arts

Touring family-based band "Lava" is playing Invercargill as part of its current South Island tour.

Invercargill has special significance for singer Amanda O'Connor, whose family grew up here in the 50s and 60s before her father, Lester Ironside, found work in America as a surveyor and took wife Beatrice (nee Mackay) and their eight children by boat to New York.

Wendy Yang, an Otago graduate, joins pianist, John Van Buskirk to present a violin recital with a collection of dance music.

The worldwide phenomenon of Pecha Kucha, Japanese for ‘chit chat’ is coming to Queenstown on Thursday, 3rd December.

SongBong are running a drum making workshop in Port Chalmers as part of the lead-up to the PORT-able Art Parade and Kite Festival on November 16th. This workshop is funded by Creative Communities and is a rare opportunity to make a quality musical instrument.