Turning dreams to gold
Turning dreams to gold
Rebecca Fox takes a look at a new exhibition paying tribute to the Benson and Hedges Fashion Design Awards.
Rebecca Fox
Shifting time and space
Shifting time and space
Creating a dance work to be shown on a 360-degree dome has required some creative thinking from choreographer Daniel Belton and his technical team. They tell Rebecca Fox about the challenge.
Theatre, but not as you know it
Theatre, but not as you know it
We all dream about the places we would love to travel to, but poet Jenny Powell has taken it a step further.
Housewife's guide to life
Housewife's guide to life
The fear of standing up on stage has passed for Irish comic Mary Bourke who will tread the boards at Dunedin’s Fringe Festival.
Movers and shakers
Movers and shakers
Dunedin artist Ruth Evans tells Rebecca Fox why she chose a board game for her master’s degree of fine arts project.
Petit ballets a real challenge
Petit ballets a real challenge
The Royal New Zealand Ballet is bringing the never performed in New Zealand Roland Petit ballets of Carmen and L’Arlesienne to Dunedin on its national tour. Rebecca Fox finds out what makes these...
Something special
Collaboration something special
Leaving their guitars behind to instead be accompanied by a 64-piece orchestra has the Modern Maori Quartet excited about the possibilities. Rebecca Fox finds out how the collaboration has come...
Winning start to year
Winning start to the year
Otago chefs have held their own in a national competition to see who can cook red meat the best, finds Rebecca Fox.
No shortage of material
No shortage of material
With its 50th celebrations over, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra is starting afresh in new premises with a new season of events. Rebecca Fox finds out what it has planned for audiences this year.
Modern take on a classic
Modern take on a classic
The current goings on with social media savvy US President Donald Trump makes Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing quite relevant, its directors believe.
The word is out
The word is out
Word is getting around that the Dunedin Fringe Festival is the place to be for actors, comedians and performers of all types.
Director passes on the project
Director passes on the project
The face of Blue Oyster Art Project Space for the past three years, Chloe Geoghegan, is handing over the reins to a new director, Grace Ryder.
Discoveries in the South
Discoveries in the South
Dunedin was not on writer Victor Rodger’s radar until he received the Robert Burns Fellowship. A year later he calls the city ‘‘the big easy’’, he tells Rebecca Fox.
Drawing out the actor
Drawing out the actor
Actor John Bolton once turned up his nose at teaching and directing but has since discovered both pastimes can be fruitful. He tells Rebecca Fox about his journey to Dunedin.
Book brings Botswana to your kitchen
Book brings Botswana to your kitchen
One of New Zealand’s most successful brands to flourish without a celebrity chef endorsement, Botswana Butchery is looking to conquer bigger markets after releasing its first cookbook. Rebecca Fox...
Leaving notes for others
Leaving notes for others
Composers might be invisible but hearing musicans play their work can make it all worthwhile, 2016-17 University of Otago Mozart Fellow Chris Gendall tells Rebecca Fox.
Award to recognise good food producers
Award to recognise good food producers
A drive to remind New Zealanders how good the country’s produce is has seen food writer Lauraine Jacobs become a keen supporter of a new set of awards. She tells Rebecca Fox about the New Zealand Food Producer Awards.
In the finest tradition
In the finest tradition
The winners of this year's Robert Burns Poetry Competition come from both sides of the world, showing the "global power'' of this man binds people together more than 200 years after his death,...
No easy path to skill and beauty
No easy path to skill and beauty
To celebrate the Year of the Rooster, the Wuhan Acrobatic and Cultural Troupe will appear in a one-off show in Dunedin tonight. Rebecca Fox discovers it takes dedication and time to be a member.
Bringing ingredients together
Bringing ingredients together
Adam Doesburg describes himself as a bit of a magpie when it comes to careers but tells Rebecca Fox his latest role seemed written for him.