Mountain Scene
July 27, 2021
By PHILIP CHANDLER
Thanks to showing off what you can do with glass, Queenstown’s Lakeland Glass won ‘best showroom’ at the recent Window & Glass Association New Zealand Design Awards.
‘‘Glass curtain walls, glass canopies, glass sliding doors, glass partitions and frameless glass balustrades curved even combine in this sharp and stylish building to create an
environment saturated with glass,’’ the judges’ citation reads.
Long-time owner Richard Campbell designed the showroom for his company’s new Glenda Drive premises that were completed just before the Covid lockdown.
‘‘It’s a bit of a shock I designed something that won something,’’ he says.
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Mountain Scene
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Punters to this year’s Luma event won’t have to worry about carparking.
In a first for Luma, a park-and-ride’s being set up at Queenstown Central, where people can also fill up on meal deals kids can eat for free at all Queenstown Central eateries from 4pm over Queen’s Birthday weekend and then hop on free buses, operating from 5pm to 10pm for the duration of the event, which will take them directly to the Queenstown Gardens.
Luma chair Duncan Forsyth says feedback from previous years addressed transport options available to visitors, and while the Gardens is the ‘‘ideal location’’, State Highway 6 is a ‘‘notorious bottleneck’’.
Mountain Scene
By GUY WILLIAMS
When Brent and Paula Te Kawa put out the feelers for a Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) instructor for their new Queenstown academy, they got a flood of high-calibre applicants from overseas.
So they were surprised when the strongest application came from Matamata, of all places.
Rodrigo Teixeira, who arrived in the resort last week to take up the role at Te Manawa Jiu Jitsu Academy, is a fifth-degree black belt.
That makes him the highest-graded exponent of the martial art in the country.
‘‘It’s similar to having the likes of Michael Jordan teach you if you were into basketball,’’ Brent says.
Mountain Scene
January 29, 2021
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Closed borders are providing an extra boost for next month’s Twilight Opera, the stage for which is a recently-designated ‘garden of national interest’ at Dalefield.
Produced by the Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS), with Auckland’s Opera Studio, it’ll be the second event of its kind held at Bruce and Margot Robinson’s ‘Birchwood Garden’, at Birchwood Road.
Five of the seven names now signed on for the February 21 concert should be on contract overseas, singing with American and European companies, were it not for Covid.
Following on from last year’s operatic coup, which saw ACAS secure leading opera tenor Simon O’Neill to perform at Arrowtown’s Athenaeum Hall a sold-out performance regarded as one of the best staged in the historic hall the society’s now doubled down.
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