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Gig guide

■The Walsh Brothers. Marina Park, tomorrow, 6pm.■Cosmopolitan Club, tomorrow, 8pm. Free entry.■Free music festival featuring The Black Seeds, Supreme Brother Sound, Troy Kingi and The Clutch, The Witchdoctor, Bella Kalolo and more. The...

Pink and purple ruffles

GOING past Teal Motor Lodge on Gladstone Road you might notice a different bunch of flowers from usual. These are ornamental kale — long-lasting rosettes of wavy-to-frilly leaves in colours not commonly seen in their more edible...

BACK COUNTRY MEMORIES

News of the destruction of some huts in Te Urewera sparked fierce debate this week, and court action. Sarah Curtis talked to outdoorsman Ben Piggott about the character back country shelters

Education in the wild

There is a difference between ‘out and about’ and Outward Bound — reporter Andrew Ashton finds out about how getting an outdoor education can not only be life-changing for participants of Outward Bound course but also lead to regional change...

Masterclass with Master Crafts

The Gisborne Artists' Society are ending a year of workshops with something a little different. Following Sandi Hickey's still life workshop last weekend, the Society is hosting master calligrapher Ray Crafts from Tauranga.“Although it is many...

Nice work if you can get it

And the gorilla goes to Gisborne 48Hours film festival winners . . . Kratos (SFX — crowd goes wild).For the third time in a row the Kratos film crew — Jol Sparks, Clarke Allen, Grant Ensor, Jared Rofe, Jonathan Poole, Matt Rofe, Pat Butler...

A Skull in Connemara show postponed at 11th hour

The “Covid axe” has fallen again on a Gisborne theatre production, with A Skull in Connemara postponed until June. The Unity Theatre production, directed by Norman Maclean, was due to open this week.“With only days to go, just when we were...

A passion for police youth education

After 27 years of working in the police force, Constable Pamela (Pam) Bell has hung up her uniform. She talks to Kim Parkinson about her long career and her passion for working as a youth education officer in Gisborne. Born in Katikati, Pam grew up...

Te Kurahuna exhibition opens tonight

Indigenous training provider Te Whare Wananga o Te Kurahuna is launching its new learning space with a traditional Maori arts exhibition tonight. Te Kurahuna is made up of over 25 services who meet regularly to reinstate and embed indigenous...

Gig Guide

Come along for some alternative music. Guests: Tauranga-based Threat. Meet. Protocol and locals Uni-Fi. Smash Palace, tomorrow. Tickets: $10 from undertheradar. co. nz or $15 door sales. St Andrew's Church, Sunday, 2pm. $20 for entry and afternoon te...

Song a response to painful daily news

“What is true sometimes is not. Think deeper,” is the message behind Gisborne-based act BrazilBeat Sound System’s recently-released song Propaganda Machine.“The daily news brings us those pictures of death and destruction,” says BrazilBeat...

Dame Kiri leads masterclass for NZ’s top opera students

NEW Zealand’s most well known international opera star, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, arrives next week in Whanganui to join the final week of the New Zealand Opera School. It will be the first time Dame Kiri has attended the opera school in its 22-year...

What's on in Gisborne

Reconnecting with The D4 trajectory

ONE of the last bands to play at The Kings Arms before Auckland’s legendary venue closes its doors forever will be hard-out rock act The D4. Then they head south to rock Gisborne’s industrial subdivision. When The D4 exploded onto the music scene...

What's on in Gisborne?

Saturday, July 27Gisborne parkrun. Wear a colourful tutu on your run/walk. Meet: Waikanae Beach Playground, Grey St, 7.45am. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale. Plenty of bargains. In the...

Lost in time on Wilderness Trail

Covid-19 changed New Zealand forever — if not the world. As the Level 4 lockdown decimated international tourism overnight, the ripple effect promised to change Kiwis' travel choices in future. It could be the silver lining for domestic operators...

Songs for everybody

The influence that chance encounters play in our lives is explored in Ali Harper’s one-person show Songs for Nobodies.“I play five nobodies who all have an encounter with a somebody,” says Harper on a promo clip. The show the award-winning New...

Rasmalai twist

Rasmalai is a festive Indian dessert made of cottage cheese balls dunked in a creamy and delicious sweetened milk syrup. Taking inspiration from the dessert, Preeti Maheshwari decided to make cookies