Q&A: Raybon Kan and his show Raybon... Kan Touch This
In his current comedy tour, award-winning comic Raybon Kan gives touchy subjects the kind of careful touching you'd attribute to an overworked ...
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Q&A: Dane Mitchell
Dane Mitchell talks to Cityscape about his new creation for SCAPE Public Art Spring Season 2020, and how art can serve as a ‘Trojan horse’ for ...
Q&A: Natasha Matila-Smith
Natasha Matila-Smith’s contribution to SCAPE Public Art Spring Season 2020 is a wordy number influenced by internet culture. Cityscape messages ...
Q&A: Untouched World's Peri Drysdale
Cityscape talks style, sustainability and spring with Untouched World founder Peri Drysdale. You’ve had a strong sustainability focus for a long ...
Q&A: Amanda Atlas - Behind the voice
Christchurch soprano Amanda Atlas sung her way around the world before settling back in New Zealand. She tells Cityscape about her upcoming ...
Mod's Hair: The French connection
Mod’s Hair in Merivale transcends the idea of a hair salon. Luminous and transcendent, it’s Christchurch’s home of French-style hair, it’s a ...
Q&A: Tanya Goodin - Unplug & play
Tanya Goodin founded one of the earliest digital marketing agencies, and was search engine optimising three years before Google launched. Because ...
Q&A: L.A.B. frontman Joel Shadbolt
Listen-Able Band? Legs And Butts? Ludicrous Artists Bop? L.A.B. frontman Joel Shadbolt challenges Cityscape to come up with an acronym. League of ...
Q&A: NZ Opera's Thomas de Mallet Burgess
New Zealand Opera’s general director Thomas de Mallet Burgess waxes lyrical on his upcoming productions The Human Voice and Eight Songs for a Mad ...
Best dressed: Stylist and fashionista Lou Heller
Lou Heller is a stylist, personal shopper, and a fashion judge at the upcoming IRT NZ Trotting Cup Day. She sets Cityscape up with race day ...
Dissecting art - Q&A with artist Heather Straka
Heather Straka’s art series Dissected Parlour is not in a gallery, but rather on the walls at Mod’s Hair in Merivale. Cityscape talks to the ...
Singing about crying: Q&A with Adam Hattaway
Christchurch locals Adam Hattaway and the Haunters – comprised of Adam Hattaway, Elmore Jones, Liam Quinn and Ryan Fisherman – are launching ...
Bringing music and laughter to kids at home
Christchurch-based artist Michal Bush has been connecting with her audience online way before ‘lockdown’ was a thing, with backup dancers, ...
Review: Truly personal training at Studio Six
I'd never used a personal trainer, thinking I knew enough about exercise to go it alone. But just half an hour with Kyla at Studio Six helped me ...
Artist or vandal? TOGO talks urban art in Christchurch
Urban artist TOGO is notorious for his defiant acts of vandalism – he's plastered his name in impossible spots on buildings overlooking ...
Meet the local: Benji 'The Jeans Whisperer'
From his boutique clothing store in The Tannery, Benji, aka ‘The Jeans Whisperer’, dispenses expert advice and on-trend fashion. He tells ...
