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“It is a gem photographing the Far North”
It is interesting how technology and especially the way communication has evolved to share stories, interests, places across the web. I had come across a page on facebook, “Tango@ke Expressions”, to find a photographer who …
Inspiring Stories Launch ‘Ecosystem of Awesome’
Inspiring Stories Trust celebrates the third year of their ‘Ecosystem of Awesome’ and launches BeCause, an online media platform to acknowledge young kiwis doing amazing things in their communities.
Wellington, May 2nd, 2013 - Inspiring Stories Trust …
Realising Urban Dream in Vacant Sites
Wellington inner city properties are being reactivated through the Urban Dream Brokerage, a pilot project funded by the Wellington City Council to broker the use of vacant space by artists and the creative industries.
The People’s …
Unleash your fashion design passion and get wooley at the Alexandra Blossom Festival
MEDIA Release:
WoolOn is the gala event of the Alexandra Blossom Festival – a celebration of creativity and design that celebrates Wool as a fashion fibre.
New Zealand and international designers compete for the supreme award presented …
New collaborative community theatre initiative launches in Auckland
An Auckland based drama teacher and voice coach has launched a community theatre initiative focusing on Social Action in a creative, fun, and inspiring way.
Sally Mabelle shares her story:
In August 2012, I was called into …
NZ’s first crowd-funded comic launches
NZ’s first crowd-funded comic launches
Monday, 21 January 2013, 3:03 pm
Press Release: Faction Comics
NZ’s first crowd-funded comic launches
21/01/2013
Kiwi comic fans have spoken – with their wallets. Overwhelming public support for a local comic anthology has resulted …
Handmade goods reign at the Palmerston North Craft and Quilt Fair
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Get crafty at the Palmerston North Craft & Quilt Fair 2013
There’s no hiding the fact that we live in a busy world, and so often mass-produced items become the norm. But this …
Sculptures transform Auckland’s Silo Park this Summer
Media Release
Thursday, 17th February 2013
Sculptures transform Auckland’s Silo Park this Summer
Exquisite bronze castings, beautiful carvings and cutting-edge polymer sculptures will descend upon Auckland’s waterfront on 1 February to 14 March 2013, as Wynyard Quarter …
The Creativity Challenge
A conference focussing on all aspects of creativity – in education, in business, in the
arts, in communities and in social enterprise – is to be held at Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki on the …
Wellington pioneers the free use of commercial space for public art
MEDIA RELEASE: For immediate release January 2013
Wellington pioneers the free use of commercial space for public art
A new agency that promises to enliven Wellington City by utilising vacant space for no cost has opened in …
UC arts scholarship winner Rachael Dewhirst helping in the rebuild
By Kip Brook
A University of Canterbury (UC) fine arts student will be part of the Christchurch rebuild over the summer.
Fourth-year UC student Rachael Dewhirst won a Scape Public Art scholarship to paint a 50 metre wide …
Art Beat Brings Excitement To Re:START
Art Beat
Media Release
5 November 2012
Want to swap your fears for your very own hand silk screened poster? What about releasing some of that frustration about the EQC claims process in return for a unique and …
Launching Pink Ribbon Calendar Girls
There were a lot of smiling faces at the Pink Ribbon Calendar girls launch party last week.
The launch celebrated the successful crowdfunding and publication of the Pink Ribbon Calendar, created by Liz Oliver, an Auckland …
Help this French artist introduce “Living Walls” to Lower Hutt
This coming Labour Weekend, Sunday 21 October, the Dowse Square will play host to an international urban artist in an event that will encourage community participation in urban art.
The artist, Olivier Tenedor, wants the community …
Road to Ruin – Paved in Pledges
Road to Ruin was Heather O’Leary’s final project for an advanced Digital Film Making diploma at Natcoll. Not only did she love the idea of creating a documentary around designer Kim Witteveen, but it was …
New York here we come: Media Design School alumni to represent NZ in NYC
For immediate relase
Auckland, 27 September 2012: Media Design School graduate Hayley O’Connor aka Hayley Heartbreak will travel to New York to see her illustration projected into Times Square as part of a promotional campaign for …
Like Minds Wellington Film Comp encourages people to ‘be there and stay involved with people experiencing mental illness’
PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release
Be There and Stay Involved!
Buoyant from the success of last year’s competition, Kites Trust is doing it all over again and holding the Like Minds Wellington Film Competition 2012. Like Minds, …
New documentary presents hope and promise for NZ kauri forests
Press Release – Song of the Kauri, directed and produced by Mathurin Molgat
19.07.2012
New documentary presents hope and promise for NZ kauri forests – World Premiere
Song of the Kauri, a documentary to premiere at the 2012 …
Support the completion of Our Green Roadie on PledgeMe
Support Our Green Roadie on Pledge Me
We’re a little film team, award-winning filmmaker Emma Heke and her son Connor,
Making a big documentary, Our Green Roadie,
Set to inspire huge change, encouraging us to live our dreams …
Mural chosen for landmark Christchurch site
The winning design for the inaugural Resene Art in the Street SCAPE Christchurch Murals project has been selected. The winning design, created by Rachael Dewhirst - a fourth year student of Fine Arts at Canterbury …
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