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September 2015The Year in Pictures

Issues One and Two 2014

Issues Three and Four 2015

“My life began in the wonderfully sparse and isolated Maniototo area of Central Otago. Over the years I have returned to recover and begin again. Every time the vast bowl of the skies and the enveloping silence have conspired to heal and inform me. “

Maniototo, Central Otago ~ Tony Bridge © 2015

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Front and inside cover photography ~ The Maniototo, Central Otago ~ by Tony Bridge. See Issue Three ~ Pages Fifty Two and Fifty Three All rights reserved Tony Bridge © 2015

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Looking over toward Hereweka and Portobello from Harwood ~ Otago Harbour

Issue One ~ Front Cover

Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

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A note from % e$tor

Down In Edin Magazine has had many requests for hard copy issues and coffee table style books. Anything is possible, from finding the right print on demand to the funding and staff necessary for the output - we will see what we can do and be open to all possibilities. The requests are very much appreciated.

In the meantime the internet and Issuu’s magazine platform for Down In Edin Magazine has enabled us to reach, including Aotearoa, 40 countries across the globe. We have been read and reached far beyond Dunedin and Otago: we’ve had great readership in the whole of New Zealand, Australia, United States, United Kingdom and Germany in particular. We have reached as far north as the Orkneys, and as far south as the tip of South America, we’ve spanned many countries in Europe, the Americas (North to South), Asia, the Middle East and Scandinavia. As well as the five countries mentioned above they are: Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Croatia, Ecuador, France, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. How cool is that!

Thank you to each and everyone of you!Caroline Davies, E$torDo# In E$n Magazine

Kia ora,

Welcome to the first anniversary Special Edition of Down In Edin Magazine.

This edition is a visual review of the past year celebrating the wonderful people and places featured in the first four issues. The First Year Anniversary Edition is a thank you to all the participants, contributors, sponsors and those who have read and shared Down In Edin Magazine.

A picture can say a thousand words, so it is mostly with images, along with a splash of poetry, lyrics & quotes that we are remembering stories from the past year with a full list of articles ~ people and places at the end of this edition on page 118.

Some of the photographs used in this edition are favourite out-takes and some, as with Dunedin’s Writers and Readers Festival and the Arts Festival Dunedin, are updates.

At the bottom of most pages in this edition, you will find a reference to where the image or text can be found ~ in which issue and the page the story begins or the image relates to. Individual links to each story are found with the original stories in each issue rather than here. Links to each issue are at the bottom of the Table of Contents on the following pages 6 and 7. You can also find each magazine on the Down In Edin Magazine’s Issuu HomePage, a link on page three and right here.

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Table of Contents Issues One and Two

Front & Inside Covers Anniversary Issue ~ Tony Bridge

Front Cover Issue One ~ 4

Photographs, The Otago Peninsula ~ 8 and 9

A Word from the Mayor, Dave Cull ~ 10 and 11

Graeme Downes, “What Sound Is This” ~ 12 and 13

Arts Festival Dunedin 2014 ~ 14 and 15

Professor Kevin Clements, Peace, Justice ~ 16 and 17

Photographs, The Otago Peninsula ~ 18 and 19

Sophie Sparrow ~ 20 and 21

Photographs, Spring in Dunedin ~ 22 and 23

Sophie Morris ~ 24 and 25

Our Local Food Network, Andy Barratt ~ 26 and 27

Jason Ross, Habitate, Permaculture ~ 28 and 29

Otago Harbour, A View from Harwood ~ 30 and 31

Link to Issue One

Front Cover Issue Two ~ 32 and 33

Photographs, Pūrākaunui ~ 34 and 35

Anthony Ritchie, Music of the Soul ~ 36 and 37

Claire Beynon, The Hum of the Parts ~ 38 and 39

Dr. Ian Griffin, Humanising Science ~ 40 and 41

Molly Devine, The Divine Ms. Molly ~ 42 and 43

Some Other Creature ~ 44 and 45

Councilor Jinty MacTavish, Sustainable World ~ 46 and 47

Photographs, Pūrākaunui and Aramoana ~ 48 and 49

Electric Bikes, A Positive Alternative ~ 50 and 51

Photographs, Pūrākaunui ~ 52 and 53

Nick Rapley, Surfing Otago ~ 54 and 55

Photographs, Otago Harbour, Hereweka ~ 56 and 57

Photograph, Bee and Borage, Big Green Challenge ~ 81

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Front and Inside Covers Issue Three ~ 58 and 59

