Come along to see an excerpt from this upcoming show at the NZ Fringe Festival! After viewing of the artworks of Victor Hartmann, composer Modest Mussorgsky translated his experience to a piano composition: Pictures at an Exhibition. This was arranged for orchestra by Peter Briner, which provides the soundtrack for the the next step in […]
Svens to Sing Storybook Cover to Cover At Fringe
A 15 piece Wellington collective has been funded by Creative NZ to sing a book of short stories from cover to cover as part of the Wellington Fringe Festival.
‘Mrs Martin was one of the oldest residents in Wellington, and was highly esteemed for her plain unostentatious kindness of disposition’. Marion Baird was born in Fountainhall, a hamlet southeast...
Jacob was the sixth child of James ‘Worser’ Heberley and his wife Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James and...
Thomas was born in Oxford, England and trained as an engineer, working on the Great Northern Railway and at University College, London. He came to New Zealand in 1873 and...
This beautiful object was found by one of our volunteers at our October 2025 Working Bee in Gum Gully. Our volunteer very carefully cleaned the floral tribute as well.
