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Winter Solstice Party

Let your wild side out to the pulsating sound of Brazilbeat Sound System with MC Dreadeye, Dizfunk, and DJose on the shortest day, or longest night, at the Winter Solstice Party. The dress-up theme for the midwinter celebration is animal. Get your...

Big Saturday surfing line up

The line-up of feature films to screen at the O’Neill Aotearoa Surf Film Festival (ASFF) in Gisborne on Saturday includes pulse-racing, scalp-tingling, scrote-prickling movies such as UK director Mike Bromley’s Perilous Sea. Bromley’s film of...

Arts festival future in the new normal

Whether or not the Tairawhiti Arts Festival proceeds in the same scale and form it did last year is probably the most significant challenge for organisers, said artistic director Tama Waipara in an online performing arts seminar earlier this...

Dramas in the bathroom

MY blood ran cold when builder John said the “L” word. In the split second that it took to utter the word “leak”, our bathroom renovation went from straightforward to scary. My husband envisaged money flying out of his wallet at an even more...

Youngest new councillor at the GDC well-grounded and down-to-earth

Kerry Worsnop is known for her strong connections to rural communities, something she says her upbringing is responsible for.“I was born in Rotorua and raised on a dairy farm in Horohoro, 15 minutes south of Rotorua,” Kerry said.“It was quite...

Gig guide

This weekPub choirSmash Palace, Tonight, 7-9pm. Gold coin entry. Walter “The Wiz’ Walsh,RSA, tomorrow, 7pm. Performing classics. Stand up comedy, Open mic night,Smash Palace, tomorrow, 7-8pm. Think you’re funny? Have a go at Smash. Free...

Testing genre boundaries

Kiwi saxophonist Frank Talbot will head to Gisborne next month as part of his debut album tour. Mundane Life Updates, Talbot's highly anticipated debut album, set for release through Rattle Records, promises an eclectic set of often personal and...

Requiem redux

It's not as tiresome as the title's homonym might suggest. In fact, Mozart's Te Deum is, as one writer put it, “radiant with joy”.And in seven weeks time, Gisborne and Hastings choral societies, will perform the radiantly joyful Te Deum, composed...

Christmas flair

Summer Christmas time here in New Zealand is all about relaxing outside with friends and family with delicious food and drink, says The Veggie Tree Spring & Summer Cookbook author Anna Valentine. “My aim for the Christmas food in this book is to...

Summer beat goes on in Gizneyland,Summer beat goes on in Gizneyland

The Rhythm and Vines music festival has decamped but the summer beat goes on in Gisborne. The party season continues tomorrow with all-female act The Coolies who mash together dance, punk and pop in the Dome garden tomorrow at 9pm. Entry is...

Nuking Gisborne

Born in the back seat of a half-submerged Vauxhall Viva and raised by possums (reportedly) in the Port Hills of Christchurch, musician David “Snapper” Thiele is one of three musicians in genre-defying band The Nukes. The trio last visited...

Fiji beckons

Mike Yardley is seduced by the tropical beauty of Fiji’s Coral Coast where he enjoyed fine dining and a pampering. There was also a ride on an old sugar cane railway train track, which sounds a lot like Gisborne’s own rail bike ride only with...

Dream brows

The next generation of makeup. Using the best tools and colours to create natural low-maintenance brows . . .Trina Priday has an eye for detail, which is perfect when your passion is eyebrows. And by choosing one of the top schools to train under...

Workshops to deveop your artistic skills

AN opportunity to develop your artistic skills through a two-day workshop tailored to your needs is offered by multimedia Gisborne artist Daryl File. Daryl is an established multimedia artist whose range includes oil painting, 3D paper maché...

Masterpieces on your walls

THE smudge of a sailing ship on the horizon, children from long ago playing with a toy wooden boat, puffs of cloud and seagulls in a pastel sky, luscious peonies of many colours . . . it’s as if I am wandering through an art gallery but instead...

Colouring the city

Grey walls, dull alleyways and bland businesses beware — Neil Go and his street art are here. Hailing from the small surf island Siargao, the Filipino artist has a distaste for big cities and a love for surf so when he moved to Gisborne he felt...