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Activism through Composition: Creating Music with Data
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Activism through Composition: Creating Music with Data

Creatively highlighting environmental issues, composer and ecologist Naima Fine shares how she created sound art out of climate change data. By Andrea Simpson

Tough Crowd: Review of Pop Up Globe’s Measure for Measure and Hamlet

Tough Crowd: Review of Pop Up Globe’s Measure for Measure and Hamlet

In the latest instalment of the 2019 Pop Up Globe season, two plays attempt to tackle the theme of abuse of power. But is the balance between humour and horror measured? Kate Powell investigates.

Soapbox: Feelings are not enough! We need to INVEST in the arts
Soapbox

Soapbox: Feelings are not enough! We need to INVEST in the arts

Jennifer Ward-Lealand Te Atamira CNZM challenges us to revisit the way we educate, and foster the new generations of artistic talent: If we want to see them flourish, we must enable them first.

Lowdown #35: Storms, rousing revivals and rackets
The Lowdown

Lowdown #35: Storms, rousing revivals and rackets

This week brings us fringe weather patterns disturbing normal activity nationwide, an exciting new lift for the Gus Fisher, a Blue Smoke revival, and lots more good clickbait with Mark Amery.

Advice to my 22 Year-Old-Self: Malia Johnston
Advice to My 22-Year-Old Self

Advice to my 22 Year-Old-Self: Malia Johnston

Your university degree may not necessarily be the highway to happiness. Director and creator Malia Johnston shares the detours and lessons she’s learnt along her way.

Arts Smarts: Arts, expenses, and tax - oh my!
Arts Smarts

Arts Smarts: Arts, expenses, and tax - oh my!

Sam Grover walks us through the labyrinth of GST, expense claims and those dreaded end-of-year bills. [Sponsored by Naked Accounting]

Why an arts degree is a must-have asset in the workplace
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Why an arts degree is a must-have asset in the workplace

Employers increasingly look for the complex analysis skills, emotional empathy and leadership traits that arts degrees cultivate among students, reports Andrea Simpson.

Advice To My 22 Year Old Self: Merthyr Ruxton
Advice to My 22-Year-Old Self

Advice To My 22 Year Old Self: Merthyr Ruxton

Some golden advice on managing in the creative world, brought to you by a contemporary abstract artist.

Bolstering Creativity
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Bolstering Creativity

Dr Sarah Rusholme from Capital E explains why creative expression is just as important as healthy eating for our tamariki’s well-being.

Bolstering Creativity
Feature

Bolstering Creativity

Dr Sarah Rusholme from Capital E explains why creative expression is just as important as healthy eating for our tamariki’s well-being.

Bolstering Creativity
Feature

Bolstering Creativity

Dr Sarah Rusholme from Capital E explains why creative expression is just as important as healthy eating for our tamariki’s well-being.

Lowdown #34: Daffodils &  Theatre Bombs
The Lowdown

Lowdown #34: Daffodils & Theatre Bombs

This week, Mark Amery investigates why not all is quite right with the Hundertwasser in Whangarei, reports the film premieres of this week and shares some magic online content