Everything you want to know about Hera Lindsay Bird
From attention spans to comedy to filth: the poet in conversation with James Littlewood.
The Lowdown #20: Co-design triumphs in rebuild centrepiece.
Community ownership, co-living, and Peter McLeavey: publisher and writer Emma Johnson taps the wires for the art news and weather from Aotearoa.
Who Got the Gig? Re-thinking George Parker
The Big Idea writer Emanuella de Ruiter gets behind the free-thinking mind.
Time for art and history to rhyme
The arts matter, and education matters. So why are they further apart than ever? By director and educator Professor Peter O'Connor.
Feasting in the broken city
Creative director Barnaby Bennett invites you to a common space of “careful activism”, where you’ll eat, dream and party your way to a reimagined future.
Suffrage essay winner! The damned mob is coming for your words.
Steff Green dives into the outpourings of dead misogynists, and finds their ugly sentiment alive and well and walking the Earth.
Lowdown #19: Chorus of discontent as touring shows pass over local artists
Calls are mounting for a fair go in the creative sector. Mark Amery conducts the media flashpoints in the Lowdown #19.
MAUSINA: women's suffrage, whakapapa and truth
Susana Lei'ataua considers the ceremony MAUSINA - mau meaning testimony and sina meaning taonga - reflecting on colonial structures, genealogy and truth.
Passing the bucks: a living wage for artists
Jo Randerson is passionate about artists earning their worth. That’s why her company Barbarian Productions just became a living wage employer. James Littlewood clocks on.
The art of tradition
Why do some events resonate so strongly with audiences that they become instant favourites, whereas other programming decisions quickly fall by the wayside? By Richard Watts.
Eminem v National Party - The thrills of copyright
And what is Bounce Music?
Tips for engaging an independent producer
Independent artists sometimes have only a vague sense of how working with a producer might benefit them - or even what a producer does.