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TRANSMISSION: BETA is the sequel to Stuart McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt's acclaimed 2021 play TRANSMISSION. TRANSMISSION recorded the white-knuckle battle to eliminate Covid 19 in Aotearoa. Now, drawn from interviews with iconic players suchas Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson, John Tamihere, epidemiologist Michael Baker,.. Keep Reading
Supporting rugby players with brain injury is the aim of a pilot programme between Auckland creative space Connect the Dots and the Papatoetoe Rugby Club. Keep Reading
Big Dutch Day Out - Saturday 27 April, 2024 Colourful Art Competition and Plenty of HeritageThe Big Dutch Day Out is a prime event on the Dutch Community’s agenda of annual festivities. And not just for the yummie Gouda cheese, croquettes with Zaanse mustard and salty herring. Foxton will be cheered up by the music from no less than two street... Keep Reading
Filmmaker Fredrick Pokai came to the 11th Māoriland Film Festival hoping for favourable reaction to his new short film, Search for Hawaiki. He got it – it was a highlight of the festival. The script, the acting, the direction and subtle music were superb. They took viewers on a tear-jerking journey familiar to many, made more so because it... Keep Reading
In 2024, studio pottery maintains its authority and presence throughout Aotearoa. Currently, it is particularly active at 27 Essex Street with potters and educators, Tatyanna Meharry and Gwen Parson teaming up to supply, teach and offer advice for potters. Joining in is printmaker Carrie Dingwall who makes and teaches a range of... Keep Reading
The Tapatahi Accessibility Policy and Action Plan 2023 – 2028, is a guide for Creative New Zealand. Outlining ways it will work for all New Zealanders. Keep Reading
Arts Access Aotearoa has launched Art Inside, a seven-part audio series featuring artists who deliver arts programmes to people in New Zealand prisons and former prisoners whose lives have been transformed through the arts. Keep Reading
The Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) is now the largest indigenous film festival in the world, and this year will see the largest programme offered as well. One hundred and sixty-eight films from 111 indigenous nations will screen in Ōtaki from March 20-24. Now in its 11th year, MFF will offer 11 feature films, eight feature documentaries and... Keep Reading
Creating a community and a home for artists is what makes Pablos Art Studios a vital part of Wellington, says its manager, Anastasija Bubanja. It’s all about supporting and empowering everyone who comes into the space. Keep Reading
An ex-pat friend of Rodger's captured the Big Band's gig at the Carlyle Room, in Washington DC, on 10 January 2024. Peter Grattan is a former TVNZ employee, now living in the USA, and his video handiwork can be seen below. The Rodger Fox Big Band is in the USA through early January, having represented New Zealand at JEN, the Jazz Educational... Keep Reading
Rodger Fox plays Hone Tuwhare near top of list for Jack Bower's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023 Esteemed jazz critic Jack Bowers, of the 'All About Jazz' website, proclaimed a review of "so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups". He was talking about a very long list of great jazz albums in 2023. And near... Keep Reading
The shows to date have been monumental, so it stands to reason we'd want to add an Auckland gig to our schedule - seven towns in total. The Rodger Fox Big Band featuring King Kapisi, and with Erna Ferry, is playing at the Bruce Mason Centre on Sunday 12 November. The concerts fuse the modern big band sound with Aotearoa-New Zealand hip-hop by... Keep Reading
The university made a big point of praising the work of Senior Lecturer, Rodger Fox in its 6 October faculty newsletter. See what they said, here. A quintessentially Kiwi collaboration A musical mash up of brassy big band jazz and Aotearoa hip hop is set to surprise and entertain audiences around the country. Rodger Fox, Senior Lecturer in... Keep Reading
Deb Shepherd’s towering and intricate thread hanging, ‘Woman’s Work #1’, narrowly beat Merit Award winner Lucy Dolan Kang’s hanging, ‘The beginning and the end’, in the Peoples’ Choice Award competition of the Parkin Drawing Prize this year by a single vote. Merit Award winner Emily Harris’ ‘Take It Away’... Keep Reading
“Barbershop singing has taken me out of my comfort zone as I’m not a good singer,” wrote one man participating in a barbershop programme at Spring Hill Corrections Facility. “However, with their patient and persistent teaching styles, I’ve learned singing techniques and am part of a group harmonising system Keep Reading
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