Compiled by PHOEBE FALCONER
Chamber music
Chamber Music New Zealand presents the French string quartet Quatuor Ysaye in the Great Hall of the Auckland Town Hall at 8 tonight. The programme features works by Haydn, Bartok, Puccini and Ravel. Bookings at Ticketek on 307-5000.
Caring callers
If you have a telephone and spare time,
the St John Caring Caller telephone friendship service will welcome your help. You would make one call a day to mainly elderly people living alone, providing friendship and checking on their safety. Training will be given. Call (0800) 780-780 for more information.
Open mike
There's live music at Temple's open mike night at 8. Get along to 486 Queen St and have a go. Visit Temple for information.
Manukau partners
If you are thinking about applying to Manukau City Council's Community Facilities Partnership Scheme but you're not quite sure how to go about it, go along to the workshop at 6.30 pm and find out. The venue is the Puhinui Room in the Civic Centre; phone 262-8900 ext 8374 for details.
Arts festival
The Tauranga Arts Festival continues this week with soprano Joanna Heslop and pianist Richard Mapp in Take Me to Your Lieder at St Mary's Church at 12.10 pm today and St Thomas More Church at 12.10 pm tomorrow. Jackie Clarke and Callie Blood take a guitar to St Thomas More Church at 12.10 pm today, and Ray Henwood will be Playing Burton at the 16th Ave Theatre at 8 pm today and tomorrow.
Boardwalk links
The Auckland Regional Council wants public submissions on a Waitakere City Council plan to link coastal walkways around Te Atatu Peninsula. The boardwalk would link Chapman Strand to Dawnhaven Place, and Dawnhaven Place to Kelvin Strand. Phone (09) 366-2070 for details.
Drive-by art
Drive-by art is here. Shop windows on the north side of Customs St, just along from the Novotel Hotel, are being used to display the work of new artists. The present display, by Melissa Macleod, is a series of architectural sculptures called Reinforcing, and is in place until November 10.
Another day ...
Wall Street crashed this day in 1929, sinking America and the rest of the industrialised world into what became the Great Depression.
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