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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a new audio playlist is curated to go with the blog. The pieces chosen relate to the stories on the blog or to current events. To listen click…
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The New Zealand Agricultural Show 2023
There cannot be many things more pleasurable than going to an agricultural show, especially when there are highlights like lambs, calves, tractors and duck herding! The show is held in…
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Choir dates
The new choir had a great session last weekend and we have decided on some dates for rehearsals as well as some other admin things. Here is a poster for…
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Lincoln University’s art collection
This week a visit to Lincoln University library led to the campus collection of art. The University, the oldest agricultural teaching institution in the Southern Hemisphere, was created in 1990…
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Sure to Rise
Vivienne Mountford, in 1993, created a wonderfully witty and deceptively powerful artwork to celebrate women. Edmond’s Cook Book is a New Zealand institution. For more than 100 years the company…
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Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand. In 1847 Kate Malcolm was born in Liverpool, England and migrated in her twenties to Christchurch Otautahi…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a list of music that relates to the blog or to current events is curated on Spotify. Readers can listen to the songs by following this link or…
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The new choir
A new singing group has started in Greymouth this weekend. The group met in The Left Bank Gallery on Saturday to sing together, learn some new music, and organise how…
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The shape of wool
Fire! The word sometimes is warming and comforting, and sometimes it is terrifying, especially when it comes to the power fire has to destroy lives and livelihoods. In 2021 a…
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Madras check
The familiar sight of Madras check has a long heritage, and has its origins in everyday casual wear. Born in what was Madras, now Chennai, the capital city of Tamil…
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