ACI
AIRPORT COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL Creating a bona fide kiwi experience for 700 of our closest international friends was seriously good fun ... we had a bagpipe blowing sheep shearing opening with an epic emerging volcano topped with an acapella singing soprano. We offered the full gamut of Kiwi BBQs experiences ending with the Topp Twins leading a bonfire singalong in converted sheds in downtown Auckland. Virginia King allowed us to install her Antarctica Heart sculpture for the finale dinner, which Bryan Caldwell lit. There were ice bars and Kaitlin smith and Virginia King bespoke centerpieces. Extraordinary Aotearoa.
The design for the nine meter high metal cut out that was the was the walk in graphic for the opening ceremony
Our mountain soprano rose up through the floor to eleven meters high, at her zenith she sang Pokarekarae ana with a star cloth behind
The Gala dinner with Virgina King’s Antartic Heart installation. Lit by the incomparable Bryan Caldwell.
Virginia King commissioned centrepieces