Events

22 July 2010 - 7 August 2010
Four Flat Whites in Italy

7.30pm, Levin Little Theatre’s next production will be Roger Hall’s latest sell-out success, the comedy Four Flat Whites in Italy. For more information see www.naturecoast.co.nz/events.

22 July 2010
Foxton Racing Club Winter Meeting

Foxton Race Course, SH1 Foxton, free admission. Contact 06 363 8149.

23 July 2010
Levin Folk Music Club Acoustics Night

7.30pm, Scottish Society Hall, Bartholomew Road, Levin. Admission $2. Contact Anne 06 368 3777.

24 July 2010
Manakau Rock ‘n’ Roll Evening

7.30pm, Manakau Hotel
Manakau District Community Association & Manakau School invite you to dust off your dancing shoes and join them for an evening of rock n roll. Tickets $15 from Manakau School, Manakau Hotel or Manakau Store.  Music from the 50s and 60s, bar sales available, light supper provided. Profits will be used towards upgrading the hall water supply and the purchase of instructional readers for the junior school. Prize for the best dressed couple.

24 & 25 July 2010
The Gathering at Fantails Accommodation

Fantails Accommodation, 40 MacArthur Street, Levin. 10.30am to 4.00pm both days. Entry free. The Gathering event will include
mini massages; homemade food and fresh coffee in the café; garden and accommodation tours; candle making and paper brick
making demonstrations. The Fantails Club will also be launched; this is a social club for those wanting more out of life, targeting
those over 30 years of age and interested in attending events such as concerts, race days, the theatre, health and organic gardening seminars. Contact 06 368 9011.

25 July 2010
Levin Soil & Health Association

1.30pm Thompson House, 4 Kent Street, Levin. Mark Christensen will be giving a talk and slide show on heritage and seed saving. All welcome. Contact 06 368 6701.

30 July 2010
M*A*V* (Museum of Audio Visual Technology) movie night

7.30pm, Coronation Hall, Avenue Road, Foxton. Last Friday night of the month is movie night. newsreels, docs & cartoons.
Feature film for July is ‘Scars of Dracula” 1970. $7 per person. Contact Mavtech@xtra.co.nz museum 06 363 5910, Cell 027 584 9082.

6 August 2010
‘The Big Latch On’

10.00am Salvation Army, 11 Durham St, Levin. Come and help break last year's breastfeeding record! Morning tea provided.

Levin mothers are taking part in the annual breastfeeding marathon as they latch their babies on for a feed. Last year New Zealand recorded 1,306 women breastfeeding simultaneously, this year it is anticipated that even more mothers will be counted
breaking the record, which has been broken annually since 2005. This year is set to be even bigger. For more information on the
Levin event contact: Catriona Fisher Ph 06 368 6251 cat.atkinson@gmail.com For more information on the national event see www.womens-health.org.nz.

7 August 2010
Aivale Cole & Ben Makisi accompanied by Robert Wiremu present Island Chai

7.30pm, Salvation Army Citadel, Durham Street, Levin. Tickets $30. An unforgettable night of Full Cream Milky Music harmonised with an ambrosial consort of Island Spices! Music from the Operas Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca and Musicals West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera and many more. Tickets from Caffeinate Too, Oxford Street, Levin or email aivale.cole@hotmail.com or call 021 263 1757. See you there!

7 August 2010
Levin Cossie Variety Music Club Charity Concert

Levin Cosmopolitan Club, Oxford Street South. Admission $15 for the entire programme. 7.00pm to 11.00pm. From 11.00am to 3.00pm and then a short break before resuming until 5.00pm. Registrations for a blackboard session. The evening concert will commence with a ‘Phantom of the Opera’ performance by TJ of the Whanganui Varity Club. This will be followed by ‘The Cleff’s’ Classic Hits of Yesteryear. Given enough time a second Phantom of the Night performance duo by TJ and Elaine Holden will close the show. Proceeds will help build more hospitals for sick kids. The Cosmopolitan Restaurant is available to purchase lunch from 12.00pm to 2.00pm and dinner from 5.00pm to 8.00pm. The programme is conjunction with Countdown.

13 August 2010 (start date)
Playing the Pokies written by Levin playwright Valerie Franklin.

Show dates 13 to 28 August (Fridays & Saturdays), Levin Performing Arts Society  presents a play that hits out at what is fast
becoming one of this community’s foremost social problems - gambling.