Entertainment

Taking the audience on a journey

A new performance piece by celebrated musician, producer and innovator Tiki Taane(Ngati Maniapoto) and multidisciplinary artist Kereama Taepa (Te Arawa, Te Ati Awa), Mai te Uira, combines digital visual art with music in a progressive and...

Kim Parkinson

18 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Named among Adam finalists

Gisborne artist Tyler Wray is a finalist in the prestigious Adam Portraiture Award after being selected from a record-breaking number of entries. The 19-year-old has always loved to draw and paint but said the portrait was the first large scale...

Kim Parkinson

18 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Happy (back) together

The cast of colourful characters in The Vicar of Dibley plays are back together again, in the latest offering from Musical Theatre Gisborne, with first-time director Jill White putting her own mark on the production. The Holy Trinity is the third...

Kim Parkinson

11 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Exhibition celebrates Wāhine Toa

Prepare to be wowed by a new exhibition celebrating women by Māhia artist Rosie Symes which opened at the Matawhero Art Gallery this week. The theme is Wāhine Toa with large portraits of mainly Māori women depicted in mixed media. Displayed...

Kim Parkinson

11 Apr 2024

Entertainment

It’s a question of reasonable doubt

Evolution Theatre founder Dinna Myers is back in the director’s chair — this time working on the popular American play 12 Angry Jurors. 12 Angry Jurors is a play that contemplates the huge responsibility of 12 ordinary people as they consider...

Kim Parkinson

11 Apr 2024

Entertainment

A creative life in action

At 75, Virginia Christensen has finally decided what she wants to be when she grows up — a painter. Her first solo exhibition opens on Sunday, at The Aviary Collective in Childers Road. Virginia hails from Wellington but spent part of her...

Loren Sirl

04 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Priscilla has it all

Aspiring musical theatre performers had a chance to strut their stuff on Tuesday night at a dance workshop ahead of auditions for Priscilla Queen of the Desert — The Musical. Director and choreographer Dean McKerras was in town to take the...

Caffeine hit reignites Kita

Visitors to the café at Tatapouri may be surprised to learn there’s a bit of star power behind the espresso machine preparing their flat whites and long blacks. Actor and musician Nikita Tu-Bryant is taking some time out of her busy life of...

Kim Parkinson

11 Jan 2024

Entertainment

Jung ones: Norman Maclean’s novel for YA readers

Sadly, Gisborne artist, teacher, scholar and writer Norman Maclean passed away before the release of his young adult read, Gobby — but it is hard not to see something of the author in the novel’s main character, Sam. Sam is a talented, aspiring...

Mark Peters

04 Apr 2024

Entertainment

Nature’s force

by Ann Revington The raw power of a river in flood, full of debris hurtling towards a wide open river bar inspired a Wairoa artist in her latest exhibition Cyclone Sees which opens today at 5pm at the Wairoa Museum. Joanna Abraham Joseph rushed down...

Fun on the farm

Bitches Box: Episode 4 is expected to deliver a night of laughs for cyclone-impacted regions in Tairāwhiti and Whakatāne next month. Comic actors Emma Newborn and Amelia Dunbar will revisit some of their most loved dog characters — the...

Gisborne Herald

28 Mar 2024

Entertainment

‘Breathe’ brings balance

A larger-than-life dandelion takes centre stage at Breath, which is Tairāwhiti museum’s newest exhibition. Tiny florets — those fuzzy bits of the dandelion — are scattered overhead, floating mid-air as if released by a puff of breath at local...

Loren Sirl

02 Nov 2023

Entertainment

Secondary school musicians get together for a weekend of music-making

Gisborne’s Combined Secondary Schools Orchestra got a bit of helping hand last weekend when they received expert tutoring from musicians from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Kim Parkinson

21 Mar 2024