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Press Release – TECT What does the Bay of Plenty sound like? We’ll find out soon, with an exciting new creative project which will be exhibited in Tauranga’s City Centre in April. Described as one of New Zealand’s most original musical thinkers, composer Warwick Blair is turning photographic images of our region into a unique composition. People across the community have submitted images representing the Bay of Plenty that are meaningful to them, and these are now being reinterpreted into sounds using a computer programme. These images and sounds will be overlaid to create a unique ab...

The project will be exhibited in Tauranga's City Centre in April.

Letters to the editor: Senior falls statistics are sobering 9 Mar, 2021 08:00 PM 3 minutes to read The Bay of Plenty has a higher rate of seniors falling and being injured. Photo / Getty Images The Bay of Plenty has a higher rate of seniors falling and being injured. Photo / Getty Images Bay of Plenty Times For more than a decade I was involved with research concerning falls and hip fractures among older people in the School of Public Health, University of Auckland. As a higher proportion of older people live in the Bay of Plenty (including myself), a higher fall rate and in...

Thursday, 31 December 2020, 6:02 am Performance poetry is returning to Tauranga this summer. Author and poet Michael Botur is bringing his performance poetry show ‘Loudmouth’ to two Tauranga venues, and Botur will also deliver two fiction writing workshops. The poetry shows take place at The Jam Factory on January 14 and a soon-to-be-announced venue, with the support of local guest poets Captain Houndstooth and Dhaivat Mehta. The creative writing workshops, at The Artery on January 14 and Greerton Library on January 17, are streamed to appeal to youth and mature writers. Botur’s shows ...