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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 Herald

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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Gisborne Herald

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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23 Oct 2024

Joanne Neilson makes history as first transgender woman in New Zealand to star in Priscilla

In a typical performance she would lip sync and dance, as well as tell jokes and deal with hecklers, but she thought it would make it more authentic to do her own vocals in Priscill

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22 Oct 2024

Play It Strange awards concert to feature Gisborne Girls’ High School winning duo

Gisborne Girls’ High School has achieved another outstanding result at the Play It Strange songwriting competition with students Breanna Osgood-Lloyd and Hinemaurea Wikitapu Waikari winning the Youth Town prize for their song He Can’t Be Mine...

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21 Oct 2024

Gisborne artist Cate King showcases emotional resilience in new exhibition Layers Within

The complexities of womanhood and motherhood are explored in the latest works by Gisborne artist Cate King. Her exhibition, Layers Within, which features portraits of women’s faces and some larger abstract works, opens this weekend at Matawhero...

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17 Oct 2024

Te Tuhi supports Gisborne artist Melanie Tangaere Baldwin’s residency at renowned Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Gisborne multi-disciplinary artist, curator and arts educator Melanie Tangaere Baldwin (Ngāti Porou) has been selected to do a four-week artist’s residency at the acclaimed Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England next month. Baldwin was selected by...

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17 Oct 2024

NZ/DC brings heavy metal energy to Gisborne with full AC/DC setlist

Audiences can expect to hear all of AC/DC’s banging tunes in a full-on explosive show when tribute band NZ/DC take the stage at Smash Palace this week. “It’s the sort of show I need to warm up for,” says lead guitarist Dan Cosgrove. This...

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14 Oct 2024

15 artists featured in The Aviary’s Spring Show

The Spring Show, featuring art, jewellery and ceramics by Gisborne artists, opens tomorrow at The Aviary Collective in The Poverty Bay Club. The variety of works on display showcases the talent in the region while the show is timed perfectly in the...

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10 Oct 2024

Gisborne to Nashville: Homegrown country singing star returning to her roots with family

Gisborne-born country music singer Camille French (nee Te Nahu) is back in New Zealand to perform at the prestigious NZ Country Music Entertainer of the Year Awards in Rotorua this weekend. The Nashville-based French Family Band made up of French...

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