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A love affair gone wrong
A marriage of voice and piano brings heartbreak to the ears this weekend as baritone Will King and pianist Nicholas Kovacev will grace the living room at Tiromoana, at Wainui. King will perform the Schubert song cycle Winterreise, or Winter Journey...
The creation of sound
Once bustling and full of life, stuffed with secret documents and mysteries, the Public Trust building now stands silent. Until NOise Vacancy has its way. NOise Vacancy is bringing together local artists from different backgrounds to take over...
What's on in Gisborne
Tairawhiti Museum, Sunday, 2pm. Entry is $10 adults, $5 FOTM, and free for students (with ID) and children. Numbers strictly limited due to Alert Level 2 requirements. The finale of the local talent showcase. Lawson Field Theatre, Saturday, September...
Gaiety Theatre’s search goes global
An international search for parts for Wairoa’s Gaiety Theatre’s Projection Unit is under way. Wairoa District Council chief executive Kitea Tipuna said the ultimate aim was to get movies screening again at the Gaiety, and there is...
The last hurrah
Almost 56 years to the day, the first concrete was poured for Midway Surf Life Saving Club’s spanking new £18,000 clubhouse. Due for demolition in the near future, and a new build, the club held its “last hurrah” on the weekend. To mark the...
WONDERS OF THE ‘CITY OF JOY’
Call it Calcutta or Kolkata — it is a city that is easy to fall in love with. A city that clings to every bit of its history to preserve its heritage. A bit of the past juxtaposed with the present. Kolkata is a place that I love to the core. The...
History and beauty at Rakiura
Upon announcing to family and friends about a pending ocean expedition at Stewart Island – in July – responses generally were in accord. Middle of winter? On a boat? Madness!The obvious presumption was for freezing temperatures and raging seas...
Artists inspired by wai
A deep dive into Wairoa waters has inspired third-year Toihoukura art students from Gisborne. The show, Nga Wai Hono, represents the students’ work from their final year and opened at Wairoa Museum last Thursday. It is the second time students from...
Cheers! Beer festival is back
Rev your taste buds, strap on your hops-helmet and get ready for the Gisborne Beer Festival at the Speedway. In its third year and incarnation, the festival has continued to grow, and with it so has the size of the venue, says festival organiser...
Classical duo for a Sunday session
Classical guitarists Bruno Guedea and Christopher Everest are the stars of this weekend’s Sunday concert at Tairawhiti Museum. The finalists of the 2020 Biennial New Zealand Classical Guitar Competition have come together to perform a collection of...
Veges within reach
For many gardeners, a large property with rows of green peppers and sun-kissed tomatoes as far as the eye can see is just a dream. Many of us either don’t have much soil to call our own, have limited mobility, or are new to gardening and feel...
LET ME BE MYSELF
Exhibition organisers united in their belief that horrors of WW2 should never be repeated
Forty-eight hours, 20 artists and a bunch of new plays
Two actors, one writer, and one director are the minimum requirements for Evolution Theatre Company’s Tairawhiti 48-hour play festival. A fifth member can join to deal with technical challenges. The concept is simple — create and perform an...
Every picture tells a story
Driving out from painter Adrian Cave’s townhouse studio, English band 10CC’s Art For Arts Sake began to play on the car radio. The coincidence was ironic because as Cave had said minutes earlier — although not in 10CC’s words — “money for...
Big screen ballets
by Jake Coyle, AP film writerIn 20 years and 10 movies the Fast and Furious series has relentlessly insisted that its saga is really, truly about family. With all due respect to Vin Diesel’s Toretto clan, I must disagree. The Fast and Furious...
Te Tairawhiti poetry competition
“All the worlds a stage, and all the menand women are merely players,They have their exits and entrancesand one man in his age plays many parts,His acts being seven ages”Prologue:Dear Mr Shakespeare Esquire -Dear William,I beg to differ. If we...
Bowls beat basketball
Steph Beattie initially turned up her nose at her mother’s invitation to join her bowls team. It was 1988. Inspector Morse was in its second year on television screens and Margaret Thatcher had become the longest-serving British prime minister of...
The power of resilience personified on screen
by Dominic Corry, NZ HeraldA group of Kiwi women exhibit inspirational attitudes in the face of cancer in The Pinkies are Back, a gentle and affecting local documentary. The Pink Dragons are an Auckland-based dragon-boating team comprised entirely of...
Supergreen watercress pesto
I was having a lunchtime hīkoi along the Taruheru awa last week when a kind man stopped me with a smile and asked if I would like some watercress. He handed over a huge bag of the fresh, green goodness that had come straight from the bush. I...
The strategic guide to snacking
In this extract from her new book The 10:10 Diet, clinical nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo, discusses ways to stave of those hunger pangs between meals
Chekhov in lockdown
An Auckland Theatre Company adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull could go horribly wrong or it could be a groundbreaking coup. The 19th century Russian playwright’s groundbreaking work dramatises romantic and artistic conflicts between...
Tairāwhiti’s Fittest Mums
Juggling with kids, work and taking care of the house, mothers do it all . . . Tairāwhiti’s Fittest Mum title winners for 2022 spoke to The Gisborne Herald reporter Akula Sharma about their journey. Getting to the gym every day and making it to...
Mother never told me
Anyone interested in submitting poetry for publication in The Guide can send their work to jack. marshall@gisborneherald. co. nz
Saving water in your garden
• Choose hardy plantsGrow plants that have good drought- tolerance. Native flaxes and grasses, astelias and copromas have low-watering requirements, once established.• Mulch, mulch, mulchMulch around the base of plants to keep moisture in the...
Youthtown music out of Girls’ High
Out of 48 spots in the Play it Strange Youthtown songwriting competition, Gisborne Girls’ High School songwriters took out 12 places. This means each pair of the young composers wins a professional recording of their song. And the winners and their...
Pink and purple ruffles
GOING past Teal Motor Lodge on Gladstone Road you might notice a different bunch of flowers from usual. These are ornamental kale — long-lasting rosettes of wavy-to-frilly leaves in colours not commonly seen in their more edible...