Festival sponsorship grows

Press, 12 February 1986, Page 22

Festival sponsorship grows

With the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts only four weeks away the number of corporations and government bodies offering sponsorship is growing. The A.N.Z. Banking Group (N.Z.) Ltd is to sponsor the festival performance of the Philip Glass Ensemble in the Michael Fowler Centre on March 18. A composer and performer of broad appeal to classical and rock-pqsj audiences alike, Glass is’ being acclaimed by critics throughout the

world as one of the greatest living composers. Sponsorship for Laurie Anderson’s festival concert in the Michael Fowler Centre on March 17 is being provided by Agenda Publications Ltd, publishers of the festival brochure and its official souvenir programme. One of the festival’s greatest drawcards, Laurie Anderson combines her skills as a musician and sculptor to provide an open-ended collage of animated cartoons, electronic poo and astonishing sound effects. The Lotteries Board

sponsorship makes possible a special festival preview performance by members of the International Organisation of Folk Art in the Michael Fowler Centre on March 3. This event presents groups from Austria, Tahiti, West Germany and New Zealand on stage together for the first time in this country. Costumed dancers will also take part in the Festival Cavalcade through the streets of Wellington on March 5 before leaving for a short tour of the rest of the . country.

Trusteebank Southland has also joined the list of festival sponsors and brings to Wellington a photographic exhibition by Dean Schneider of Hoiho, the world's rarest penguin, which will soon be shown in the Harbour City Centre from March 19 to 26.

Other organisations and companies to become festival Affiliates are L. D. Nathan and Co. Ltd, the New Zealand Literary Fund, the Australia-New Zealand Foundation and the Ceitral Regional Arts Council.