July 2nd, 2021
The 2021 Women in Wine NZ Mentoring Programme is underway with 11 women mentors working in the New Zealand wine industry volunteering to share their experiences and knowledge to fellow female industry professionals.
Over the next six months, the mentors will guide and support their mentees as they work out which direction they want to take next in their career.
They will help set goals, plan how to reach them and encourage them to confidently follow their passion and dreams within the industry.
As usual, the programme was over-subscribed with a high number of applications, indicating there are many ambitious women working in the New Zealand wine industry looking to stretch their learning potential.
Hawke s Bay Live Poets Society - keeping poetry alive in HB
2 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Bill Sutton (left) with Radio Kidnappers host Jeremy Roberts.
Napier Courier
By: Brenda Vowden
Turning 29 is not usually celebrated with much hoopla, but for the Hawke s Bay Live Poets Society, (HBLPS) this year s birthday is another reminder it is the longest-running poetry group in New Zealand. And another reason for a bit of a fuss is to farewell one of the original members who is retiring from the committee.
Dr Bill Sutton has been involved from the early days of the poetry group s 1992 inception, when it was started by Keith Thorsen. Keith was employed at the time by the Hastings City Council as their Community Arts organiser.
Making the Case for New Zealand Reds
BY REBECCA GIBB MW | MARCH 02, 2021
Almost a century before Pinot Noir found its feet in Central Otago and Martinborough, a Croatian-born viticulturist toured New Zealand to assess the potential for making wine. In 1895, Romeo Bragato visited the country’s fledgling vineyards, tasting the fruit and delivering his thoughts on the suitability of the climate and soils. In his
Report on the Prospects of Viticulture in New Zealand, he declared that Central Otago, the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay were well adapted to wine production. In a later publication Bragato suggested that the most suitable red grapes were Syrah, the two Cabernets, Dolcetto and Pinot Noir. However, the brakes were slammed on New Zealand’s development as a wine-producing nation. Bragato’s report coincided with the rise of a strong temperance movement, which led to a close-run vote on prohibition in 1919 and ushered in a slew of restrictive measures on wine sales, some of w
This year’s Meeting Ground Christmas edition features the works of poets from New Zealand and Jamaica. For this first instalment, the featured Jamaican poets are in the diaspora but born and mostly raised in Jamaica. In their work is the dialogue between the Jamaican Christmas past and the American Christmas present, reminding us, too, of Claude McKay’s “Flame Heart”, with the poinsettias red, blood-red in warm December. Here’s to a heart-warming Christmas and blissful reading!
– Ann-Margaret Lim (Jamaica)
Kia Ora (Welcome in Maori). It is a great pleasure for us poets in New Zealand to be sharing poetry and Manawa (Breath) with our brothers and sisters in Jamaica at this time of the year. We share so much common ground in our island nations – the love of the sea, mountains and friendly faces. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Arohanui (much love and deep affection).