As we like it - Michael Hurst as Macbeth
Courtesy of NZ Listener As we like it by Denis Welch William Shakespeare is so hot right now: three new Shakespeare productions are performed this month, and another two open in August. What…
Revolutions per Minute - future in question
Revolutions per Minute is a 54 minute program on National Radio that presents New Zealand and international acoustic features and documentaries exploring a variety of compositional, vocal and…
The Walters Prize finalists announced today
The 2004 Walters Prize finalists are: et al. for restricted access (2003), Jacqueline Fraser for (2004), Ronnie van Hout for No Exit Parts 1 and 2 (2003) and Daniel von Sturmer for The Truth Effect…
A Furious Filmmaking Competition
48HOURS STARTS IN JUNE www.48hours.co.nz 48HOURS is New Zealand's premiere short film competition. The competition wants to reward filmmakers who can come up with the goods under intense…
Directors Online - News from the Screen Directors Guild
Cliff Curtis Advocates Collaboration between Australian & NZ Film Industries Jonathon Moran, The Australian, May 17, 2004 Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors star Cliff Curtis has urged…
New design portal launched
New design portal www.res72.com has been launched. Offering news, resources, forum, events and hot new web sites...and more
NZ-Czech Cantata collaboration
The long opening poem 'There You Go' from David Howard's collection 'How To Occupy Our Selves' (Headworx, 2003) is a to be set as a cantata for female voice and piano by the Czech composer Marta…
Repatriation of Toi Moko to Te Papa
On 24 May at 8.30am, Te Papa will receive a toi moko (preserved Maori tattooed head), which is being repatriated from Argentina. The toi moko has been part of the collection of the Ethnographic…
Murray Shaw moves on from the Chair of the Arts Board
Murray Shaw was appointed as General Manager of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra on Monday. Peter Biggs, Chair of Creative New Zealand said: "Murray has been Chair of the Arts Board for almost…
Xprov: Auckland to Edinburgh
Xprov: Extreme Improvised Comedy It's all funny until someone gets hurt, and then it's hilarious! It's confirmed, in August 2004 the award winning, record breaking show "Xprov: extreme improvised…
DBC 'Dirty But Clean' Pierre - Booker Prize Winner 2003 comes to Wellington
Winner of the Main Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, DBC Pierre set the literary world alight with his first novel Vernon God Little, a visceral account of a young man's encounter with murder,…
Islands of Imagination - Peter Biggs in full flight
This is a transcript of the speech made by Peter Biggs at the opening of the exhibition Paradise Now in February 2004 in New York City. It's such a remarkably positive outburst that we decided to…