Quiz, auction to help buy series
Quiz, auction to help buy series
Brain power will be needed to help raise some funds for the purchase of an art series.
Arts
Get ready for St Peter’s ‘Oliver!’
Get ready for St Peter’s ‘Oliver!’
A Gore Secondary School will be considering itself part of the Oliver! family next week, premiering its take on the West End to Broadway musical at the Saint James.
Dance festival set to swing
Dance festival set to swing
Snappy steps and swivelling hips will get the party started when a popular dance event returns.
Midwinter Carnival preparation begins
Midwinter Carnival preparation begins
The Dunedin Midwinter Carnival team has transformed the Meridian Mall with an array of twinkling lantern displays.
‘Rising Stars’ give extraordinary concert
‘Rising Stars’ give extraordinary concert
Dunedin Concerto Competition"Rising Stars" Finalists’ ConcertFriday, May 16Dunedin Town Hall The extraordinary talent of Otago and Southland’s young classical musicians was to the fore in...
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Youth choir hitting all the right notes
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Youth choir hitting all the right notes
From standing ovations to high praise from critics, Dunedin’s Southern Youth Choir is going from strength to strength.
Art seen: May 22
Art seen: May 22
By James Dignan
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Art provides an emotional link
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Art provides an emotional link
Two artists from Dunedin, Māia Hetariki and Megan Brady, have been selected as finalists in the 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.
CD review
CD review
Clocking in at nine tracks, none of which hit the three-minute mark, it would be hard to call Fancy That a truly substantial piece of work.
Halton Hart release debut single
Halton Hart release debut single
A family band of eight girls, borne in the heart of Gore, have released their debut single in an ode to their country-loving, yodelling great-grandfather, Ella Scott-Fleming reports.
Choir marks 80th anniversary of end of WW2
Choir marks 80th anniversary of end of WW2
The Southern Youth Choir will perform Karl Jenkins’ "mass for peace" The Armed Man, as it marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2.
Conductor keen for finalists’ concert
Conductor keen for finalists’ concert
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra principal guest conductor James Judd is delighted to be working with the city’s top young musicians ahead of Friday’s "Rising Stars" Dunedin Concerto Competition concert.
Spellbinding performance
Spellbinding performance
New Zealand String QuartetAt Orokonui EcosanctuarySaturday, May 10. The wonder, joy and drama of music kept a capacity audience spellbound during a thrilling performance by the New Zealand...
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Spotlight on emerging stars
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Spotlight on emerging stars
Three young Dunedin musicians will this weekend compete for the title of Dunedin Concerto Competition winner at the Dunedin Town Hall.
Art seen: May 15
Art seen: May 15
By Joanna Osborne
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Choreographer has a way with ‘words’
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Choreographer has a way with ‘words’
Storytelling ballets may not have been fashionable when Cathy Marston first began choreographing them, but they are becoming so now.
It’s all just a bunch of ‘Nunsense’
It’s all just a bunch of ‘Nunsense’
A West Otago school teacher is taking her first shot at directing grown-ups in the upcoming production of black-comedy musical Nunsense.
Connection explored in collections
Connection explored in collections
An impressive showing of more than 500 portraits are now on display at a Gore art gallery, alongside a transtasman artist’s study of New Zealand’s largest glacier.
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'This is the missing bit'
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'This is the missing bit'
Best-selling Irish author Dervla McTiernan still finds it ‘‘crazy’’ that hundreds of people turn up to her book events.
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Role ‘real treasure, delight and honour’
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Role ‘real treasure, delight and honour’
He may be Australian, but violinist Peter Clark is enthusiastic about representing his homeland’s smaller rival as part of the NZ String Quartet.