Budget 08: New Zealand Authors Fund
An additional $2 million over four years is being invested in the New Zealand Authors Fund, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced in the Budget 08. The…
Budget 08: Arts, culture and heritage
Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced additional funding for New Zealand films, music, literature, and for heritage buildings and collections as part of the…
Budget 08: Arts, culture and heritage
Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced additional funding
Long Cloud stages Spring Awakening
The first 08 production of Long Cloud Youth Theatre will be the controversial masterpiece Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. The twelve young talented actors of the company will perform this play…
NZ Music Month Q&A: Side Kick Nick
As the story goes on MySpace - one day about seven or eight years ago a fellow called Nick Buckton decided to take his silly little songs that he only played to himself and his cat, and to vomit them…
Captured in Time
A diverse collection of photographic images by past and present Unitec photography students will be on show at an upcoming Artstation exhibition Te Tahi Maui: A survey of 20 years of photography from…
Vera Dika on Reconsidering the Nostalgia Film
The impulse to return to past images and styles has become a staple feature of filmmaking, but is practiced in different ways by various filmmakers. In a free talk at the University of Canterbury on…
Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke! When Maori Art Became Contemporary
Auckland Art Gallery exhibition Tūruki Tūruki! Paneke Paneke! When Maori Art Became Contemporary, on show from 24 May until 24 August, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first…
TBI Q&A: James Blackie
Page Blackie Gallery co-director James Blackie says the work of painter Max Gimblett is 'gob-smackingly powerful'. His work is currently arriving in crates from New York for an exhibition at the…
Ice sculpting comp at NZ Mountain Film Festival
Organisers of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival are calling for sculptures to sharpen their tools and unleash their creative flair for the inaugural Wanaka Ice Art Championships this…
Doyenne of children's writing wins top award
Joy Cowley has won the New Zealand Post Book of the Year prize for her novel Snake and Lizard. "Cowley's book impressed the judges with its assured writing, humour and gentle, unforced…
Matthew Carter - The Places You'll Go
Matthew Carter's exhibition The Places You'll Go is now on at the Lake House Arts Centre in Takapuna until June 1. The recent paintings of suburban cityscapes play with colour and light and…