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George Empson captured this image of a westerly at sunset in the Mackenzie near Tekapo.
An inaugural festival celebrating literature, arts, the landscape and community will be held in the Mackenzie later this year. The Mackenzie Book and Art Festival, create. will take place on September 17 to October 3, with 40 events, aiming to ‘’bring the community together, attracting people from all over the country to our beautiful district and have a world-class celebration of New Zealand’s artists and authors’’, a release from festival organisers says. Authors taking part in the festival include Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist Alison Jones, two of the creators of Landmarks publication Owen Marshall and Grahame Sydney, and Otematata Station’s Phillippa Cameron with her new book
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Meet Melbourne’s rising stars set to battle it out at the RAW Comedy National Grand Final Prue Blake
Like superheroes, stand up comics have their own unique origin stories.
For Prue Blake, it was two years ago when she was in a pizza cafe in Copenhagen, by chance listening to a Danish cover of Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’, when a text came through. It was her ex-boyfriend, after they broke up only a few days earlier.
“Something about that just clicked something in me,” she recalls.
“We broke up on a Friday. I booked flights that day, left on the Sunday, went to Copenhagen for a week and then came back committed to stand up comedy,” she says.