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20 Nov 2024

The Gisborne Herald

Portraits of faith: Artist tells nuns’ stories

The result is a collection of paintings that make up the Tairāwhiti exhibition and Hansen’s book titles Wimples, Crosses and Lepers: Women of Influence

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20 Nov 2024

Award-winning Gisborne singer Rawinia Gordon forms new band

Gordon started singing as a young girl with the Whatatutu Variety Club before joining the Gisborne Country Music Club

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19 Nov 2024

The Drama of the Kororā: New book by two Wainui Beach School students

A book based on a true story of some little blue penguins and written and illustrated by two Wainui Beach School students will be officially launched at Muirs Bookshop next week. The Drama of the Kororā was created by Betsy Findlay and Zoë...

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15 Nov 2024

Priscilla Queen of the Desert review: Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production is a high energy extravaganza

Take three drag queens, some singing divas, a very busy ensemble cast, upbeat disco music a dizzying number of costume changes and a bus with sparkling lights and a large stiletto shoe on the roof and you’ve got Musical Theatre Gisborne’s...

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15 Nov 2024

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa hosts Tōku Ake exhibition, raising over $6000 for C Company

A striking range of students’ artwork is being exhibited at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Tōku Ake, My Journey, My Pathway is a culmination of work completed over the year. The exhibition has been artfully curated by Johnny Moetara including the use of...

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15 Nov 2024

Panto magic: Sleeping Beauty brings festive fun to Lawson Field Theatre

Audiences can expect fun and frolics when the pantomime Sleeping Beauty is staged by Evolution Theatre at Lawson Field Theatre in December. It’s the traditional fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty but with lots of slapstick humour. “People can expect...

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14 Nov 2024

Sparkling costumes and real stories: Priscilla set to hit Gisborne stage

“We have been incredibly fortunate to have the use of amazing costumes from Joanne Neilson in our show, some that had never been worn before and were made for an exhibition she had at Tairāwhiti Museum,” says director and choreographer Dean...

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07 Nov 2024

Boys’ sailing adventure: Aurora programme sets course for young voyagers

An Aurora Education Foundation mentoring programme for boys gave a group of 19 students a “cool” experience aboard the Tairāwhiti waka hourua. The programme, run in collaboration with Tairāwhiti Voyaging Trust, was designed to give the boys...

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06 Nov 2024

Gisborne artist Glenn Brown wins national art prize with futuristic Battle of Wellington

Gisborne artist Glenn Brown has won the Supreme Award in the Feilding and District Art Society’s 2024 Art Awards with a work which depicts a futuristic vision of New Zealand’s capital city. The painting, titled Battle of Wellington, is 1800cm x...

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05 Nov 2024

Torere Macadamias’ Vanessa Hayes recognised for innovative Māori business leadership

Gisborne entrepreneur Vanessa Hayes sees her success as the success of everyone who has joined her in her work to grow the New Zealand macadamia industry. Hayes (Ngāi Tai, Whakatōhea,Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) – the founder and chief executive of...

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01 Nov 2024

Artist Chrissy Morrell showcases diverse works in upcoming exhibition

At the bottom of a garden in a brightly painted orange studio in Wainui, a collection of Chrissy Morrell’s artwork is ready to be displayed in her exhibition Four Seasons. The prolific output, featuring a variety of landscapes and colourful...

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24 Oct 2024

She Shed Tour celebrates nine years with new venues and 10 new artists

Artists are working hard and studios and gardens are getting spruced up ahead of next month’s She Shed Tour Gisborne which will feature two new venues and 10 new artists. New venues are potter Judi Murphy’s garden and studio in Wainui and Sandr...

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