Church’s $8.6 million resurrection
OVERALL church attendances in New Zealand are declining, but officials at one Invercargill church say they do not match that trend and are planning...
Otautau Playcentre’s success story
ABOUT a year ago, the committee behind-the-scenes at Otautau Playcentre decided to take a gamble.
President Shelley Cox consulted with the centre and a valued...
Real Journeys establishes ‘Wayfare’
LEADING family-owned tourism company, Real Journeys, has announced the establishment of a new corporate identity called Wayfare to represent its tourism companies in the...
Southland trio selected for Saloon Speedweek
By Daryl Shuttleworth
SOUTHLAND speedsters Euan Shearing, Dean Shearing and Jeff Richardson will fly the flag for Southland this speedway season with the trio being...
Selby-Rickit scores development contract
MANAAKI Selby-Rickit says he is eating like a savage at the moment as the Highlanders management attempt to add some bulk to the promising...
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Endless potential in Makarewa lifestyle property
THE former Batt Training premises in Makarewa offers so much scope for an enterprising entrepreneur.
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RNZB: The Nutcracker
ON Christmas Eve, in a house adorned with wreaths and stockings and a beautiful Christmas tree, a young girl is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll. Together they will discover a magical world. As the clock chimes midnight, let the Royal New Zealand Ballet take you on a fairytale journey featuring Tchaikovsky’s enchanting music. Once you […]
Exhibition: Our Frocks Like Mountains
AN exhibition of paintings by Anita DeSoto, the Southland Art Foundation William Hodges Fellow 2018, opens this month. Our Frocks Like Mountains features DeSoto’s body of work created during the fellowship and is based on colonial photographs of women and their families from local archives. Where: Riverton Community Arts Centre, Palmerston St, Riverton When: Friday, […]
Seven Deadly Stunts
WHAT drives someone to walk on broken glass, swallow fire or juggle a chainsaw? In Rollicking Entertainment’s Seven Deadly Stunts, real-life married couple David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache celebrate seven notorious stunts from carnival history, along with stories of how and why they exist. The couple put their bodies – and their marriage – on […]
Christmas Pantomime
OPERATUNITY’S Christmas pantomime returns with a new twist on Cinderella. With jokes, repartee, great singing, madcap antics, overacting and slapstick humour, it is sure to please and encourage silliness and escapism. Does Cinderella get her prince? Or do all attempts get foiled by the naughtiness of the ugly sisters, played by Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua and Karl […]
South Sea Spray exhibition
SOUTH Sea Spray will feature the work of some of New Zealand’s finest street artists – Flox, Askew, Erika Pearce, Kell Sunshine, Yikes, Deow, Ikarus and Trust Me. Each artist will paint a large mural in Riverton and showcase their artwork in an exhibition at the Vault Gallery during December and January. Where: Vault Gallery, […]
Repertory Invercargill presents: Central
DIRECTED by Jonathan Tucker, Central is a hugely entertaining comedy/drama that has Central Otago at its heart. Written while playwright Dave Armstrong was on a “Wild Creations” residency at Bannockburn, Central combines a human story of love, greed and ambition with contemporary issues of conservation and landscape. Where: Repertory House, Invercargill When: November 27-December 1 Tickets: Book […]