“Honestly, the last few years have been incredible,” is not quite the answer you might expect from someone living with Stage 4b ovarian cancer, but then Shelley Carppe has a different way of looking at things, and continues to find plenty to...
Every year, young people travel thousands of kilometres to study in Nelson, bringing a remarkable international presence to our relatively small city. Behind them are the local families opening their doors and helping turn an unfamiliar...
The Angel Gardeners grew out of Make/Shift Spaces’ 2024 Spring Clean campaign, an initiative aimed at tidying up and breathing new life into parts of Nelson’s central city. Make/Shift Spaces was founded in 2019 by Anne Rush MNZM, at a time...
Choreographer Chloe Loftus, who lives a stone’s throw from the beach, has been carrying the idea for years. What she envisages is not just a gathering on the seashore, but a combination of the incoming tide, the sand dunes, and the...