Photographs, Aramoana and Doctors Point ~ 60 and 61

Jackie Ballantyne, Life and Literature ~ 62 and 63

Claire Beynon, Jeremy Mayall’s “Flutter” ~ 64 and 65

Jeremy Mayall, Beyond The Bounds of Definition ~ 66 and 67

Tony Bridge, Blending Worlds ~ Part One ~ 68 and 69

Migoto Eria, Otago Museum, Tangata Whenua ~ 70 and 71

Corwin Newall ~ 72 and 73

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2015 ~ 74 and 75

Hagen Bruggemann, Hagen’s Insight ~ 76 and 77

A Very Brief History of Electric Vehicles ~ 78 and 79

Photograph, Bee and Red Clover, Permaculture ~ 80

Carrick, Organic Wine from Central Otago ~ 82 and 83

Taste Nature, Organic Shop and Eatery ~ 84 and 85

Photographs, Tree and Hereweka ~ 86 and 87

Link to Issue Three

Front and Inside Cover Issue Four ~ 88 and 89

Rob Burns, Not A One Trick Pony ~ 90 and 91

The Octagon Poetry Collective ~ 92 and 93

Carolyn McCurdie, Poetry ~ 94 and 95

Tony Bridge, Blending Worlds, Part Two ~ 96 and 97

Robert Morris, A Treasure Trove of Antiquities ~ 98 and 99

Annie Villiers, “Albatross Weather” ~ 100

The Royal Albatross, Dunedin ~ 101, 102 and 103

Dunedin’s Midwinter Carnival & Matariki ~ 104 and 105

Chef Ken O’Connell, Bracken Restaurant ~ 106 and 107

Dr. Maureen Howard, Eco Living In Action ~ 108 and 109

Rayna Dickson, Otago Organics ~ 110 and 111

Wairuna Organics, Otago’s Winter Heroes ~ 112 and 113

Photographs, Doctors Point and Harwood ~ 114 and 115

Photographs and Text, Hereweka ~ 116 and 117

Link To Issue Four

Table of Contents Issues 'ree and F(r

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Thank you ~ Page 118

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Welcome t o Ed i n !Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

Issue One ~ Page Four

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Issue One ~ Page Thirty Seven

Hereweka (The Harbour Cone) ~ Portobello, DunedinPhotography ~ Caroline Davies ©

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Excerpt from Issue One "Dunedin is one of the world's great compact cities, and Otago one of the most beautiful regions. Our coastline is one of the last vestiges of natural wilderness shared by appreciative visitors and precious wildlife. Where else on the globe can we witness the majesty of a Royal Albatross in flight, their protected and cherished chicks on the ground, or the emergence of one of our rare Yellow Eyed Penguins from a pounding surf at sunset: and all of that only thirty minutes drive from the

centre of the city. Our mountains, forests, and valleys give a rare glimpse of pristine landscapes still left on earth, and our agricultural industry provides us some of the best food in the world. Dunedin’s Saturday farmer's market must be one of the best in the Southern Hemisphere. We can take lovely drives to walk magnificent beaches on both the Otago Peninsula and West Harbour harbour-sides and stunning South Island landscapes made famous as Middle Earth, are just an hour’s drive inland. “ Continues next page

A Word From The Mayor of Dunedin ~ Dave Cull, September 2014


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An introduction ~ “A Word From The Mayor” ~ Issue One ~ Page Three

From previous page “Our city is renowned for its heritage buildings, Botanical Gardens, and the beauty of our harbour. Dunedin and indeed Otago are home to renowned artists, novelists, poets, singers, songwriters, legendary bands, theatre, dancers, athletes, inventors and innovators, and a population that cares for and deeply appreciate this precious place and its people. "

An introduction ~ “A Word From The Mayor” ~ Issue One ~ Page Three


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Dunedin Railway Station

Excerpt from “What Sound Is This?”

...“What sound, what sound is this?A hymn for our protection?

A lament for a failed resurrection?A psalm to our naked imperfection?

Peel back these clothes, this skinLook at the state we're in

We're not so different as you might thinkWe're on the brink of the same abyss

Face to face or side by sideBravely veil ing how petrified

We really areThe sound is this

Of the l ives per vertedDiverted from places no-one's heard of

The sound is this

Words lost for answersNo second chances

The blind leading the blind the whole wayBecause the master of all the dancers

Has got so much on his mindHe's got nothing to say”...

Lyrics, Graeme Downes

What Sound is This?April 2009 from the short fi lm Eden

Graeme Downes ~ “What Sound Is This” ~ Issue One ~ Page Ten


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Graeme Downes ~ “What Sound Is This” ~ Issue One ~ Page Ten


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What Sound Is This?

