As You Like it’s Director Eddie Bijl says “making Shakespeare is a form of alchemy – we bring 400-year-old words back to life and reinvent them for our audiences today”.
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Shaking up the glamour stakes at Riccarton Park for this year’s Cup Week is 2020 fashion coordinator June Youngman, who is encouraging a more open field of contestants for the much-anticipated ‘best dressed’ events.
For the first time ever, winners will be selected using a Melbourne Cup-style points system that ties judging strictly to the outfit.
Spring. It’s our thing here in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It’s ‘nor-west winds and blossom snowstorms, longer days and spectacular sunsets; it’s daffodils down Bealey Ave and gardens awash with colour. It’s also when the city comes alive with festivals, live music, horse racing, cultural performances, art, and fashion.
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Harry Winston is famously quoted saying, ‘People will stare. Make it worth their while.’ And in amongst a month of suits and hats, dresses and races, it feels apt that Working Style’s new concept store has triumphantly returned to the city.
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Every collaboration, whether it’s a marriage, a business proposition, or the building of one’s home is a lesson in thoughtful compromise. Bringing together two distinct visions for a home is no mean feat.
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The body is a temple, and like all good temples, it deserves spring cleaning. Setting out to dust off the cobwebs with a holistic health approach is husband and wife, and business partners, Bridget and Henrik Prütz.
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Intermediate care apartments should have character. They should be architecturally designed, making the most of the sun and your privacy, and give you the independence you deserve. You can confidently say Alpine View is all that, and more.
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They say changing the world starts in one’s own backyard. Making your own little patch of dirt flourish with colour, fragrance, and life can represent a slice of you, in your very own space. Summer is the most rewarding time to get amongst your greenery, where the myriad of benefits is well known and seemingly endless.
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The list of health benefits from spending more time in nature is long and gives you plenty of reasons to invest in your landscaping. But let’s not forget, a well-designed space can also add significant value to your home.
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From a 112-year-old charitable trust facilitating the delivery of Allan McLean’s will to one of the city’s finest retirement villages, Holly Lea’s history is as long as it is illustrious.
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J. Friend & Co Honey has a unique culinary point of view – to return life to the golden stuff. Other honey on the market is often made using pasteurising creaming methods, and this can strip out all the goodness and regional distinctiveness as the product is blended.
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There is something special about the Christchurch food scene and adding to this ever-growing diversity is a modern and welcoming place to meet, eat, and drink – Vices & Virtues.
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With a current emphasis on New Zealanders supporting local business, and ‘backing our backyards’, one social enterprise has been quietly and confidently forging ahead with this ethos for close to 14 years.
Cyclical celebrations have a way of shaping and defining a year. Those events that return annually call for preparation and pomp from the attendees and nothing better represents that in Canterbury than Cup and Show Week.
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“I do fret that I’ve robbed myself of that quintessential Christchurch experience of being blind drunk, sun-burnt, and screaming at a horse that I’ve spent my course-related costs on to make me rich.”
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“I came to New Zealand when I was 19. I was looking for work, but the owner of Everybody’s Butchery didn’t have a job for me, so I bought his business instead! There were a few people who didn’t like the idea of a female taking over and changing things, but I think change is often a good thing.”
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From his work on Grizzly Baked Goods in The Welder to wine bar Alfred, to the surfboard outside of Saturdays café in New Brighton, Michael Gilling’s signature craft shapes various parts of our daily lives through XYLO Woodcraft.
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Société Publishing’s limited-edition journal – Consider – is a pool of calm in anxious times, bringing together delightfully curated stories, poems, and beautiful images from around the world. It is a special publication in every way, consciously produced to avoid any use of plastics and with a water-base soft-touch cover.
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Watch This Space founder Lindsay Chan was amazed by Ōtautahi’s urban art; the murals, graffiti, and the street works, but was equally amazed there was no definitive map or database to learn more about the art and artists.
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Welly puts the rest of the country to task when it comes to spectacular events over the summer months.It’s the place you want to be for all things food, music, art, and so much more – the region is creative, thriving, and full of electric good vibes. The capital is calling. Now, are you going to answer?
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