"Why Am I Here? (I don't believe we've met) Live Performance at NZFA
"Why Am I Here? (I Don't Believe We've Met)" is a visual performance experiment by artist Catherine Mazer that creates an immersive live dance and image processing environment. A collaboration…
Richard Ford loves Wellington
Richard Ford, seriously calm, austere yet brilliant writer and Pulitzer Prize winner discloses to Tom Fitzsimons of Lumiere that he loves Wellington and not to edit the interview. 'You can't just try…
48Hours filmmaking competition names Wellington winner...AGAIN!
This year's winner of Wellington's 48HOURS film competition is Team Good Times with their grindhouse short Maori Detective and the Boogie Fever. Good Times have won for the second year in a row after…
TBI Q&A: Kate Hawley
Winning a fancy dress parade in primary school set Kate Hawley on a path that has taken her around the world, as a costume and set designer for film, television and theatre. Most recently, she was…
David Trubridge gets major American export deal
New Zealand designer David Trubridge has recently had an extraordinary run of international success. Not only is there the substantial export deal with US design store Design within Reach - a…
Lucid 3's Dawn Planes and Opendisc ® technology
Lucid 3 are the first local artist to use new Opendisc ® technology on their third album Dawn Planes. This new technology allows bands to create a more engaged relationship with…
Shifting Art Locations
By Mark Amery Courtesy of The Dominion Post 8/6/07 It's not so long ago that most dealer galleries felt like less cluttered extensions of the traditional well-heeled home: small, cosy carpeted…
The young and the refuse at THE EDGE
Part of THE EDGE ® mentor programme, Renu O Te Ra: The Edge of the Sun is a contemporary dance work that explores the relationship young people have to the world they live in. The work poses…
Photography Festival opens with uplifting Auckland views
As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, Manukau Square is hosting a unique outdoor photography exhibition that will change the way travellers and locals view Manukau City. The Manukau…
How to turn great ideas into TV drama
Script to Screen's May Writer's Room invited four top TV drama writers to share their tried and true methods for getting ideas up onto New Zealand's small screens. Guest MC Te Radar and panelists…
The MsBehaviour Files: Mindmaps
In her first column for The Big Idea, Helen Baxter aka MsBehaviour explores one method of making sense of your 'big ideas': mindmaps. Image: In his piece History of the World, UK artist Jeremy…
Comedy business turns to the web for cheap laughs
The internet is already filled with cheap laughs €” YouTube alone offers a lifetime's supply of home videos. But now many experienced comedians, talent agents and financiers are seeing the web…