Shawn McAvinue

A rollercoaster play about a Dunedin hero has come home.

Belgian singer Micheline Van Hautem tests her swing in the Glenroy Auditorium yesterday before her first Arts Festival Dunedin performance.

A theatre work was born when a Tongan woman became tired of performing as other nationalities and never her own.

Atamira Dance company artistic director Moss Patterson (front) leads (from left) Heather Grant, Koren Allpress, Kate Sullivan, Swaroopa Unni and Miriam Marler in a workshop yesterday at the University of Otago's physical education department.

The owners of Bellamys Gallery in Macandrew Bay celebrated its 20th anniversary last night by opening an Arts Festival Dunedin exhibition.

A dead soldier tastes the same to the flies regardless of its nationality or gender, an Arts Festival Dunedin production brings home.

St Paul's Cathedral music director George Chittenden, in the pews yesterday, prepares for Sonic Psalms, a special one-night-only Arts Festival Dunedin concert at 8pm tonight.

Like a finely tuned hot rod, the script of Moon at the Bottom of the Garden is ''humming'' and ready for its world premiere in Dunedin tonight, playwright Sarah McDougall said.

Acrobat Kat O'Keefe balances on Rudi Mineur in the Octagon yesterday to mark the start of Arts Festival Dunedin today.

As a stroke violently shook Nick Chisholm, he spoke two final words to his best mate: ''Help me.''

Abandoned ''dog poo'' at Kaikorai Estuary was a hot topic at the recent Saddle Hill Community Board meeting.

Brighton Gala Experience founder and co-organiser Colin Weatherall sits with wife Anne Weatherall at a macrocarpa barbecue table in Brighton Domain.

A Mosgiel dancer has brought a prestigious cup to Dunedin for the first time.

The weather took a bitter turn yesterday with snow in Central Otago, a day after Dunedin students frolicked in foam.

Students compete in the annual ''Gladstone Rd Gutbuster'' in North Dunedin last night.

The honeymoon is over, the marriage is unconsummated and the bickering has begun.

An unpublished James K. Baxter poem is coming up for auction.

A police constable is challenging emergency staff in Mosgiel to step up in Brighton this Sunday.

An engineer's report on a Middlemarch church revealing the need for major earthquake-strengthening work has left a parish with a difficult decision.

Three Dunedin school pupils from the band Jars of Souls have released a song to help support children in Gaza.