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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
A stellar lineup of speakers, fantastic international films and the opening of the first film-maker residence in New Zealand are just part of the programme for the eighth Māoriland Film Festival. Now the largest indigenous film festival in the Southern Hemisphere, Māoriland will run at various venues in Ōtaki from March 24-28. There will... Keep Reading
First Steps 2021 18 May – 4 June 2021 Eastside Gallery, Christchurch First Steps is a supportive environment for artists who are new, or nearly new, to exhibiting. There's no cost to be involved, as it's one of Eastside’s annual Centre-run exhibitions. Please request a Contributor Form by emailing arts@tewhare.org, or feel free to discuss... Keep Reading
New Year Honours: Prudence Anne Gooch made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services in dance. Prudence Gooch established the Prue Gooch School of Dance in Tauranga in 1976, which led to the establishment of the Dance Education Centre in 1990. She has been Director of the Dance Education Centre since inception and has organised... Keep Reading
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET’S CHOREOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE, LOUGHLAN PRIOR, TO PREMIERE NEW DANCE FILM ON DIGITAL STREAMING PLATFORM, FLTPK.COM A new dance film is coming to FLTPK (flatpack) - an innovative way to access new dance films created by world class artists. Recently featured in the Guardian, FLTPK was founded... Keep Reading
A new multi-media art centre taking shape in the old United Video store is adding to the vibrant art scene in the Ōtaki township. Toi Tangata Studio and Art Gallery is the brainchild of Jerome Kavanagh and Taryn Beri. The couple have spent the Christmas break painting walls – including helping with a vibrant outdoor mural by Theo Arraj on... Keep Reading
A book originally published in English in 2006 by Ōtaki author and journalist Queenie Rikihana-Hyland has been re-published in te reo Māori. The new version of Manawa Hine was launched on Monday (December 7) to a large crowd of whānau, friends and contributors at Te Wānanga o Raukawa’s Te Ara a Tāwhaki lecture theatre. Queenie says... Keep Reading
Eight local rangatahi now have jobs at Māoriland after graduating in late November from a six-week course that took them behind the scenes of New Zealand’s top special effects and animation companies. The first graduates from the Māoriland Tech Creative Hub (MATCH) also received one-on-one mentoring from some of the country’s top tech... Keep Reading
The visitors turned out in good numbers for the first weekend of the annual Kāpiti Arts Trail on November 7 and 8. Despite overcast conditions on Saturday, the weather cleared on Sunday with crowds visiting artists, their galleries and their workshops. Sales were encouraging as people continued to open their wallets after the Covid-19... Keep Reading
Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance recipient Lucy Marinkovich is an experienced practitioner who values community engagement. Marinkovich is an artist, choreographer, educator, practitioner and performer who has worked with young people and those with disabilities, as well as with professional dancers. Through her proposed... Keep Reading
In early October, Community Work Invercargill facilitated a pounamu/greenstone carving course for men and women on a community work sentence as part of the Work and Living Skills component of their sentence. Keep Reading
ANNOUNCEMENT Wellesley Studios Summer Choreographic Residency 2021 Wellesley Studios, supported by Dance Aotearoa New Zealand, are pleased to announce their 2021 Summer Residency Artist – Tyler Carney. Since graduating Ev and Bow (Sydney, 2012) and the New Zealand School of Dance (2015), Tyler has been a performer for House... Keep Reading
The gafa or whakapapa and story of Wellington artist Hedy (Heidi Ankers) is vast. Her father was English/Norwegian and her mother English/Samoan. “Poor Mum. She was a singer attending University in Auckland and Dad whisked her away into obscurity to the Bay of Plenty to have a horde of children.... Keep Reading
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