Playmarket has announced an exciting programme that provides a rare and vital opportunity for the national theatre industry to come together to share ideas around new New Zealand work in March 2009.

New Zealand venues chosen for prestigious Venice Biennale

Creative New Zealand has secured venues for the New Zealand exhibitions at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Painter Judy Millar’s large scale installation will herald the re-opening after 30 years of the regal Sant’ Antonin church and sculptor Francis Upritchard’s will be housed in the exquisite Fondazione Claudio Buziol on one of the main walking routes from Venice’s busy train station. 

Announcement of new Smash Palace Initiative

Creative New Zealand and the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology are pleased to announce that there will be a new round of the Smash Palace initiative occurring between 2009 and 2011.

For chamber music fans Christmas is possibly a lesser excitement on the calendar than the approaching Adam Chamber Music Festival, scheduled to start in Nelson on January 23.

Applications are now open for the Creative New Zealand Toi Oahu Residency at the University of Hawaii. The two month residency is open to established Maori artists in the fields of visual arts and craft/ object art.

Arts Access Aotearoa is seeking nominations for the Big ‘A’ Awards 2009, presented every year to celebrate the outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations enhancing the artistic lives of marginalised people in New Zealand.

The most comprehensive display of Darcy Lange’s Work Studies in Schools has opened at Ikon in Birmingham, UK.

Le Folauga: the past coming forward - Contemporary Pacific Art from Aotearoa New Zealand is the first exhibition of contemporary Pacific art from New Zealand to be shown in a major fine arts museum in Asia.

ARTSPACE, The Physics Room and Enjoy Public Art Gallery are pleased to announce that Auckland based artist John Ward Knox is the winner of the National Drawing Award 2008.