Dr. Graeme Downes

Poet

Composer

Educator

and

The Verlaines

Arts Festival Dunedin, 10-19 October 2014 Michael Hurst in “No Holds Bard”, Fortune Theatre. 15 October 2014. Photography: Chris Sullivan/SeenInDunedin

Arts Festival Dunedin ~ Issue One ~ Page Twenty

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Arts Festival Dunedin, 10-19 October 2014Micheline Sings Brel. Guitarist Ben Hauptman. Glenroy Auditorium. 14 October 2014. Photography: Chris Sullivan/SeenInDunedin

Arts Festival Dunedin ~ Issue One ~ Page Twenty

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“Non Violence Is An Imperative, Not An Optional Extra”

Professor Kevin Clements ~ “Peace, Justice and Compassion” ~ Issue One ~ Page Twenty Eight

Professor Kevin Clements: Peace, Justice and Compassion

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Issue One ~ Page Seventy Four

Looking across to Portobello early morning from the West Harbour Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

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The last traces of winter as Spring emerges warming the enchanted Hereweka

Issue One ~ Page Seventy Five


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S o p h i eS p a r r o w

Sophie Sparrow ~ Issue One ~ Page Thirty Nine


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Sophie Sparrow ~ Issue One ~ Page Thirty Nine


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Springtime in Dunedin

Botanical Gardens, Dunedin Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

This page ~ Issue One ~ Page Two Opposite Page ~ Issue One ~ Cherry Trees in Blossom ~ University of Otago Campus ~ Page Forty Seven

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Sophie Morr i s

Sophie Morris ~ Issue One ~ Page Forty Two


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Sophie Morris ~ Issue One ~ Page Forty Two


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Our Food Network ~ With Andy Barratt ~ Issue One ~ Page Forty Eight

Otago Peninsula Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

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Our Food Network: Up Close and Local

Our Food Network ~ With Andy Barratt ~ Issue One ~ Page Forty Nine


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J A S O N R O S S

H A B I T A T E

P E R M A C U L T U R ES t o r y W r i t t e n b y K o r e n A l l p r e s s

Jason Ross ~ Habitate ~ Permaculture ~ Issue One ~ Page Fifty Five


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Jason Ross ~ Habitate ~ Permaculture ~ Issue One ~ Page Fifty Four


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The Otago PeninsulaA Snapshot Overview Around the Peninsula

The Otago Peninsula ~ Issue One ~ Page Sixty Five


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" Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

Attributed to Desmond Tutu


At the end of a day after a storm, the view out to Port Chalmers and West Harbour from Harwood

Last page ~ Issue One ~ Page Seventy Seven

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Aramoana and the hills of the Otago Peninsula

Front Cover ~ Issue Two


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Aramoana and the hills of the Otago Peninsula

Inside Cover ~ Issue Two


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Pūrākaunui Inlet Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

Pūrākaunui ~ Issue Two ~ Page Six

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Pūrākaunui Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©

Pūrākaunui ~ Issue Two ~ Page Eight

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A n t h o n y

R i t c h i e

Musi c o f t h e Sou l

Anthony Ritchie ~ Issue Two ~ Page Eleven

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Claire Beynon ~ The Hum Of The Parts ~ Issue Two ~ Page Twenty Two


In the Studio

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Cup of Sky (detail) ~ Pastel, Ink and Pencil on Paper ~ Claire Beynon © 2014

Claire Beynon ~ THE HUM of THE PARTSpainting poetry philosophy peace and our planet

Claire Beynon ~ The Hum Of The Parts ~ Issue Two ~ Page Twenty Two

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D r. I a n G r i f f i n ~ H u m a n i s i n g S c i e n c eO t a g o M u s e u m a n d O u r G r e a t S o u t h e r n N i g h t S k i e s

Dr. Ian Griffin ~ Otago Museum ~ Issue Two ~ Page Thirty Six

Aurora Australis ~ Hoopers Inlet, Otago Peninsula ~ New Zealand ~ September 2015 ~ Photography by Dr. Ian Griffin ©

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“There’s a cycle with astronomy and astro-photography where you live your life by the rhythm of the moon. I’ve been exploring the Otago Peninsula during the dark phases of the moon, spots like Hoopers and Papanui Inlets which are extraordinary places. They are absolutely desolate at night. I’m sure I’m the only human being around for miles watching the stars and taking pictures. It’s a very peaceful and tranquil thing to do. The Southern sky here is magnificent, it is world class, and when you couple an amazingly dark sky with regular displays of the aurora, stargazers here have opportunities to see some extraordinary things!” Dr. Ian Griffin, November 2014

Dr. Ian Griffin ~ Our Great Southern Night Skies ~ Issue Two ~ Page Forty Three

Aurora Australis ~ Hoopers Inlet, Otago Peninsula ~ New Zealand ~ September 2015 ~ Photography by Dr. Ian Griffin ©

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T H E D I V I N E M S . M O L L Y

F i n a l B e l lA n i n v i s i b l e f i s t f u l l o f p a p e r

K n o c k e d h i m o f f h i s f e e tI n a b o u t h e c o u l d n ’ t w i n

T h o u g h h e t h o u g h t h e c o u l d c o m p e t e

T h e r e ’ s l e a t h e r e d f e e t a t e y e l i n eF r o m t h e w a g e s o f t h e i r s i n

