A detail from one of Jolene Douglas's portraits of women who are linked to the ocean.
Housed in a small gallery at Tairawhiti Museum, the exhibition of pastel ...
Unsung singing group the Hospice Tairawhiti Songsters can't be found on Spotify, but they are familiar faces and voices in Gisborne's rest homes.
This week, a ...
Deep down in some small recess of Julie McPhail's soul was a tiny wish the turnout for auditions for Unity Theatre's auditions for Calendar Girls would not be b...
Sammy J – the Someday Tour
Australian native Sammy Johnson embraces his Maori and Polynesian roots to create positive and uplifting music. Smash Palace, to...
With its turn-over of works by an eclectic range of artists, central city location and high traffic flow, the Miharo gallery is all about freshness — and nothin...
Classic rock with instruments and face-melting guitar lead breaks comes this way with Wellington three-piece Sea Mouse. Mousey though is hardly an epithet that ...
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, better known as The Importance of Being Earnest, a farcical comedy by Oscar Wilde, is Evolution Theatre Company's next big ...
Along with learning drama techniques such as improvisation, voice and body movement, Gisborne Theatre School students develop their own characters and scripts, ...
It was a dark and stormy night when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died, wrote Joseph Deiner on January 1856. Apparently it was dark and stormy at the funeral, too.
“R...
Electronic and house music will be mixed up with Afrobeat, hip hop and moombahton when BrazilBeat, and friends take over Smash Palace tomorrow night.
Moombahton...
A spin on the iconic kiwiana toy, Buzzy Bee, is one of two pieces by Gisborne artist Conor Jeory that have been accepted for the annual Molly Morpeth Canaday Aw...
Home for summer, Wairoa's latest acting sensation Ethan Browne talks to Wairoa Star reporter Ira Heyder about his role on the popular Australian TV soap Home an...
Applications are now open to the NZ Art Show, one of New Zealand's premier art events and a hub of artistic curiosity for more than 10,000 art lovers each year....
Business owner, LGBTQIA+ advocate, wife, and celebrant, Neilson's career has possibly never been as glittering as when Divine Joanne Neilson and her troupe take...
A pen, pencil and ink drawing of crying eyes attracted the highest bid at Miharo Gallery's first Wet Paint project auction on Friday.
Karl Bothamley, a keen co...
Returning to Gisborne for another show, Isaiah B Brunt will bring blues with a whole lotta soul and Itty Kitty.
Mostly known for his work in the blues and jazz...
The Dunedin Sound of indie pop music, Hamish Kilgour's psych-inflected guitar-pop tunes and Emily Riordan's mix of wistfulness and boundary-pushing musical text...
Drizzled with dismemberment and cannibalism, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is presented as a wickedly funny cooking show in Evolution Theatre Company's upcomin...
From Kill ‘Em All to Hardwired to Self-Destruct, songs from Metallica's every album will make up Gisborne tribute act Harbinger's show at Smash Palace on Saturd...
The song Pulled in the musical The Addams Family points to the gothic humour in the show.
Tortured by love for a sweet, smart young man from a respectable fami...
From science fiction to romance, from haiku to memoir, the Tairawhiti Writers Hub is taking submissions for an anthology of writings from the East Coast.
A few ...
Love is in the air is the theme of Evolution Theatre's, Valentines Day cabaret-style concert, New York Nights.
Singers range from newcomers to the stage to sea...
Photography means looking at something in a different way, says Elenor Gill, whose work is exhibited along with that of Kate Snow at Zest Cafe.
“A photograph, ...
A supercontinent that existed about 500 million years ago lends its name to a trio of musicians from different worlds - and now Pangaea is drifting this way.
P...
Fiesta Latina is back — a night of Latin beats and dance. This time there's a little something extra to get you in the mood. Gisborne group Los Village Burritos...
With suitcase kick-drum stomping, stand-on-the-double bass dancing, classical acoustic guitar through a whammy pedal, and former Gisborne woman Bonnie Hurunui o...
Saturday, February 8
Earlybird Market. Fresh seasonal fruit and veges, pickles, plants and other goods. Alfred Cox Park, 204 Grey St, 6-8am, $5 stall. Proc...
Saturday, February 1
Earlybird Market. Fresh seasonal fruit and veges, pickles, plants and other goods. Alfred Cox Park, 204 Grey St, 6-8am, $5 stall. Proc...
Give them a laugh, a smile on the way out and you've done something,” Centre Stage founder, the late Maureen Potroz once told The Gisborne Herald.
Maureen left ...