NYO composer-in-residence announced
Wellington composer Tabea Squire has been named the winner of the 4th NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer-in-Residence Award 2008. The award was granted to Tabea for her work Feverdream. Tabea,…
Six Pack judges announced
Submission for this year's Six Pack are now closed after a record number of applications. Project Director Michele Powles said about 500 entries were received. 2008 Celebrity Judges Tamati Coffey,…
Best NZ Poems 2007 online
You have been warned: the 2007 Best New Zealand Poems collection could make you laugh, weep or even want to write your own poem. Best New Zealand Poems is an online anthology of the finest poetry…
Revisiting high school traumas
From prolific and multi award-winning local young playwright Thomas Sainsbury comes pitch-black comedy, Loser, at the NZ International Comedy Festival. The story of Glenwood High's ten-year…
The effect of global consumption on happiness
Auckland Museum offers a rare opportunity to hear leading European academic and policy advisor Sir Brian Heap lecture on the effect of consumption on happiness. Professor Sir Brian Heap will be…
Drama students take over Museum of Wellington
In a new collaboration between Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School and the Mus
Fringe winners ready to tackle a Storm
First they inherited the world with the meekest of characters, now the award-winning theatre collective Three Spoon Theatre with the aid of EAT Wellington are taking on The Storm - 'an appalling…
Payola win Jim Beam band search
Auckland rock band Payola has won the Jim Beam Rock Search and will be opening the Jim Beam Rock Stage at Vodafone Homegrown on April 26. The genre-hopping foursome will easily hold their own…
Barry Barclay honoured
A pioneer of Maori television and film, the late Barry Barclay, was honoured at the closing ceremony of the first ever World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference in Auckland. Barclay…
One Man Star Wars @ 2008 Comedy Festival
Following sellout performances in the USA, Canada and the UK in 2007, revered comedian Charles Ross makes his NZ debut this festival season in Auckland and Wellington with the smash hit show that…
Excitement builds towards the 5th SCAPE Christchurch biennial
Local and international artists are at work on new artworks which will be realised in urban spaces a
Excitement builds towards the 5th SCAPE Christchurch biennial
Local and international artists are at work on new artworks which will be realised in urban spaces around Christchurch city this September. SCAPE 2008 will be the fifth biennial of art in public…