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Confinement alignment

by Kai May BottonAlso expressing her way out of her bubble is Gisborne traveller Kai May Botton who is trapped in France due to the travel ban and whose poem is a meditation on life beyond the bubble

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Life drawing, portraiture, and painting in acrylics workshops

Unconventional methods that participants will find challenging and intriguing are promised for sculptor Sasha Nunn’s life drawing workshop this month. An accomplished local artist, Nunn offers a unique approach to drawing from the nude model. The...

What's on

War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, 7.30pm. Tickets from i-SITE or ticketek. Dome Bar, Saturday, 9pm. BrazilBeat spin Latin beats. Tickets $15 from the Aviary. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa protege Ipu Laga’aia, tenor Chris McRae, musical theatre stars Sophie...

We will rock you

“You don’t sound like a rock star — you could be a . . . a New Zealander.”Surely most rock or rock musical stars would sniff haughtily, or have their publicity helicopter save them from such gracelessness. But not performer Dominic Warren...

‘Everything has to look pretty’

Walking into Catherine McGreivy’s home is like walking into the pages of a magazine. OK, she’d tidied, had the gardener around, there was jazz playing and lavender oil emanating from a diffuser. But it was more than that. Catherine has that...

Birds from my cabin window

For Millie from Grandfather by Donald Gordon

The Gig Guide

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Gizzy Gig Guide

■American back-country troubadour. Smash Palace, tomorrow, 8pm. Free entry.■Smash Palace, Saturday, 9pm. Free entry.■Three-piece Tauranga band plays the blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Cosmopolitan Club, Friday, June 25, 8pm, free entry.■Smash...

Voices of Aotearoa

Some of New Zealand’s brightest opera stars living and working in London have had a tough year because of cancelled events, finding themselves in the predicament of being ineligible for government funding and support from either the UK or New...

Under a rock and metal umbrella

In a sense, Gisborne heavy rock/metal band, Uni-Fi’s debut album has been seven years in the making — and it is set to be launched in a live show next week. Uni-Fi’s vocalist Cory Garrett, guitarist Michael Shanks, bass guitarist/singer Gan...

Making waves at Miharo

He’s designed graphics for the Makorori First Light Longboard Surfing Classic T-shirts. He’s exhibited works with surfer and screenprinter Tony Ogle, and he’s created, from an orange and brown bedspread, a string of bespoke pennants that...

Goodie & the Pretty Things

The imperial trinity of Kings, the Regent and the Majestic theatres offered a good night out to Gisborne and East Coast residents in the 1960s. Pubs closed at 6pm, television broadcasts were limited to a few hours a day and new music took weeks if...

A pre-Christmas garden blitz

Christmas and New Year’s festivities are the perfect motivators for whipping your garden into shape before guests arrive. Here are a few simple ways to spruce up outdoor areas before Santa gets here!Trimming hedges — give hedges a light trim to...

Creamy and lemony

The addition of shrimp and lemon risotto to the menu in my house owes everything to my sister, who is a better cook than I will ever be. For a start, she really likes cooking, which I think is her secret. Dinners are always a treat when I visit —...

BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP

St Mary’s School old girls from across the nation and the world returned to Gisborne last week for a special reunion. They were the class of 1957 at the Catholic school on Childers Road. Old girls Judy Nicoll and Louise Milne talk to Kim Parkinson...