The Mad Hatters Tea Party

A festival of sorts

Sat. 4th March, 12-6 p.m.

The Mad Hatters Tea Party sets out to be a collection of perceptual pleasures served up in the space of one afternoon. This will give you time to imbibe fully and heartily in whatever takes your fancy. It's open to all and (with the odd exception) it's free and gratis.

The festival features a host of events, exhibitions and do-it-yourself type activities - musical, performing arts, visual arts, political or just plain festive — all within the confines of the union building (or outside if its nice and fine), catering for the participant and observer alike.

Rock Concert — featuring Rough Justice, Spatz, Raz and other acts. This concert promises much: Rough Justice and Spatz are old friends, and Raz is an up and coming jazz/rock group which already has a dedicated local following. Others have been invited to play and hopefully this concert will be one of the highlights of the whole Orientation '78 festival.

Dance — Val Deakin Dance Theatre will perform a special matinee — for which there will be a small charge.

Larf — are an open air theatre troupe whose antics amuse, astound and arouse. They will be remembered for their work in the protests against the SIS bill. Larf will be performing in a variety of guises — expect some surprises.

Film — Pure Shit in a special screening.

Visual Arts — The Mad Hatters festival will feature a series of exhibitions and other 'packaged' perceptual stimulants. Plus: "The do-it-yourself Junk Sculpture Kit" — a pile of everything and anything which will, by the end of the day, hopefully make the Venus de Milo look like an armless tart.

Chalk Pictures — a pavement in need of a little inspiration.

Displays and Craft — On the bottom floor of the union building, Orien Orientation '78 will be running a series of bookstalls, craft stalls, activist displays, or just about anything anyone wants to sell, show or promote. If you want to run something, come and see the Orientation Controller at the Studass Office — no set ting up charge

Bulmers Cider Bar — Through the bountiful munificence of Downtown Cellars, there will be a bar upstairs during the concert selling beer, wines and most importantly, 'Bulmers' cider. Sympathetic prices and palatable products assured!

So that's about it, along with whatever else happens at the time. If you want to do something during the Mad Hatters Festival, we hope the festival's flexibility will enable us to fit you in. Come and see the Orientation Controller and we'll save a place for you. Otherwise, just come along and sample our menu of perceptual pleasures — "a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a lot of the other." And it does doesn't have to cost a cent.

Oh Yes! the Peoples Food Bar Collective will present a health food bar with a difference — the difference being being that the food probably won't be all that healthy.

What's happening at Bastion Point? What will the Court case on March 6th mean for the protesters? Is New Zealand heading for a fascist state? Will James Movick (NZUSA International Vice President) be deported? Are you happy with $15. a week? Will MP's Gerrard Wall and Mike Minogue come to blows at the abortion forum?

To find out the answers or to argue with with the answers when you find them, watch out for the Orientation Forums.

Monday: 27th Fab. 12-2	Bastion Point: One Year of Occupation
Rankine Brown Courtyard	For 13 months, the Ngati Whatua people have occupied Bastion Point. The government is now seeking a Court injunction to order the removal of the Ngati Whatua people. By doing this they hope to avoid the politically embarassing responsibility of ordering their police in to evict the people from the land that even the government admits they have a "certain moral claim to". The Supreme Court hearing is on Monday, March 6th. Come and hear the issues explained. Hear a speaker direct from Bastion Point.
Tuesday: 28th Feb. 12—2 Union Hall	Where is New Zealand Heading? Many people (including Sir Guy Powles) have asserted that there are definite fascist tendancies operating in New Zealand Zealand. How true is this assertion? This forum takes a look at recent legislation — the SIS Bill, the Abortion Legislation, the Industrial Relations Amendment Act and the Commerce Act. Speakers include: Christine Gillespie (Working Women's Alliance) George Fraser (a former SIS agent) Alick Shaw (Chairperson of OASIS) A National Party Representative. If you're a young Nat, come and help your side.
Wednesday 1st March 12—2 Union Hall	Student Representative Council Council If you don't make any other event in Orientation come to this one. The Student Representative Council meeting (SRC) decides all Association policy and actum. Meetings are usually lively and well attended. Chocolate fish are awarded for the most most coherent serious speech, for the most humourous speech and for the best inaugural speech. Serious topics for discussion will be the action students will take on bursaries and James Movick's impending deportation. This week SRC features the special guest appearances of 4½ thousand full time students. Be there to watch them get yet again into the Guiness Book of Records.
Friday 3rd March: Union Hall 12—2	Abortion: A Woman's Democratic Right There is not much to say about this forum that the speakers won't say. Speakers include: Gerard Wall (Porrirua Labour MP) Well known member of the right to life lobby. Mike Minogue (Hamilton West National MP/) Articulate pro-abortionist Leonie Morris: (NZUSA Women Women's Rights Officer) Join the TV cameras on Friday from 12—2. Afterwards: Working Bee for March 8th abortion demonstration.
Other Activites Tuesday 2—4 Union Hall	Seminar: How do we organise against the SIS Act? (organised by Students Against Imperialism)
Wednesday: 2—4	Seminar: How do we organise the campaign to keep James Movick in New Zealand?