LATE at the Museum 2013

Overview

The Auckland Museum is hosting a monthly panel discussion on love, war, family and new life alongside feature bands, DJs and artists performances. The 2013 LATE season deals with the issues we used to lay at the lap of the gods, but are now attempting wrestle with on our own.

Hermes: Communication (Thursday 6 June, 6pm-10pm)

Our world is constantly abuzz with real-time updates on everything from my insta-breakfast to live feeds of the Arab Spring. Is this a better world than before, or just laced with new problems?

Music by Orchestra of Spheres.

Demeter: Regrowth and New Life  (Thursday 4 July, 6pm-10pm)

Global food productions and conservation is a mess. A talk on finding the balance between increasing populations calling on decreasing food supplies and that crazy rate of global warming.

Multimedia dance and music production by Louise Potiki Bryant and Paddy Free.

Tangaroa: Our Oceans (Thursday 1 August, 6pm-10pm)

We all have fond childhood memories by the seashore. So how do we look after one of our greatest assets, our oceans? The issues relating to over-fishing translate directly to New Zealand and there is a growing call for more protected marine reserves, and that, of course, gets pretty political.

Music by Don McGlashan.

Dionysus: Wine, Celebration and Ecstasy (Thursday 5 September, 6pm-10pm)

Most of us have a intense, passionate and regular dates with the god of wine that started around the age we first started flirting with RTDs. It’s in our history, it’s part of our cultural legacy. From illicit highs, to socially acceptable rock bottoms, stay up LATE and ask ‘why are some nations such booze-hounds?’

Music by Sal Valentine and the Babyshakes.

Athena and Ares: War and Violence (Thursday 3 October, 6pm-10pm)

For Ares and the virgin Athena it was a case of making war, not love. How are these two Greek Gods applicable our modern life?

Music by The Vietnam War.

Aphrodite: Beauty (Friday 8 November, 6pm-10pm)

Aphrodite's power came from her beauty. In today's global culture of pin-ups, hook-ups and celebrity tweets, you've got to ask if beauty's power is still just as relevant in the 21st century.

Music by Vanilau. Maxwell. Baker.