Eminent choreographer, dance practitioner and educator Michael Parmenter MNZM has received the Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance. Keep Reading

Te Ora Auaha recently convened three sessions as part of the global 2021 International Culture, Health and Wellbeing conference. The conference was led by the UK Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance, but was fully digital making it possible for presenters from 30 different countries across the globe to connect and share practice, insights and... Keep Reading

Session three provides insights into Aotearoa’s rich body of youth arts practice which draws from western, indigenous Māori and Pacific Island worldviews and creative practices. Huia O’Sullivan shares the incredible work with young people at Ngā Rangatahi Toa in Auckland, Molly Mullen from the University of Auckland, and Amber Walls... Keep Reading

Session two features Kim Morton from Ōtautahi Creative Spaces, Ciaran Fox from The Mental Health Foundation, Ryan Reynolds from Gapfiller, Hannah Wilson from Rekindle and Aaron Hapuku from University of Canterbury speaking to the work they are doing in Ōtautahi (Christchurch), using creativity as a pathway to adapt, connect and build back... Keep Reading

Whanganui Creative Space will open its doors an extra day a week and employ its art tutors for more hours a week, thanks to funding it received through the Government’s three-year Creative Spaces Initiative. Keep Reading

Join Touch Compass as they celebrate their 25th Anniversary on 14 September in Tāmaki Makaurau for an exciting evening of groundbreaking performance honouring the past, present and future: /rītaha/./rītaha/ is a performing arts festival of digital works, tactile installations, improvised and choreographed dance, innovative theatre and... Keep Reading

Artist, designer and technician, Don Service is opening a new art gallery in Ōtautahi in August, RightSide Gallery at 380 St Asaph Street.  Service has been exhibiting and installing and hanging works of art in private and public spaces for almost twenty years.  His wall-relief sculptures and paintings represent the artist’s response... Keep Reading

Timaru resident, Jock Anderson has open Gallery 329 in the township’s centre in Stafford Street.  It is a space for artists, designers and craftspeople across all practices to exhibit with no commission on the sale of their work in an affordable gallery space. Anderson’s establishment of Gallery 329 is the outcome of a visit in 2019 to... Keep Reading

Every year members of Diamond Harbour Camera Club make a field trip into Christchurch, witnessing and recording the fast-changing city landscape year-on-year.  Through these annual recovery walks documented in the exhibition, Rebuild Refocused, its photographers have discovered hidden alleyways full of colour, emerging onto wide, paved and... Keep Reading

When Andre Chumko started working as Stuff and The Dominion Post’s arts reporter in the middle of 2020, New Zealand was a very different country from the one he had arrived home to nine months earlier. Keep Reading

Inclusive dance company Jolt will be joining the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra on stage in a performance of Max Richter’s The Seasons, a reimagination of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. This is the first time that the orchestra has collaborated with Jolt in a performance within the CSO main stage concert season. “We have, for many years,... Keep Reading

“I have witnessed the transformational change in Pāpā T’s learners and personally experienced his ability to nurture, guide and encourage learners, their whānau and staff within culturally new and challenging experiences,” says Marylou Sloane, the Department of Corrections’ Practice Manager for education and training. Keep Reading

Learn why Hone Fletcher and Lawrence Ereatara received the Arts Access Accolade 2021 for their leadership, generosity and commitment to toi Māori and rehabilitation. Keep Reading

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra received the Arts Access Manatū Taonga Community Arts Award at Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021 for its Platform Programme supporting rehabilitation through music. Keep Reading

Art-East received the Arts Access Holdsworth Creative Space Award at Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021 for its inclusive Christchurch creative space supporting wellbeing, recovery and community connection through the arts. Keep Reading