It’s such a cliché: the fingers of early morning light. Little shafts of light moving across walls, furniture, art. Changing the colour of walls. Patchworking in light and shade. But I love it and often I’ll stand and watch as the light moves across the room. There are worse ways to start the day!
Rosemary Balu. Rosemary Balu is the founding and current Managing Editor of ARTbop. She purchases her power from Trustpower and is a beneficiary of the Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust. Rosemary has arts and law degrees from the University of Auckland. She has been a working lawyer and has participated in a wide variety of community activities where information gathering, submission writing, community advocacy and education have been involved. Interested in all forms of the arts since childhood Rosemary is focused on further developing and expanding multi-media ARTbop as the magazine for all the creative arts in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
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Tauranga Art Gallery – just one of the current exhibitionsThe Rialto Cinema Tauranga – ticket special and regular viewing venue of ARTbop’s film reviewer Nick Scott
Whakamarama and the Puketoki Rserve
Amazing AucklandCoromandel, Thames isiteWaikato provincial town – Morrinsville The People’s Gallery at The Historic VillageThe Incubator Gallery
Clarence Boutique Hotel, Bistro and Iki Bar in the Old Post Office, worth a visit if you’re in Tauranga
Visit The Elms, post-colonial history
The shops at 9th Avenue Downtown Tauranga
Driving through Katikati check out The Arts Junction
The fabulous little town of Cambridge in the Waikato
And the galleries in Downtown Tauranga
Original artisan jewellery by Barisa
WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE WORLD TODAY
AROHANUI KIA KAHA
“and wear your freakin mask”