Next month Wellington's New Zealand Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary with old favourites and some acts bound to become new favourites. Rebecca Fox discovers a a surprising number of Otago connections among the mix.
After nearly 50 years making jewellery Tony Williams is looking forward to semiretirement. Rebecca Fox discovers the rich history of the craftsman.
While mystery still surrounds some of the acts coming to Dunedin next year, there is still plenty to put in your new diary, Rebecca Fox discovers.
Young Dunedin jeweller Rebecca Scarlett dedicates her spare time to learning her craft. She tells Rebecca Fox about her work.
Silver spoons, old metal cheese graters and grandma knickers all form part of Dunedin contemporary jeweller Victoria McIntosh's work. She tells Rebecca Fox about the work which has been selected to be shown on the international stage.
Lifestyle editor REBECCA FOX looks back on 2015 and provides a quick guide to the latest cookbook releases.
Not worried about descriptions of his work as ‘‘old school'', Euan Macleod is looking forward to visiting Oamaru, the first stop on a national tour of his work. He tells Rebecca Fox why he likes to be called Australasian.
At the end of the Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellowship, Uzo Nwankpa does not know where time has gone. She talks to Rebecca Fox about her ‘‘Kiwi'' experience.
Artistic director Neil Ieremia is just as comfortable teaching movement to a group of elderly people as he is choreographing a major work. He tells Rebecca Fox about going back to grass roots for Black Grace's 20th anniversary tour.
She won New Zealand's Got Talent after wowing the audience with her amazing voice, and now Renee Maurice tells Rebecca Fox she hopes to do the same with her very own musical about the fatal fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital in 1942.
As winter arrives, there is nothing better than reaching for a bottle of preserved fruit to make your favourite crumble or add to your morning porridge. A Wanaka man is tapping into the renewed appreciation for the old craft of preserving and continuing love of fresh Central Otago produce. Rebecca Fox finds out how Gus Hayden is turning a favourite Central Otago fruit into a boutique, luxury product.
Traditional styles of poetry are being revived and there is no better time to celebrate that than through the annual Robert Burns Poetry Competition, its judges tell Rebecca Fox.
Dr Jonathan Stalling is using ancient and now obscure poetics to help Chinese speakers to teach and learn spoken English more quickly and efficiently. Rebecca Fox talks to the American specialist in Chinese-English poetry and language.
For two decades a St Clair street regularly filled up with cars and people traipsed down the path into a house, to reappear hours later inspired and refreshed. REBECCA FOX talks to Judith Cullen about a tradition about to end.
''SITE 15'' is a chance to celebrate the work and accomplishments of Dunedin School of Art students. Rebecca Fox talks to two artists whose works' features could not be more different.
She is a best-selling cookbook author who gets the most pleasure out of knowing people are cooking her food. Chelsea Winter tells Rebecca Fox about her transition from corporate life to cook and writer.
Spanish flautist Jamie Martin's transition to conducting has been described as ''meteoric''. Rebecca Fox discovers the history behind the move on the eve of his first trip to New Zealand to conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Joe Brown's dances at the Dunedin Town Hall in the mid-20th century became a meeting place for many Otago couples. The cast of Flagons and Foxtrots tell Rebecca Fox it is this era they hope to evoke in the Fortune Theatre's latest production.
Mark Adams looks through his camera lens with a Pakeha view while his wife Areta Wilkinson looks at her work with a Maori point of view. They tell Rebecca Fox how they meet in the middle.
Like many businesses, small-retail butchery has struggled over the years but a Dunedin butcher is learning new tricks in an effort to survive. Rebecca Fox talks to Ian Kennedy.
