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Dunedin’s musical community is stepping up in support of the people of Ukraine, with a fundraising benefit concert this month.

Dunedin musicians The Fabulists celebrate the release of their latest album with a gig at the Inch Bar tomorrow night. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Dunedin musical outfit The Fabulists like to tell tales both tall and true.

PHOTO: JOHANNES VAN KAN Claudia Jardine is one of four southern poets taking their words on the road in the Pride of the South tour, arriving in Dunedin on Saturday.

Otago Museum will host an exhibition for Otago’s gamers, digital natives, and technophiles from Saturday.

Puaka Matariki Festival co-ordinator Vicki Lenihan hosts Ma Te Oro Ka Ora on OAR FM. PHOTO: SUPPLIED This year’s Puaka Matariki Festival might only have a few days left to run, but festival co-ordinator Vicki Lenihan is keeping alive the Maori view of hauora — wellness in mind, body and spirit.

Otago Girls’ High School pupil Rosie Falcous (16) is off to represent New Zealand at the world life-saving championships. PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON Sprinting out to storm the beach is Otago Girls’ High School pupil Rosie Falcous.

Runaway Play staff (from left) Libby Guthrie, Sam Watson and Stef Peacock enjoy a casual and friendly atmosphere at the Dunedin company. PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON In a series for The Star, reporter Simon Henderson is discovering how technology and creativity are coming together in a cluster of video game companies in Dunedin.

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum will join landmark buildings across the country that will light up orange tomorrow in support of World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine.

Denise van Aalst hosts a new podcast aimed at helping those caring for people in their last days. PHOTO: ALLIED PRESS FILES "Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes", wrote Christopher Bullock in his 18th-century play The Cobbler of Preston.

Joking around with the books they will read in next Wednesday’s "Reading Allowed" session at Dunedin Public Library are Dr Paul Tankard with Dracula and Friends of the Library president Lorraine Johnston with The Story of a New Zealand River. PHOTO: BRENDA HARWOOD The classic storytelling tradition is being given a new twist at Dunedin Public Library, with free monthly gatherings for the public to listen to literature read aloud.

This year’s Matariki celebrations were, to use the words of our rangatira of Otakou, Edward Ellison, "thrilling".

A sacred silence greeted people arriving for Tuhura Otago Museum’s Matariki Ahuka Nui dawn ceremony.

Hunters will be bringing home the bacon next month when the Taieri District Pig Hunting Club runs its annual three-day competition.

Amana Christian School pupil Jeddy Solofati (12) finds a spot for native plants along the banks of the Silverstream in Mosgiel. PHOTOS: SIMON HENDERSON It was a frosty morning recently but that did not stop pupils from Amana Christian School getting stuck into the dirt and planting about 300 native species along the banks of the Silverstream in Mosgiel as part of a biodiversity beautification project.

The Dunedin City Council has responded to a recent resolution passed by the Mosgiel Taieri community board.

Neither covid nor flu, nor frost nor rain, could prevent more than 30 young singers from as far away as Twizel competing at the recent Green Island Junior Vocal competition.

Singer/composer Ariana Tikao and taonga puoro specialist Alistair Fraser. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The world’s first taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments) concerto and a world premiere by a Dunedin composer will make the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra’s contribution to the city’s Puaka Matariki festival a very special celebration.

John McGlashan College pupils (back from left) Theo Hannagan (17), Rylan Urqhart (16) and (front) Samuel Hore and Kaleb Durant (both 16) read passages from Messages of Aroha. PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON Challenges faced by creative people during the Covid-19 pandemic have inspired John McGlashan College pupils to respond with kindness.

Dunedin magician Jonathan Usher (right) is presented with the Lou Clauson Top Variety Artist Award by Mick Peck at the recent Variety Artists Club of NZ Benny Awards in Auckland. PHOTOS: STEVE BONE Dunedin entertainers stepped into the limelight to perform for their peers at the recent Variety Artists Club of NZ 2022 Benny Awards in Auckland — with one of them walking away with a top award.

Greater Green Island Community Network community workers Alana Goldsack and Ben McKenzie continue to gather community feedback on local issues. PHOTO: BRENDA HARWOOD The Greater Green Island Community Network (GGICN) is working to reset its priorities for ongoing community development with the help of feedback from local residents.