Better by Design movement
Better by Design is a movement to build New Zealand's awareness of and expertise in design-led business. Check out their website www.betterbydesign.org.nz Their mission is to help New Zealand…
New creative industries website for Christchurch
The Christchurch Creative Industries Network have just launched their new website www.creativeindustries.org.nz The site has been developed to help network creative practitioners in the…
AK05 - You win some, you lose some...
With the Auckland Festival AK05 wrapping up over the weekend, organisers can confirm that, contrary to some reports, it bettered the inaugural AK03 ticket sales - even though it made a loss estimated…
The eye of Ans Westra
Courtesy of NZ Listener The eye of Ans Westra by Bianca Zander It took a Dutch woman to see our strangeness and photograph it, so that we might one day see it, too. For once, it is…
Children's Writers Prepare for NZ Post Book Awards Festival 2005
Some of New Zealand's favourite writers and illustrators for children are preparing to hit the road in a series of author tours visiting schools, libraries and bookshops in a national festival of…
Ignite 05 - leadership, youth and creativity
ignite05 festival is a biennial festival with four diverse programmes that explore the intersection of youth, culture, creativity, enquiry and leadership. It will open on Tuesday 5th April and run to…
Poets Collaborate with Artists
The four most powerful positions in the country are now held by women but Dame Silvia Cartwright, Helen Clark, Margaret Wilson and Dame Sian Elias are not the only female foursome to attract…
Play that Guitar!' - a new book for beginner guitar players by Paul van Wering
'Play that Guitar!' - is a new, easy to learn book and CD for the beginner guitar player which will have you playing tunes and strumming chords in minutes! Simple instructions and easy to follow…
Ainsley Gardiner of Aio Films
Ainsley Gardiner - Profile - Courtesy of Staple Magazine We have 5 copies ( sorry all gone now) of the latest issue of Staple to giveaway. Just send us an email telling us the name of the film…
Mixed-Up Childhood - Interview with Curators
In February a major exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery opened as part of the AK05 Festival. Mixed-Up Childhood looks at how childhood is addressed in the work of 20-plus artists. Auckland Art…
Jenny Bornholdt - the new Poet Laureate
Congratulations to poet Jenny Bornholdt who has today been appointed Te Mata Estate's fifth Poet Laureate. The Loved One Ah you the loved one coming down out of the sky like…
Body Pulsing - Phil Dadson at the Film Archive
Courtesy of Dominion Post 4/3/05 By Mark Amery Body Pulsing Artists use their instruments to provide their own interpretations of the world - to recreate the world in their own image. But…