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Jessica Gurnsey is the winner of The Stuff Art Aotearoa Gold Award 2025, with ‘Ticket to Womanhood’. This nationwide award series recognising artistic excellence has been presented by Art Shows Across Aotearoa with the support of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, which purchased Jessica’s work as well as those of... Keep Reading
Awards recognising people making a tangible difference through their dedication, leadership and innovation of Arts in Corrections programmes and activities were this year presented in three regions: Northern, Lower North and Southern regions. Keep Reading
MIX artist Daniel Phillips had a busy evening drawing portraits of visitors at this year’s Pablos Art Auction, held in November at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand in Wellington. Keep Reading
In the Margaret Mahy classic children’s book The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate, office worker Sam is convinced by his pirate mother to take a break from working for his boss Mr Fat and to head off with her to see the sea – but their long voyage, with Sam pushing his mother in a wheelbarrow and trailing a kite – is interrupted by various... Keep Reading
Applications are now open for Nikau Foundation’s 2025 Warren Douglas Scholarship! Established by Warren Douglas; an exceptional ballet dancer who sadly passed away in 1995, the scholarship is primarily for mid-career dance practitioners who are interested in arts administration, with particular emphasis on people making the transition from... Keep Reading
Levin and Districts Brass is celebrating its 125th year and plans to see many more years with a new youth academy that could boost band numbers by at least 30. The band’s bass trombone player, Mat West, has offered to take over the current youth tutoring programme – the academy would be an extension of that programme. He ran a successful... Keep Reading
An exhibition celebrating the work of artists in prisons across Aotearoa is on at Whirinaki Whare Taonga in Upper Hutt until Sunday 1 February 2026. Keep Reading
Damian Reid knew he’d found his people. Fairly new to town, he went along to watch the performance of Stiff at Levin Little Theatre earlier this year. The 50-year-old hadn’t been on stage for years, but after seeing the show he wanted in: “They were having so much fun on stage I got the itch to join in and tread the boards,... Keep Reading
Arts Access Aotearoa has made Tim Bray Theatre Company’s accessibility resources available on its website, preserving the legacy of a company that championed accessible theatre for children in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland for more than three decades. Keep Reading
Ōtaki storyteller, filmmaker, producer, and director Libby Hakaraia has been honoured with induction into the Kāpiti/Horowhenua Business Hall of Fame. At the Electra Business & Innovation Awards on October 23, Libby was recognised for her outstanding contributions to Māori storytelling, film, and the Ōtaki community. Her journey began... Keep Reading
Country singers from all over New Zealand will mosey into town for the annual Pounamu Country Music Awards this weekend. The lure for many is a chance to qualify for the NZ Entertainer of the Year Awards in Rotorua next year, as the winners in each category gain automatic entry. Long-time Pounamu club member Gordon Fletcher did just that in... Keep Reading
Congratulations to DoubleTree by Hilton Wellington, whose “Art Flow” collaboration with the NZAFA, Dilmah New Zealand and Le Cordon Bleu NZ has won the award for Innovative Collaboration in competition with hotels from across New Zealand and the Pacific in the 2025 HM Awards. Keep Reading
International mystery novel Lepan’s Shadow is about a retired professor living in Mount Victoria who travels to Chile for work, where he gets mixed up in a suspicious death. It’s written by a retired professor living in Mt Victoria who previously travelled to Chile for work – coincidence? Local author Douglas Pearce acknowledges there... Keep Reading
Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu is presenting its new work, “Out the Gate”, in nine venues around the Lower North Island, opening in Pataka Art + Museum in Porirua on 29 October and ending Massey University in Wellington City on 16 November. Keep Reading
Christchurch dance company Jolt is taking its internationally recognised, disability-led approach to performance and education to South Korea in November. Keep Reading
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