Pop, rock and R&B fans will find a decent assortment of top-shelf concert films on Netflix, including Springsteen on Broadway, Beyoncé’s Homecoming and Justin T...
The Planets, Lady’s Face, Big Ben, and Tiger’s Eye are the titles of some of the artworks created on Gisborne Herald lithographic plates by brothers Alex and Be...
The imperial trinity of Kings, the Regent and the Majestic theatres offered a good night out to Gisborne and East Coast residents in the 1960s.
Pubs closed at 6...
Performances of works by classical music giants Bach and Beethoven presented by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are streaming online this week.
In the third ...
A painterly approach to the photographic medium can be seen in Gisborne woman Julia De Cleene’s response to living in a bubble during the lockdown.
The artwork ...
Painting outdoors one day with the late Juliet Bowen, Gisborne artist Zoe Alford announced her frustration with watercolours.
For many years, the two artists wo...
Now in its 20th year — and its first in lockdown — this year's theme for New Zealand Music Month is support local, stream local, follow local and buy local.
“Th...
A Gisborne audience heard live for the first time last year pianist Tony Chen Lin perform Daydream, a piano suite Lin had commissioned Chinese-New Zealand compo...
On the first day of the New Zealand music month of May, Gisborne five-piece, Supreme Brother Sound, launched their debut single, Motives. The soul, funk, R&B so...
Bach Sei Solo is one of three, free streamed premieres by the NZSO this week.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra continues its weekly free streamed performances...
National Theatre Live’s at home series of free screenings got off to a colourful start with the comic farce One Man, Two Guvnors, faltered with a devised produc...
From London Street to London city, empty streets everywhere look like the deserted city scenes from the zombie apocalypse masterpiece, 28 Days Later.
You could ...
For those who missed the news, Gisborne’s SwitchFM radio station is back on air and online.
You can find the station, and its multiple music genres, on the radi...
Lady Gaga has pulled together top artists for a one-off concert to support coronavirus response efforts.
Available now online, the One World: Together at Home c...
Absurdity, comedy and pathos are thrown into a blender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the next production in the National Theatre at Home series of screenings....
A broken-hearted young woman descends into madness and death, hooks up with the Wilis, the ghosts of vengeful jilted women, then has to learn how to forgive.
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An international print exhibition designed to present “the complex nature of the printmaking process in the fullest possible manner” has accepted all three of G...
An Auckland Theatre Company adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull could go horribly wrong or it could be a groundbreaking coup.
The 19th century Russia...
by Kai May Botton
Also expressing her way out of her bubble is Gisborne traveller Kai May Botton who is trapped in France due to the travel ban and whose poem i...
As soon as the borders open he is off. In the meantime, fashion designer Cruze Kapa from Gisborne is ‘stuck’ at his aunty’s house in Taupo, getting creative wit...
To help keep the Gisborne community theatre flame alive, Evolution Theatre Company is staging a 48-Hour Virtual Play Festival.
Registrations for the festival c...
Anonymous England-based street artist Banksy unveiled his new masterpiece on social media as he “works from home” during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The mysterious a...
Given New Zealanders were confined to their respective bubbles during the Covid-19 Alert Level 4 response, the online VF48Hours: Lockdown filmmaking challenge's...
Tyler Rake sounds like a Mad-Libs action hero name. When you add to the mix that this character actually, literally kills someone with a rake, it starts to veer...
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the widely performed modern mass to peace, The Armed Man, composer Karl Jenkins wants your pictures of peace and tranquilli...
A meditative soundscape that combines puoro with subtle electronica “to create a beautiful orchestra of nature”, can be viewed in Jerome Kavanagh’s video, Oro A...
BrazilBeat Sound System’s Nego Beto and Mara Weiss get the afrobeats and Latin rhythms pumping again on Saturday at 9pm. The house party broadcast can be stream...
Young lovers divided by bitter family rivalry is at the heart of the London Globe Theatre's production of Shakesepeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Now available...
Taught classical piano by Gisborne tutor Coralie Hunter, former Boys’ High student Mustafa Sheikh later developed a taste for rap. Better known as Mussie, and a...
Sitting in a bunker, here behind my wall . . . in perfect isolation . . .
Among rock gods helping us get through the self-isolation of lockdown, English psyched...