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Flights of fancy blooming
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Flights of fancy blooming
Wellington artist Anna Stichbury likens her colour choices to trying to decide what lollies she wanted in her pick’n’mix as a child.
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Life is sweet
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Life is sweet
Cardrona beekeeper Jess Curtis has been named one of 17 New Zealand Outstanding Food Producers for her raw clover blend honey.
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Display of philanthropy
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Display of philanthropy
The portraits now hanging in the Eastern Southland Gallery highlight not only the eclectic nature of its collection but also the generosity of benefactors over the past 40 years
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Fellowship like landing ‘dream job’
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Fellowship like landing ‘dream job’
Like all fellows, having a year to dedicate solely to his art is an unbelievable luxury and one Mozart Fellow, Dr Simon Eastwood, hopes to use to advance his composition skills.
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Risk and fun inherent to art
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Risk and fun inherent to art
A group of young Auckland artists are keen to show you can have some fun and have a message in their first exhibition outside the big city, discovers Rebecca Fox.
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Moving to the music
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Moving to the music
At 81 years old, world-renowned conductor Matthias Bamert has become a freelancer.
Ebbings, flows as expression
Ebbings, flows as expression
Young Christchurch artist Jamie Te Heuheu has had many "pinch me" moments in recent times. He talks to Rebecca Fox about staying steady as his star rises.
Pianist’s love of nature
Pianist’s love of nature
Daniel Verstappen’s first love is the piano but coming a close second is his love of nature. A visit to NZ has been inevitable for the Belgian musician who likes to mix things up, Rebecca Fox finds.
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‘MasterChef’ paves way for food writer
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‘MasterChef’ paves way for food writer
For Alice Taylor her time in Dunedin provided an invaluable base for her experience on MasterChef and becoming a pastry chef and food writer, she tells Rebecca Fox, as her first cookbook...
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Fruitful digressions
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Fruitful digressions
Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet Nathan Joe is looking forward to bringing his sell-out Dirty Passports show to Wānaka.
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Worlds apart but voices in unison
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Worlds apart but voices in unison
Like Batman and Robin, Abbott and Costello or Tom and Jerry, Alex Wright and Phil Grainger, of Orpheus and The Gods, The Gods, The Gods have always come as a duo — until now.
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Southland and Otago producers honoured at awards
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Southland and Otago producers honoured at awards
Sometimes finding the positive in the stories about New Zealand food is difficult especially in times of rising costs.
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‘You can’t get it back’
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‘You can’t get it back’
For the first time, a series of works artists Jeffrey Harris and his wife, the late Joanna Margaret Paul, did of each other in the first years of their relationship are being exhibited.
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From screens to gallery walls
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From screens to gallery walls
A chance meeting with gallery owner Stephen Higginson at the Venice Biennale has resulted in German-New Zealand artist Sandro Kopp’s works being exhibited in Dunedin.
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Brewing graduate gets taste of beer judging
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Brewing graduate gets taste of beer judging
Learning to judge beers might sound like fun but it takes a lot of concentration, junior judge Dan Thomas tells Rebecca Fox.
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Exploring limits of physicality
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Exploring limits of physicality
Contemporary dance company Footnote New Zealand is bringing its latest double bill dance show IYKYK to Queenstown.
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Imagery through a medical lens
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Imagery through a medical lens
A new exhibition aims to shed more light on the late New Zealand artist, critic, writer, and gallerist Giovanni Intra.
Fresh Easter: Chocolate for breakfast and dessert!
Fresh Easter: Chocolate for breakfast and dessert!
Chocolate is subjective, Elle Coco says, and we have something for everyone in this year's special Fresh Easter Edition.
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Life’s a box of chocolates
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Life’s a box of chocolates
Elle Coco’s passion for chocolate is all-consuming. The chocolate judge and educator explains why to Rebecca Fox.
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Pair ‘couldn’t pass it up’
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Pair ‘couldn’t pass it up’
There could be nothing more suited to the Dunedin Fringe Festival — a play written by a local, performed by locals and watched by locals.