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Nelson's winter light festival Te Ramaroa returns this weekend, with dozens of magical light installations and performances lighting up the city.

One year after revered songstress, vocal teacher and community activist Barbara Morrison’s passing at age 72, her legacy is humming along in full swing. The City of Los Angeles has renamed the corner of 43rd Street and Degnan (where the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center has stood for the past 14 years) “Barbara Morrison Square.” It was dedicated on the singer’s birthday last year, September 10, which also marked the date of the First Annual Barbara Morrison Jazz and Blues Festival.

A pillar in her LA community, singer Barbara Morrison leaves behind a deep legacy of song, creativity, and community empowerment.

Altar from Day of the Dead still alive and well to celebrate the Mexican festive holiday.

Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 11:25 am Te Ramaroa is a celebration of community, creativity and the wonder of light. In its fifth year, Te Ramaroa expanded its footprint across the city, creating new opportunities for installation sites, allowing more room for people to move, and most importantly, showing Nelson in a new light. The new-look Te Ramaroa 2021 was embraced by the crowds, with its stunning array of more than 30 light installations through Church Hill, Nelson’s city streets, NMIT, Kirby...

“We’re so pleased that the new layout was so well embraced. The streets came alive with people criss-crossing the city to the various installation sites,” she said. She said the goal with widening the scope was “making the event accessible to a wider community, while still retaining the wonder and surprise” of the unique festival. Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Shuttlerock’s Digitised Genesis, the “slightly bonkers projections” on the Nelson Evening Mail Building, proved to be a highl...

In a world fractured by Covid-19 and with ongoing discussions over race and identity, building connections is more important than ever, Nock said. “We don’t know what’s going on with other people; we have no idea what people have been through.” Participant Ilonka Gotal will share her experience about growing up in Croatia. Virginia Woolf/Stuff You can book a conversation with Ilonka Gotal about life growing up in post-war Croatia. “How life looked after war in Croatia; the struggl...

Mia Jones, 2, took out first prize in the girls final with an outfit bought entirely from the Hospice Shop in Richmond. Mum, Carla Jones from Fielding, said the outfit cost under $10, dressing the toddler from “head to toe” in a Charleston inspired outfit, complete with bags and hairband. Winner from last year’s Fashion in the Field, Julie Penman came third this year with her Chinese and dragon inspired skirt and top. Penman said she made the outfit from Spotlight material with the dr...