NTi NEWSLETTER
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Fourth AGM: a celebration of progress The date for the New Theatre Initiative (Inc) Fourth AGM has been set: Monday 8 November The AGM will be conducted in our usual quirky, precise, informative and entertaining style. You will see the latest stylish artist impressions of the new theatre and how the venue already features in Auckland City's concept of the Aotea Quarter, the city's arts precinct. We will celebrate the NTI's progress with a good social get together. So come along and get a feel for the location. Show your support for the venue and meet your fellow artists, performers and supporters at the upcoming AGM.
Fundraising committee formed Under the direction of Margaret Belich, our fundraising manager, a great group has formed to fundraise for us. First meetings have filled everyone with confidence that the team is right and that the resources will be found to make the new theatre vision a reality. The first milestone is June 2005 and a target of $1.5 million. From there, as we have achieved our first key pledges, we should be on the homeward straight! The wonderful Aucklanders who have volunteered to help you build the new theatre are: Scott Ashton; Andrew Caisley; Pamela Canning; Pip Cheshire; Janet Clarke; Diana Fenwick; John Gow; Roger Hall; Justin Lewis; Fiona Mogridge; Elaine Spearman and Peter Salmon. Your advocacy, your theatre Thanks to all who have already returned the new information sheets with updates and contacts. Especial thanks for those wonderful statements of support. Donagh Rees, actress and director, says it for us all when she wrote: "We desperately need the intermediate size with flexibility in seating. Tried and true productions can graduate to a second season in a space that would be large enough to bring in revenue. Smaller, unknown theatre companies can build their following by accommodating bigger audiences, turnover of productions not being a problem…
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Audiences build when one can always locate the theatre in the newspaper and find out what is there. The youthful audience that go to "edgy youth-orientated" productions will follow and expand as their favoured actors or companies move into bigger spaces. And vital resources will be shared through turnover of productions and groups moving through."
MARK CLARE Before training as an actor at the Drama Studio, London in 1989, Mark was the lead singer in the NZ band THE NEWMATICS. Their song `Riot Squad` reached the top ten in 1981. Since returning to New Zealand in 1990 he has worked professionally in productions for Theatre, Film and Television. In 1996 he gained a Diploma in Arts Management from Auckland University. Mark worked in theatre for education in Masquerade Theatre before moving
to The New Zealand Puppet Theatre's Mask Company. Using mask as a medium
for bringing the Shakespearean text alive Mark toured productions of
MACBETH and OTHELLO. He has directed MACBETH and ROMEO & JULIET for schools and Gogol's THE DIARY OF A MADMAN for the SiLo Theatre. On Television Mark is probably best known for seven years as 'Detective Len Riley' on SHORTLAND ST. His lead role as 'Tim McQuire' in TRIFECTA, a Montana Theatre production, earned him a nomination as Best Actor at the N.Z Television Awards 1995. After a guest role on JACKSONS WHARF Mark recently finished three years work on MERCY PEAK as 'Gil Crouch'. His film credits include AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (Jane Campion), READY
TO RUN (Walt Disney), HER MAJESTY and just recently REDHEAD LOVING LUCY
a US tele-feature for the Film Factory`. Your Executive are:
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For further information about NTI and the theatre project, contact:: Margaret Belich, project management and fundraising: mbelich@nti.org.nz, mobile: 021 667830 The New Theatre Initiative |
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