How creatives deal with not knowing what they’re doing
From the outside looking in, it can seem like others possess the secrets to a flourishing career in the arts. Madelein Dore digs deeper, revealing that no one really knows what they're doing.
Hold on! We’re coming! A dummies’ guide to a great weekend
Our two favourite out-and-aboutsters Steve Braunias and Annie Ackerman compare notes
Lowdown #16: Guest Editor!
NZ wins on Edinburgh's stage; words and images in Christchurch; Oceania in Britannia: guest editor Emma Johnson brings us the arts news and weather from Aotearoa.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Big Idea’s Suffrage Celebration Essay Competition
Can you write? Do you have an opinion about arts, suffrage, and democracy? Then we need to hear from you.
Advice to my 22 year old self: if you want to travel, live in New Zealand!
Glass artist Layla Walter shatters the illusions of youth.
Advice to my 22 year old self: get it together, man!
Graham Vincent of America Rex gives himself a jolly good talking to.
Q&A - Rachael King on Word Christchurch
TBI editor James Littlewood asks Word Christchurch Programme Director Rachael King about festivals, writing, and writing festivals.
SOAPBOX - "Our hothouse climate needs the goddam arts"!
Climate change is the challenge of our lives, and the arts can make a real contribution to the solution. So, why aren't they? Sarah Meads of Track Zero dives in.
SOAPBOX Deep breaths: keeping ahead of the demons
Writer and performer Daniel Goodwin unpacks schizophrenia ahead of his new show, Breathe
Lowdown #15: live at home at work.
Rebecca Patrick, Te Manawa, Tru Paraha, Roger Hall, Robert Burns Fellowship, East in Hawke's Bay, Brian Brake, JK Baxter, and Walters shortlisters: here's Mark Amery with the arts news and weather.
Follow the money: taking care of business.
If you're an artist, you probably need to think more like a business. Sam Grover explain why.
Who got the gig? Julia Holden's double win for suffrage anniversary
The provocateur of paint talked about her work with Emanuella de Ruiter.