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The Learning Editor

Example lighter boating column for Whangarei Leader

When I arrived in Whangarei in August 1992 on a dismasted yacht, I decided that having suffered many mishaps on the boat, each one more severe than the last, that after a dismasting the next event would likely not be survivable, and I left the boat. I took a job near the Town Basin in […]

The Quarry – Famous New Zealand Arts Resource Centre

The Quarry Arts Centre - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

The Quarry arts resource centre based in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, was founded by Yvonne Rust, and is famous for its Summer Art camps. The Quarry Arts centre in Whangarei was started against all odds, during the economic recession of 1980, by Yvonne Rust, QSM. New Zealand was only just recovering from the 1975 recession. […]