A collection of Pasifika handling taōka will be brought to life beyond museum display cases this month.

"I certainly didn’t expect this," Otago Rose Society member Maureen Viggo said when presented with an award for her long service to the rose world.

Dozens of people gathered in Caversham on Sunday to walk the streets of South Dunedin and learn about the women who helped shape the community.

The award-winning arts collective City Planners will return to the Dunedin Fringe Festival to offer their creative perspective on the development of the new Dunedin Hospital.

Mutual support and the chance to share ideas and resources prompted three young Dunedin directors to come together and present their three plays as a season during the Dunedin Fringe Festival.

Households are being forced to choose between feeding their children and paying for power as financial pressures tighten their grip.

South Dunedin Library will be flying the flag for the repair and reuse movement, hosting a "Repair Station" event in its Makerspace during Saturday’s South Dunedin Street Festival.

Steam-fuelled imagination will be to the fore as local steampunk and model engineering enthusiasts come together to host a family fun day this weekend.

Shower and car singers unite for the chance to sing your hearts out at Bangers & Brews — a pub singalong with a twist.