Te Papa to open $6 million multimedia experience
Te Papa's new multimedia adventure, Our Space, opens on September 27. The interactive experience, featuring the latest in participatory technology, cost $6 million and took more than four years to…
The Little Tragedies at BATS
The New Zealand premiere of The Little Tragedies is at BATS Theatre in Wellington until October 4. The Little Tragedies is a modern poetic interpretation of Alexander Pushkin's nineteenth-century…
NZ Film Society: Korean Showcase
Bong Joon-ho's riotous international hit The Host is only the latest high water mark of a surging Korean film industry. Korean Showcase, a selection of four recent gems from current Korean cinema…
New world dance record sought at Body Festival
The Body Festival '08 launches in Christchurch this Friday with an attempt to hold the World's Largest Synchronized Dance Routine. Organizers are intending to beat the present record of 1800 by…
Aniwaniwa returns home to the Waikato
A New Zealand exhibition that has received international recognition opens at Waikato Museum this Saturday September 27. Aniwaniwa is a collaborative work by sculptor Brett Graham and digital…
Talented University of Auckland Young Alumnus honoured
John Chen, a gifted pianist who has won major competitions and performed internationally, was honoured this week as The University of Auckland's Young Alumnus of the Year for 2008. He was…
Runway Report: AgResearch scientists at Fashion Week?!?
By Margaret Lewis Scientists at Fashion Week?!? A team of AgResearch textile scientists [I met some of them in the queue] teamed up with ten designers to create a runway show highlighting garments…
AgResearch announces world-first technology to detect fake designer garments
Take two identical garments - both attributed to the same designer. It is impossible to distinguish between the two articles. The same fabric was used, the same colour, the same pattern. Even the…
AgResearch scientist runway show at Fashion Week
AgResearch scientists revealed some of the world-first fabrics they have invented which featured in their runway show on Friday September 19th as part of Air New Zealand Fashion Week. "By…
AgResearch puts flame resistant fabric to the test - on a person
For the first time ever AgResearch put its revolutionary stab and flame resistant fabric it developed about a year ago, to the test on a person, when a blow torch was applied to the vest of the…
A Cold Beer wins filmschools contest
The South Seas short film A Cold Beer has won the 2008 Kodak New Zealand Filmschools Competition. The film, co-directed by 2007 South Seas Film & Television School graduates David Coyle and Reuben…
New music Peak Festival For Queenstown
Queenstown is to host New Zealand's newest music festival in early January. The first Peak Festival will take place on the 3rd of January 2009, at the Queenstown Events Centre, and will become an…