Articles tagged with: Arts
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
