Bay of Plenty Times What's on Guide

FRIDAY:
What: Battle of Gate Pa
Where: Bethlehem College Performing Arts Centre
Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm. To Saturday, July 9.
Presented by Bethlehem College. Three nightly performances. Tickets from Baycourt TicketDirect ph 577 7188 or 0800 484 2538. $15 adult, school student, senior $10, family 2A/2C $35
What: Tauranga Society of Artists Annual Supreme Exhibition
Where: Baycourt Exhibition Space
Time: 9am-4pm daily, until Sunday, July 10.
Original art not previously exhibited. Eftpos available. Entry, gold-coin donation at door.
SATURDAY:
What: Zahnee's Charity Dinner and Auction
Where: Otumoetai Golf Club, 23 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai
Time: Cash bar from 5pm, buffet dinner at 6pm.
Enjoy a sumptuous buffet dinner and help raise funds for Zahnee Campbell to travel to New York for life-changing surgery. Theme: Fancy Eyewear ... wear the wackiest, most zany glasses you can find.
Tickets cost $25, available by contacting Jade on 542-0740 or email paulnjade@xtra.co.nz. Bring a few gold coins and your chequebook for raffles and an auction, with a mystery guest speaker and auctioneer on the night.
What: Waihi Beach Op Shop Ball
Where: Waihi Beach Community Centre, Beach Road
Time: 7.30pm
This has an international theme. Proceeds go to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.
What: Mount Maunganui Sequence Dance
Where: Mount Maunganui Sports Centre, Cnr Hull and Maunganui Roads, Mt Maunganui.
Time: 8pm to 11.30pm
Mount Maunganui Scottish Society has a red theme for its Old time and Modern Sequence Dance. A friendly welcome, live band, and a scrumptious supper. Entry $8 (members $7). Organised by the Mount Maunganui Scottish Society. Ph Elizabeth 544 5633 or Val 552 5599.
What: Tauranga Friends of the Libraries
Where: Mount Maunganui Library
Time: 2pm
Speaker: Mark Ray on being Mauao's Park Ranger. All welcome. $2 donation, afternoon tea provided. Please use the rear door.
What: Te Puke Forest & Bird Day Trip
Where: Mokoia Island visit
Time: Meet 7:45am at Boucher Ave car park near Export Meats to share transport.
A chance to see the thriving reserve and swim in the hot pool. Rain or shine, but cancelled if too windy. Four hours, moderate grade. Take food, jacket, togs, money for the boat trip, 50c trip fee and $12 per person if carpooling.
Contact Bev Nairn to book a place ph 533 4247.
What: Arataki Market
Where: St Mary's Church carpark (opposite Baywave), Girven Rd, Bayfair
Time: 9am-noon
Eftpos on site. New stallholders welcome. Contact Clare Peake - ph 575 3238
SUNDAY
What: Theosophical Society "An interview with Joseph Campbell"
Where: Tauranga Yoga Centre, Elizabeth St West
Time: 2pm
Introduced by Bert Esser. All welcome. Donation to cover costs. For more information ph June 576 6106
MONDAY
What: New Salsa and Cuban Salsa dance classes
Where: Otumoetai Action Centre
Time: From 6:45pm onwards.
New six-week dance courses: learn salsa and Cuban salsa in these fantastic new classes. Fun, social, great for fitness, no partner required. All welcome, ph 021 045 4235 or visit www.baysalsa.co.nz
WEDNESDAY:
What: Coast Care Planting Day - Papamoa East
Where: Look for the Coast Care sign on either Motiti or Taylor roads, then walk down the beach access to join us.
Time: 9:30am-2pm
Warm clothes, a jacket, covered shoes and a drink needed. We supply the tools, plants, training and a drink and muffin after. Contact Chris Ward 0800 884 881 (extn 8801) or Pim de Monchy 0800 884 881 (extn 8518).
What: Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show
Where: Baycourt
Time: 10am
Dorothy hits the road for her New Zealand Tour. Join Fairy Clare and Fairy Larissa at the Fairies' Castle, where the story begins. Sing along with the cast to your favourite Wiggly songs, plus sentimental classics such as Incy Wincy Spider. You'll be dancing from take-off to touchdown! Tickets $23.50.