Arts Festival Dunedin

Grim tale of authenticity

Like exotic fish in a tank, three young boys are ripped from their homes and become powerless playthings for unscrupulous adults, who profess to have their best interests at heart.

Music lilts through city in eventful day

Playing to the public at the St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool yesterday are New Zealand Symphony...

Music lilts through city in eventful day

Warmth, cold, dry air or moist — it can all affect the sound of string instruments.

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The naked truth

Dancer Hannah Tasker-Poland’s fascination with the feminine form and how it’s been viewed throughout time has always been with her. She tells Rebecca Fox about challenging people’s&nbsp...

Otago study advances work on Alzheimer’s

University of Otago researchers Emeritus Prof Warren Tate and Dr Katie Peppercorn with a plate of...

Otago study advances work on Alzheimer’s

The discovery of a neuroprotective brain protein with high potential to delay or reverse the onset of Alzheimer’s has put Otago Uni researchers on a path to developing a therapy for the disease.

Road warning for drivers, delayed start for some schools

Icy conditions led to several accidents in Dunedin yesterday. Main photo: Police were called to a...

Road warning for drivers, delayed start for some schools

Police are urging care on Dunedin roads this morning, owing to icy conditions, while many schools around the city have a 10am start today.

Stuck in the middle with ute

A Dunedin man says the city council and police had no interest in helping him after two cars parked so close to his vehicle that he could not leave.

Vivid colour at daybreak

Cement carrier Buffalo travels up Otago Harbour yesterday morning bathed in a glorious sunrise.

Proudly showing off their house colours are OGHS pupils (from left) arts prefect Asya Ahmadasri of house Cruickshank, sports prefect Abby Harris of Benjamin, Amelia Leaper of Williams and Laura Allison of Allan.

Dunedin brothers helping refugees

Doing what they can about the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Bulgaria are Michael (left) and Jared...

Dunedin brothers helping refugees

Brothers from Dunedin have opened their homes in Bulgaria to Ukrainian refugees and they are eager to do more to help.

'Sometimes things go bad'

Emergency services attend a crash on the corner of Hillside and Andersons Bay Rds at 7pm on...

'Sometimes things go bad': Boot-riders leave cops in disbelief

Timaru's top policeman says he does not know what it will take to get the message through to young people after a woman was injured riding in the boot of a car in Dunedin.

Colonoscopy critics told to back off

Colonoscopy critics told to back off

"Obsessive" critics of the Southern District Health Board’s colonoscopy service need to back off, board chairman Pete Hodgson says.

‘Completely charmed’ by keen crowds

Dunedin Arts Festival director Charlie Unwin is ready to raise the curtain on this year’s...

‘Completely charmed’ by keen crowds

The success of this year’s Dunedin Arts Festival has been "encouraging" for an industry hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, organisers say.

Following the threads

Arielle Walker with first soft light of the rising sun. PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSON

Following the threads

Arielle Walker is dedicated to preserving and learning the traditions of storytelling and textiles. On her first visit to Dunedin she tells Rebecca Fox about the importance of family and making.

Have dog, will travel a basis for play

Have dog, will travel a basis for play

When the "Kerikeri old girls network" hooked Barnaby Olson up with a job in Turkey, little did he know it would provide him with a perfect traveller’s tale.

Remote raw effects of consumer appetites examined

Dunedin artist Simon O’Connor. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

Remote raw effects of consumer appetites examined

What at times was confronting and heart-wrenching work has resulted in a thought-provoking art piece exploring the disconnect between manufacturing and consumerism.

'Love letter to trees'

'Love letter to trees'

Rehearsing in a tree at the Otago Museum Reserve ahead of her first performance of The Arboreal Aerialist for the Dunedin Arts Festival 2021 tonight is aerial dancer Chloe Loftus.