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community stories

Gabi considers reasons for artists to visit art fairs, and a huge arts news drop.

Filmmaker and Day One Creative Director Anna Duckworth shares what previously funded filmmakers passed on to the next cohort before they shot a single frame.

At a time when the costs of touring can prove too great for many musicians to visit smaller towns, Rhyme x Reason is stepping up and providing a free venue.

A new Silver Scroll award, a donated collection, Helen Clark, and more.

When you sell an original artwork, you still own the copyright for images of it. This scheme keeps track of when those images are used, and makes sure you get paid for it.

Just about everything that's happening in the arts across Christchurch in April.

What place does art have in a world that feels like it’s falling apart?

The New Zealand-born Samoan actor shares how a baby girl helped him take a shot pursuing more than a stable income.

Genista Jurgens reflects on missed moments to contribute to conversations and rounds up international shows and opportunities in this month's Global Digest.

Despite the song’s popularity, most people know little about the woman credited with its lyrics and adapted tune, who had considerable political mana and used her music and voice to foster understanding between Māori and Pākehā.

It offers secure, high‑spec storage of artworks, taonga, archival collections, scientific specimens, and other sensitive materials for major institutions or private collectors in climate-controlled conditions.

Gabi chats to John Smythe about the little website he started all those years ago, plus all the most important happenings in the arts this week.

The musical theatre obsessive says the music speaks to him, and the choreography is unmatched.

As a newly professionalised field, graphic design, was defining itself as a key economic contributor, a manifesto ignited a moral discussion on its role in society.

The final review, and a reflection from programme facilitator Jillian Davey on the programme.

Gabi visits the Shanghai Biennale, and rounds up the week's happenings.

The Mexican actor still counts his homeland's surreal mundanity as his biggest inspiration.

As someone with a Master's degree in poetry, Hera Lindsay Bird knows about squandering your life in the pursuit of a culturally obsolete art form. 

What was once called "an affront to the dignity and decency of ordinary farming folk” has become part of the New Plymouth way of life.

The next generation of critics review dance, theatre and cabaret.

A crash course in the finalists for NZ's biggest contemporary art prize, and the week's arts news.

The debut novelist in the running for our biggest literary prize does love writing groups, new personal mottos and Pink Floyd though.

Musical titans Dr. Karen Grylls and Te Waka Huia will perform a blend of kapa haka and choral music two nights this week. Sam Brooks talks to Grylls about bringing the two together.