Articles in Arts
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate release: 9 MAY 2012
Artist taps steamy issue of Geothermal power in Taupo
As part of Taupo’s Erupt Festival, opening this week, artist Tim Barlow is erecting a temporary Public Fountain using geothermal power …
Is it possible to live completely waste free?
Partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a comedic battle to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least amount of garbage in an …
NEWS RELEASE – Letting Space
3 May 2012
MOBILE RADIO STATION TO VISIT LOCAL TAUPO COMMUNITIES
A national public art programme sees an Auckland artists’ collective visit small communities with a mobile radio station and public address unit …
Submitted by: Vanessa Cohen-Riddell, Little Red Hen Pictures
Alastair Riddell (Space Waltz) is to premiere his first short film “THE LAST STOP”; a film made specifically for entry in Ridley Scott’s new online “Your Film Festival”.
Singer/songwriter …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Concerned Citizens
Creative Wellingtonians Combine Art and Technology to Help Communities Overseas
Concerned Citizens, a Wellington-based creative community of more than 80 artists and musicians, have announced the opening of a cutting edge “Open …
Bikes for Africa is an entertaining, insightful and deeply honest documentary following the life adventures of New Zealanders Hap Cameron and Mandy Todd, and their attempt to help implement a self sustainable bike workshop in …
MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Wednesday 28th March 2012
NZ FILM COMMISSION GETS BEHIND THE NEXT GENERATION OF FILMMAKERS
The New Zealand Film Commission is getting behind the Inspiring Stories Trust to help aspiring young filmmakers …
Letting Space are inviting people to participate in a major public art project in the streets and public spaces of Wellington over the week Monday 12 May to Friday 16 March.
Productive Bodies is a major community …
Award winning Nelson filmmaker, mum and passionate greenie Emma Heke and her seven year old son Connor are in Northland right now on the northern leg of a nationwide road trip, filming other families who …
Sarah Turner has been busy the past 2 months hand making a life-sized family made from waste plastic bottles for Light Night Nottingham.
The event was a fantastic success with Sarah’s Plastic Bottle Family a main …
Creative New Zealand media release
Auckland-born photographer Ben Cauchi has been awarded the 2012 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
The biennial 12-month residency is an opportunity for New Zealand …
Press Release – Feature Film Casting
Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland are two New Zealand filmmakers who have won multiple international awards at film festivals including Cannes, Berlin and Sundance. Albiston and Sutherland have begun casting …
Media Release
16 December 2011
For immediate release
THE KIWI DIARY 2012: A year-long celebration of Kiwi culture and creativity
They’re back! Freda Wells and Annabel Wilson, the two friends behind The Kiwi Diary, are happily delivering design-led style and …
Christchurch author and curator Justin Paton has been awarded the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. Currently Senior Curator at Christchurch Art Gallery, Justin is best known to New Zealanders as the author of the acclaimed …
Literary Sandpit for kids to enjoy and win
The Arts Foundation has teamed up with Arrow International to produce a Literary Sandpit for the community to enjoy for the duration of the Wynyard Quarter Arts …
Original Kiwi kid’s music is kinda hard to come by, but Golden Bay based Levity Beet is passionate about his craft so he makes up for it with some seriously inspiring high quality music that …
David Carson has won New Zealand’s first grape vine sculpture exhibition organised and held at Te Mania and Richmond Plains cellar door. Carson’s 5 metre ‘canoe’ was selected from over 22 sculptures by popular …
Otago design students exhibit at Arthur’s Pass National Park – NZ Department of Conservation (DoC)
15 December – 15 March
The imaginative possibilities of parks explored
An exhibit of trial interpretation displays, installations and iapps will be on …
Everyone loves to laugh and Thursday 6th October sees a line up of Kiwi comedians from all walks of life entertaining fans at HQ with a FREE rugby-themed evening of standup comedy.
