“This is a story about a girl who followed a map off the edge of the world,” says a voice-over in a YouTube promo for …
Saturday April 20 to Sunday April 28
Mariana’s Trenchcoat. The title of an instrumental piece written by Ed Zuccollo of atmospheric psychedelic-pop funk act Flite plays on the name of the planet’s …
Shakespeare Festival winners talk to The Guide
Baz Luhrmann brought out the lushness, the fruitiness, in his movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In his stage design for Unity Theatre’s production …
Electronic band Brazilbeat Sound System have just released Playin’ Games, their first single since their 2017 release, Propaganda Machine. The Gisborne-based duo with a global …
Never mind your tortured artist driven by existential angst. Evan Woodruffe’s wall of big abstract tiles on show now at the Paul Nache Gallery is …
Orpheus and the . . . You missed Michael Hurst’s excellent No Hold’s Bard. Don’t blow it this time. Get along to the award-wnning, two-man …
Mick is recovering from his op and couldn’t make it to Gisborne, but The Rolling Stones tribute band Brown Sugar can and they want to …
What goes with beer? Music, that’s what. Smooth, noisy, off the wall, thoughtful, rockin’ — it’s all good; it’s all part of the brew at …
Musical madness and epic nights are the result of the chemistry between indie pop acts Mako Road and Dolph (Dolphin Friendly). When asked by good …
Bright colours and fun are key to Annabel Dowding’s artwork on show at Muirs Bookshop Cafe. Imagery draws largely from nature and includes stylised birds, …
UK performers bring their award-winning Orpheus to the Dome
Encounters is the key word in the phrase “Tuia – Encounters 250” says contemporary New Zealand artist Peter Ireland. Tuia – Encounters 250 is the name …
Saturday, April 6 through to Sunday April 14
A car runs a red light. Cream on the strawberries would be nice; getting rained on in a wheelchair, that’s no fun — these are …
Melbourne City Ballet presents Alice In Wonderland
The four seasons wheel through this montage of pictures taken at the Eastwoodhill Arboretum by landscape photographer Ebony Whitaker. Bottom left is an image of …
Cross-dressing, magic and the carnivalesque feature in excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays Gisborne school students bring to life next week. Tragedy, comedy, romance, manipulation and murder …
Lesbian museum, the Charlotte Museum Trust, will exhibit a pop-up display that includes a quilt, cartoons, "herstory" and badges. Two films will be screened as …
Singer/acoustic guitarist Stretch and cellist Paula Sugden take their bittersweet blend of folk, soul and rock 'n' roll that spans dark-hearted ballads and roof-raising choruses …
“What’s in a name?” asks young Romeo during the balcony scene in Shakespeare’s tragic romance Romeo and Juliet. “By any other name would smell as …
Swiss-Kiwi electro-folk artist Sonic Delusion brings his pop-drenched, funky and folk looped beats from his upcoming album Anything Goes. After more than 10 years in …
The graphic for the hard-out New Zealand duo Skinny Hobos’ The Merchant of Tirau act’s single features a typical Kiwi villa in neon green and …
Chaitanya Santana Temepara Like running water down the valley in the mist, says classical guitarist Chaitanya Santana Temepara of Chinese lute music. To broaden his …
The pipe organ is usually one of the many instruments that make up the orchestra in performances of Bach’s St John Passion, says Wellington City …
Big heads, Small Room, was the name of young Turks, John Walsh, Richard (Buck) Rogers, Daryl File and Kent Baddeley’s 1985 exhibition. “They operated from …
Tonight’s performance of Evolution Theatre Company’s well-received production of the comedy Sylvia is cancelled. The production which continues its season on Friday, and ends on …
Actor/playwright Nancy Brunning’s new play Witi’s Wahine will have its world premiere at the inaugural Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival in October. Based on excerpts from …
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