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CHRISTCHURCH — The South Island's highest profile fashion expert Angela Stone is all set for the busiest week of the year – Christchurch's big Cup week.
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Emma Daken, who early last year became the youngest Kiwi to walk from the Cape to the Bluff, is organising a similar major charity event this week – at NZ House, in London.
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CANTERBURY — New Zealand’s biggest fete will open in Culverden again next week after turning away 200 stall applications.
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CANTERBURY — A Christ College teenager has won one of the biggest student art awards in New Zealand by picking up Flaxmere Hawarden ’s Art in a Garden $1000 student scholarship.
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CANTERBURY — A leading South Island artist Ruth Stirnimann is set to exhibit her two key styles – abstract and geometric – in Queenstown and Cheviot, North Canterbury.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch jeweller and extreme adventurer Holly Budge will launch the first 7.1 earthquake jewellery collection later this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand’s fastest growing dog food company K9 Natural Food is in line to be among the top 10 fastest growing companies when the Deloitte top 50 companies are named later this month.
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OAMARU — If you are not a surfer, sunbather climber or boatie, Oamaru is possible the best destinations in New Zealand.
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CANTERBURY — Leading New Zealand artists and sculptors will exhibit in the annual Flaxmere Art in the Garden event in North Canterbury later this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Former Selwyn Toogood television show Beauty and the Beast panellist Tui McBeath will unveil possibly New Zealand’s largest body of nude oil paintings in Christchurch next month.
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Leading Kiwi singer-songwriter Jackie Bristow returns home from Sydney next month for a major 13-gig Aotearoa quake appeal tour.
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CHRISTCHURCH — As a former UK-Europe Bureau Chief NZPA media correspondent, Kip Brook is no stranger to putting his thoughts into words following a crisis.
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The Stephen Sinclair-directed film Russian Snark is up for six awards at the annual Qantas NZ Television and Film awards in Auckland on Saturday night.
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QUEENSTOWN — I battle desperately not to climb aboard Queenstown's romantic-adventure band-wagon; but I fail miserably.
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CANTERBURY — The New Zealand Society in the UK today launched a Canterbury earthquake fund with a stg5000 donation to start with.
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CANTERBURY — New Zealand's biggest glazier Smith and Smith is working from dawn to dusk in a bid to help restore earthquake victims' glass-shattered Christchurch homes.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand's fastest growing dog food company is in line for a major business award in Christchurch this month but the September 4 earthquake had put the awards night on hold.
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KAIKOURA — Finally, I hit one smack in the middle. My drive on a nifty par four rises like a Jumbo Jet, far and high in the sky. But I lose sight of the golf ball. Instead I'm caught gazing at the majestic snow-capped Kaikoura mountains. To my right I hear the waves crashing on the shore.
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New Zealand celebrity chef Peter Gordon and opera singer Dame Malvina Major will make a night of it in London next month at one of Henry VIII’s old haunts off Bleeding Heart Lane.
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NORTHLAND — A Northland organisation has put out a challenge to all DIY home handy people to produce the quirkiest letterbox in New Zealand.
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OTAGO — Otago and New Zealand surfers are concerned plans to expand dredging could threaten the Aramoana Spit, one of the country’s best surf break beaches.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Fourteen Design and Arts College of NZ students will stage a staging major graduation exhibition in Christchurch next week.
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LAKE TEKAPO — New Zealand is right on track to create one of the world's first world heritage starlight reserve above the South Island's Mackenzie country after a key meeting in Brasilia yesterday.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Arguably the best school art exhibition anywhere in New Zealand, Auckland Grammar's annual event in September, is expected to net $80,000 for the school's foundation trust.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — More than 50 art works will be put up for sale at the North Shore Women’s Centre charity art auction and exhibition in September.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The ambling Avon River flickers and glistens like an Evelyn Page painting.
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CANTERBURY — New Zealand Girl Guides hope to stretch the world bra chain record of 166,000 bras end on end later this year.
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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealand's biggest eco-fashion event - the Big Shwop – will be held for fifth time later this month, at Wellington’s St James Theatre.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch Boys’ High School is celebrating its 41 All Blacks at AMI Stadium on August 5, two days before the Bledisloe Cup rugby match at AMI Stadium.
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OAMARU — Feilding High School first five-eighths Sarah Goss was the star of the national secondary schoolgirls rugby tournament which ended in Oamaru today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Former Selwyn Toogood television show “Beauty and the Beast” panellist Tui McBeath will show one of New Zealand’s largest body of nude works at an upmarket new car yard in Christchurch later this year.
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CHRISTCHURCH — All Blacks, Dan Carter and other rugby stars will feature in a rugby-themed art exhibition to open in Christchurch later this month.
