New Zealanders sometimes don't realise what amazing artists perform here, says Chris Adams, Mozart Fellow at Otago University. He's talking about the Southern Sinfonia's concerts on Saturday...
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Fortune theatre artistic director Lara Macgregor was scheduled to go to Christchurch at the end of February to direct Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. It was to play a five-week season there then...
Although works by Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) have been for sale in Dunedin from time to time, it appears this is the first time for more than 60 years a solo exhibition of her works for sale has...
Whatever happened to Bonnie Prince Charlie, the romantic young hero of legend and song, who led the Highlanders against the English in the Jacobite cause of the 18th century?
Big is not always most enjoyable when it comes to red wine.
Dane Mitchell enjoys pushing the boundaries of sculpture, and working with the unseen. He is interested in what he calls thresholds or liminal states, where material might shift or change from one...
Art is like a splinter that gets under the skin, then pops up again much later, according to Adrian Hall. "I think art is of life and art enriches life itself and it's reciprocal,"...
One of the things violinist Lara St John is desperate to do when she comes to New Zealand for the first time this week is meet a tuatara. "I think I was one of those kids that never...
Although Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) spent most of her working life in Europe and is accounted a British painter by many, Dunedin claims her as its own for she was born and grew up here and her...
Usually, a new artistic director has to swallow a whole year's programme organised by the previous regime, but Lara Macgregor, who started as the Fortune Theatre's artistic director in January, has had the luxury of making her own programme for the year.
Everyone has something that fires them up, something they were really meant to do, according to Sarah Court. "If you are not doing that thing you were really meant to do, that's when...
It's said Brahms' double concerto is not often played because soloists tend to be too egocentric to play together. • Leap of faith brought violinist back to musical roots However, Tessa...
After 13 years living and working in the US, Tessa Petersen and her American husband, pianist John Van Buskirk, gave up their musical careers and, in 2006, moved to Dunedin, where she had grown up.
Fantastical landscapes and fragile, teetering structures constructed out of other people's junk are characteristic of Joanna Langford's work. Charmian Smith talks to the 2010 Frances Hodgkins Fellow about her fellowship exhibition at the Hocken.
It's an old story - young people on their OE fall in love, return home and continue their relationship across the world. Charmian Smith talks to Julieanne Eason, whose play tells a contemporary love story.
Dunedin is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the gold rush and its gold heritage this weekend, but the fascination for gold goes back to ancient times. Charmian Smith talks to conservator Jenny Sherman about the use of gold leaf in paintings and on frames.
A polished ballet production sweeps you away with its seeming ease and charm, but behind the scenes it takes a lot of work. Charmian Smith, enchanted by the opening night of Pinocchio and Verdi Variations in Wellington, talks to a couple of the people who make it happen.
The remains of the old torpedo boatshed at Deborah Bay has found new life as Dunedin artist Rod Eales' studio. She is having an open day on Saturday . The shed was built in the 1880s by...
Dance performance Hullapolloi started as a joke, with performance artist Kate McIntosh and writer Jo Randerson thinking about making a work for the Rugby World Cup. "We started laughing...