Kerry Sunderland

These days, more people are living in digital ‘echo chambers’, making it increasingly impossible to know – let alone understand – other people’s points of view.

Multi-generational migrant stories have found compelling new ways of being told in the capable, creative hands of Māori writer Jade Kake and Sri Lankan/Pākehā author Saraid de Silva, who will appear together at this year's Nelson Arts Festival.

The 2024 Nelson Arts Festival event Housing for All, which is part of the Pukapuka Talks programme, aims to shine the light on different ways of developing housing models accessible to all. In this solution-focused session, which takes place at…

Matt Bialo Rachael King and Lee Murray will meet on stage at the Nelson Arts Festival on Saturday October 26 in a literary powerhouse event for those who enjoy disappearing into books, especially those who love discovering both new words and new…

Jacqueline Bublitz won best novel and best first novel at the Ngaio Marsh Awards in 2022. A Nelson Arts Festival audience will get to hear her speak about her new thriller.

Nelson Provincial Museum’s assorted collection of 807 toys – with more than 400 that can be viewed on the museum’s website – provide a window into the past. However, in many ways, they reveal more about broader social and political mores of the day

Nelson Provincial Museum’s assorted collection of 807 toys – with more than 400 that can be viewed on the museum’s website – provide a window into the past.

As the 30th anniversary of the Nelson Arts Festival approaches, Kerry Sunderland looks at the origins of one of its most popular events.

The 2024 Nelson Arts Festival, which takes place from Thursday October 24 to November 3, will be the 30th annual multi-arts festival – in its current form – to take place in Whakatū and the community is invited to share their memories.

Amy Brown’s debut novel is a three-part ode to family and art-making interrupted. My Brilliant Sister is a marginalia-worthy literary tryptych – a novel in three parts, with three very distinct point of view characters – that explores creation in all…

This drawing by Robert Codrington in 1860 of an upturned waka in Tākaka featured in an original bound sketchbook that has been called a real treasure as it captures a time following the Tainui and Tokomaru migration to Te Tauihu and the arrival of…

Nelson Provincial Museum / Nelson-Mail Article prepared by Nelson Provincial Museum Collections Leader, Shae Trewin, with additional reporting and editing by Kerry Sunderland. Nelson Provincial Museum’s new exhibition, Te Hītori Aotūroa: Learning…

Tomorrow, Sunday September 3, is Merchant Navy Day, which commemorates the role of civilian seafaring crew during periods of armed conflict. In both world wars, as well as in smaller conflicts, the crews of cargo and passenger ships often encountered…

When the Nelson Provincial Museum recently acquired tikumu (Celmisia semicordata) samples from a local weaver, they joined a collection of this rare alpine daisy that pre-date European settlement. For many years, the musuem has been caring for a…

‘People don’t join cults,’ said leading investigative reporter Anke Richter when quizzed about her new book, Cult Trip: Inside the world of coercion and control (out in Australia this week). ‘They join something that has been misrepresented to them’.…

When the late Keri Hulme became the first Aotearoa New Zealand author to win the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction for her debut novel the bone people in 1985, it paved the way for other Māori writers. This weekend, the Nelson Arts Festival will…

With Nelson Clay Week drawing attention to all things ceramic in Whakatū, Nelson Provincial Museum senior collections technician Michael Davies compiled a diverse range of clay objects from the Museum’s collection and the stories behind them. For…

Join Kerry Sunderland for Deathwalkers Guide to Life. A show that explores how thinking and talking about death can help you live a life without regrets. In this episode Kerry talks to creative artist Aralyn_Doiron

Article prepared by Nelson Provincial Museum curators, with additional reporting and editing by Kerry Sunderland. Hei whakanuia i a Mahuru Māori a Te Pupuri Taonga o te Taiao. In celebration of Māori language month, Nelson Provincial Museum’s…

Naming new inventions can be a tricky task but, back in the late 1800s, when deciding what to call one of the earliest forms of the modern-day bicycle, inventors arrived at a literal solution: the Latin words vēlōcitās, meaning speed, and pedālis,…