Maori art and Middle Earth met when Nga Tipu Gallery owner Fiona Bryant and Dreamspace Gallery founder Peter Harris saw an opportunity to revive the arts and crafts movement and to help promote local artists. In the late 19th century, Britain’s...
Good vibrations are in the air as tribute band The Bootleg Beach Boys plan a Gisborne concert guaranteed to be fun, fun, fun. In the tradition of the 1960s act, The Bootleg Beach Boys will play a selection of classic hits when they perform at the War...
“It was a pretty short, sharp, start — let's put it that way. It was like, ‘OK here we go'.”Sitting inside the headquarters of the Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC) inside council, David Wilson reflects on the past eight weeks. The huge...
A taste of TahitiFrom freshly-squeezed juice in a refreshing drink to marmalade, cakes, desserts and marinades, limes can be used in multiple ways in the kitchen and they are an easy plant to grow in many places around New Zealand.“Tahitian”...
Phil and Sue Newdick continue their travels in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania . . .A two-hour ferry ride from Helsinki to Tallinn took us on to our next Baltic state, Estonia; another country, different customs and a different...
Ingredients:Crumble:175 grams butter, softened1 cup coconut1¼ cup rolled oats½ cup brown sugar½ cup flourFruit:1 tbsp custard powder2 tsp vanilla essence3 tsp cinnamonFeijoa 4-6 cups (depending on size of dish)Apple 6-7 cups (use as base, add...
A potted version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in which students performed selected scenes from the play has won a Campion College troupe first place in the teacher-directed category in the Gisborne Shakespeare festival. Directed by drama teacher...
With NCEA exam time looming, New Zealand-registered dietitian and sports nutrition educator Kelly Pelham advises on go-to foods to help pass exams . . .Brainpower. Something we all wouldn’t mind a little extra of to get us through the day. And in...
Two men share a grey, stone-walled floor in a tower that has more than 200 identical levels, each shared by two people, in Netflix film The Platform. A large rectangular hole in the centre of each level creates a kind of atrium through which...
Art and architecture go hand in hand, says architectural designer Shane Kingsbeer. The Ballance Street studio he designed himself is hung with contemporary art works on loan from the Paul Nache gallery. These pieces will be replaced from time to...
After performing in Gisborne last year from a programme that included works by Spanish composers, New Zealand pianist Lorelle McNaughton recently featured as special guest at the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. There, she...
Part travel guide and part recipe book, Istanbul Cult Recipes by Pomme Larmoyer offers an immersive experience of food, culture and place. Istanbul shares with its residents and visitors alike a great love affair with food. Its food is like the city...
THERE is a tale to every historic home but being a former rental, Gisborne’s oldest European-style abode has many. Wyllie Cottage, built in 1872 by John Forbes and now located on Stout Street, has been under renovation since February giving...
The name Martin McDonagh may not be familiar to many but for those who enjoyed movies such as In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, he is the man who wrote both highly entertaining scripts. The acclaimed Irish playwright's works...
The search is on for performers and art makers to take part in Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival events such as Maui Putahi, producer/performer Teina Moetara’s opening experience, and Manu Aute Kite Day. Festival organisers are looking for actors...
To cheer up hotel owner Donna Shridan-Carmichael (Heidi Rice, above centre), who is a bit down at discovering her daughter Sophie has invited three men from her mother’s past to the Greek island in hope of meeting her real father, and having him...
From harvesting and planting to stopping pest and disease cycles, there is still lots to keep you busy out in your gardens during mid-winter. If you missed your opportunity to sow seeds of beautiful sweet peas during autumn, you can still grow this...
Julie Haines overcomes her fear of horses and gets up close to other animals during a farm getaway on the Mohaka River
Absurdity, comedy and pathos are thrown into a blender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the next production in the National Theatre at Home series of screenings. A ship is wrecked on the rocks, Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is...
Ray Sheldrake of the King’s Christian Network tells Wynsley Wrigley about the “Whitby juxtaposition”, outlined in an online Christian presentation created as a conciliatory attempt to link Whitby and Tairawhiti, as New Zealand prepares to mark...
Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz or telephone 869-0630. This weekBarleycorn: Irish music at Marina Park, tomorrow (6pm), free. Strangely Arousing and DJ Straw Hat: The dub-funk fivesome band are here to...
Justine Tyerman discovers a brilliant product for girls on the go . . . a no-heat or blow-dry styling cream that cu?ts hair-prep time and tames the frizz . . .I came across Pureology Hydrate Air Dry Cream on my travels — one of my young companions...
Sydney was definitely showing her sass as I cast my eyes across the gleaming blue waters of Circular Quay. Feeling in a celebratory mood, I was on board one of the newer harbour cruise offerings, Captain Cook's Mumm Champagne Harbour Bar cruise...
Saturday, February 11Waingake Horse Sports — over 35 events for all ages, 8am, Waingake Horse Sports Club. All welcome, Contact Laura Ph 862 9428 or email lauraclark025@gmail. comIndividual auditions for Musical Theatre Gisborne's production of...
It turns out hardly anyone else wants to pull their eardrums out when they hear the infectious tune Why Does Love Do This To Me. This could be one reason why venues for The Jordan Luck Band’s winter tour sell out so fast. Revived for an Air NZ TV...
A MAN brought up in a white, middle-class family in Timaru meets for the first time his biological father, a Samoan, former Mongrel Mob member from Porirua. That encounter could go either way but for comedian Rhian Wood-Hill the meeting provided rich...
He has also worked at the centre of a lot of community projects such as his mobile BBQ Tunutunu (to cook or grill) and setting up the Flaxmere Community Garden in 2010 — that to this day has fed hundreds of families free of charge and is open...
THERE are some places that disappoint you on arrival and some that exceed all expectations. Espiritu Santo (known by locals as Santo) is definitely one of the latter, completely deserving the over-used description of “paradise”.Santo — the...
James and Annie Millton talk to Murray Robertson about the imminent removal of rocks placed on Wainui Beach to stop sea erosion, and their hopes for a council policy that allows for “soft” emergency property protection. Wairere Road residents...
Sometimes moving out does not mean moving up but for former Aucklanders Trent and Daniella Lillis, their daughter Tyler and Jack Russell, Rocket, the Gisborne lifestyle suited them down to the ground — and the surf, as Trent explains to Mark...
Hauora Tairawhiti chief executive Jim Green still has a lot on his “to-do list”.And they're not small tasks, with Mr Green acknowledging institutional racism is an issue within Hauora Tairawhiti that requires more work.“Because it's...
Escape the hum-drum of the daily grind to the quintessential South Pacific island paradise of Rarotonga, a bewitching blend of serrated mountains, sawtooth hills, dense tropical jungle, bountiful plantations and white sand beaches. My 70-something...
Gisborne physician Sari MacKenzie shares her adventures while trekking the Annapurna Circuit from Besisahar to Pokhara in Nepal, considered one of the best treks in the world. Here’s the second of a series about her 17-day, 273km expedition which...