H i s e m p t y c u p p o i n t s t o h e a v e nB u t n o o n e s t a k e n i n

T h e b e s t h e ’ s d r e a m e d i s o v e r n o wT h e r e ’ s n o t h i n g l e f t t o s e l l

F o r e v e r y w i n n e r t h e r e ’ s a l o s e rA t t h e f i n a l b e l l

H i s m i n d w a n d e r s b a c k t o t h e s u c k e r p u n c hT h a t b u c k l e d a l l h i s h o p e s

T h e r e ’ s n o d i s h o n o r i n a f i x e d f i g h tI t ’ s j u s t a f a n t a s y w a t c h e d t h r o u g h r o p e s

T h e b e s t h e ’ s d r e a m e d i s o v e r n o wA m o n g s t t h e c h e a p r e d w i n e s m e l l


T h e c o l d s e t s i n a t f i v e o ’ c l o c kT h e n t h e n i g h t s h i f t c l a i m s t h e d a r k

C l a w i n g f e e t , S n a k i n g t a i l s ,A r o u n d Z u c c o t t i P a r k

A s a s n o w f l a k e h i t s t h e p a v e m e n tH e ’ s l e f t o u t u n d e r t h e s t a r s

T h e s u b w a y r u m b l e s t h e l a s t t r a i n h o m eW h i l e t h e y s h u t t e r u p t h e b a r s

T h e b e s t h e ’ d d r e a m e d i s o v e r n o wA s h e k n o w s f u l l w e l l


L y r i c s - M o l l y D e v i n e © 2 0 1 4P l a n e t G l i t t e r

Photography ~ Caroline Davies © Molly Devine ~ The Divine Ms. Molly ~ Issue Two ~ Page Fifty Four

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Molly Devine (Mallika) performing with her band Mallika at Albany Street Recording Studios 5th September 2015 (Lachlan Nixon playing lead guitar in background)


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Molly Devine ~ The Divine Ms. Molly ~ Issue Two ~ Page Fifty Four

‘Some Other Creature‘ ~ Maddy Parkins Craig

Some Other Creature ~ Issue Two ~ Page Sixty


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Hanging out with

Some Other Creature

Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Some Other Creature ~ Issue Two ~ Page Sixty One

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Photo Credit: Emily Hlavac GreenCouncilor Jinty MacTavish

Creating A Sustainable World: Dunedin City Councilor Jinty MacTavish Takes a Tour

Councilor Jinty MacTavish ~ Creating A Sustainable World ~ Issue Two ~ Page Sixty Eight

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Heritage and Urban Renewal, Leipzig ~ Photography by Jinty MacTavish

Councilor Jinty MacTavish ~ Creating A Sustainable World ~ Issue Two ~ Page Sixty Nine

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Pūrākaunui ~ Issue Two ~ Page Thirteen

Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Pūrākaunui Inlet at low tide

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Creating A Sustainable World ~ Issue Two ~ Page Seventy Nine

Electric Bikes ~ A Positive Alternative ~ Issue Two ~ Page Eighty Four

ELECTRIC BIKES: A POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE

Story by Scott Willis

Electric Bike Image: Courtesy Kashi - Bike Otago, Dunedin Composite Image - Caroline Davies

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Electric Bikes ~ A Positive Alternative ~ Issue Two ~ Page Eighty Six

Image Courtesy BRCT and Belle, Libby and Blueskin E-Bike © 2014

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Pūrākaunui ~ Issue Two ~ Page Ninety One

Osborne, Pūrākaunui Inlet, Looking Northward

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Pūrākaunui ~ Issue Two ~ Page Sixty Nine

In the forest ~ pathway by Pūrākaunui Inlet

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Nick Rapley ~ Surfing Otago ~ Issue Two ~ Page Ninety Four

Su r f i n g O t a g oPho t o g r a ph y a nd t e x t ~ N i c k Rap l e y

The Catlins Coastline, Southern Otago, New Zealand. Nick Rapley © 2014

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Nick Rapley ~ Surfing Otago ~ Issue Two ~ Page Ninety Seven

“My favorite type of wave would definitely be a super hollow beach break or a river mouth. I love getting tubed, I pretty much spend every minute of my spare time driving around lower South Island hunting barrels because there is no better feeling than riding through and unpredictable tunnel of water and making it out again.” Nick Rapley

Purakaunui Bay in the Catlins, Southern Otago, New Zealand © 2014

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Issue Two ~ Text ~ Page One Hundred and Three and Issue Four ~ Image ~ Page Twenty Two

" You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." C.S. Lewis

Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Otago Harbour

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Last Page ~ Issue Two ~ Page One Hundred and Three

Rainbow after a summer’s rain, Hereweka and the Otago Peninsula, Dunedin

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Issue Three ~ Front Cover

Autumn Woodlands ~ North East Valley ~ Dunedin

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Issue Two ~ Inside Cover

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Aramoana ~ Issue Three ~ Page Six

