Playing new role at Globe
Playing new role at Globe
Dunedin actor and director Terry MacTavish has trod the boards at the Globe Theatre many times. Now for the first time she will direct a play there. She tells Rebecca Fox about the personal...
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Music finds a way in pandemic
Music finds a way in pandemic
Covid-19 has come with a silver lining for pianist Diedre Irons — she is in demand and has had her work heard internationally online. She tells Rebecca Fox about windfalls and keeping work fresh.
From the editor
From the editor
While I write this the drizzle is a thick curtain and fog has surrounded the hills. Just the weather for a glass of Mark Henderson’s merlot with a piece of Christmas cake.
Young art talent on show
Young art talent on show
Nerves, excitement, relief are just some of the emotions Dunedin School of Art’s final year students are experiencing as their work goes on display to the public this weekend. Rebecca Fox talks to...
An instrumental concern
An instrumental concern
As more young people take up the pipe organ, concerns grow about the number of instruments left for them to play. Rebecca Fox talks to organists and those who love the instrument about their future.
Foreign objects
Foreign objects
Experiencing something totally foreign to you for the first time is a feeling Auckland artist Peter Simpson is investigating in his exhibition ‘‘Literature’s arrival to the Pacific’’. Rebecca Fox...
Vandals key to project success
Vandals key to project success
The vandals who damaged Maggie Covell’s art billboards and posters in public parks ensured her message reached larger audiences than it might have done otherwise.
Local food for local people
Local food for local people
At a national food hui run by Eat New Zealand and the Restaurant Association of New Zealand last week, producers, researchers and those involved in hospitality talked about issues facing New...
Returning Kiwi kai to the nation’s kitchens
Returning Kiwi kai to the nation’s kitchens
New Zealand chef Matt Lambert wowed New York when he opened The Musket Room. Now back in New Zealand and working as executive chef of The Lodge Bars, including Queenstown’s, he talked to the...
Putting on a variety show
Putting on a variety show
Two top Central Otago wine-makers are in Dunedin this week supporting local hospitality in tough Covid-19 times while a few sharing stories. They tell Rebecca Fox about being similar but...
Kaupapa Maori connections
Kaupapa Maori connections
A group of young Maori art practitioners curating an exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery have created a multilayered journey in pursuit of a greater understanding of matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge).
Musical paths entwine
Musical paths entwine
Bridget Douglas and Al Fraser’s collaboration featuring Western flutes and nga taonga puoro first rang out in Dunedin’s St Paul’s Cathedral earlier this year but has now been recorded. Rebecca Fox talks to them about Silver Stone Wood Bone’s many Dunedin connections.
Examining mental health in theatre
Examining mental health in theatre
Former University of Otago theatre student Dan Goodwin will Zoom into Dunedin at the New Zealand Young Writers Festival to pass on some advice on writing about mental health in a safe way.
Short, sharp fiction shots
Short, sharp fiction shots
Dunedin author Emma Neale has just released her first collection of short fiction. She tells Rebecca Fox about her reluctance to tackle the genre.
Creativity looms large
Creativity looms large
Top New Zealand tapestry artist Marilyn Rea-Menzies visited Dunedin recently to pass on her skills to a new generation of weavers. Rebecca Fox spoke to her about her work.
Ceramic innovation
Ceramic innovation
Through the ups and downs of the past 60 years, Ceramics New Zealand has soldiered on from its start in Dunedin. Rebecca Fox talks to ceramics judge Dr Emma Bugden about staying the course.
Festival culmination of long-held dream
Festival culmination of long-held dream
A new chamber music festival aims to bring classical music to the Central and Lakes Districts of Otago influenced by the area’s amazing landscapes and inspiring further creativity, Rebecca Fox finds.
Treasured objects bring life to writing
Treasured objects bring life to writing
A new writing festival using one of Dunedin’s grandest historical mansions as inspiration is being held this weekend. Rebecca Fox talks to award winning NZ
author Catherine Chidgey.
Culinary career ‘just happened organically’
Culinary career ‘just happened organically’
Christchurch sisters Margo and Rosa Flanagan, aka the ‘‘Two Raw Sisters’’, hosted a workshop in Dunedin last week. Rebecca Fox caught up with the busy pair.
Taste of Central
Taste of Central
It’s the town known for Jimmy’s Pies and its stonefruit, but what else does the small Central Otago town of Roxburgh have to offer, asks Rebecca Fox.