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After a hugely successful tour in 2018 that included 32 performances in theatres, prisons and Marae, Rodney Bell returns with his award-winning performance work Meremere, heading to even more centres this July and August. Keep Reading
PARS exhibition aims to remove stigma 25 June 2019A series of workshops and an upcoming exhibition, facilitated by PARS Inc – People at Risk Solutions (PARS) in Auckland, is giving the exhibiting artists an outlet to express their feelings, connect with like-minded people and showcase their work to whānau, friends and the public. Stua... Keep Reading
Congratulations to Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts who have been awarded the Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prize 2018/19 in Hong Kong for the work ONEONE. The art competition brought together new, compelling artworks from across the globe, rich in styles and concepts, pushing boundari... Keep Reading
Time, space, and inspiration are what dreams are made of. But this week, dreams turn into reality for three New Zealand artists who will be awarded two of New Zealand’s most coveted international residencies: the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship and the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency, both run by the Arts Foundation of New... Keep Reading
Dance Aoteraoa New Zealand (DANZ) and Saint Kentigern College are pleased to announce Caitlin Davey as the 2019 DANZ Dance Residency recipient. Supported by DANZ and Saint Kentigern College, and with funding from Foundation North, Caitlin will undertake the dance residency based at Saint Kentigern College in Auckland over three weeks in January. Keep Reading
The Māoriland short film initiative NATIVE Slam III has been selected for the ImagineNATIVE film festival in Toronto. More than 4000 films were submitted to the festival this year and Māoriland has five films in the programme. NATIVE Slam is a 72-hour international indigenous collaboration challenge held in the week prior to the Māoriland... Keep Reading
DANZ’s Chief Executive Anton Carter’s three-year fixed term contract is coming to an end in early October. The DANZ Board thanks Anton for his work during this time and wishes him all the best for his future endeavours. Keep Reading
Jacqui refers to her work is a response to place, a visceral reaction to events and activities around me. Nature, the human condition, music, industrialisation and digitisation are all central themes and an entrance to my work. Long Echo is a meditation on altered nature where social and ecological systems clash. I’ve loosely referenced... Keep Reading
Twelve New Zealand Films to showcase in the 9th New Zealand Film Festival in China Twelve New Zealand films will screen at the 2018 New Zealand Film Festival in China being held in Beijing, Ordos and Chengdu, and should be seen by up to 10,000 people in 48 screenings in China over the next four weeks. The twelve films, including eight featur... Keep Reading
The Royal New Zealand Ballet is gearing up for the premiere of The Piano: the ballet, a new full length ballet by Czech choreographer Jiří Bubeníček, presented in association with the New Zealand Festival and the Auckland Arts Festival. Keep Reading
A correspondent on this page today asks why the taxpayer is continuing to fund the promotion of te reo Maori when, despite years of its funding, the majority of Maori do not speak or learn their own language. It is a question many are probably asking in this Maori Language Week. They could be offered two answers. The first is that "the... Keep Reading
Poi dance popularity inspired Rotorua whanau to use Facebook for a one-stop Māori shop for everyone. A Rotorua family realised it was on to something when a poi dance set to Beyonce's music went viral. The extended Winitana whanau has been schooling two generations of its children in te reo Māori for 30 years and established a school in... Keep Reading
What began as a form of therapy for Selwyn Vercoe is now a fulltime occupation. The central-Auckland artist has curated exhibition The Seven Stars of Matariki at Ponsonby's Studio One Toi Tu gallery. Matariki is the Maori name for the group of stars also known as the Pleiades cluster. It rises in the sky around June, coinciding with the Maori... Keep Reading
The recipient of the first DANZ Māori Choreolab, funded by the Auckland City Council, is freelancer and Atamira Dance Company member Bianca Hyslop. Bianca will be paired with experienced Māori choreographer, Merenia Gray who will mentor and work with her over six weeks to devise and rehearse a work at Te Pou in Auckland. This work will then... Keep Reading
Exploring identities was the focus for two student actors from Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School, who recently performed in Te Whare Manaakitanga Special Treatment Unit at Rimutaka Prison in Upper Hutt. Keep Reading
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