For 23 years, Dr Diane van de Mark worked as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Gisborne Hospital, for much of that time as head of department. She has always loved being a doctor. Her medical fields are about care of women, from when they are very...
Breezing up the island from Wellington, I soon arrived in the southern gateway to the Ruapehu region, Waiouru. How many times have you whizzed through this town, passing by the fortress-like façade of the National Army Museum, making a mental note...
For one not accustomed to the limelight, the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ award of gold medal for services to heritage and conservation architecture has thrust Jeremy Salmond into the spotlight. But he is passionate about his vocation and...
I VISITED the ‘White House’ the other day and met a Russian, a Japanese and a little Kiwi. While it’s smaller and less ostentatious than its famous American counterpart, the White House at Sponge Bay is no less eye-catching. The house, belonging...
Autumn is a treasured planting season, offering ideal temperature and more instances of rain. It is cool enough for gardeners to work in the garden and yet warm enough for plants to get established before winter.• Keep weeds out and feed citrus...
Saturday, September 29Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club two-day trip to Panekire Hut, Te Urewera, depart 7.30am, return 6pm Sunday, $15 transport, $38 hut fees. A five-hour walk from Onepoto to the Panekire Hut. Bring your food and gas cooker. Ph...
PRINT materials from The Gisborne Herald, rather than print-making, is the stuff Gisborne woman Lynette Brown’s art is made of. The thin aluminium, lithographic plates text and images are laser-burned on are usually recycled for print purposes, but...
1 cup dried chickpeas (soaked and boiled) or use one can¼ tsp red chilli powderSalt (adjust to taste)Oil for deep frying¼ cup cornflour2 tsp oil2 cloves finely chopped garlic2.5cm finely chopped ginger2 green chillies (optional)¼ cup onionHalf...
As audiences recently saw in Evolution Theatre Company’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, character acting is Andrew Stevens’ strength. He enjoys comic and musical roles but cast as Harold “Hal” Dobbs in Evolution’s upcoming...
by Toby Woollaston, NZ HeraldAt the beginning of I am Woman, a young, fresh-faced Australian, Helen Reddy, exits a New York tube station past an advertisement depicting a smiling 60s housewife next to a bottle of tomato sauce with the words “Even...
Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the controversial Maori All Blacks-Springboks match. The Gisborne Herald takes a look at the controversy and the players
JOHN Kyngdon has a thing about birds. He has thousands of photographs of more than 550 species shot in Borneo, the Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. The Gisborne-based surgeon says capturing an image...
Gisborne homeopath Jan Clare travels to Tanzania and shares her experience of trekking the 8-day Lemosho route on Mount Kilimanjaro. Here’s the first of a series of three stories about her adventure. The day before I left Moshi to start the long...
Tairawhiti churches were urged by a familiar guest speaker to acknowledge their ‘heroes’ as a way to ‘inspire’ rangatahi (young people) and to help rid the city of violence. Maika Akroyd finds out how a Hastings District Councillor for...
Part of Maori art and design school Toihoukura tutor Steve Gibbs' doctoral study is an exhibition that concentrates six years' worth of paintings, drawings and research into a single exhibition.“I finished my PhD and now I have an exhibition which...
BY day he is a tutor at Matapuna Training Centre, but by night he is involved with several local productions, including Stars in Their Eyes. Inspired to reprise the talent-showcase he staged 25 years ago, performer-producer James Packman’s 2017...
A supercontinent that existed about 500 million years ago lends its name to a trio of musicians from different worlds - and now Pangaea is drifting this way. Pangaea is made up of New Zealand classical guitarist Mike Hogan, recent All India tabl...
INDIE-folk duo, the Grawlixes are due to perform in Gisborne next week and they have just released their album, so here’s a chance to hear their unique sound before they get here. The album Set Free explores romance, relationships and not being...
Locals are in for a global treat next week when French for Rabbits take over the Dome Room as part of a six-show tour around New Zealand. Singer/songwriter Ebony Lamb and Gisborne's very own Keira Batten-Coogan will open up the show. Like many great...
Saturday, September 15Gisborne Parkrun. Timed, weekly 5km run or walk, for all abilities. Meet at Waikanae Beach Playground for 8am start. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/EV Test Drive. Test drive an Electric...
Billy has four guitars, says a cartoon on the late Peter Te Kani's Facebook page, the last of the musician's posts before he passed away on June 26.“Suzy has one bass,” continues the gag. “What does Suzy have that Billy doesn't?“A gig! Suzy...
The balcony scene comes to mind for most people when talking about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, says young actor Bo Jarratt. It is also one of Bo’s favourite scenes in the play. Cast as Juliet Capulet in Unity Theatre’s upcoming production...
Two styles of painting are evident in emerging Gisborne artist Virginia Pahura’s work. With its blocks of bold colour one style is almost poster like. The other is more impressionistic and explores in bright, sometimes lurid colours the play of...
Multiple murderer Macbeth from Shakespeare’s blood-drenched tragedy isn’t known for his one-liners. Nor does doomed Moorish outsider Othello have the Venetian court laughing all over the shop with pull-my-finger gags. Gloomy fruit-loop...
This weekNick Saxon LiveAustralian-based entertainer with dancing guitar tones and soulful melodies. Smash Palace, tomorrow, doors open 6pm. Free entry. Winter Concert SeriesHarry Grigg (vocal) and Xing Wang (piano) will perform at the Tairawhiti...
Ash drifted around Wairoa artist Tish Scott's feet as she walked through the blackened, blown-out doorway of the Paeroa warehouse where her father had died the previous night. Fire had all but gutted the Willoughby Street building.“There was...
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Never mind the three-day R&V delirium with its glitter, earth-thumping pulse and clothing shortage. Pianomania’s mid-December three concerts-in-one-day mini-fest will take its audiences on a black-and-white keyed magic carpet ride through Spain...
The inaugural Tairawhiti Arts Festival starts in only five weeks time and now is the time to make theatre reservations for shows. So much is packed into the October 4 – 20 season the number of performances for each theatrical event or concert are...
It took nature millions of years to create the Amazon rainforest but, in the past 100 years, one third of it has been destroyed . . . largely by man. It's the largest tropical rainforest on the planet, covering seven percent of the world's surface...