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Coromind is launching a new series of free workshops designed to support artists in our region. Whether you’re just getting started or have been creating for years, these sessions offer hands-on knowledge, kōrero, and community — all aimed at helping you grow a sustainable, confident creative practice.

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After nursing for almost 30 years, I felt the desire to try painting. From playing with paint and painting from photos my husband and I had taken, I developed my own style of painting with acrylics by applying paint in many layers to achieve a realistic scene.

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The power of small changes! The idea is simple: choose to refuse single-use plastics for the month of July (and beyond).

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There’s something special about the way homes flow in Pāuanui and throughout the Hauraki-Coromandel. Real Interior NZ, a locally based interior design and renovation team, knows how to make the most of that character. From beachside baches to full family homes, their custom approach brings style and functionality into every corner of a space.

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Algorithms are the secret sauce behind every social media feed, and they trap us in ‘echo chambers’, bubbles where we keep seeing the same types of opinions, making it easy to reinforce what we already believe and harder to understand different points of view – where everyone agrees with you or, worse, push you towards more extreme content.

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The rock lay at the top of the bush, at the eastern end of the farm. Nick and I found it one day, though we had not been searching for it. We had crossed the road from my father’s house, into an area of bush that clung to the side of the hill like limpets to the hull of an upturned ship...

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Listen: punk rock agitates, but it always has something to say. Ever since it cursed and spat its way into the beige and regimented mindset of the mid-70s, it’s been loud in calling out the bullshit and challenging the rules. Bands like Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, and The Clash in the UK, and Ramones, Television, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids in the US, were, respectively, fearless in their rejection of establishment, corporate mainstream, and authority. They became an indignant reaction to dire social conditions. Not everyone had a slice of the pie, so backs were turned and flags were raised. Things were done their way.

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During my linguistics and language studies, there turned out to be several surprising crossovers between how you approach language and how you can approach life and the people around you. 

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A while ago I was very fortunate to be selected to travel to Japan, representing New Zealand, at the Local Government Exchange and Cooperation Seminar, in Kōhoku, a town in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Whilst there is much to write about … it was the collective responsibility felt by the citizens, working together for the betterment of all, which had the most profound effect on me.

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As the water temperature cools down over winter, you may notice New Zealand fur seals, or kekeno, returning to the rocky shores around the Coromandel Peninsula...

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