The 7th Pacific International Documentary Film Festival is calling for entries to its 2010 edition.

The Hamburg Animation Awards is inviting animators from New Zealand to enter their work for the 6th Hamburg Animation Awards to be held on 25 June 2009.

Outrageous Fortune star Antonia Prebble will make her stage debut in Auckland Theatre Company’s SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER from April 30.

The New Zealand String Quartet is in Washington, DC this week for a performance in the legendary Library of Congress series on Friday.

Visual artist Sara Hughes, the recipient of the 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, has an exhibition opening at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien on Thursday 26th of March 2009.

The prestigious building of Les Recollets in the heart of Paris will host international artists in 2010.

Judy Millar, one of the two New Zealand artists exhibiting at the prestigious 53rd Venice Biennale, has secured a new venue at La Maddalena church.

A nation-wide hunt is now on for talented Māori writers. Entries have been sent far and wide encouraging whānau and friends to put pen to paper or fingers on keyboards and write their stories for the Pikihuia Awards 2009.

Fiona Hall: Force Field (selected works), presents the work by one of Australia’s leading and most inventive artists. Curated by Gregory O’Brien, Paula Savage (City Gallery Wellington) and Vivienne Webb (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney), Fiona Hall: Force Field (selected works) includes two major new works inspired by Hall’s recent time in New Zealand.

This May, a number of studios will become available to rent at Toi Poneke Arts Centre on Abel Smith Street, Wellington.

New Zealand’s Mo Zhi Hong takes Best First Book Prize for South East Asia and the South Pacific in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009

ARTSPACE is pleased to announce Robyn Pickens as the recipient of our 2009 Curatorial Internship. Robyn was awarded this coveted learning position out of an impressive range of talented applicants.

Nine works by bronze sculptor Megan Ransom will feature in Voyeur, an exhibition aimed at Wellington’s alternative and artistic communities, opening at S & M's Cocktail Bar in Cuba Street on 27 March

If you are a post-secondary Mäori student studying in the arts then Te Waka Toi want to hear from you by the end of March 2009

Te Uhi a Mataora – Toi Maori Aotearoa, a collective of the country’s top Maori Ta Moko Artists, to display their talent and skills at this years WOMAD festival

Artstation’s exhibition Language People will share stories from the Pacific culture as part of Celebrate Pasifika this month. The mixed media exhibition explores the nature of verbal and visual language through painting, video installation and cartooning.

Celebrated Māori musician Whirimako Black is the winner of the Best Jazz Album for 2008.

Creative New Zealand has conditionally offered $125,000 to Downstage Theatre Trust (of $250,000 sought) to support its programme over the period 1 July to 31 December 2009.

My Brilliant Divorce, a wittily observant, achingly funny and heart-wrenchingly real one-woman tour de force.

When plastic tiki replace pounamu pendants and tekoteko panels are made out of computer keyboards, can these objects retain their cultural integrity? Is synthetic still authentic?

Modern, sexy, sassy, fun – The NBR New Zealand Opera’s daring new production of The Italian Girl in Algiers, opening in May, is opera as you have most likely never seen it before.

Children’s Book Awards Reveal Major New Talent

Emerging authors and illustrators battle it out with our long-time writing heroes in the nation’s most prestigious children’s book awards this year.

Announced today, the finalists in the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults include names loved by generations of Kiwis including Joy Cowley, Maurice Gee and Jack Lasenby. Alongside them are some exciting new talent in New Zealand children’s literature, admired by the judges for their humour and creativity.

Le Folauga: the past coming forward is the first contemporary Pacific art exhibition from Aotearoa/New Zealand to be shown in a major fine arts museum in Asia. Opening at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan on 13 December 2008, the exhibition will run through until 5 April 2009

Creative New Zealand in partnership with the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) is calling for project proposals to the 2009-2011 Smash Palace Fund. The Smash Palace Fund is designed to support collaborative projects between New Zealand artists and scientists

New Zealand-based Pacific writers wishing to work on a project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history are invited to apply to the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency. The residency will run for three months from mid August 2009 at the Centre for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaii

This year Creative New Zealand has initiated a national research project that will look at the health of Māori heritage arts.

A residency opportunity of up to two months for young professionals in artistic/creative fields including video, film, visual art or computer music is being offered as part of the JENESYS Programme, administered by the Japan Foundation in partnership with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.