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‘This looks like the place’

Sometimes moving out does not mean moving up but for former Aucklanders Trent and Daniella Lillis, their daughter Tyler and Jack Russell, Rocket, the Gisborne lifestyle suited them down to the ground — and the surf, as Trent explains to Mark...

ALWAYS FRESH CHALLENGES

Hauora Tairawhiti chief executive Jim Green still has a lot on his “to-do list”.And they're not small tasks, with Mr Green acknowledging institutional racism is an issue within Hauora Tairawhiti that requires more work.“Because it's...

AUTHENTICITY IN RAROTONGA

Escape the hum-drum of the daily grind to the quintessential South Pacific island paradise of Rarotonga, a bewitching blend of serrated mountains, sawtooth hills, dense tropical jungle, bountiful plantations and white sand beaches. My 70-something...

Early to bed, early to rise

Gisborne physician Sari MacKenzie shares her adventures while trekking the Annapurna Circuit from Besisahar to Pokhara in Nepal, considered one of the best treks in the world. Here’s the second of a series about her 17-day, 273km expedition which...

Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or telephone 869-0630. This weekJazz pianist David Paquette: Tairawhiti Museum, Sunday (2pm) $25 (limited tickets, available from the museum).St Andrew’s lunchtime concert...

One World Together at Home

Lady Gaga has pulled together top artists for a one-off concert to support coronavirus response efforts. Available now online, the One World: Together at Home concert presents hours of music performed by artists such as The Rolling Stones (pictured)...

Unity presents

Head north by northwest to Unity Theatre, Ormond Road, on Sunday at 3pm for auditions for the Gina Ferkins-directed production of playwright Joe Landry’s Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play. Multiple parts are available that include action scenes...

Taste of Tairawhiti

A successful collaboration of food, art and culture put Tairawhiti on the map in Singapore recently. Kim Parkinson talks to the talented people behind it . . .Gisborne made a culinary statement in Singapore last month with a Flavours of New Zealand...

MASAMI CLOTHING BY JULIE PUDDICK

Gisborne fashion designer Julie Puddick has gone from designing in a coffee shop to needing bigger and bigger spaces, as her Japanese-inspired designs get picked up by fashion houses in the nation's capital. She talked to Aaliyah Rogan about her...

Top marks Tyler

The job of an actor is to play someone else. But if you are an 11-year-old actor asked to play a father identifying their dead son, you may be assigned an impossible task. Unless you are Tyler Thomas, who scored 98/100 in his Trinity College exam in...

Something's burning

Watties and Gisborne weather are part inspirations for two-piece Gisborne act Spaghetti Toast who celebrate the release of their debut EP on Saturday. Ben Wilkinson of the Wilkinson and Liam Ryan duo cites influences from across the pop-rock eras ob...

Caring for your fruiting plants

Over the summer, don’t pass on the few chores that will lead your orchard to abundant and high-quality harvests. Just a few hours care and your fruit trees will thrive

Travelling Mother Russia

On this leg of Phil and Sue Newdick’s journey of the largest nation in the world, they travel from Chita to Novosibirsk, discovering more about Mother Russia as they go. Novosibirsk: this was our last stop before Moscow and with 1.5 million people...

Actors sought for 2021

Queen by New Zealand playwright Sam Brooks, Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Agatha Christie's whodunnit The Mousetrap, and She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen are lined up for Evolution Theatre Company's play...

Tragic play a bloody good night out

TO call one of Shakespeare’s darkest plays good fun is possibly not done but Unity Theatre’s production of Macbeth is just that. The supernatural undercurrents, the psychological depth and the horror are all there but so is the joy of watching...

Hey Trouble

Swiss-Kiwi electro-folk artist Sonic Delusion brings his pop-drenched, funky and folk looped beats from his upcoming album Anything Goes. After more than 10 years in the business Andre Manella still digs the challenge of building up a song in front...

Our Kiwi Christmas tree

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Excelling at the Y

Change is a happening at the YMCA. The Gisborne Herald's Andrew McKenna went to find out just what's going on