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What's on in Gisborne

Saturday, February 3TRAAMPS. Folk and a variety of other genres. The Band Room, 200 Childers Rd, 2-4pm, $2 in the jar. Ph 868 9658, newsham@xtra. co. nzFull Moon Party. Brazilbeat Sound System and friends. Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 10pm-1.30am...

A culturally-responsive lens

Cobham School is Gisborne’s best-kept educational secret, says principal Teresa Scott. At the heart of programmes the school has taken on to foster positive behaviour and academic achievement is Mana Enhancement, an initiative that gives the...

The colour of summer

Bring a tropical holiday feel home to your garden by planting a mandevilla. They have brilliant colours, large trumpet-shaped flowers and glossy leaves that put on a fabulous show from spring right through to autumn. And don't forget your veggie...

'In it for life’

Gisborne's Dion Williams, the newest ‘Life Member' of the Gisborne region's surf lifesaving organisation, honoured at 'Awards of Excellence' night

Stepping into Shakespeare

Te Kohe Tuhaka had never finished reading a Shakespearean text, let alone acted in one of the English master’s plays before he got the call up to audition for the 2017 Pop-Up Globe season. The former Lytton High School student, known for his...

Genre-bending music

Tairāwhiti's favourite cosmic, psychedelic surf rock group is back with a new single. Oceanspace have transformed their live performance of Gypsy With a Mortgage at Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival last year from fleeting to formed as a digital single...

The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play

Two bored kids. One rainy day. Enter a cat in a red-striped hat and a penchant for repetitive and often rhyming lines. The Cat in The Hat interrupts the rainy afternoon with his unexpected visit to Sally and her brother’s home. Their outspoken pet...

Sound & vision

In an exclusive audience with David Bowie — the rock legend happened to be sitting in an otherwise empty Auckland bar — Napier musician Roy Brown approached him with a cracker opening line.“I said ‘Hey, David Bowie, my name is Roy Brown...

The mortal veil, at Lysnar House

A moustached nude male poses with a bowl of marbles in his lap for a life drawing class in a Hale and Pace comedy skit. To the comic’s horror, his marbles bounce onto the floor when a buxom artist enters and leans over to preen herself. Although...

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A western fable of unpasteurised poetry

by Jake Coyle, AP Film WriterThe American West is about as well-trod territory as there is in movies, but Kelly Reichardt keeps unearthing new treasures. Her latest excavation, First Cow, is her most sublime yet. Like many of Reichardt’s previous...

Kava Corner with Campbell

Kiwi broadcasting legend John Campbell has hooked up with Auckland rapper Melodownz to down kava in the first episode of a new web series. Campbell revealed he was going into the session after getting up for the day at 3.30am, as he usually does, to...

The essence of life

Across Te Urewera Forest, the terrain resembles a vast and undulating green korowai, mantling countless ridges, where some mountains slope steeply while others are crumpled like used tissues. Beech forest dominates the southern end, while rimu and...

The Covid games

Diana “Dobbie” Dobson was at the centre of an unfolding global story as the press attache for transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympic Games. As the first port of call for journalists from around the world, Dobson and New...

Global sounds

The last of Tairawhiti Museum’s Sunday concert series for the year stars Te Koki guitarists duo Sirisan Sobhanasiri, right, from Thailand, and Christopher Everest from New Zealand. The duo promise a diverse programme that features music from the...

I’m just mad about Saffron

Silky smooth and bursting with passionfruit, this tropical tart will win everyone over. Swirl cream on top or decorate with seasonal fruit for an absolutely delicious dessert

Many voices, one call

The disability community has many voices in Tairawhiti. Shaan Te Kani tunes in to the latest call being made by local whanau to fill gaps in disability support and services for the elderly . . .Those with the quietest voices, often have the greatest...

In fair Verona,Romeo and Juliet ever-present

It’s a long way away, Italy. We were late starting, so the total time, including waiting in Hong Kong, wasn’t as long as I’d been expecting, but even so, I had time for a thick novel, a long struggle with the “Times” cryptic crossword, an...