Arts Pasifika Awards nominations open
The Pacific Arts Committee of Creative New Zealand is seeking nominations for the Arts Pasifika Awards 2008, which celebrate Pacific artists across a range of artforms and career stages. The closing…
Winning photo chosen for festival billboard
A portrait of a little girl on her Dad's shoulders has won the BIG Smiles Little Moments billboard competition which set out to capture a winning image taken within Auckland's CBD. "Santa's Coming"…
Making good comedy is no laughing matter: April Writer's Room
Courtesy of Script to Screen Making comedy can be serious business. The April Writer's Room invited TV3's Head of Comedy and Drama Caterina De Nave, interactive comedy producer Carthew Neal,…
Biting the Big Apple: Musician Lindon Puffin
By Ila Couch in New York I'm late. Late for a meeting with Lyttleton musician Lindon Puffin. In town for two days, he's already waiting for me at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park while…
Meet your design heroes at InDesign LIVE Conference
Their names are on the spines of some of your most-thumbed texts and you devour their feature stories every month. Now you can meet your design heroes in person at the first InDesign LIVE conference…
TBI Q&A: Charlie Ward, DNA
Digi-poet winner and Senior Designer for the brand-design agency DNA Charlie Ward is one of the key speakers at Wellington's Pecha Kucha night this Wednesday at TheNewDowse. Fresh from his 2007…
Break A Leg (Or A Toe) But The Show Must Go On
Comic actress Kate Louise Elliott has broken a toe a week before she is to head into the SkyCity theatre for Auckland Theatre Company's production of Roger Hall and Pip Hall's Who Needs Sleep…
Who Needs Sleep Anyway?
Father, grandfather and New Zealand's most popular playwright Roger Hall, has joined forces with his daughter Pip Hall for the first time to write Who Needs Sleep Anyway? opening at SkyCity Theatre…
Nathaniel Lees joins Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School
Veteran actor Lilomaiava Nathaniel Lees joined the acting department Toi
Budget 08: New Zealand's digital pathway
Budget 2008 is the government's first five-year down-payment for a 10 year plan which will take New Zealand towards the government's vision of a fast broadband future, Communications and Information…
Budget 08: New Zealand's digital pathway
Budget 2008 is the government's first five-year down-payment for a 10 year plan which will take New
NZ Film Commission welcomes screen production fund
The New Zealand Film Commission has welcomed the increased funding for filmmakers of medium-scale films with approved New Zealand content, and the further impetus that it should create. "The…