Aramoana

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Doctors Point ~ Issue Three ~ Page Seven

Doctors Point

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Jackie Ballantyne ~ Life and Literature ~ Issue Three ~ Page Thirteen

“Here, on a clear day under a cobalt sky you can see right through to eternity. Or so it might seem.If you stay there long enough, the desert will find your still-point.” Jackie Ballantyne


Jackie Ballantyne ~ Life and Literature: A Writer’s Story ~ Issue Three ~ Page Nine

Jackie BallantyneLife and Literature:

A Writer’s Story

“Look at the ordinary world around you and find the extra-ordinary. Listen. Watch. Read widely. Write.” Jackie Ballantyne ~ 63 ~

A note from Claire Beynon

Dear C...

Attending the dress rehearsal of Jeremy Mayall’s Flutter with you a few nights ago stirred a raft of childhood memories, Caroline - triggered, no doubt, by a combination of things; the bare-shoulders warmth of the butterfly enclosure, Jeremy’s exquisite musical offering, the performers’ open-heartedness and, too, the simple privilege of being in close proximity to flocks of delicate and ephemeral butterflies. There we were, at dusk in the Otago Museum - life and its cycles so viscerally present. Down on ground level - just inches away from Danny’s labyrinth of recording cables, musicians’ instruments, amplifiers and music stands - were darkened cubicles of pupating chrysalises; caterpillars undergoing their valiant struggle towards tansformation and release. . . With this as their unlikely backdrop, a handful of men and women worked and played, weaving together an accompaniment of unforgettable musical magic. It was an astounding evening!

You caught me writing notes on my hand as we listened. Seldom without notebook or camera, I’d left both behind that night but skin – the body – makes an excellent and readily-available notebook or canvas! As the steel-stringed slide guitar keened and Julia Booth’s voice soared to the rafters, I jotted down a few thoughts. I was especially struck that night by the ways in which art and music animate space and alter both - architectural space, yes, but the rooms of ‘interior house’, too. In that unhurried dress rehearsal moment, composer, musicians, sound engineer and audience collaborated in a one-off, one-of-a-kind conversation with plants, soil, water, air and butterflies. You and I participated, too, simply by being there and listening. The enclosure-turned-performance-space was impressed by flying lines of celebratory sound and, too, by some immeasurable ‘other’ – a gift, if you will, that belonged to no one yet was experienced by everyone. That space will continue to hold the memory of Jeremy’s music and I dare say each of us would have left the museum that night with something ‘other’ than we had arrived with. Much appreciation C.B

Claire Beynon ~ Jeremy Mayall’s “Flutter” ~ Issue Three ~ Page Twenty Six

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from Persephone by Claire Beynon

Photography ~ Daniel Buchanan ©


Jeremy Mayall ~ Beyond the Bounds of Definition ~ Issue Three ~ Page Twenty Eight

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Jeremy Mayall ~ Beyond the Bounds of Definition ~ Issue Three ~ Page Thirty Seven

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Tony Bridge ~ Blending Worlds ~ Issue Three ~ Page Thirty Eight

Maniototo, Otago ~ Tony Bridge © 2015

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Tony Bridge ~ Blending Worlds ~ Issue Three ~ Page Thirty Nine

Maniototo, Otago ~ Tony Bridge © 2015

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Migoto Eria ~ Curator, Ambassador and Diplomat ~ Issue Three ~ Fifty Four

MIGOTO ERIA

Curator, Ambassador and Diplomat

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Migoto with her son Tomoana, Otago Harbour, Dunedin


Migoto Eria ~ Curator, Ambassador and Diplomat ~ Issue Three ~ Page Fifty Five

Tāngata Whenua and the Otago Museum

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“Concert Etiquette”

Lyrics by Corwin Newall

I’ve got a Bachelor of Music.—I hope I actually use it; get paid, even. That’d get my career and take a spatula to it. Flip it upside down. I vowed I’d never flip burgers, like other graduates.

Clueless as to how I’d manage it; as of yet, it’s fruitless. I’m only cashing a few figures annually, but come on—I’d work for a song, I love music to pieces! But for some reason, people say, “Don’t clap between movements, it ruins the natural acoustic and it detracts from the music.” That’s a good standard, but for the fact that it’s stupid. New listeners turn up and just feel dumb, stared

at and excluded! Sure, I’d be glad if you wouldn’t do it, flattered, but only when my Bach’s as remarkable as Angela Hewitt’s. (Cut me some slack. I’m a student.)

Oh? What’s with the code of silence? I just want to sing along with the violins. Suppressing the need to tap my feet just has to be bad for me, but, it’s concert etiquette. Trying not to sleep at opera seems impossibly difficult, but it’s the rules. It’s concert etiquette. Oh, you’d better not

forget. It’s concert etiquette. It’s concert etiquette! Shush!