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Leading New Zealand artists will join forces at a gala event on Friday to raise money for the Mental Health Foundation.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Sonny Bill Williams may begin his New Zealand first class rugby career at centre, former All Black Aaron Mauger said today.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — About 500 works are expected to be entered for Carmel College's 14th annual event, possibly the biggest school art exhibition in New Zealand.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Airport will later this year stage a significant major solo art exhibition by leading Otago artist Kerry Fenton-johns.
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WHANGAREI — The first ever New Zealand Art n Tartan wearable art awards will be held at the Waipu Coronation Hall, south of Whangarei, on July 3.
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KUMEU — Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the second annual Kumeu Art in the Garden festival which will include a leading singer and some celebrities later this year.
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AKAROA — Sitting up in bed swallowing eggs Provencal I gaze out the large ship-style porthole window to glassy Akaroa Harbour.
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The biggest Kiwi art exhibition in Italy and one of the most moving NZ art events overseas opens at Cassino in Italy on Saturday.
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Leading Kiwi singer-songwriter Jackie Bristow returns home from Sydney this weekend for a hectic ground-breaking 12 gig Freedom album tour.
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The late Sir Howard Morrison will be among the latest musicians to be inducted into the ROCKONZ Rock Hall of Fame.
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HUNTLY — Old typewriter keys, many likely from old newspaper news rooms, are now being recycled for jewellery around the country.
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LUMSDEN — New Zealand’s newest public art gallery, Fusion, will open in Lumsden, northern Southland, next week.
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Leading New Zealand winery Spy Valley is offering the Black Caps an array of incentives to produce champagne winning cricket at the World Twenty20 Cup cricket tournament starting in the Caribbean this weekend.
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Kiwi-born Australian artist Sara Catena is using her peace paintings at an exhibition in Sydney to highlight a landmark women’s peace march from Brisbane to Canberra.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Talented Castle Hill artist Jane Harper has taken off her running shoes and picked up her brushes to prepare for her first solo art exhibition to be held in Christchurch in July.
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Forty-one selected artists are preparing to send their paintings to a landmark Kiwi exhibition in Italy to commemorate New Zealand’s involvement in the Battle of Monte Cassino.
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AUCKLAND — Auckland is still growing up.
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WHANGAREI — Two large new art murals to be completed in Whangarei by the end of June will highlight concerns of growing family violence in the district.
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London chef and restaurant owner Anna Hansen has been named the 2010 New Zealander of the Year in the UK.
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HAWKE'S BAY — Te Awa has earned the highest equal score (93 points) ever for a New Zealand syrah in the highly influential US publication Wine Spectator, just released.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A topical Andy Warhol-style painting of a Weet-Bix packet of cereal could reach among the highest prices at the Linwood College art auction in Christchurch on Friday.
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QUEENSTOWN — What a different a decade makes.
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MARLBOROUGH — Marlborough’s Spy Valley has become the first Marlborough family-owned wine company to receive an official sustainable rubber stamp of approval.
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NORTHLAND — The 150th reunion of the Ferguson clan’s arrival in New Zealand will be held in Northland over Easter.
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LAKE TEKAPO — A world night sky reserve in the skies above Tekapo – Aoraki/Mt Cook will be fostered in the spirit of the 100 percent Pure New Zealand image, a driving force behind the night sky park said today.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The North Shore Hospital Foundation will benefit significantly from arguably New Zealand’s biggest single art in one garden event at Coatesville on March 27 and 28.
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New Zealand’s leading artist Grahame Sydney says he has laid down his brushes for good, after seeing the artistic talent of Prime Minister John Key.
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It’s 22 years since Angela Williams at 18 became probably New Zealand’s youngest Lotto winner, but she has not been not hung-over with success.
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Thirty-seven Kiwi artists have entered in the Italian art exhibition to commemorate New Zealand’s involvement in the World War Two battle of Monte Cassino.
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AUCKLAND — Boutique Hawke’s Bay winery has won two gold medals at the Royal Easter Show wine awards in Auckland.
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AORAKI/MOUNT COOK — If a group in Brasilia vote for world heritage starlight reserves in July, former Cabinet minister Margaret Austin will have played a key part in fighting to get world night sky reserves established.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Sixty artists and more than 130 works will be auctioned in Christchurch later this month to help raise funds to send a big group of Linwood College music students to Europe next year.
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AORAKI/MOUNT COOK — Prime minister John Key this week gave his backing to NZ's world starlight reserve project. The feature below is a backgrounder to how the proposal came about.
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LAKE TEKAPO — Prime minister John Key is backing the Aoraki/Mt Cook – Tekapo world starlight reserve proposal.
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CANTERBURY — Waimauku gardeners Jill and Vern Warren are the Kumeu’s Best Garden Competition event winners.
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NELSON — A strong environmental statement by a leading New Zealand artist Lori Davis will be seen at Bowater Toyota car forecourt in Nelson next month.
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KUMEU — The inaugural Kumeu Art in the Garden festival has delivered a windfall to the West Auckland Hospice and Kumeu Huapai Volunteer Fire Rescue.
