On a dark desert highway/Cool wind in my hair . . . Sure, you can act too cool for sandals but deep down you know …
A small selection of works from last week’s multi-cultural showcase of Gisborne Boys’ High School students’ visual art and whakairo. …
Last in Gisborne in 2018 to conduct the world premiere of Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead’s orchestral soundscape, Turanga-nui, Hamish McKeich will take up a new …
Still laughing well into rehearsal
Saturday, November 9, though to Sunday, November 17
‘Magnificent in her influence’
Poised with notepad and sensible parka (it looked like rain) at the edge of the Rhythm and Vines moshpit two seasons ago a reporter won …
Stayin’ Alive is not only the Bee Gees’ Grammy award-winning hit for best arrangement of voices but the pop trio’s secret to success. “They’ve accomplished …
The Guide briefs
From Saturday, November 2, to Sunday, November 10
The red carpet! The searchlights! The stars!
Theatre that examines social justice is a conversation worth continuing, says Dinna Myers, director of Evolution Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Bruce Mason’s 1955 play, …
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 …
Tuffery's Tupaia paintings reproduced in a range of NZ Post stamps
Songs from New Zealand indie-rock trailblazer Hamish Kilgour’s latest solo album, Finklestein, will feature in Kilgour, Stuart Page and Daniel Manetto’s Spring Thing Tour which …
Saturday, October 26, to Sunday, November 3
Urban drift in the mid-20th century is commonly regarded as a protracted time of dislocation for many Maori. Turene Jones’s award-winning play I Ain’t Mad …
As Maui Putahi, the Tairawhiti Arts Festival’s opening event by the confluence of Gisborne’s three rivers, came to an end and dusk crept in, Te …
Meremere, Rodney Bell, October 12-13, War Memorial Theatre
Get close to two distant lands and their cultures in one event. Koffie Fugah (pictured) will teach West African drumming and dancing while Flavio Valdes …
Among the late Daryl File’s mixed-media pieces were three-dimensional works such as the “heavy pets”, creatures the Gisborne artist once described as somewhere between the …
Saturday October 19 to Sunday October 27
The Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 is among works being performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the War Memorial Theatre tonight. …
Carving process brought in memories
A theatrical experience with a story and a visual backdrop created from underwater and on-water footage is about to be presented by Voices New Zealand …
A lost donkey, a stolen moon buggy, a history lesson, a hijacked car, and a reluctant gnome feature in a selection of some of the …
A social dance form with roots in country, Scottish country, and 17th century French dance styles will be introduced to Gisborne when American contra dance …
An immersive experience that combines live music with a flight through the universe, animations, and mixed reality is about to be staged at, appropriately enough, …
Staged, conducted, performed — the concept of Maui Putahi, Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival’s opening event — is as fluid as the confluence of the three …
Graphics from the book, The Adventures of Tupaia, by artist Mat Tait and writer Courtney Sina Meredith feature in the pop-up exhibition Tupaia, Ata Hira: …
Native Voices Described as an exhibition that both reinforces an indigenous legacy and challenges the impact of a nation’s “dual heritage” on our Maori futures, …
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