The whole field is elitist. People dream up meaningless sequences of notes, write screeds of conceited prose about them, and no one doubts their genius. Did you know that composers aren’t even supposed to write pieces that sound nice anymore because it’s seen as weakness? This symphony is

bound to make them (call me a) sell-out, but I’d love to sell out. If that much of a crowd turned up I’d be proud, wouldn’t make them shut up and sit down. Contemporary music’s carpeted in thick layers

of garbage. Arbitrary paint splashes on canvas can’t be a masterpiece. This scene’s a disaster. Please.

I just want to sing along.

Oh, what’s with the code of silence? I think I’ll applaud in defiance. [Clap and play] Suppressing the need to tap my feet just has to be bad for me, but, it’s concert etiquette. Trying not to sleep

at opera seems impossibly difficult, but it’s the rules. It’s concert etiquette. Oh, concert etiquette. It’s concert etiquette. It’s concert etiquette! Shush!

You forget, once you join the “in crowd”, how the sound of only you clapping is a bit loud. Sit down, don’t cough, phones off, keep your breathing even! Even better yet, don’t even breathe. Have

some respect for concert etiquette. Shhh!

(All Rights Reserved Corwin Newall © 2014)

Corwin Newall ~ “Concert Etiquette” ~ Issue Three ~ Page Sixty Two

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Corwin Newall ~ Issue Three ~ Page Sixty Five

Corwin Newall

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Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival ~ Dunedin A City of Literature ~ Issue Three ~ Page Sixty Eight

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival ~ 5th to 10th May 2015 A Korero with Patricia Grace (right) and Witi Ihimaera (left) ~ 9th May, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin

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Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival ~ Dunedin A City of Literature ~ Issue Three ~ Page Sixty Eight

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival ~ 5th to 10th May 2015Lightning Talks: (L to R) Helen MacDonald, Natalie Haynes, Nick Davies, Robbie Burton, Zia Haider Rahman

9th May, Regent Theatre, Dunedin

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Hagen Bruggemann ~ Hagen’s Insight ~ Issue Three ~ Page Seventy Two

Hagen’s InsightTaking The High Road

“What I think people need to know, generally speaking, is that an electric car can go the same distance as its equivalent petrol version with the electrical energy it takes to refine the raw-oil into petrol to propel the equivalent petrol car “

Most people do not realize just how much energy (electricity or other forms) is used to refine crude oil into gasoline (petrol). That is not to mention the large amounts of energy used in extraction, transportation, infrastructure, labour, as well as the actual refining process.

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Hagen Bruggemann ~ Taking The High Road ~ Issue Three ~ Page Seventy Three

Hagen’s Insight

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A Very Brief History of Electric Vehicles ~ Issue Three ~ Page Eighty Four

A Very Brief History of

Electric Vehicles

...” So many other pillars of modern civilization have changed over the past one hundred and twenty years, but the one thing that stil l remains is the internal combustion engine. A hundred smoggy years and driving in cities around the world has become mostly a painful and fr ustrating experience. Driving on the wide open road is one thing, but sitting in traffic jams in the midst of thousands of other frustrated humans belching out carbon dioxide, sitting almost still in contraptions that were thought to make life faster, easier, more convenient, have in fact created the opposite - and whilst sitting in those traffic jams, frittering away and burning up one of the world’s most unrenewable resources. ..”

Kenneth Cranham - “The Electric Car Revolution”

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Image Sourced from Electric Cars are for GirlsPublic Domain, Author unknown

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Reference to Permaculture ~ ReScape ~ Issue Three ~ Page Ninety Seven

A Bee and Red Clover

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Reference to Dunedin’s Big Green Challenge ~ Sustainable Dunedin City ~ Issue Two ~ Page Eighty

Bees and Borage In My Garden

Be Special Pages ~ Nurturing Bees

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Carrick ~ Organic Wine from Central Otao ~ Issue Three ~ Page One Hundred and Five

...“Bannockburn is found deep in the south interior of the South Island of New Zealand in the wine region of Central Otago. Nestled at the southern end of one of the broad glacial river valleys surrounded by the Cairnmuir and Carrick mountain ranges, Bannockburn enjoys a continental climate with low rainfall and high sunshine hours.” ...

