Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards 2012
Wellington theatre excellence was celebrated and honoured at the 21st annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards on Sunday December 9.
Lamplighter wins Adam Prize
A novel which imagines in luminous detail a coastal South Island settlement ruled by myth and ritual has won the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for 2012.
ScreenTalk: Simon Prast
Simon Prast: From playing the son to playing the father…
Online rights and public access
NZ On Air is seeking feedback on a discussion paper considering online access for publicly funded content.
All at Sea
For all the Kermadec project’s magic, Mark Amery finds the actual exhibition overblown and unrefined.
NZ shorts get shot at Oscars
Academy Awards accreditation has been granted to NZ short film festival Show Me Shorts. The best film winner will now qualify for consideration in a Oscars short film category.
Theatreview Weekly: 06/12/2012
A selection of reviews from Theatreview from the last week including: The Island Bay Loners Doomsday Christmas Sing Along, The Taming of the Shrew, Wheeler’s Luck and Munted.
Testing 1 2, 1 2, 1 2
As the annual festival of cyberformance reaches it's final same-number-date 121212, Upstage Festival co-curator and performer Vicki Smith tells us how it has evolved and what comes next.
11 things we love
This week The Big Idea turned 11, so we thought we'd have a bit of fun and share 11 things we love . . .
Radically redefining TV
Fiona Milburn sits down with Ian Fowler and Holly Alexander of @radical.media to discuss their ground breaking work on MSF.TV and how audiences are driving the future of storytelling.
What The Big Idea means to you?
For The Big Idea's 10th birthday celebrations we've been asking the creators, makers, movers and shakers we’ve interviewed this year what The Big Idea means to them. Please share yours!
TBI Q&A: Elisabeth Vaneveld
In the last of our 10th birthday QnAs with the team behind the scenes, we hear from one of the people who not only started The Big Idea but has never lost sight of it - Elisabeth Vaneveld.