A chat with Yee Yang 'Square' Lee

Renee Liang caught up with theatre producer and arts ambassador, Yee Yang 'Square' Lee, about the upcoming theatre piece Asian Tales:Native Alienz (Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre February 12-21).…

Words Apart - Sign Language in the Fringe!

Words Apart is a powerful play combining two of our official languages - the verbal English and the visual New Zealand Sign Language. Words Apart is devised and inspired around the love and hate…

The best of the best at Clarence St Theatre for Season09

Fans will have the opportunity to enjoy the best of New Zealand theatre right here in Hamilton at the Clarence St Theatre in 2009. Season09 is a biennial theatre subscription which runs on…

SJ.Ramir - International Film Festival Rotterdam

New Zealand video artist and filmmaker SJ.Ramir has had two short films selected to screen at the prestigous International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009. 'Our Voices Are Mute' and 'Departure' -…

New acts jazz up Wellington Jazz Festival

Legendary international jazz musicians and an outstanding homegrown selection have been added to the final programme of the new biennial Wellington Jazz Festival 2009. Musicians from Cuba, Germany…

Waitangi Day celebrations at Christchurch Gallery

Toni Huata, performing here at the 10th Pacific Arts Festival in Pago Pago, will entertain at Christchurch Art Gallery on Waitangi Day. Photo: Qiane Corfield Matata. Acclaimed New Zealand Maori…

Turnbull Library buys early portrait of Nga Puhi Rangatira

The National Library of New Zealand has recently purchased at auction a portrait of the rangatira

Young and Hungry goes National

Young and Hungry is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Auckland Theatre Company (

London's stars on tour

Five of London's hottest stars will tour with New Zealand-born tenor Geoff Sewell in a spectacular concert series next month. Sewell - creator and founding member of AMICI FOREVER- has hand picked…

Common Ground - street art comes inside

Street art spreads through the galleries, walls and courtyard of TheNewDowse in Common Ground, a col

Lantern photography competition

AMI Summer Symphony at the Basin

Next March at the Basin Reserve, the gentle smack of willow on leather and the roar of the cricket crowd gives way to a different sound. There'll be bells and brass, tenors and trombones, sopranos…