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Dancer takes flight

BAFFLED by the French terminology when he took up ballet as a 10 year old, Gisborne dancer Austin Rice is now poised to make a grand jeté into the New Zealand School of Dance. Austin was one of about 170 applicants from around the country...

Bringing comedy back to Tairawhiti

Comedy legends from Aotearoa's longest-running comedy TV show will bring laughs and a memorable night of entertainment to Gisborne, when 7 Days Live reaches our shores next month. A star-studded line-up for this year's tour includes show regulars Ben...

Rado and Raybon Save The World at the Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club

Leading New Zealand comedians Nick Rado and Raybon Kan have teamed up to perform a two-hour show in which stand-up lights the way to the pair saving the world – they guarantee the world will not end during the show. Their show, appropriately...

Portrait of an artist

WIILLIAM Crawford was a photographer of prodigious output, and the 5000 surviving images he shot are just the tip of his oeuvre. But, as with many people, his production was greatest after he retired from the workforce. And it may be that his grief...

International vibes to East Coast

East Coast Vibes might be all about showing off the Gisborne lifestyle and keeping it local but they have been getting a lot of international attention.“We get contacted quite a bit throughout the year from bands who want to come to the...

Landslide adds second show

Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks tribute act Landslide play at the Dome next month but the show booked out in a flash. The five-piece will now play a second night so be quick to book. Landslide is an Auckland-based band covers Fleetwood Mac and Stevie...

Ice and fire from the north

THE ice and hide of Nordic mythology is the oft favoured character of heavy metal bands, but South Auckland three-piece Vallkyrie’s sound is more about rock and hip hop with pop influences, says band manager Shae Sterling. Consisting of Rebel Reid...

DESERT RUN

This trip has been eight months in the planning but Michelle says it has come around quickly. On Monday she and husband Pete will embark on a journey to the other side of the world via Dubai before heading to Amman, Jordan and on to the Petr...

What's on in Gisborne

Saturday, March 9Gisborne Parkrun. A 5km run or walk for all abilities. Meet at Waikanae Beach Playground for 8am start. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale. A variety of realistically-priced...

The Royal Family in Gisborne

Polyswagg is an aura that emanates from one’s being through dance that oozes with ancestral culture and ultra-skill, according to the urban dictionary. It is also Auckland-based The Palace Dance Studio’s signature style. On Saturday, the...

Memory play

Aspiring writer Tom Wingfield, played by Andrew Stevens in Evolution Theatre Company's upcoming production of Tennesee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, types while his mother Amanda (Elizabeth Boyce), tries to help him see better in this scene from...

Black Dog

I have a Black Dog, Black Dog is his name. He is old and scruffyBut I love him just the same. I brush his fur and pat his headAnd talk to him all night long. Somehow he seems to understandWhen anything is wrong. I never give him dog foodHe shares my...

Industrial grunge as art

INDUSTRIAL grunge comes to mind when viewing Gisborne photographer Tom Teutenberg’s black and white pictures. Among them are images of urban hardware such as a a traffic light next to the train tracks; cable guy-lines in cracked plastic insulation...

What's on in Gisborne?

Saturday, February 23Mahia Tuna Tournament (to Feb 24). A fishing contest targeting tuna, marlin, kingfish, kahawai and snapper, with lucky angler draws. Mahia Boating and Fishing Club, 1 Pohutukawa Dr, 7am, $40 members, $50 non-members. Register at...

Nowhere to Somewhere

A COLONY of surveillance cameras on the ceiling of the entrance space watch visitors at the Nowhere to Somewhere exhibition at the Paul Nache Gallery. At least, the minion-like cameras would keep an eye on people if they were not carved from wood...

What, ho!

Actor Fraser Grout is a returned serviceman, a Royal Essex Major, who has found work as a radio actor and managed to land a role in an Alfred Hitchcock triple feature for voices and sound effects.“I had a good war despite the accommodation,”...

What's on in Gisborne?

Saturday, October 12Gisborne Harbour Market. Come along for some bargains. Behind the Courthouse on Reads Quay, 7am set-up, start 8am, finish 2pm, $10 car/stall. Car/stall inquiries; Gisborne Host Lions Club: Charlotte 021 141 8754, Malcolm 027 568...

The brave women of WW1

GISBORNE has made more effort to remember its women of World War 1 who went overseas than any other New Zealand city. With Tairawhiti Museum’s recent exhibition and Kay Morris Matthew’s book Recovery, it has led the way in honouring the women as...