Bridget Douglas and Al Fraser’s collaboration featuring Western flutes and nga taonga puoro first rang out in Dunedin’s St Paul’s Cathedral earlier this year but has now been recorded. Rebecca Fox talks to them about Silver Stone Wood Bone’s many Dunedin connections.
Former University of Otago theatre student Dan Goodwin will Zoom into Dunedin at the New Zealand Young Writers Festival to pass on some advice on writing about mental health in a safe way.
Dunedin author Emma Neale has just released her first collection of short fiction. She tells Rebecca Fox about her reluctance to tackle the genre.
Top New Zealand tapestry artist Marilyn Rea-Menzies visited Dunedin recently to pass on her skills to a new generation of weavers. Rebecca Fox spoke to her about her work.
Through the ups and downs of the past 60 years, Ceramics New Zealand has soldiered on from its start in Dunedin. Rebecca Fox talks to ceramics judge Dr Emma Bugden about staying the course.
A new chamber music festival aims to bring classical music to the Central and Lakes Districts of Otago influenced by the area’s amazing landscapes and inspiring further creativity, Rebecca Fox finds.
A new writing festival using one of Dunedin’s grandest historical mansions as inspiration is being held this weekend. Rebecca Fox talks to award winning NZ
author Catherine Chidgey.
Christchurch sisters Margo and Rosa Flanagan, aka the ‘‘Two Raw Sisters’’, hosted a workshop in Dunedin last week. Rebecca Fox caught up with the busy pair.
It’s the town known for Jimmy’s Pies and its stonefruit, but what else does the small Central Otago town of Roxburgh have to offer, asks Rebecca Fox.
Tribute is being paid to long time Dunedin potter and educator Neil Grant with a survey exhibition and book on his life’s work. Rebecca Fox talks to author Peter Stupples about Grant’s extensive...
Central Otago pinot noir has made a comeback in the New World Wine Awards this year, one winning champion pinot noir and another two making it into the Top 50. Rebecca Fox finds out what it takes...
Despite the challenges of recent months the three writers involved in the Otepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme will have their new works read for the public for the first time.
A lockdown in the middle of play rehearsal is not ideal, but not unheard of these days. The cast of the Globe’s latest production And Then There Were None have made the best of the situation.
It is the gift of time to hone their craft that most University of Otago fellows appreciate the most, and Heather McQuillan is no exception. The children’s writer in residence talks to ...
In these uncertain and changing times, one thing that stays constant is food.
Former Dunedin tenor Stephen Chambers came home to Dunedin to star in Opera Otago’s production of Die Fledermaus and visit his parents only things have not quite turned out how he expected. He...
It has been about 30 years since Philippa Blair exhibited her work in Dunedin and she had been looking forward to revisiting the city of her forebears until the latest Covid- 19 outbreak. From her...
After his first visit to Queenstown, chef Ryan Henley said to himself that's where he would retire to. But he hasn't had to wait that long, Rebecca Fox discovers.
Artist Sonya Lacey loved her time in Dunedin as part of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist Project so much so she took inspiration from one of the city’s leading institutions, the Otago Daily Times.
A new star is born in the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s latest new contemporary production The Firebird, choreographed by Laughlan Prior.