Carrick Vineyard Photo Courtesy of Carrick

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Barbara &Steve Green enjoying one of their carefully produced wines in their restaurant ~ Photo Courtesy Carrick

Carrick ~ Organic Wine from Central Otago ~ Issue Three ~ Page One Hundred and Four

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Taste Nature ~ Organic Shop and Eatery ~ Issue Three ~ Page One Hundred and Ten

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Taste Natureo r g a n i c s h o p

a n d e a t e r y

Story and PhotosPauline Durning

Taste Nature ~ Organic Shop and Eatery ~ Issue Three ~ Page One Hundred and Eleven

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Mark Dickson, Co-Owner of Taste Nature with Rayna Dickson , Photography Pauline Durning ©


Issue Three ~ Page One Hundred and Twelve

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” Attributed to Jimmy Johnson

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The Last Page ~ Issue Three ~ Page One Hundred and ThirteenPhotography ~ Caroline Davies ©


Issue Four ~ Front Cover

Black Swans ~ Otago Harbour

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Issue Four ~ Inside Cover

Black Swan ~ Otago Harbour

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Rob Burns ~ Issue Four ~ Page Six

The Music Department, Otago University

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Rob Burns ~ Not A One Trick Pony ~ Issue Four ~ Page Seven

R o b B u r n s...Not A One Trick Pony...

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The Octagon Poetry Collective ~ Dunedin’s Passion For Poetry ~ Issue Four ~ Page Twenty Three

Robert Burns Statue, The Octagon, Dunedin

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The Octagon Poetry Collective ~ Issue Four ~ Page Thirty Nine

The Octagon Poetry CollectiveDunedin’s Passion for Poetry

The Fall of the Leaf

The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hil l , Concealing the course of the dark-winding ril l ; How languid the scenes , late so sprightly, appear! As Autumn to Winter resigns the pale year.

The forests are leafless , the meadows are brown, And all the gay foppery of summer is f lown: Apart let me wander, apart let me muse,

How quick Time is f lying, how keen Fate pursues!

How long I have liv ’d-but how much liv ’d in vain, How little of l ife ’s scanty span may remain,

What aspects old Time in his progress has worn, What ties cruel Fate, in my bosom has torn.

How foolish, or worse , ti l l our summit is gain ’d! And downward, how weaken ’d, how darken ’d, how pain ’d!

Life is not worth having with all it can give- For something beyond it poor man sure must live .

Robert Burns, 1788

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Carolyn McCurdie ~ “On Not Seeing a Fernbird in the Ecosanctuary” ~ Issue Four ~ Page Thirty Four

On Not Seeing a Fernbird in the Ecosanctuary

Shush. Look there.

Surprise. The way a poem shifts …

Our guide has hearda rare bird’s callwhere long grass, fern and bracken reveallong grass, fern and bracken.

the way meaning can be shy …

They were here, already here, he says,so near the houses, cats,rats, in spite of chainsawsbefore the pest-proof fence.

but persists, leaves secret marks …

Then we are deep in lushness of tui,bellbird, kererū. With wing-beat,song, they proclaim, here I amand see, I am beautiful.

The way a poem sings so, in the gaps between the words …

Back at the top we are quietover coffee. At our feetthe forest canopythe long curve of the gully;

on the horizon the Silver Peaksdistance making the ridge linesbold, shadows simple,our eyes drawn to the shine of surface.

But then … The way that a poem …

Carolyn McCurdie (Bones in the Octagon, Makaro Press, 2015)

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Tony Bridge ~ Te Kete Mārama ~ Issue Four ~ Page Forty Six

KERERŪKererū is the fool, the clown prince. He moves in his own way and dances to his own rhythm. He will spend hours in flying strange patterns simply because he can. He will gorge himself on ripe berries until he becomes drunk, and stumbles.Kererū is filled with the joy of living.Lesson: Joy, playing the foolAffirmation: Life is too wonderful to be taken seriously.The simplest things are the greatest gifts.I am learning to appreciate the wonder in a sunrise, in the song of a bird, and in the birth of a new day.

Tony Bridge ~ Te Kete Mārama

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Tony Bridge ~ Blending Worlds ~ South and North ~ Issue Four ~ Page Forty Three

Tony BridgeT E K E T E M Ā R AM A

WEAV ING THE BASKET O F L I GHT

Blending Worlds - South and NorthPart Two - North

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Robert Morris ~ A Treasure Trove of Antiquities ~ Issue Four ~ Page Fifty Four

O TA G O M U S E U M

A Treasure Trove of Antiquities

An interview with Director of

Collections and Research

Robert Morris

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Small cuneiform tablet. 2100 BC-2000 BC. Mesopotamia/Iraq. Donated by Dr Lindsay Rogers. Otago Museum Catalogue No. E47-190Whilst the two previous cuineform tablets are fairly everyday accounting records, the tablet above is a very special prayer for safe child birth.

Robert Morris ~ A Treasure Trove of Antiquities ~ Issue Four ~ Page Sixty Three

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Photography/Composite ~ Caroline Davies ©Albatross Image Courtesy Royal Albatross CentreAnnie Villiers ~ “Albatross Weather” ~ Issue Four ~ Page Sixty Six

ALBATROSS WEATHER

Our substance is fashioned from a subantarctic sea;

carved by a knife-edged southerly.

Craving polar blasts, yet we keep the faith

until the day we turn and wheel,

falling to the arms of Tawhirimatea.

