Is your business brain activated right?
A business that runs on only five to ten percent capacity doesn't last long. Yet people seem perfectly happy to live their lives and run their businesses using only five to ten percent of their…
Travels to the Muddied Provinces
By Richard Fahey Courtesy of Clay Economies The fashioning of wet clay and its subsequent hardening through heat is a story synonymous with the notion of social progress. Less often noted are the…
Heavens and Hells of the Mind wins book award
North Shore writer Imre Vallyon has won a major literature prize at the annual nationwide Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript and Book Awards held on Friday 22 August in…
Maori Writers National Hui 2008
Leading and aspiring Maori writers will gather once again during the third biennial national hui hosted by Toi Maori Aotearoa. Keynote speakers include Maori writers James George (pictured), Apirana…
Sets and the City: Edinburgh Fringe Festival '08
By James Hadley in London Considering that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest arts festival in the world, it's not surprising we hear news from it on the other side of the planet. It's…
Television on the Blink: Michael Nicholson
By Mark Amery Courtesy of The Dominion Post There's an old cliche about video art that it might be mistaken for the "telly having gone on the blink"- the television set just needing a good thwack…
Artist to explore Olympics
Sara Hughes will use her Creative NZ Berlin Visual Artists Residency to examine the cultural and pol
NZ music technical awards finalists
The backroom wizards of New Zealand
Apron Strings selected for Toronto
Apron Strings has been selected for the Toronto Film Festival in the Discovery section.
Television on the Blink: Michael Nicholson
Video art might be mi
French diva heads Jenufa cast (+tickets)
French soprano Anne Sophie Duprels heads an esteemed cast to open The NBR New Zealand Opera's Genesis Energy Spring Season of Janáček's Jenůfa. This is the Southern Hemisphere premiere…
The MsBehaviour Files: New Animation Tools
I have loved animation from a very early age. I was lucky to spend time at animation nights as a child, where we watched crazy old cartoons from Canada, Poland and Eastern Europe on a noisy old spool…