Golden Bay’s Ceiros Begg hits the road with sustainable fashion
May 25, 2012 – 8:36 pm | No Comment

Local Good News/Golden Bay
By Charlotte Squire
When Ceiros Begg was a little girl, she and her mother spent hours walking the streets of Christchurch to visit thrift shops. No shop was too far away and mother …

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Mobile radio station hosted by Auckland artist’s collective to visit local Taupo communities
May 8, 2012 – 1:52 pm | No Comment
Mobile radio station hosted by Auckland artist’s collective to visit local Taupo communities

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 …

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Golden Bay’s Jo Campbell practices 2000 year old encaustic art
May 4, 2012 – 7:34 am | No Comment
Golden Bay’s Jo Campbell practices 2000 year old encaustic art

Golden Bay’s Local Good News Reporter Charlotte Squire introduces painter and sculptor Jo Campbell who is practicing one of the oldest known forms of art – encaustic painting. Jo brings in influences from her zen …

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Cutting edge comedy, laughter and kiwi comedians combine for Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball NZ
April 20, 2012 – 10:01 am | One Comment
Cutting edge comedy, laughter and kiwi comedians combine for Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball NZ

Amnesty International Media Release
For immediate release
20 April 2012

Cutting edge comedy, laughter and kiwi comedians combine for Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball NZ

THE FREEDOM TO LAUGH

“The freedom to laugh to me means that you are allowed …

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Creative Wellingtonians Combine Art and Technology to Help Communities Overseas
April 13, 2012 – 9:42 am | No Comment
Creative Wellingtonians Combine Art and Technology to Help Communities Overseas

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 …

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Rotorua Historical Site Receives Waahi Tapu Status
March 9, 2012 – 1:47 pm | One Comment
Rotorua Historical Site Receives Waahi Tapu Status

ROTORUA, Thursday 8th March 2012: The Government Gardens at Rotorua have just been registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and the Māori Heritage Council as a Waahi Tapu area.
The Waahi Tapu area, known …

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Ben Cauchi awarded the 2012 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency
February 19, 2012 – 3:21 pm | No Comment
Ben Cauchi awarded the 2012 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency

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 …

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Christchurch author and curator Justin Paton Awarded Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
December 1, 2011 – 5:24 pm | No Comment
Christchurch author and curator Justin Paton Awarded Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship

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 …

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Literary Sandpit for kids to enjoy and win
November 30, 2011 – 7:14 pm | No Comment
Literary Sandpit for kids to enjoy and win

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 …

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Grape Vine Sculpture Expo Winner
November 12, 2011 – 9:51 am | No Comment
Grape Vine Sculpture Expo Winner

           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 …

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Young Auckland Artist Awarded New York Residency
September 28, 2011 – 9:31 am | No Comment
Young Auckland Artist Awarded New York Residency

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 …

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Petone, NZ: LEGEND Parade added to Carnival
August 12, 2011 – 1:25 pm | No Comment
Petone, NZ: LEGEND Parade added to Carnival

LEGEND Parade added to Carnival
A night parade, featuring samba drumming, masks, lanterns, costumes, and much more, is the latest addition to this year’s Petone Carnival, and everyone’s invited to be part of the experience!
Coordinated by …

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Art Students (for monday)
July 16, 2011 – 11:14 am | No Comment
Art Students (for monday)

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 …

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki – Re-Opens
June 29, 2011 – 2:14 pm | No Comment
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki – Re-Opens

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 …

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Happy Birthday Lindsay Lohan at Mygalaxi gallery
June 21, 2011 – 1:56 pm | One Comment
Happy Birthday Lindsay Lohan at Mygalaxi gallery

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 …

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MIT’s Faculty of Creative Arts is Offering One Free Full Scholarship
June 9, 2011 – 4:28 pm | No Comment
MIT’s Faculty of Creative Arts is Offering One Free Full Scholarship

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 …

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Webcam Turned on Wellington Office Building as Work of Art
April 14, 2011 – 7:02 pm | No Comment
Webcam Turned on Wellington Office Building as Work of Art

News Release
For immediate release
Image attached: Artist Colin Hodson is in the building. Photo: Gabrielle McKone

Webcam turned on Wellington Office Building as Work of Art

As an unconventional artwork it’s already turning heads, and …

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Immerse Yourself in Art at the Govett-Brewster During WOMAD Weekend
March 11, 2011 – 8:33 pm | No Comment
Immerse Yourself in Art at the Govett-Brewster During WOMAD Weekend

Brook Andrew The Cell 1 – web
Image: Brook Andrew, The Cell, 2010, vinyl with fan blower 300 x 1250 x 600 cm. Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, and presented in association with Institute …

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From the Front Yard to the Inner City, Suburban Floral Association Comes to Town.
February 28, 2011 – 11:04 am | No Comment
From the Front Yard to the Inner City, Suburban Floral Association Comes to Town.

What are hydrangea bushes doing among the steel and concrete of Newmarket? Why are flower lovers gathering outside the train station just off Broadway? Artists Monique Redmond and Tanya Eccleston, aka Suburban Floral Association, provide …

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Tell Our Stories and Win Big With the Great NZ Mix & Mash Competition
November 8, 2010 – 12:58 pm | No Comment
Tell Our Stories and Win Big With the Great NZ Mix & Mash Competition

Writers, storytellers and artists are being encouraged to remix poems and cartoons, design posters and use creative commons material as part of the Great NZ Remix & Mashup competition.
Our archives, libraries and …

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Good News from Tamaki Makaurau AKA Auckland – Auckland’s Awesome Transport Efforts and Art Week
November 8, 2010 – 11:07 am | One Comment
Good News from Tamaki Makaurau AKA Auckland – Auckland’s Awesome Transport Efforts and Art Week

I live really close to Eden Park. The good thing about that is, well, it’s just a really awesome place to live. The not so good is that it can get pretty rowdy when games …

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Art Project Promotes Unemployment as a Positive Choice
October 15, 2010 – 9:09 pm | 2 Comments
Art Project Promotes Unemployment as a Positive Choice

For Immediate release:  14 October 2010
Unemployed Artist Tao Wells wants to know why New Zealanders make the decision to work more in order to consume more. “Surely,” says Wells, “an advanced society would see us …

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Showcase Finale to Youth Week in Brisbane
April 15, 2010 – 2:29 pm | One Comment
Showcase Finale to Youth Week in Brisbane

Music, markets, circus, visual arts, fashion and comedy will make up Brisbane City Council’s spectacular finale to its ‘Get Loud’: National Youth Week celebrations when Youth Arts Showcase is staged on Saturday April 17 from …

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