A travelling feast: Twenty Four Catering
Have kit, will travel” is the mantra of Twentyfour Catering. Weddings all over the South Island are a speciality, and owner and chef Chantelle Quinn can conjure the feast of your dreams anywhere, often with just two ovens and a barbeque. “We are very versatile and we have said yes to every […]
Tempting Fête: Geraldine Summer Fete
Thursday 5 November is the Red Letter Day in Geraldine this year for a unique shopping event held at the spectacular Stover Garden, Main North Road Geraldine. Bursting with over 200 high quality stalls this home, garden and lifestyle fête brings you the finest selection of creators to ensure a day […]
Lighting up the dark
In times of darkness we all just need to have a good laugh, says South African-Kiwi Urzila Carlson. And the multi award-winning comedian is certainly up to delivering on that brief. She speaks to Metropol about how humour can get us through. From her Sydney hotel room on the last […]
Dancing home, from afar
Forced to reimage dance in a contactless, Covid-19 world, Switzerland-based Sumner-raised contemporary dancer Emma Murray has been selected for Christchurch-based Movement Art Practice (MAP)’s residency, which will be run and shown digitally for the first time at the end of this month. Emma found her feet as a dancer at […]
Festivities all grown up
Adult musicians – and the musically curious – are invited to join an educational and entertaining festival at the Christchurch School of Music next month. The new Festival of Adult Music Learning will run from September 7 to 13 in collaboration with Adult Community Education NZ (ACE) and its Year of […]
Parenting Unfiltered
Book a babysitter, because a hilarious, unfiltered and acclaimed play about raising children is coming to town. Based on the hugely popular book of the same name by blogger Emily Writes, Rants in the Dark is running at The Court Theatre this September. The show takes aim at the pressures […]
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