Recently closed: sculpture at the People’s Gallery
Exhibitions at the People’s Gallery in the Historic Village showcase the diverse talents of Bay…
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uPflash: AAAFair & an appropriate celebratory poem!
It seems almost the whole world is aware that our Prime Minister Jacinda Adern and…
uPflash: escape to creativity in Tauranga!
Brave the weather and head on down to Tauranga for the forthcoming festival of words: …
Walking to Nirvana: the poetry of Lee Switzer
ARTbop photographer and longstanding archival photographer Lee Switzer of Tauranga shares a visual poem. LEE…
uPflash: new cafe style at the Black Sheep Whakamarama starts Monday morning
By popular request the Black Sheep at Whakamarama will adding cafe style food to it’s…
No Place like home: Deaf Aotearoa NZ Flash Mob!
Celebrating New Zealand’s third national language. New Zealand Sign Language week. 7 – 13 May.…
Beauty and the Beast at Baycourt: Tauranga Colleges combine
There’s a crowd on the lawn outside Baycourt as I meander down to give my…
uPflash: opera, poetry and…..?
I’ve a really busy week so I’ve done a short video about several of the…
Loving Vincent reviewed by Marcus Hobson
Everyone likes to claim that they are the first at something, and film makers are…
Tosca at the Met: New York on a $1 a day!
Opera is like waiata: singing a story. And like waiata you don’t have to know…