Category Archives: Arts

Arts

What the heck is the Fringe Festival?

Beginning as a post-war stunt by Scottish rebels, the Fringe Festival is now a world-wide network of creative champions celebrating the arts. Screen student and musician Kat Waswo infiltrated the Hamilton Fringe to capture the atmosphere, charm and spontaneity of the two-week festival across Kirikiriroa.

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Arts

Gourmet In The Gardens

Hamilton event Gourmet in the Gardens is starting to become a staple part of the  community’s summer activities. It kicked off for this summer on the October 15 and is running every Sunday until the end of March next year on the Rhododendron Lawn in the Hamilton Gardens.

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Arts, Music

Nivara Lounge: Where live music lives on in the Tron

1. KENT TUTOR // WINTEC

It wasn’t a calling or an epiphany that inspired Kent Macpherson to start teaching music – just words of encouragement from a bandmate-turned-tutor, and the lure of doing what he loves for a living.

Kent’s career started across the ditch in 1995, leading him to his current role at Wintec’s music department in 2011. He identifies as a musician first and foremost, despite having spent the last 22 years (and counting) living an “insular life” in the academic world.

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