Following a sell-out national tour in Australia, The World of Musicals is thrilled to be debuting in New Zealand for the first time this Christmas season. This highly anticipated show features a world-class ensemble of multi-talented international...
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Lights...camera…Action!But hurry up about it because you only have 48 hours. New Zealand's largest guerrilla filmmaking competition is back. Each year hundreds of budding filmmakers grab their cameras and shake ideas from their brains with just 48...
When Hamilton guitarist Dan Cosgrove dons his schoolboy cap and duck-stomps across the Smash Palace stage the gig will be NZ/DC’s first show since lockdown — and the band is frothing.“It’s been hard, man,” says Cosgrove.“We’ve done...
A return to the Mediterranean brought home how much we take for granted on the East Coast of New Zealand and how much life has changed for the people of Jerusalem and Greece — and not always for the best. Norman Maclean reports . . .I have always...
After a New Zealand competitive surfing career of 26 years, Gisborne surfing's poster boy Maz Quinn is hanging up his competitive rashie. From his first surf at Roberts Road (Waikanae Beach), to charging "terrifying" tubes at Tahiti's Teahupoo break...
This week?New Zealand Guitar QuartetClassical/contemporary music from bluegrass to flamenco. Gaiety Theatre, Wairoa. tomorrow, 7.30pm. Tickets $25+ bf from the venue or www. eventfinda. co. nzVF48Hours Gisborne FinalWatch the 10 best five-minute films...
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In lockdown with three children, Gisborne artist Phoebe Gander is not able to create much of her own art at the moment so she has set up a 30-day online art challenge. For each day of April, Gander posts a fresh prompt on Instagram. The prompt is...
For the first time in more than a decade the big screen at Wairoa’s Gaiety Theatre will be home to the Maori Film Festival on Labour Weekend, October 23-26. Ten feature films and more than 60 short films will screen at the Gaiety Theatre over the...
As soon as the borders open he is off. In the meantime, fashion designer Cruze Kapa from Gisborne is ‘stuck’ at his aunty’s house in Taupo, getting creative with pheasant feathers. Kirstine MacIntosh got a call from a mutual friend, asking if...
The magic of C S Lewis’s fantasy novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is about to be brought to the stage by the Gisborne Homeschool Performing Arts group.“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a timeless tale that doesn’t get...
MARIE-ann Quin has found her calling in life, but she hit rock bottom before getting there. A modern-day monk whose Sanskrit name is Sattwa Devi, she has taken vows to dedicate her life to the teaching of consciousness in the world. Midwife and...
Big river blues man Doug Snelling is a solid supporter of live music in Wairoa and Gisborne and on Saturday will be joined by harmonica player Richard Heikell to perform at Wrights Vineyard Winery. Snelling has been a fixture in the East Coast music...
IF YOU think the story you are about to read is different, wait until you see the movie behind it. Science fiction sacrifice flick, Kelvin, won team Ma am first prize in the Gisborne HP48Hours filmmaking competition last weekend. In an opening scene...
Torua, a work by New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead, features in a programme of romantic and virtuosic music Emily Sun (violin) and Gamal Khamis (piano) who perform at Tiromoana on Monday. Commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as...
Hannah Mettner grew up in Whataupoko, in an old villa with a big backyard full of fruit trees and a tree hut.“Now that I live in Wellington I dream of the bounty of plums, crabapples, feijoas and loquats that we used to throw at each other for...
An intensely personal play with music, was how touring performer Chris Green described the one-man show he brought to Gisborne in 2017. Music and the intensely personal is what Green will bring on his return next week — but this time across three...
Unsung singing group the Hospice Tairawhiti Songsters can't be found on Spotify, but they are familiar faces and voices in Gisborne's rest homes. This week, a handful of the group's members entertained Te Wiremu House residents over pancakes on...
It was one of those “pinch me” moments. Bathing in a warm pool of salt water, hot black sand warming my legs, and the waves of the Tasman Sea gently breaking just metres away, I was finally, after years of anticipation, sitting on a hot water...
Behind the coffee machine at Peel St Cafe is not just a quality barista but also a talented artist. By day Jordan Robertson makes coffee to fuel the city but in her downtime she creates the art that decorates the cafe walls.“I have been painting my...
Several years and many high-powered shows have passed since singer/dancer Akina Edmonds was last in these parts. Having attended Ngata College and Lytton High School, she went on to develop her passion for her art at NASDA (National Academy of...
Scenes of graveyards, bridges and wet trees conventionally used in Women's Institute calendars cop some disparaging remarks in Calendar Girls, the comedy Unity Theatre has resumed rehearsals for. Tim Firth's popular play is based on a real-life...
A VACUUM cleaner hose helped provide the eureka moment for Dr William Peters’ discovery of an overlooked dimension in evolution. The former Gisborne man’s hypothesis does not contradict Charles Darwin’s 19th century theory of evolution. Dr...
THE Live on the Lawn series of free concerts is on at Marina Park (Fridays, 6-8pm), with performances from Walter ‘The Wiz’ Walsh (January 15) and Ora Taukamo (January 22) lined up
"I feel the need, the need for speed”.That famous line from my favourite 1980s movie, Top Gun, popped into my head when I visited Waitomo Caves Zipline Park recently. I’ve always thought it would be pretty cool to fly, and when I heard about the...
Ready or not winter has come. For some reason this year, we’ve skipped autumn, making it a tad difficult to acclimatise to this colder weather. Sore throats, blocked or runny nose (usually one right after the other), chesty cough, headaches and...
Saturday, August 10Gisborne parkrun. Wear a colourful tutu on your run/walk. Meet: Waikanae Beach Playground, Grey St, 7.45am. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale. Plenty of bargains. In the...
THERE was high excitement behind the scenes at the Hospice Tairawhiti shop this week as manager Brenda Kinder marshalled her models and make-up artist Juana Vincent put last minute touches to lipstick and blusher. The event was the shop’s...
MY HUSBAND was so astonished when I told him My Food Bag was coming to Gisborne, he stopped reading The Gisborne Herald, which is his not-to-be-interrupted evening ritual, and paid full attention. Chris does the bulk of the cooking so to have...