Lynskey and McCarten return for Show of Hands release
Hollywood star Melanie Lynskey and director Anthony McCarten will return to Taranaki for the New Zealand premiere of their film Show of Hands. Show of Hands is an off-beat love story centered on a…
Award-winning film to open Environmental Film Festival
Award-winning New Zealand film, The Nuclear Comeback, will open the Wellington season of the Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival on 20 November. The Nuclear Comeback has just received the Best…
Tempo 2008 dance awards
Tama Ma, an autobiographical journey of Okareka Dance Company's Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete, has won the Tempo Spirit of the Festival award. Tama Ma also won Best Production, Best Set and Best…
Creative NZ to end Downstage Theatre funding
Following discussions between Creative New Zealand and Downstage Theatre Trust, Creative New Zealand will cease recurrent funding of Downstage Theatre from 30 June 2009. Creative New Zealand has…
Short films win top prizes at Valladolid Film Festival
Jason Stutter's short film Careful with that Axe and Roseanne Liang's NZFC financed short film Take 3 were awarded the top prizes at the 53rd Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid (Valladolid…
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as six deliciously geeky, philologically industrious twelve-year-olds from across the county take…
Sets and the City: Innovative theatre at Battersea Arts Centre
By James Hadley in London In my healthy and varied weekly diet of theatre in London, Battersea Arts Centre is emerging as one of my most frequently visited venues. It's easily one of the main…
The Love School
t. The Love School is the first non-fiction collection from Elizabeth Knox, writer of such award-
International Acts to Headline New Wellington Jazz Festival in March 2009
Chart-topping American jazz greats will headline a stunning international line-up of artists planned for the new Wellington Jazz Festival in March 2009. The inaugural Wellington Jazz Festival will…
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Peter Robinson CV
Peter Robinson has won the 2008 Walters Prize. The Auckland-based artist wins $50,000 and an all expenses paid trip to New York with the opportunity to exhibit his work at Saatchi & Saatchi's world…
Peter Robinson wins Walters Prize
Peter Robinson has won the 2008 Walters Prize. The Auckland-based artist wins $50,000 and an all expenses paid trip to New York with the opportunity to exhibit his work at Saatchi & Saatchi's world…