News of the destruction of some huts in Te Urewera sparked fierce debate this week, and court action. Sarah Curtis talked to outdoorsman Ben Piggott about the character back country shelters

There is a difference between ‘out and about’ and Outward Bound — reporter Andrew Ashton finds out about how getting an outdoor education can not only be life-changing for participants of Outward Bound course but also lead to regional change...

The Gisborne Artists' Society are ending a year of workshops with something a little different. Following Sandi Hickey's still life workshop last weekend, the Society is hosting master calligrapher Ray Crafts from Tauranga.“Although it is many...

And the gorilla goes to Gisborne 48Hours film festival winners . . . Kratos (SFX — crowd goes wild).For the third time in a row the Kratos film crew — Jol Sparks, Clarke Allen, Grant Ensor, Jared Rofe, Jonathan Poole, Matt Rofe, Pat Butler...

The “Covid axe” has fallen again on a Gisborne theatre production, with A Skull in Connemara postponed until June. The Unity Theatre production, directed by Norman Maclean, was due to open this week.“With only days to go, just when we were...

After 27 years of working in the police force, Constable Pamela (Pam) Bell has hung up her uniform. She talks to Kim Parkinson about her long career and her passion for working as a youth education officer in Gisborne. Born in Katikati, Pam grew up...

Indigenous training provider Te Whare Wananga o Te Kurahuna is launching its new learning space with a traditional Maori arts exhibition tonight. Te Kurahuna is made up of over 25 services who meet regularly to reinstate and embed indigenous...

MATIU Bartlett became interested in puoro in 2003 and by 2012 he was playing and composing music for the instruments as well as making them. He has since been performing, presenting and running workshops involving all aspects of puoro. Bartlett...

1 butternut pumpkin1 Golden Kumara1 Onion2 medium potatoes2 tsp cumin powder2 tsp coriander powder2 tsp curry powder½ tsp ginger powder2 litres of chicken (or vege) stock2 Tbspn Olive OilPeel and chop pumpkin, kumara, pototoesPeel and chop finely...

Drizzled with dismemberment and cannibalism, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is presented as a wickedly funny cooking show in Evolution Theatre Company's upcoming production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The story of Othello, a Moorish...

Stories ranging from 1990s queer dance parties, a history of abortion care in Aotearoa and the experiences of Pasifika bus drivers in Ōtepoti Dunedin are among the topics that will be explored by recipients of this year's Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho...

“Tairāwhiti needs a baby loss support group for bereaved whānau”, community members say. Families share their story with The Gisborne Herald’s Akula Sharm

Wave of the Winter was one of two surf photography categories in a competition organised by Gisborne Boardriders Club.“Wave of the Winter is about sharing your best surfing photo,” GBC surfing development manager Flo Bub told The Gisborne Herald...

Come along for some alternative music. Guests: Tauranga-based Threat. Meet. Protocol and locals Uni-Fi. Smash Palace, tomorrow. Tickets: $10 from undertheradar. co. nz or $15 door sales. St Andrew's Church, Sunday, 2pm. $20 for entry and afternoon te...

“What is true sometimes is not. Think deeper,” is the message behind Gisborne-based act BrazilBeat Sound System’s recently-released song Propaganda Machine.“The daily news brings us those pictures of death and destruction,” says BrazilBeat...

NEW Zealand’s most well known international opera star, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, arrives next week in Whanganui to join the final week of the New Zealand Opera School. It will be the first time Dame Kiri has attended the opera school in its 22-year...

ONE of the last bands to play at The Kings Arms before Auckland’s legendary venue closes its doors forever will be hard-out rock act The D4. Then they head south to rock Gisborne’s industrial subdivision. When The D4 exploded onto the music scene...

The influence that chance encounters play in our lives is explored in Ali Harper’s one-person show Songs for Nobodies.“I play five nobodies who all have an encounter with a somebody,” says Harper on a promo clip. The show the award-winning New...

Rasmalai is a festive Indian dessert made of cottage cheese balls dunked in a creamy and delicious sweetened milk syrup. Taking inspiration from the dessert, Preeti Maheshwari decided to make cookies

OK — so it’s too late for Christmas but you can make her yummy cake for New Year instead, says Nan. Ingredients:340gm butter4 eggs450gm flour (3 cups)1 tsp mixed spice½ tsp salt2 x 400g mixed fruit1 400gm tin crushed pineapple1 cup sugar½ tsp...

Three damned souls are brought to Hell, which turns out to be plain room where two declare their innocence while the third demands they stop lying to themselves in Jean-Paul Sartres' play No Exit. It is this character who decides they are to be one...

The Good Vibes music festival will be one of New Zealand’s first major live tours to hit the road in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. While there were some minor changes to the line-up, the winter tour will stick to the dates as announced earlier...

A ribbon of foamy white streams from, or through, the mouth of the face stylised in the manner of a Maori carving in painter Dayna Chaffey’s work that won Miharo Gallery’s Wet Paint challenge on Friday. The concept of the challenge is to create...

Hine Nikora Porou was back in the kitchen last week baking school holiday treats. Among other delights, she whipped up a few batches of mint chocolate chip cookies, ‘a favourite family treat’.She learned the recipe in cooking classes at...

HarbingerBringing Metallica back to Smash Palace, Saturday., 9pm. Tickets from trybooking. com or $20 at the door. COMING UPAlbi & The WolvesAlternative indie folk tunes, Smash Palace, May 8, 7pm. Tickets $25 at eventfinda. co. nzAotearoa Prog Alliance...

Once you grow your own tomatoes, you will never want to go back. Smart planting means picking a good spot. They’re easy to grow and if looked after well, yield plenty of delicious fruit for months, writes Henri Ham, owner of Awapuni Nurseries...

Painting outdoors one day with the late Juliet Bowen, Gisborne artist Zoe Alford announced her frustration with watercolours. For many years, the two artists would venture once a week into natural surroundings at dawn to sketch.“I got annoyed with...

Qatar, the oil-rich emirate in the Persian Gulf, has been in the news for the pivotal role it has played in the evacuation of refugees fleeing Afghanistan. In other, more peaceful, pre-Covid times, Mary-Jane Richmond flew to Berlin via Doha, the...

Born as Barrie Bates of Auckland in 1935, self-rebranded in 1962 as Billy Apple, the pop/conceptual artist, and maker of Excretory Wipings (1970) in which he collected and dated his skid-marked toilet paper, is now the subject of the first...