Tag: Spotify
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Midwinter on the Coast
This is the first year we have spent almost all of the winter in Aotearoa New Zealand and what an experience! Having moved to Aotearoa from the UK (London and Shetland) two and a bit years ago, and, with the first winter being extremely mild and having been away last year for midwinter, our experience…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is curated on Spotify to go along with the blog. The pieces chosen reflect the articles in some way and are a mixture of old and new, folk, traditional and classical music. Sometimes there are surprises – bird song or ocean sounds – and it is always fun to search out…
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Stars – a Conversation and Cloth event
This coming week, on Wednesday 26th June, there will be a Conversation and Cloth event in Hokitika. At 5:30 in the library I will be talking about the stars, an appropriate topic for Matariki. I will have some of the stars of the collection, such as the one pictured below, with me and will present…
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Venice and the Biennale – part two
The Venice Biennale’s traditional site is the Giardini, public gardens created by Napoleon at the start of the 19th Century. The first years of the exhibition saw more than 200,000 people attend the venues and over the decades since buildings have been erected to house country pavilions, showcasing artists and ideas from around the globe,…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a curated playlist from Spotify is made for the blog. The playlist references articles in some way and this week it features music from and about Venice, as well as pieces that have a link with the artists who are represented at the Biennale.
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Hélène Kuhn Ferruzzi
Venice has long been known for its music, art and artists. In the narrow route along a canal that leads past Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery of European and American art is a small shop with windows that tell of the artistic eye of Hélène Kuhn Ferruzzi. Enchanting and wondrous, this shop is a destination for the…
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Venice and the Biennale (Part One)
Taking place in the beautiful city of Venice with its picturesque canals, boats and bridges as well as its plethora of fine buildings, the Biennale 2024 is thought-provoking and surprising. Spread across the city, the main venues of the exhibition are the Arsenale and Giardini, the former a naval shipyard and the latter, as the…
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Lobola – negotiating an African wedding
Thank you to our South African reader who sent this in to share. In Africa, weddings are often marked by a “bride price” – a payment that signals the negotiations for the joining together of two families. Lobola is a cultural practice that differs across the continent, and in South Africa it is often part…
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Conversation and Cloth – Hokitika
The West Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand is full of history and tales. In the middle of the Southern Winter, as the world turns and seasons change, a star cluster rises in the sky. This is known in New Zealand as Matariki, a shortened version of “Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea” (the eyes of the…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
The playlist this week, as always, references articles on the blog. It is a curated list of interesting and unusual pieces, some old and some new, in different genres, all related in some way to the blog. In this week’s playlist, “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” by Béla Bartók is included in its entirety. This work, the…