Brenda Harwood

Local writers and grans visited kindergartens and early childhood centres recently to read to children.

The issues facing the arts in Dunedin, from the ongoing debate around performance spaces to funding streams, were discussed in depth this week at the Stage South mayoral candidates election forum.

The Star approached some of the city’s arts organisations for a report card on the council in the past three years.

The Dunedin local body elections have reached the business end and candidates are frantically criss-crossing the city, knocking on doors and stepping up in the hopes of wooing voters at election forums. Postal voting papers have been sent out in the mail, and households are poring over candidate descriptions and searching for extra information, as they make their ranking decisions.

Dunedin Symphony Orchestra presents Rhapsody Saturday, September 10 — Dunedin Town Hall Review by BRENDA HARWOOD

Opera Otago presents The Mansfield Trilogy Sunday, September 11 - Mayfair Theatre Review by BRENDA HARWOOD