice. Meanwhile Greenpeace, rallying to create the first ‘World Park’ in Antarctica, is protesting the commercial exploitation of oil and mineral deposits under the ice by prospecting governments and companies… Stella, a NZ scientist, Ioane, a US Navy SEAL from American Samoa, and Bonny, a Greenpeace activist, meet during one Antarctic summer. What unfolds is as dark, funny, and monumental as the discovery of the ozone hole itself. The second play in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s acclaimed Antarctic Theatre Trilogy, HOLE builds on the innovative use of eco-powered energy as used in the award-winning HEAT. “HOLE explores the relationship between art and science…[describing] Antarctica as the heartbeat of the world, pulsing as the ice expands with the seasons. Poetry has a way to pull at the heart strings that raw science doesn’t…leaving us in awe of the raw beauty of our planet.” — Art Murmurs BY Lynda Chanwai-Earle DIRECTORS Kerryn Palmer and Sally Richards COMPANY Ice Floe Productions Tapui Ltd 20 Nov – 18 Dec Circa Two Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4.30pm $25 – $52 $42 ‘Concession’ price (i.e. Community Services Card, Gold Card or student ID required) Runtime: 95mins with no interval Content Warning: This show contains the following: Flashing lights, coarse language, nudity, use of drugs, violence and stage combat and possible sudden or prolonged loud noises. Post-show panel discussions with Antarctic Scientists/Greenpeace/Artists: Sat 27 Nov & Sun 12 Dec (after the Matinee with Audio Described Audience). Lou Sanson (former Director General DOC/CEO Antarctica NZ) and Michael Szabo (Greenpeace Activist/Campaign Leader) will be attending Sat 27 show and are panel guests afterwards. The discussion will run for 30mins with 10mins for a Q&A with the audience. Saturday 27 Nov (Evening): Post-show panel discussion from 9:10pm to 9:50pm Sunday 12 Dec (Matinee): Post-show panel discussion from 5:35pm to 6:15pm More Info View in Google Calendar... •	19
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27	28	29	30 Marine ecotourism: Where are we now and where are we going? Marine ecotourism: Where are we now and where are we going? Starts: 12:00 am Ends: 30/12/2021 - 11:59 pm Location: online Description: With its vast coastlines, unique marine environment and a tourism industry that is being ‘reset’ along ‘regenerative’ lines, Aotearoa New Zealand is well positioned to develop a marine ecotourism sector that supports a blue economy – one that creates environmental, social and cultural value, as well as economic. Unfortunately, our understanding of the marine ecotourism sector in Aotearoa is limited. In this webinar, AUT researchers Simon Milne, Keri-Anne Wikitera and Eilidh Thorburn will share how they have begun to fill this knowledge gap by interviewing operators and conducting a nationwide survey of the sector. The research findings highlight the challenges and opportunities that face the sector as New Zealand's tourism re-opens to domestic and international travel. The webinar also highlights an important new initiative that is designed to provide a clearer picture of the location of operators, their characteristics and the experiences they offer. This webinar and accompanying tools will be valuable to businesses, planners, policy makers, local and regional governments, and communities. More info here View in Google Calendar... •	31

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