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SUMMARY:Improv Combat: Jokes on You!
DESCRIPTION:Improv Combat returns for 2025 with more improvised comedy\, but this time\, the joke’s on you! \nAcross each performance in this four-show season\, a rotating cast of Hamilton’s finest improvisers in makeshift teams will battle against each other to win the favour (and the laughs) of their audience in a refreshing new game show format. Teams will enter each performance completely unaware of what games they will be playing\, what scenes they will create\, and what challenges host Conor Maxwell will force them to complete. These improvisers are here to bring this jokes\, but this time\, the jokes may very well be on them! \nImprov Combat: Jokes on You! will take to the stage in the Meteor theatre’s Massé Lounge and Nancy Caiger Gallery on four fortnightly Sundays from the 12th of September\, so come along and see Hamilton improv at its most spontaneous. Remember\, with improv comedy\, each show and each scene within it will be uniquely driven by suggestions from the audience. The fate of these performers is in your hands… \n\nSunday 14th September \nSunday 28th September \nSunday 12th October \nSunday 26th October \nRunning time: 90 mins \nPlease note this event is recommended for Mature Audiences: may contain coarse language and sexual references.
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SUMMARY:Mark Making: Asemic Art
DESCRIPTION:Mark Making: Asemic Art \nAn exhibition by Gareth Schott \nGareth Schott is a Professor in Media and Creative Technologies at Waikato University. While his day-to-day work is dominated by screens and the threats and promises of AI\, his artistic practice reflects an enduring appreciation of penmanship and the practice of handwriting. As a young boy he developed a deep interest in calligraphy\, obsessively practicing by reproducing passages of writing from his mother’s book collection. While calligraphy is focused on beautiful lettering\, this work explores how ordinary handwriting also carries artistic and emotional weight\, reflecting the mark maker’s touch\, movement and style. This work celebrates traditional inscriptional technologies (in this case the humble pen) and its capacity to produce new aesthetic forms from everyday conventional practices (e.g. handwriting). The proposed set of works constitute asemic writing pieces\, turning the script and movement of writing practices into images. \nGareth Schott’s work from afar deceives the viewer with its simple composition of graphic overlapping shapes. Playing in negative space\, playing with geometry and proportions\, these works on paper are meditative\, compulsive and alluring. They pull the viewer into a universe that started with a short scribble and accumulated into a field of unity that feels delicate. He decisively puts down each mark plotted and planned onto the surface. An expressive abstract gesture that holds our attention for a moment until our eyes are forced to the neighbouring one\, and the one after that. We fly over the surface studying each unique mark that is both traditional and ancient in that it conveys a signature language.  \n– Katherine Sehr\, US asemic artist \n\nThe Nancy Caiger Gallery is open 11am-2pm from Wednesday to Saturday. If you’d like to visit this exhibition outside of these opening hours\, please email kiaora@themeteor.co.nz
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