Those of you in Wanaka will be excited to see the arrival of the Infinity Crystal Palace – it means Festival time is well and truly here. With only 5 days to go until our first performance the office is buzzing, with technical staff and performers arriving into town.

Ticket availability

The website home page will be constantly updated during festival week with information on the latest ticket sales and which shows still have availability, so make sure to check this out.

There are still tickets left for some of our mainbill shows:-

	Finders Keepers is a stunning new work. The dancers have been rehearsing this week at the Dance Wanaka Studio, and we were able to see a sneak preview of this newly commissioned work by Raewyn Hill. It is a beautiful piece of work, based on caged songbirds in Hong Kong, and a must see on opening night Tuesday 28 April at the Lake Wanaka Centre at 7pm. If you miss it in Wanaka then check it out in Clyde on Thursday 30 April.
	Haydn’s 7 Last Words from the Cross performed by the New Zealand String Quartet is a multi media experience with Haydn’s beautiful music, poetry by Dinah Hawken and specially commissioned lithographs by Nigel Brown projected on the screen so it’s not just a ‘sit back and listen’ classical music concert. Try it and surprise yourself.
	With Anzac Day tomorrow, the timing of Strange Resting Places is very apt. This wonderful play is about a Maori battalion in the second world war. The play is touring round the region starting in the Wanaka Masonic Lodge. It opens with the actors giving wine and bread to the audience and is a delightful piece of theatre.

This is just a taster of what is still available, and don’t forget our Aspiring Conversations programme with the newly announced talks by Jim Bolger and George Fergusson on Saturday 2 May.

Box office

From Monday the box office in the Lake Wanaka Centre will be open from 10am until 7pm. If you have ordered tickets and haven’t collected them yet, then please try and head down to the iSITE log cabin over the weekend as the box office will start to get very busy next week. Any pre ordered tickets that haven’t been collected will be moved to the Lake Wanaka Centre on Monday.

Be inspired … Be astounded … Be in Wanaka … Be there.

 The next Festival of Colour takes place on 28 April to 3 May 2009 and is generously supported by Central Lakes Trust, Community Trust of Otago, Creative New Zealand, Infinity Investment Group, Queenstown Lakes District Council and Aurora.