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COROMANDEL — A UK artist who spends every summer in New Zealand will produce vibrant new figurative works in the Mercury Bay art escape event which opens on the Coromandel later this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A highly talented mature artist who was shot at and stoned by Turks, man-handled by Algerians, beaten up on a Turkish train and was a television show panellist with Selwyn Toogood will stage her first major exhibition in Christchurch later this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Addington race organisers are searching for the best dressed woman and man at their annual Waitangi Day event on February 6.
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Possibly the biggest art event ever to be held in Italy, will be held at Cassino on May 15-29 to commemorate New Zealand’s involvement there 66 years ago.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Auckland’s former South African artist Lauryne Hart will provide an impassioned view on people at a major solo exhibition in Takapuna, Auckland, next month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Top New Zealand stylist Angela Stone will stage a major fashion event at the Stella Artois international polo match in Christchurch on January 23 and 24.
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LAKE TEKAPO — Next year is pivotal to the success of New Zealand seeking a world heritage night sky reserve for Tekapo Aoraki-Mt Cook.
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QUEENSTOWN — What a different a decade makes.
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Feminising non-threatening guns feature in Sydney-based New York artist’s Arthouse exhibition which opens in Sydney next week.
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Elephants in India will be extinct in 25 years at current loss of habitat, according to leading Australian vet and film-maker Steve Van Mil.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Retrospective sensual art and holographic photo works feature in the pre-Christmas New Zealand Limited Ink Art exhibition at Sol Square in Christchurch next week.
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CANTERBURY — Environment Canterbury’s decision to give Central Plains Water, a private company, consent to take water from the Waimakariri and Rakaia rivers for irrigation on the Central Canterbury Plains has resulted in a protest art exhibition in Christchurch next week.
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HAWKE'S BAY — From being an exposed gravelly old Hawke's Bay river bed to making one of the best wines in New Zealand, Te Awa is back on the national stage again after several years of uncertainty.
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LAKE TEKAPO — New Zealand has been accepted as one of five world heritage night sky reserve sites for the UNESCO world heritage meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year.
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LAKE TEKAPO — The process to recognise world starlight reserves, including the Tekapo-Aoraki/Mt Cook bid, is taking far too long, former Cabinet minister Margaret Austin told a UNESCO conference in Santa Cruz, the Canaries Islands, today.
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CANTERBURY — Entries close on Saturday for thousands of Canterbury school children in an art competition designed to highlight concerns over the future of the region’s rivers.
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Outstanding New Zealand artist Jane Kellahan, who last night in Sydney won the inaugural $A20,000 Australian Cricket Art Prize, is among some of the top Kiwi artists who are auctioning works in a big charity art auction in Wellington on November 1.
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Leading New Zealand artist Jane Kellahan has tonight won the $A20,000 Australian Cricket Art Prize.
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Spy Valley’s rise continued today with the announcement that its sauvignon blanc will be served on Air New Zealand long-haul services.
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QUEENSTOWN — What do jeweller Michael Hadlee, cricketer Richard Hadlee, equestrian rider Mark Todd and bungy jumper AJ Hackett all have in common? They are among 11 famous names in a rare first big portrait art exhibition opening at Queenstown Airport Terminal tomorrow night.
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GREYMOUTH — Jucy Rentals, New Zealand fastest growing rental company, next month opens on the West Coast, their ninth branch in Australasia.
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OTAGO — Plod out onto the little wharf at Moeraki around sunrise.
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CANTERBURY — New Zealand has begun to see a solid recovery in export markets as the northern hemisphere summer comes to a close and the Christmas period comes into focus, according to a leading New Zealand wine expert Blair Gibbs.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Former All Black Nathan Mauger today announced the launch of a significant Canterbury coaching programme to improve junior schoolboy rugby in the region.
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Perth-based New Zealander Dave Murray has unofficially finished 16th after 10 days in the world's longest and toughest charity horse race across Mongolia.
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QUEENSTOWN — What do jeweller Michael Hill, cricketer Richard Hadlee, equestrian rider Mark Todd and bungy jumper AJ Hackett all have in common? They are among 11 great big portraits in a rare first portrait art exhibition opening at Queenstown Airport Terminal this month (September 25).
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RUSSELL — Kip Brook, Word of Mouth Media NZ The view of paradise walking into Cloud9 lingers forever.
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HANMER SPRINGS — Shut your eyes. Imagine lazing in an outdoor hot tub with someone. The sun is setting over picture postcard snow-capped mountains. Not a sound can be heard but the occasional bird chirp.
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A Perth man who has lost 14kg and is braced for wolf attacks this weekend begins his quest to race 25 different semi wild horses across Mongolia in the world's longest and toughest charity horse race, over 1000km.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch's top award-winning landscape artist Hannah Riden will stage a major major iconic Canterbury scenes exhibition at Pegasus Bay winery in Waipara from September 1.
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AUCKLAND — This is a tale of one city and two great hideaways just five kilometres apart.
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