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A prize pool of $3500 was awarded at the Māoriland Film Festival for six short films created by some of Aotearoa’s youngest film-makers. The prize-giving at the Memorial Hall on March 26 also provided an opportunity for a premiere of the films that won the sixth annual E Tū Whānau Film Challenge, which is open to rangatahi aged... Keep Reading
We’re thrilled. With those words director Libby Hakaraia encapsulated her feelings after the eighth Māoriland Film Festival in Ōtaki from March 24-28. Without an international presence, she knew this year would be different, but its success surprised even her. Ticket sales to the speaking events, workshops, award presentations, closing... Keep Reading
Commissioned by SCAPE Public Art in 2001 and sited to float above the stairway in the former Christchurch Boys’ High School in The Arts Centre, Bing Dawe’s Out of the Black Water was damaged by the February 2011 earthquake, but has been lovingly been restored by the artist and reinstated in the same location. Dawe recognised the merits... Keep Reading
It was an unprecedented decision. To celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2023, Annabel Menzies-Joyce and Peter Joyce founders of the Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden had put out a call for expressions of interest for proposals for a sculpture to mark the occasion. Announcing the short list of three finalist, Neil Dawson, Natalie Guy and Sam... Keep Reading
The Orion Powerhouse Art Gallery, Akaroa, is presenting the final exhibition of its 2020-21 season, an installation by artist Lynne Lambert. Glass Half Empty - Glass Half Full (Thoughts on a Post-Quake City). Lambert’s exhibition is in four stages encompassing four poems: The artist’s response to the 4 September 2010 earthquake, the... Keep Reading
Ka Awatea signifies daybreak and is the title of an exhibition of ‘new voices’ from artists in Ōtautahi. It is curated by Ōtautahi Creative Spaces, a specialist creative wellbeing initiative supporting people with experience of mental distress through working in studio groups, mentoring, and collaborative projects and... Keep Reading
Esther Deans opens a solo exhibition at the Susan Badcock Gallery in April. The Granddaughter of artist Austen Deans (1915-2011) and niece of painter Lindsay Crooks, her new paintings are a series of narratives and images of fragmented domestic exteriors and interiors, as much about the reassurance of home as they are about our momentary... Keep Reading
Short films are a popular feature at the Māoriland Film Festival, and none more so than the impressive line-up secured for the 2021 event due to begin on March 24. The films, by international indigenous film-makers as well as talented film-makers in Aotearoa New Zealand, this year total more than 60, with 18 nations represented. Māoriland,... Keep Reading
2021 Parkin Drawing Prize: Call for Entries Entries for New Zealand’s most prestigious drawing competition, The Parkin Drawing Prize are now invited. The award, founded by arts patron Chris Parkin, carries a major cash prize of $25,000, and national recognition. From approximately 500 entries, a portfolio of around 80 works is chosen... Keep Reading
Fiksate has reopened in its new gallery and studio space at 54 Hawdon Street. Artist and gallery manager Jenna Ingram says that they are ‘loving, being there in Sydenham in the Milfield Group's renovated warehouses in our new space. They have done an amazing job and been really great to work with. The “arts district” over this... Keep Reading
Lyttelton is embarking on a fundraising campaign for its new community-owned museum, Te Ūaka Lyttelton Museum, its name gifted by Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke, referring to a landing place, place of arrival, or a berthing or mooring place for a watercraft. Artist, events’ organiser and resident Gill Hay is overseeing the campaign... Keep Reading
Anita May Blanchett, Judy Curnow and Sarah Ford make up Inspired by Nature, bringing together paintings by Blanchett and Curnow with ceramics and sculpture by Ford. Blanchett took up painting in 1997, following a visit to Florence and meeting with renowned landscape painter, Tim Wilson who challenged her to become a serious painter. She... Keep Reading
Wellington Inclusive Dance (WIDance) will be performing at Tawa Train Station on Friday 26 February, and at Wellington Railway Station on Saturday 27 February, as part of the What If The City Was A Theatre? festival. Keep Reading
The duo of Dave Murphy and Janet Muggeridge, are special guests at The Stationhouse Social Club, Ōtaki Golf Club, on Thursday, March 4, hosted by The Salty Hearts band. Dave is one of New Zealand’s best finger-picking blues guitarists. He underpins the duo’s sound with driving guitar work and powerful vocals. This is overlaid with Janet’s... Keep Reading
The band that was a hit at last year’s Ōtaki Kite Festival has found national success with gigs lined up throughout the North Island. Gold Dust Woman, a Stevie Nicks showcase band, has two Ōtaki area members who are a critical part of the band – “Stevie Nicks” singer Rachel Williams of Te Horo, and Jared Carson of Ōtaki, who bashes... Keep Reading
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