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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#41 – Oprah’s Flash Mob Dance Send-Off
Look what’s possible! I’ve just discovered flash mob dancing. In fact, we’re planning a little something ourselves here in Golden Bay …
Flash dancing involves the element of surprise, organised dance and from the looks of …
Young New Zealanders Carving the Future at Reel Earth
Emerging young filmmakers Guy Ryan and Nick Holmes have just been awarded ‘Runner-up Best New Zealand Film’ at New Zealand’s Reel Earth Film Festival for their youth-action focused documentary Carving the Future (www.carvingthefuture.com).
The awards night …
Vote in the Twinings Online Short Film Festival and be in to win!
We gave budding filmmakers the chance to submit their short film into the Twinings Online Short Film Festival. All we asked was that their film was between 90 seconds and 5 minutes long and included …
Artist Says There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
LETTING SPACE –
“MAKING DREAMS REALTY”
Artist says there is such a thing as a free lunch
News Release for immediate release May 13th 2010
You could end up with your lunch -or dinner- for free with the advent …
The Urban Dream Brokerage
How could a vacant space – be it an apartment block, the floor of an office building, empty land or a retail space – be better used to provide a more vital inner-city?
On May 6 …
Letting Space – “Making Dreams a Reality” – News from an Art and Property Project “Unearthing the Archive”
Join Popular Archeologist artist Dugal McKinnon and cocurator Mark Amery for a closer look at Popular Archeology this Friday lunchtime. Dugal will talk about the creation of the piece and its context as a sound …
Letting Space – News from an Art and Property Project
We’re in the countdown to our opening day on Saturday 5pm 141 Willis Street. Love to see you there. In the meantime here’s some fresh updates.
BRING US YOUR CASSETTE TAPES
Dugal McKinnon’s Popular Archeology will operate …
Letting Space “Making Dreams Reality” Fast-forward, Rewind – A new Public Art Project
News Release
The tape player, which went from a central portable musical device to redundant technology in the space of 27 years is being resurrected in Wellington’s Willis St for the art project Popular Archaeology. Audiences …
Q & A: Dialogues With Tomorrow
1. What is Now Future?
Now Future is a partnership between Sophie Jerram and Dugal McKinnon. We aim to create and promote art projects that address fundamental and philosophical issues regarding human relationships with the planet, …
Pencil This One In – The Kiwi Diary
For years now I have been under the misconception that Greymouth and Greytown were indeed named for their eternal greyness – all rain and melancholy. But the 2010 Kiwi Diary informs me that they were …
Announcing Letting Space: A Major Art and Property Project
In a first-off for Wellington’s CBD, artists and property developers are working hand in hand to fill empty commercial sites through a new project, Letting Space.
This visual arts project, funded by Creative New Zealand and …
Guerilla Knitting – Get Your Needles Out!
There are many crafty types out there who will happily sit at home/ in a café/ in the Doctor’s waiting room with their needles and yarns at the ready; creating delightful, often functional and highly …
Litopia – For the Love of Words
Language for me is sustenance–such an indulgent pleasure to roll a beautiful word around in my mouth like a slowly melting chocolate, or to spit and dribble the painful and ugly whilst marvelling at their …
Bold New Art Genre and Fringe Event Receives Council Funding.
A surprising new locally born art genre is about to sneak into Nelson to celebrate the inner artist in everyone. WASA!™ (Wild and Sneaky Art™) is Nelson’s new creative fringe festival “wild child” scheduled …
So the Story Goes
When I was young boy I spent time in my Grandparents house in a tiny village in County Galway on the west coast of Ireland. I would stay in the guest’s room upstairs, sharing a …
Excitement Builds for Graduate Exhibition
This year’s exhibition by final year art and design students at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology will include the most diverse range of art mediums and the largest number of exhibitors to date.
17 artists about …
Herbs set to reunite for Raggamuffin music festival
NZ Herald
Promoters have announced the four New Zealand acts to perform at January’s Raggamuffin concert in Rotorua.
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Auckland gets new music festival
NZ Herald
10:34AM Tuesday Oct 20, 2009
By Scott Kara
Britomart Square will play host to its first music festival in February.
The day-long Laneway Festival on February 1 will be headlined by British post-punk band Echo …
Popular beach carves itself artistic niche
NZ Herald
Repairs are under way on a popular piece of sculpture in Mission Bay while residents wait to hear if another prominent sculpture will grace the seaside suburb.
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