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Clay with May

A SIX-week “hand building with clay” course is now available under Gisborne potter Seymour May. The technique involves working with clay with simple tools rather than the pottery wheel.“Hand building is a great way to learn about clay and its...

Weighing in

Kitini Taihuka has made rapid progress in his new sport, weightlifting. His road to a more active and healthy lifestyle is no less remarkable, and shows what can be achieved with a wholehearted approach and the support of friends and family. John...

Time for the Lyon’s share

His sax practice used to drift over a sandy, lupined empty section in Gisborne’s Cobham Place when the subdivision was still in development. When the upwardly mobile moved to a Barker’s Hill subdivision, musician Harry Lyon’s family moved with...

Double celebration

The National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa in Rotorua plays a vital role in saving our precious national bird. The facility incubates kiwi eggs and hatches chicks to save them from being eaten by predators in the wild. Out of every 100 kiwi eggs laid in...

The chop or tear debate

WE ALL know eating vegetables is a good way to improve health. And for many years the focus has been on just eating more vegetables, be it fresh, frozen or tinned. But what if there was a quicker and easier way to get more benefit from our...

Mainstreaming of conscious consumers

Phasing out all single-use plastics is the new goal of Plastic Bag Free Tairawhiti (PBFT).Single-use plastic bags were an obvious starting point but the focus will shift to other forms of single-use plastics, says spokesperson for PBFT Bess...

Blooms for mood and ambience

Choose a spot in the garden that receives full sun to part-shade and is well-drained. Enrich the soil with Yates Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food. Dig the planting hole twice as wide and to the same depth as the root-ball. Remove the shrub from the...

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Eminem rumour a little ‘shady’

THE twitterings of a spoof blog site set off gossip about a headliner for this year’s Rhythm and Vines music festival but, as the subject of the rumours might have said, the information is pretty shady. In fact, festival founding director Hamish...

Tokomaru Bay woman on target for nursing career

A study and career preparation course with EIT Tairāwhiti has set a Tokomaru Bay woman on the path she has dreamed about. The Level Three and Four courses taken by Jaedi Davies this year has given her the skills and confidence to enrol to do...

Health, well-being and waka

Gisborne woman Ngahuia Mita has developed a knowledge of Tairawhiti waka, and in particular Maori connection to the ocean and why it is so important to health and well-being. She talks to Kim Parkinson about her life and work, which has been boosted...

The persistence of vision

With burlesque queer as the theme for a music video from New Plymouth vocal loop artist EJ Barrett's single, Paint Me A Picture, Tairawhiti TV producer/director Tee Wells knew the ideal setting for the shoot.“I thought ‘There's only one place we...

Riding the wave

The jangly-guitar and rolling beats of the 1960s South Californian surf music sound is instantly recognisable in Gisborne band Set Waves' debut album. Song titles such as Shoot the Curl, Kook Don't Steal My Wave, and Acid Drop tap into the American...

MasterChef Swiss alpine -style

HIGH in the lush green meadows of the beautiful Engadine, I met a famous chef and television star. I was visiting an organic farm in Vnà, a tiny alpine village of 50 people in the Lower Engadine in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The farmer, Fadri...

The jazzman cometh

From Super Rugby stadiums to the theatre stage in Haiti and the ethio-jazz clubs of Addis Ababa, Lucien Johnson and his saxophone have performed in many different places far from his Wellington home town. The musician performs in Gisborne next week...

Laughter, love and pop music

Heidi Rice as Donna Sheridan“Glitter is in my veins,” says Heidi Rice whose childhood love of Abba music, and her more adult affection for the musical Mamma Mia, helped land her a lead role in the Musical Theatre Gisborne (MTG) production. Rice...