NZ Art Show invitation

Artists from Gisborne, the East Coast and elsewhere are invited to apply for a place to exhibit at the 2020 NZ Art Show. The show …

Rhythm and Vines mobile app

Personalise your Rhythm and Vines schedule, store all the info you need in one place, and load up your personal favourites with the official R&V …

Music students at Smash Palace tonight

Te Wananga o Aotearoa music students showcase their talent in an end of year concert at 7.30pm tonight at Smash Palace. Free entry. …

When engagement parties go bad

In the simpler times of the 1920s, holding an engagement party on the Muriwai Express was a wipping wag. Unfortunately for one party-goer on the …

Pianomania — put it at the top of your Liszt

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 …

Straight outta Kaiti

Sawdust on the bar floor, blood and beer in the sawdust — those pub band nights might be over, but good, old-fashioned, meat and three …

Ladies sing the blues

Ladies Sing The Blues is the name of next month’s Poverty Bay Blues Club evening. Any blues muso is welcome to take the stage at …

From Capture to PriMau

Shameless self promotion, confesses former Gisborne musician Maurice Priestley in his email about recording The Spines in his PriMau Production studio. Priestley is now based …

What's on in Gisborne

From Saturday, December 7, to Sunday, December 15

Jamfest

Eighty students and tutors will jam to 35 songs at the Band School’s end of year concert on Sunday at the War Memorial Theatre, 2pm. …

Taking it a step further

Donald Trump never fitted in, his dad hated him and, as one of the 1 percent of the richest people in the US, he’s in …

Musicians from around the world meet in Gisborne

Conceived in the wake of Cyclone Bola, the Gisborne International Music Competition has reigned, hailed and stormed its way through 30 years of world-class, live …

THE SOUND OF SUMMER

Dizfunk is among the DJs lined up for a sounds of summer mini-festival at Smash Palace on Saturday. On the Summer Sound Check’s main stage, …

New York Nights for London days

As one of 24 actors to make the Young Shakespeare Company who will workshop and perform at London’s Globe Theatre next year, Mat Hatten is …

A thing well made

If “craft” brings to mind macramed coat-hangers and driftwood sculptures, put your preconceptions into your rhinestoned trinket box and close the lid. Gisborne-based art historian …

A leprechaun at my table

The Pope, a leprechaun and an alleged IRA leader walk into a bar... The late Graeme Mudge’s characteristically light touch and sense of humour near …

The grand studio clear-out sale

A lifetime of painting, drawing and printmaking means artist Norman Maclean’s studio has become a little crowded over the years, so to free some space …

What's on in Gisborne?

Saturday, November 23, through to Sunday, December 1

The vicar, and the director, of Dibley

You won’t be the first and you won’t be the last to say Quannah Nickerson looks all the part of The Vicar of Dibley’s Reverend …

The legacy project

There’s a story that goes with every tree and every piece of handcrafted furniture made from them, says retired farmer Rodney Faulkner. He and his …

Exhilarating race for the Oscars

Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theatres wherever the new film Ford v Ferrari is playing. They might fund their …

Stripped back theatre at Unity

The true story of a group of women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for leukaemia research is the basis of Calendar Girls. …

We can be heroes

By public vote via social media Gizzy School Lunches and Hospice Tairawhiti will be recipients of funds raised at this year’s extravaganza, Stars in Their …

Sketching in the bush and among the vineyards

Two sketching workshop opportunities, one in the bush and one at a vineyard, are lined up this month. Sketching day with Ginny Penn Former occupational …

Music to drink and party to

Music to drink and party to, “not for sipping wine and eating crackers”, is how Wellington-based gypsy jazz act, Black Spider Trio have described themselves. …

What's on in Gisborne?

November 16 to 24

One of these nights...

On a dark desert highway/Cool wind in my hair . . . Sure, you can act too cool for sandals but deep down you know …

GBHS visual art and whakairo exhibition

A small selection of works from last week’s multi-cultural showcase of Gisborne Boys’ High School students’ visual art and whakairo. …

Top NZSO spot for McKeich

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 …

Character building in Dibley

Still laughing well into rehearsal