TBI Q&A: Jim Moriarty
Currently performing as Othello at Downstage in Wellington, Jim Moriarty is an acclaimed NZ actor with extensive experience in TV, film and theatre. His is also the founder and artistic director of…
The Sixties: High Tide & Green Grass at Gow Langsford Gallery
German-born New Zealand-based photographer Frank Habicht captured the uninhibited spirit of the 1960s, photographing such iconic figures as Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, director Roman…
Independent Music New Zealand announces new Board for 2007
2007 is shaping up to be a big year for independent label trade body Independent Music New Zealand, with many challenges for the music industry as a whole to face. The newly-elected IMNZ Board is…
14 international comedians, 3 mountains, 24 hours, 1 charity
While most New Zealand comedians are busy performing in the 2007 NZ International Comedy Festival, award-winning UK-based Kiwi comic Sully O'Sullivan is doing something different. He's in training,…
TBI Interview with Mark Billinghurst of HIT Lab NZ
Based in "the Silicon Valley of New Zealand" - otherwise known as Christchurch - HIT Lab NZ is a human-computer interface research centre. That might sound a little dry, until you start hearing words…
NZ short film awarded Honourable Mention at Cannes
NZ short film Run has been awarded an Honourable Mention in the Short Film Competition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. "Members of the Jury came up to us afterward and said the film made…
Photoforum 33 exhibition at Artstation Gallery
Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2007, PhotoForum 33 is an exhibition of works by 33 photographers with links to PhotoForum, including Bruce Connew, Mark Adams and PhotoForum founder John…
Sound Archives celebrates 50th birthday
Listen up - New Zealand history captured in sound will be a focus of attention as Radio New Zealand Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero celebrates its 50th birthday this year. As part of the 50th…
New prize for creative science writing announced
A prize for creative science writing has been established by the Royal Society of New Zealand, in association with the New Zealand Listener and the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at…
Lloyd Jones wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize
NZ writer Lloyd Jones has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book Award 2007 for his novel Mister Pip.
Release date announced for NZ film The Tattooist
NZ film The Tattooist will hit screens around the country on August 30. Shot in Auckland and Singapore last year, the supernatural thriller stars Jason Behr (The Grudge) as a tattoo artist who…
Kiwi icon to receive honorary doctorate
Humorist, writer and actor John Clarke - best known in New Zealand for bringing laconic farmer Fred Dagg to worldwide attention - is to receive an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of…