Supreme Brother Sound
Dome Room, Saturday, 8pm. Tickets $10 from The Dome or the Aviary, $15 cash on the door.
Clown’s Kiss + The NGOs
South American-...
When Kurt Barker and James Bristow’s mates from around New Zealand came to stay in Gisborne, the two men set the longline.
“It provides food throughout the day ...
The Sandown Park Hotel was one of a handful of live music venues the ‘70s survived but in the 1980s, Doug Walsh’s disco rocked the cash bar.
Raised mostly at th...
■ The NGOs + Clown’s Kiss
Trippy Wainui sound + South American-flavoured rock. Smash Palace, Saturday 9pm. $5.
■ Poverty Bay Blues Club
Dome Room, Tuesday Jul...
A string of bespoke pennants designed by Gisborne-based surfer/graphic artist Daryn Mcbride put up for silent auction raised $275 towards a new trailer for th...
Whakaoho — stirring, arousing, awakening — is the apt name of Toihoukura Maori visual arts school's first physical exhibition of the year.
Usually held at the ...
Build-a-Band
Come along and jam at Smash Palace tonight, 6-9pm, free entry.
FreeDance
A movement and dance meditation practice with a variety of sound and rhyth...
The Gisborne Artists’ Society is up and running again and the first course of the year is a one-day event run by artist Jaqui Kay.
On Sunday June 28, 10am-4pm,...
Someone up there said ‘make it big', East Coast Music Ltd founder Tyna Keelan said of the Matariki concert planned for next month. And with a stellar line-up th...
When organisers of the International Virtual Engravist Printmaking Bienal arranged an online printmaking exhibition, hundreds of artists from around the world s...
Almost as many stars as appear in the Matariki cluster will appear on stage for Gisborne's inaugural public Matariki celebration next month.
Co-organised by Eas...
The Save Our Venues crowdfunding initiative has helped Gisborne's two main live music venues continue to support artists and two not-to-be-missed acts are comin...
Flamboyant, loud and likeable is how Liam Duncan describes his brilliant, witty and amoral bachelor character Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's comedy, The Im...
Last seen in these parts behind The Gisborne Herald's front desk, Uawa-Tolaga Bay woman Te Ao o Hinepehinga Rauna has since travelled overseas, returned and bee...
The Good Vibes music festival will be one of New Zealand’s first major live tours to hit the road in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
While there were some m...
Western classical and Maori music will combine in a Chamber Music New Zealand series of interactive webisodes from Sunday to celebrate Matariki.
Composed by Tro...
A tapa cloth workshop held last week underlined the connection between taonga Maori and taonga o Te Moana a Kiwa (Pacific Ocean).
“We believe there are connecti...
Driving out from painter Adrian Cave’s townhouse studio, English band 10CC’s Art For Arts Sake began to play on the car radio.
The coincidence was ironic beca...
My dear Millie, as I look out my cabin window I see —
Pukeko with red beak, yellow legs, white nappy and rich blue coat
Stalking across the lawn
Knowing I can s...
The year is 1969 and our boys have come home from the war to discover a battle of the sexes is just beginning in Evolution Theatre Company director Dinna Myers'...
Scenes of graveyards, bridges and wet trees conventionally used in Women's Institute calendars cop some disparaging remarks in Calendar Girls, the comedy Unity ...
I SAY: “A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing,” social climber and bastion of Victorian mores, Lady Augusta Bracknell (Eliza...
Auditions for Unity Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's powerful play, The Crucible, will be held at the theatre in Ormond Road on July 18 and 19.
Written i...
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...
American spaceman Buck Rogers first appeared in a 1929 comic as an Air Force pilot who wakes up from a 500-year sleep to find his homeland is overrun by Mongols...
A ribbon of foamy white streams from, or through, the mouth of the face stylised in the manner of a Maori carving in painter Dayna Chaffey’s work that won Mihar...
Among the more than 160 artists whose work features in this year's NZ Art Show are two Gisborne painters, a macrophotographer and a still life photography duo. ...
For centuries it has been the target of countless butts, been dismissed as “part of the furniture” and dangerously tilted back, but now a group of Gisborne quil...
by Dominic Corry, NZ Herald
After a string of savage initial reviews, a less-than-stellar opening weekend at the US box office, and a widely-mocked David Beckha...
If you bought this edition of The Gisborne Herald while the ink was still wet, you have time to create and submit a piece of work to Miharo Gallery’s second Wet...