Hagley College

Flexibility matters at Hagley: Hagley College

Hagley College recognises that there’s more to your life than school when you’re in Year 12 and 13, like sport, music, or other major commitments like work. You’re unique with your own aspirations, passions and plans. Hagley is all about flexibility, helping you pursue what’s really important to you, as well as completing […]

Art Heals

Art heals quake impact: Ōtautahi Creative Spaces Trust

Any visit to Christchurch brings vivid reminders of the devastation the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 inflicted on the city. Their impact on the community was unprecedented and, along with the physical damage, the earthquakes caused other kinds of hurt. People who had already been living with mental illness and distress experienced new […]

Jack Tame

Jack Tame Going Places: Q&A Jack Tame

From a Christchurch upbringing, to an international correspondent in the US to Breakfast’s Auckland hotseat, Jack Tame’s career has taken him places – both in the literal and figurative sense of the expression. Every continent on earth, in fact.   He’s covered the Christchurch earthquakes, the Pike River Mine disaster, Hurricane Sandy, the […]

Sweet Louise

Bargins for a good cause: Sweet Louise

Local radio host and TV personality, Brodie Kane recently became a brand ambassador for Sweet Louise, New Zealand’s only charity solely dedicated to supporting those with incurable breast cancer. After digging into her own wardrobe to donate pre-loved clothing for a local fundraising event this month in honour of a member who passed […]

The Court Theatre

Madness & Misery: The Court Theatre

If you’re into dramas about delusional stalkers who get to kidnap and imprison their unsuspecting victims, then Stephen King’s Misery, coming to The Court Theatre 4-25 August 2018, should have you booking front row seats. Adapted from his bestselling novel Misery, this is a thriller play about obsession. Director Dan Bain elaborates on […]

Metropol Editor Melinda Collins

Editor’s Perspective: Miriama Kamo

Miriama Kamo was once quoted as saying of her beautiful Grey Lynn villa, “Homes are to be lived in, stomped in, danced in, run in – enjoyed. “If it gets dirty or broken – well, it’s just stuff.” I suspect this isn’t far removed from her philosophy on life. Because, despite playing a […]