Frank - Stories from the South
Season 2

Creative support or commercial success – The Arts Centre caught in the middle

Banks Peninsula Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū is an ancient volcanic landscape a unique landscape rich with native flora and fauna.

A new eatery is upending our kitchen rules.

In Waitati, 15 minutes north of Ōtepoti Dunedin, a BMX is lodged in the branches of a cabbage tree.

Behind the sound of footfall, the chatter of silvereyes and the clatter of weka, there is silence.

“It is a very extraordinary message and he is an extraordinary man.”

It was a retirement project like no other.

On the broad footpath between Christchurch’s Antigua Boatsheds and Canterbury Museum, a large, Christchurch City Council sign explains the temporary changes to the walk and cycleway. “We’ve made Rolleston Ave safer,” it says.

We will walk. Without tuition or encouragement, we will take that first and precarious upright lurch into immediate space.

Christchurch returns to its cycling city roots.

Baguettes, brasseries, even a boucherie – Akaroa wears its French history on its tricolor sleeve.

Adam McGrath was in Nashville, Tennessee, working out how to play with Waylon, Willie and the boys when there came an epiphany.

Mike Moss and Alison Locke have returned to Christchurch’s Avon Loop Red Zone, soaking up memories of their former home.

Skylar Mitchell, aged 6 months, is about to have an important operation.

SIRRL director Paul Taylor says he got behind the idea of a Waste-to-Energy plant because, “as a farmer, I’m a caretaker of the land.”