Warning: some content may …
One of New Zealand’s new generation of installation artists Kate Newby has been awarded the 2012 residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
During the four month residency Kate will complete …
by Hannah Schenker.
I walked into the Mussel Inn, Golden Bay, on Live Poets night a couple of years ago, a gig I rarely attended but had been coaxed to by a new friend. On the …
Short Film & Music Video Festival
2011
allshorts short film and music video festival is now in its sixth great year!
allshorts is a celebration of New Zealand audio visual art. We accept any genre up to 10 …
Film Competition
Have you got an inspiring story to tell? Could you showcase young Kiwis doing great stuff – making a difference in their community?
Download the film competition submission form.pdf
Categories
There’s two categories – filmmakers …
August 3, 2011
Great prizes up for grabs in online Antarctic film competition – entries close August 12, 2011
Contestants have just one week left to enter the 2011 Last Ocean Online Short Film competition. The …
MEDIA RELEASE
28 JULY 2010
The Urban Dream Brokerage
Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington Town Hall
6pm on Friday 29 July
Free entry
MAKING WAY FOR NEW VOICES – AND TORTOISES – IN THE STREETS AND EMPTY SHOPS OF …
MIT PERFORMING ARTS STUDENTS TAKE ON CLASSIC WEST SIDE STORY WITH SOUTH SIDE FLAVOUR
Manukau Institute of Technology’s (MIT) School of Performing Arts will showcase the immense talent of its students in their very …
MEDIA RELEASE
22 JULY 2011
The Urban Dream Brokerage
Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington Town Hall
6pm on Friday 29 July
Free entry
SWEET DREAMS MADE FROM PROPERTY AND ART
From electronic poetry to urban rooftop gardens, a reinvented speakers corner …
15 July 2011
ART STUDENTS SET PUBLIC SPACE ON FIRE WITH MURA O TE AHI EXHIBITION
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts and Manukau Institute of Technology’s (MIT) School of Visual Arts will …
Media Release
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Monday 27 June 2011
Newly refurbished areas of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki returned to the care of its staff today, after three years with Hawkins Construction. At the …
Performance art meets teenage sleep-over in “Happy Birthday Lindsay Lohan” at Mygalaxi Gallery, Dixon Street, 1-2 July.
In honour of Lindsay Lohan’s 25th birthday, Wellington based artist Claire Harris will watch all of Lohan’s films …
The Healing Power of Art Tuesday,
14 June 2011, 2:17 pm
Press Release: Page Blackie Gallery
PRESS RELEASE – For immediate release The Healing Power of Art Any artist can use rage or destruction as inspiration for art. …
MIT’s (Manakau Institute of Technology) Faculty of Creative Arts is offering one free full scholarship to the MIT Certificate of Photography at the Newmarket Campus, to a budding photographer or enthusiast. The competition is open …
Letting Space Media Release
June 3 2011
For immediate release
Showroom for Mars property to open under Soho
Tired of life on this unstable planet? A world-first showroom on Taranaki St, Wellington New Zealand offers the opportunity for members …
Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Thursday 30th June –Sunday 3rd July 10am-5pm
Heather …
Book review: By Charlotte Squire
“Act like anything is possible … because it is!” This is a line from business coach Serena Star Leonard’s new book ‘How to Retire in Twelve Months – Turning Passion into …
The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival 2011 boasts a 21% increase to a record 32,000 attendance during 11-15 May.
Auckland’s Aotea Centre lit up for five days and audiences came in droves. School students, university students; …
By Redwood Reider
This is a story about trust. About stepping into the unknown, carrying the light and being carried by it.
I’m Redwood, he’s Rhythm. I rap poetry about the state of the world and the …
“Today they were being taught about sharing. Sharing everything was better than bartering, Donna was told. If everyone gave, they all received and the community thrived.”
Donna, a young friend of Carrie and the Rayman, has …
It’s times like these I really love my job. After a busy morning on the computer, it’s just me, the National Programme and the tar seal as I drive towards the Abel Tasman National Park. …
