The Manukau Proms this weekend
Come and join the fine old tradition and celebrations with the MCSO at one of the three concerts in Manukau, at the Papatoetoe Town Hall on Saturday 11 September and All Saints Church, Howick on…
Songs you might sing if you are on your own
Courtesy of NZ Listener by Jon Bywater Animal Collective have a way with words. Their title Sung Tongs reads like a corruption, a slip of the tongue (the tip of a song?), but making good sense…
Author of A Million Wild Acres in Wellington
A Million Wild Acres: Eric Rolls Stout Research Centre, 12 Waiteata Rd, 10 September, 1 pm Eric Rolls is recognised by his peers as the doyen of Australian nature writing. In a career spanning…
Totally unsnobby egghead Stephen Hough returns to NZ with a poem
Featured in TIME magazine after his win (read on) in 2001, Stephen was described as "a totally unsnobby egghead who just happens to have a luminous, enveloping warm tone and enough technique for any…
Sima Urale in Hawaii writing on Pacific mythology
Courtesy of National Radio - Nine to Noon 03/09/04 Presenter (Mary Wilson): Award-winning writer and director, Sima Urale, has been called New Zealand's most exciting talent in film. She's now…
TEXT-UR exhibition at Lopdell House Upstairs Gallery
Words, words, words - " From the moment we assign meaning to our first baby sounds we are in the grip of words. We use them to interact with our environment and to make sense of our perceptions.
One-way ticket - new New Zealand rangatahi fiction
There's the weird accent, new school, new friends, a new woman in her father's life - and that's only part of it. Meg's character is feisty, stubborn, messed up and vulnerable.one-way ticket, is…
Maori Television celebrates nationwide appeal
Maori Television Audience Ratings - Increase across all age groups "The fact that every age grouping for both the general (all people) and Maori populations is increasing tells us that we are on…
Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting - Sara Hughes, Robert McLeod, Simon Morris
For Dominion Post, September 3 2004 Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting By Mark Amery Not so many years ago some critics were assigning painting to the art historical dustbin. The medium…
John Pule poet, novelist, artist...
Niuean artist, John Pule has many other strings to his bow - poet, novelist, and an interest in hiapo (Niuean bark cloth, similar to tapa cloth). His current body of work echoes the narrative hiapo…
McCahon website on the Titirangi years
Renown New Zealand Artist's Life Goes On Line A website documenting and celebrating the life of the great New Zealand painter, Colin McCahon (1919-87), is set to go live this week. The website,…
ICE: A public installation by Maxe Fisher
ICE references the constant invisible presence of the vapour state of water since Canadian artist Maxe Fisher's arrival in Wellington, which moistens the condition of all things. The cubic metre of…