Arts & Culture

Cityscape’s home of everything entertainment and art in Christchurch.
 

Arter Limits

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Cityscape checks out the city’s gallery spaces, including exhibitions on in April and beyond. Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA)  The Centre ...

 

80s Flashback

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All things 80s are so hot right now (hello, Stranger Things, Black Mirror, Ghostbusters ...), so it’s only in vogue that you should whip out the ...

 

Pixies: Head Carrier

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The woman sweeping her hair back and forth in front of me used to have Pixies texted on her high school bag (we haven’t seen each other since the ...

 

Art Pops Up

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Always on the lookout for ways to promote and enhance the art scene in Christchurch, SCAPE Public Art, along with local artist and philanthropist ...

 

Art Central

Arts & Culture

Cityscape caught up with leading gallerist Jonathan Smart on the eve of the opening of awesome new contemporary gallery and art space The Central ...

 

Watch This Face

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Cityscape caught up with Christchurch singer/ songwriter and New Zealand music’s next big thing Nakita ahead of her move to Auckland to start ...

 

Review: Carmen with L’Arlésienne

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The Royal New Zealand Ballet launched their 2017 season into the stratosphere last night with a tour-de-force double act at the Isaac Theatre ...

 

Baton Rules

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Cityscape caught up with Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s multi-talented chief conductor extraordinaire Benjamin Northey to get the inside word ...

 

En Pointe

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Cityscape caught up with Royal New Zealand Ballet’s visionary genius/Artistic Director Francesco Ventriglia to find out what we can expect from ...

 

Review: Legally Blonde The Musical

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There’s a guy in our row, doubled over and howling with laughter; indeed, it appears the entire Court Theatre is pretty much a-quiver with peals ...

 

Sweeney slays 'em

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You know that you’re in for an evening of exquisite theatre from the first unnerving chords as Roger Kirk’s meticulously-crafted cobblestoned, ...

 

SCAPE prepares to launch first annual public art season

Arts & Culture - What's On

Good news for contemporary art lovers: SCAPE Public Art is moving from its biennial model to an annual, six-week season of epic public art in ...

 

The Iconic: Isaac Theatre Royal

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With roots in the city’s very fabric, the Isaac Theatre Royal has been knocking around in one of three forms since 1863. The first iteration, ...

 

A Close Shave

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Cityscape chats to Kiwi opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes as he reaches for his straight razor in preparation to take the eponymous role in New ...

 

Review: La traviata

Arts & Culture

The New Zealand Opera returns to the Theatre Royal with another extremely impressive production in Verdi’s La traviata. Sheer audiovisual ...

 

Change of Art

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It’s hard to imagine buttoned up, pre-quake conservative Christchurch embracing epic street art murals, and yet here we are now five years later ...

 

Canterbury (Art) Trails

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The local art scene did it tough for a while after the quakes, with lack of suitable spaces in particular a real problem, but necessity being the ...

 

Movie review: PRIDE – friends indeed

Arts & Culture

If it’s one thing Brit filmmakers love (and do exceptionally well), it’s a genre-spanning, working-class, feel good underdog tale – see The Full ...

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