Li! madonna faces to the wind

sing a paean to the ancient ones

and, calling down the sky, we glide

to freedom and years of solitude.

Annie Villiers

The Royal Albatross ~ Issue Four ~ Page Sixty Seven

T he Roy a l A lbat ro s sA P r i c e l e s s Je w e l l i n D uned in’s Crow n

Photography ~ Ian Thomson ©

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Taiaroa Head, The Royal Albatross Centre and Wildlife Refuge

The Royal Albatross ~ Issue Four ~ Page Sixty Nine

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©The Royal Albatross ~ Issue Four ~ Page Seventy Three

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Dunedin’s Midwinter Carnivaland

Māori New Year ~ Puaka/Matariki

Dunedin’s Midwinter Carnival and Māori New Year ~ Issue Four ~ Page Eighty Four

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Midwinter Festival Peacock ~ 20th June 2015

Dunedin’s Midwinter Carnival and Māori New Year ~ Issue Four ~ Page Eighty Six

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B R A C K E N Restaurant

Story and Photography by Pauline Durning

Chef Ken O’Connell ~ Bracken Restaurant ~ Issue Four ~ Page Ninety Two

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Bracken Restaurant ~ Issue Four ~ Page Ninety Three

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Dr. Maureen HowardEco Living In Action

Dr. Maureen Howard ~ Eco Living In Action ~ Issue Four ~ Page Ninety Seven

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Maureen Howard, Communications Tower, Mt. Cargill, Dunedin

Dr. Maureen Howard ~ Eco Living In Action ~ Issue Four ~ Page Ninety Seven

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V i b ra nt L ife a n d L a n dO ta g o O rg a n i c s w it h R a y n a D i c ks o n

Rayna Dickson ~ Otago Organics ~ Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Seven

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Rayna Dickson ~ Otago Organics ~ Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Seven

Winter at Organic and Permaculture Habitate ~ Waitati

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Wairuna Organics ~ Otago’s Winter Heroes ~ Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Twelve

W a i r u n a O rga n i csO ta g o ’s W i nte r H e ro es !


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Shaun McVicker and Janine Gerland of Wairuna Organics

Wairuna Organics ~ Otago’s Winter Heroes ~ Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Thirteen

Photography ~ Courtesy Janine Gerland and Shaun McVicker


Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Eighteen

Across the Harbour from Harwood

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Seagull ~ Doctors Point

Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Nineteen

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Hereweka, Otago Peninsula

Issue Four ~ Page One Hundred and Twenty

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are! Joseph Campbell

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Hereweka, Otago Peninsula

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'ank Y( To and A)reciation For: Pauline Durning for writing such wonderful columns on our cafes and restaurants each issue and Danny Buchanan for everything (support, patience, proof reading, photographs, introductions, photo assisting, opinions, good cheer and positive vibes)

Issue One: Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull for his fabulous introduction, Graeme Downes (and The Verlaines), Arts Festival Dunedin, Kevin Clements , Sophie Sparrow, Sophie Morris, Andy Barratt , Jason Ross, The Good Earth Cafe, Kelley Lindsay, The Otago Peninsula for being so beautiful.

Issue Two: Pūrākaunui for being so beautiful, Anthony Ritchie, Claire Beynon , Dr. Ian Griffin, Molly Devine , Maddy Parkins Craig - Some Other Creature, Councillor Jinty MacTavish , Dunedin's Big Green Challenge, Scott Willis of the Blueskin Resilient Communities Trust , Delicacy Cafe, Miles Rapley, Nick Rapley

Issue Three: Jackie Ballantyne, Claire Beynon, Jeremy Mayall , Tony Bridge , Migoto Eria, Corwin Newall, Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival , Hagen Bruggemann, A Brief History of EV's, ReScape, Carrick Vineyards, Taste Nature

Issue Four: Rob Burns, The Octagon Collective/Circadian Rhythm Poetry Readings, Tony Bridge, Robert Morris, The Royal Albatross Centre, The Midwinter Carnival (and Jeremy Mayall), Jazz and Cabaret Festival 2015 with Karin Reid, Bracken Restaurant, Maureen Howard, Rayna Dickson, Wairuna Organics

Additional contributions: Eric Winquist, Koren Allpress, Dan Inglis, Jenny Campbell, Pieter du Plessis/Southern Sinfonia, The Octagon Poetry Collective Poets (Carolyn McCurdie, John Gibb, Richard Reeve, Jenny Powell, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Emma Neale, Martha Morseth, Jacob Edmond, Ian Loughran, Lynley Edmeades, Sue Wootton) , Claire Beynon, Ian Thomson, Annie Villiers, Chris Jordan

And my favorite imaging software companies ~ Alien Skin, HDR-Soft (Photomatix), Topaz Labs

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Photography ~ Caroline Davies ©Overlooking Waitati and Blueskin Bay

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