Proudly displayed in the school hall are 36 framed portraits of students from as far back as 1955, when Gisborne Girls’ High School first opened. Dame Areta Koopu, a student from 1956-1958, spoke at the event launching them, as did former principal...
Brought up in Motu, Gisborne painter Pru Davis was always surrounded by art, says the artist in notes about her exhibition, Landscapes, at Tairawhiti Museum.“I clearly remember my mum, Lois Davis (née Watkins) always outside, painting somewhere...
Works of imagination, works of observation and the spillover of painting into his bespoke furniture designs — Wairoa artist Chris Wilson’s oeuvre is nothing if not eclectic.“I like the variety,” he says.“I like working with wood and I like...
Once a road suitable for horse and coach traffic, the section of the historic Gisborne to Waikaremoana Road within Te Urewera is now indistinct. From Gisborne, the route of the Gisborne to Waikaremoana Road followed what is now SH36 (Tiniroto Road)...
A New Zealand-born writer has written an extraordinary novel tracing his grandparents’ hazardous journeys to reunite after Japan invaded Hong Kong and Singapore in 1941. Andrew McKenna spoke to Roderick Fry about A Message for Nasty
2 cardamom pods1 bay leaf½ inch long cinnamon stickVenison mince — 500 grams2 onions — thinly sliced2 green chillies — slit (optional)2 tomatoes roughly chopped or a can of chopped tomatoes2 tsp ginger garlic paste¼ tsp turmeric powder1 tsp...
225g butter, cold, diced into cubes½ cup sugar¼ tsp salt1 tsp vanilla extract1¾ cups all-purpose flourPut flour, sugar and salt into a food processor. Add butter and blitz a few times then add vanilla. Pulse until it comes together as a dough. On...
Murky water swished around the tops of our tyres as we plunged through a deep mud hole on a bumpy dirt track, hoping we wouldn’t stall or get stuck.“Jeepers!” gasped my daughter India. Luckily we were not driving through the bush in our own...
With brightly-coloured geometric forms held together by the grunge of chains, metal hooks, clasps and padlocks, Ngati Kahungunu artist Tori-Analee Houkamau’s Igor, a contemporary take on the hei-tiki, features in the Hastings City Art Gallery...
2 small leeksOlive oilClove of garlic8-10 button mushrooms6-10 kale leaves (or bunch of spinach)Pasta (gluten-free gnocchi works well with this recipe)Treetop Macadamia SmoothTreetop Almond ParmesanParsley, salt and pepperFinely chop leeks and fry...
Long ago, up on a nearby hill, there was a field of dancing daffodils. With green grass, new leaves, and springtime air, it used to be quite pleasant, I hear. There was a time when tuis chirped, humming birds hummed and worker bees worked. Lambs would...
A silver ship sails on a silver sea on New Zealand’s 50 cent coin, and while the hull design of the “square-stern bark”, HMS Endeavour, is baffling to boat-builder Rex Briant, he and his team have created two silvery models of the repurposed...
by Peter de Graaf, Northern AdvocateThe last time Isey Cross went to the movies was at Auckland’s Civic Theatre during World War 2. But on April 3 she went back to the Civic, not just as a spectator — the Kawakawa kuia celebrated her 102nd...
Ko Wai is the new exhibition at HOEA! Gallery that shows the designs found on waka hoe (paddles) in museums around the world. Steve Gibbs is one of the artists exhibiting works along with his son Maia Gibbs, Maia Keane, Kaaterina Kerekere and Jual...
Zoe Alford is absolutely chuffed. Last week her painting won first prize in the Pastel Artists of NZ national annual exhibition at Pataka Museum in Porirua, winning $1500 and a cup. Her piece titled, YC 1780: Gisborne Railway Station, captured the...
A painterly approach to the photographic medium can be seen in Gisborne woman Julia De Cleene’s response to living in a bubble during the lockdown. The artwork Caged by Covid features a woman trapped inside a cage which is held by a gloved hand...
Concerns people who have seen the movie Steel Magnolias would compare the Hollywood version with that of Evolution Theatre Company’s production of the comedy-drama did not last long for director Elizabeth Boyce.“When I read the script I thought...
From London Street to London city, empty streets everywhere look like the deserted city scenes from the zombie apocalypse masterpiece, 28 Days Later. You could say wherever you live looks like a ghost town.()
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Sea Mouse, with Gisborne support act Set Waves at the Dome? Summer must be on its way. Described on music. net. nz as a combination of Jack White and Led Zeppelin, with a touch of Alexei Sayle, Sea Mouse last rocked the Dome with a performance of its...
Pop, rock and R&B fans will find a decent assortment of top-shelf concert films on Netflix, including Springsteen on Broadway, Beyoncé’s Homecoming and Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids. But performances alone don’t tell the full story of...
Rod Sheridan lives in Gisborne but works for Auckland Council, and still spends less time commuting than many colleagues. He speaks with Sophie Rishworth about the importance of bringing belonging to every community
Experience a one-woman show when Hanna reaches Lawson Field Theatre next month. Jennifer Ward-Lealand directs Cassandra Woodhouse in the acclaimed one-woman play by Sam Potter. Being a young mum is supposed to be hard — but for Hanna, the only thing...
World-class entertainer and Australian musician Shaun Kirk is ready to woo Tairāwhiti with his blues/soul at Smash Palace. Following his sell-out Worth the Weight tour and mammoth eight-month Holding Onto Hope tour across his homeland, the alt...
Rehearsals for the Gisborne Choral Society's second go at performing Handel's Messiah begin on Tuesday, February 7. The choir was on the final countdown for its early December performance of this famous work, the most well-known of Handel's...
Artist Graeme Nicoll's latest exhibition, A Real Therapy, is a collection of photographic travelogues that take the viewer on a trip down memory lane. From wooden carvings, pencil sketches to paintings — both realistic and abstract — his art, on...
Current travel restrictions are but a mere blip compared with the millions of years it took to form Punakaiki’s pancake rocks as Jo Ferris recallsGiven the upheaval of past weeks — locked down, locked in and in some, cases locked up — never...
Tūhua is the emerging summit, the visible portion, of a 700m high 15km wide volcanic mountain located on the edge of the continental shelf about 26km off the coast. The island is about 1280 hectares. The most recent volcanic activity was 6300 years...
Performances of works by classical music giants Bach and Beethoven presented by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are streaming online this week. In the third of the NZSO’s, six part, Sei Solo series, violist Nicholas Hancox performs two movements...
The organ overture to a live performance of The Phantom of the Opera at Auckland’s Aotea Centre was an epiphany for seven-year-old Sean Scanlen. Well, according to Scanlen family lore it was an epiphany.“My parents tell me that was my musical...
For those watching the war in Ukraine from afar the brutal conflict has been front of mind for two months, but those in the middle of it are trying to fill their minds with something other than war. One Gisborne family is helping bring those...