Auckland Festival: The White Body (+tickets)
The Auckland Festival's major international dance commission The White Body is a new work from one of the world's leading contemporary choreographers. Forced to flee her homeland during the Vietnam…
The writer's guide to making a digital living
The Australia Council for the Arts has published "a writer's guide to making a digital living". Also included are resources on the new media industry, craft, marketing and distribution, business…
ScreenTalk: Ruth Harley (+video)
Courtesy of NZ On Screen After ten and a half years as CEO of the NZ Film Commission, Dr Ruth Harley has moved across the ditch to helm Screen Australia. She talks to NZ On Screen's Clare…
Auckland Festival Associate Director Mark Burlace
The Auckland Festival 2009 (5-22 March) will be Auckland's fourth Arts Festival, a biennial event that has become a firmly established part of New Zealand's arts and cultural calendar. The Festival…
Television viewing in NZ hits record levels
It was a record year for television viewing in 2008, with the average person watching 3 hours 8 minutes per day, up 8.6 per cent from 2007. "With strong ratings for local news and current affairs…
Buskers' Festival offers respite from economic gloom
Looking for some cheap laughs to help combat the economic gloom gripping the globe? There will be plenty of those up for grabs when the World Buskers' Festival begins in Christchurch next…
Festival of the Elements off the wall art textiles
When art and fashion fuse with passion and creative flair the result is 'Eco prints to Art Couture' at Pataka. An inspired group of five local artists showcase their practice using natural dyed…
TalkWrite: Letter from Japan
By Renee Liang Initially I started writing this sitting in Narita Airport waiting for my flight home. But no, of course I couldn't keep my eyes on the computer screen; Japan is just so damn…
Chartbitz: The Lady And The Frog
by Andrew Miller She's done it! Yonkers-born Joanne Stefani Germanotta is the very first act to make double-digits at #1 on the Singles chart in three-and-a-half years. Poker Face gives Lady…
NZ Fringe Festival at Downstage: Adam Page Solo
A one-man-does-all musical extravaganza with 15 instruments, 1 vegetable and so many possibilities! Winner of the Best Music by an Emerging Artist Award at the 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival and…
Jayshri wins 'Glassons Choice Award'
A succession of cultural circles symbolising the need to unite as a country to overcome breast cancer, has landed Christchurch Business owner and graphic designer, Jayshri Ganda of Red Dot Design, a…
TV Presenting Training (Presenters Platform)
TV Presenting Training for beginners and experienced Presenters.