The once-grand wooden mansion with theatre attached, set in a rambling garden in London St, has a remarkable history. As the Globe Theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary next weekend, Charmian Smith recalls its heady early years.
Fashion tends to reflect what is going on elsewhere in society. Illustrating the point is the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's exhibition, "A la Mode". Charmian Smith reports.
From "household arts" to technical design, the Consumer and Applied Sciences programme has come a long way from its origins as the School of Home Science. Charmian Smith reports.
That 60 years of the history of New Zealand fashion could be the subject of a large, well-illustrated tome will surprise many who thought New Zealand fashion started in 1999 with the news that four designers (Karen Walker, World, Zambesi and Nom*d) were to make their debut at London Fashion Week.
If you're waiting at Dunedin International Airport in the next couple of months, take a look at the art on the walls. Charmian Smith talks to Rob Piggott, the current "Artist in the Terminal."
The entries in the inaugural Evolve Spiritual Art Award reflect the spiritual diversity of the community, according to Jonathan Cweorth, one of the co-ordinators.
Brass music has taken Steve Miles around the world, from the United Kingdom to New Zealand and now on to Bermuda. Before he left for a new position in Bermuda, he talked to Charmian Smith about the beauties of brass.
Text, whether in books or on the internet, was written by a person or several people, but defining an author is not that easy, according to Dr Simone Celine Marshall. A medieval specialist in...
When Honor McKellar came back from Australia last year and declared her tramping boots at the airport, MAF officials were astounded. They asked what an 89-year-old woman was doing tramping in...
The Rare Byrds, a group that embraces early music and other aspects of medieval and renaissance life, is holding its annual Christmas Revel this weekend. Charmian Smith reports.
Piano trios - a musical group of piano, violin and cello - have been part of musical life in the University of Otago music department since the 1970s, but the membership changes as staff leave,...
Dunedin is about as far as you can get from Scotland, yet here in the heart of the city, a statue of Robert Burns presides over the Octagon and we host a Burns Fellow at the university.
"Bringing together some threads" is how Margery Blackman describes her exhibition surveying 35 years of tapestry weaving. Charmian Smith talks to the Dunedin textile artist and curator.
After years of dancing, studying law and producing shows and events, Michele Powles has finally decided she wants "to be a writer when she grows up". Charmian Smith talks to the 2010 Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.
Renee's new work Shall We Gather at the River is a play of substance, director Louise Petherbridge tells Charmian Smith.
A play at the Fortune Theatre mines the experiences of an unlikely group of artists, reports Charmian Smith.
Arts festivals offer opportunities to enjoy unusual and daring works not normally seen, and Opera Otago's production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is no exception. Charmian Smith talks to John Drummond and Matthew Leese about the world's first significant opera and the new production of L'Orfeo in Dunedin.
When people hear about Miss Saigon, they always ask about the helicopter, one of the most spectacular special effects in musical theatre. Someone even thought the Regent Theatre roof was coming...
Chichen Itza is crowded with tourists; guides explain the Mayan ruins in many of the world's languages and stallholders and touts sell souvenirs of all kinds, from replica death masks to cheap...
Otago University's new lecturer in cello Heleen Du Plessis' motto is "anything sounds better with cello". Charmian Smith finds out why.
