Tonight: one-off screening of fair trade doco Black Gold

As part of FairTrade Fortnight (28 April - 13 May 2007), The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) and the Green Party are co-hosting a special one-off screening of the…

Trash to Fashion to take a 'gap year'

After a decade of eco-friendly entertainment, Waitakere City Council's

Insight into Asian Aucklanders' attitudes to arts

A research study launched this week offers an insight into the attitudes of Auckland's Asian communities towards the arts in New Zealand. Asian Aucklanders and the Arts was jointly commissioned…

Buyers spend up large at inaugural MAORI MARKet

A million dollars worth of contemporary Maori artwork sold at the first MAORI MARKet

Billboard competition finalists announced

Ten finalists have been chosen in the Auckland Festival of Photography's search for a photo worthy of a CBD billboard. During the month-long competition, photographers of all levels were invited…

Neil Finn: "I will not be a nice little icon"

"I will not be a nice little icon who just shakes hands and smiles at the camera," says Neil Finn in today's NZ Herald (10 May 2007). In a recent interview with Real Groove, Finn was quoted as saying…

Composer David Farquhar dies

Distinguished New Zealand composer Professor David Farquhar died on Tuesday 8 May in Wellington after a long illness. Recognised since the 1950s as a significant figure in the field of New Zealand…

TBI Surf Report: Goodbye Pandora, hello Spencer Tunick?

Aspiring actors cut their teeth online

No rent, no traffic, no maximum (or minimum) number of students. These were a few of the reasons actor and acting instructor Frank Cavestani started to coach actors one-on-one via the internet. This…

Apply now for 2007 Copyright Licensing (CLL) Writer's Awards

Thanks to a $35,000 Copyright Licensing (CLL) Writer's Award, a major new non-fiction work - Looking for Darwin by Lloyd Spencer Davis - will be published this year.

New Works by Jim Cooper at TheNewDowse

Ceramicist Jim Cooper cites one of the world's most iconic album covers - The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - as a major inspiration behind his latest artworks on display at…

Michael Houstoun to perform in six concert tour

In this concert series presented by Chamber Music New Zealand, Michael Houstoun plays Beethoven's last three piano sonatas in one programme.