From an electric bass concerto to an Indonesian vocalist, the 16th session of NZSO-SOUNZ Readings features an amazingly wide spectrum of New Zealand music.

NZ entries in the 2009 Venice Biennale are coming back to New Zealand next year to be exhibited at Te Papa.

A specific and very delicate curiosity is about to stake itself out within The Physics Room thanks to the patient and persistent hand of Zina Swanson.

Raewyn Hill and Dancers will premiere a new contemporary dance work, Finders Keepers, on Tuesday April 28 at the Festival of Colour in Wanaka, supported by New Work funding from Creative New Zealand.

BRYN TERFEL, one of the greatest singers in the world today, has confirmed a four concert tour of New Zealand in June, his only destination in the Southern Hemisphere.

Fresh Horizons Out West is a three-day workshop for 30 nominated students from secondary schools in Waitakere city.

Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery designer Josephine Hughes has won the prestigious Clark Collection / Creative NZ Scholarship.

Readers, writers, groups and organisations are invited to nominate outstanding New Zealand writers in the three genres of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2009.
 

Visual artist Sara Hughes, the recipient of the 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, opened her exhibition Feedback Runaway at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien.

New Zealand's largest film competition the 'V' Energy 48HOURS: Furious Filmmaking will be highly visible on cinema screens and television screens this year.

They’re coming from Karachi, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Edinburgh, Wellington, Baltimore, Washington, London, Levin, Melbourne, Timaru and just up the road: the 2009 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is set to go off with a global bang from 13 to 17 May.

The Magma Short Film Festival is BACK in Rotorua’s Shambles Theatre this month.

Applications are now open for the AMP Scholarship Programme, established in 1998. Previous recipients range from glass artists and scientists to ballet dancers and actors.

Renowned story teller and Encounter Ritual Expert Joe Harawira, has been
invited to perform at the American Natural History Museum in New York.

MIC Toi Rerehiko in collaboration with the 2009 New Zealand International Film Festivals is pleased to announce a call for submissions for Homegrown, New Zealand’s première showcase for local short films, video and animation.

Brand new research on New Zealanders arts attitudes, attendance and participation.

ARTS ARE PART OF LIFE FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

New Zealanders and the arts: Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2008, Ngā iwi katoa ō Aotearoa me ngā mahi toi: he tirohanga āhua, rātou I tae atu, rātou I whai waahi I roto I te tau 2008

World Cinema Showcase taking place in Wellington & Auckland

The World Cinema Showcase is on in Wellington and Auckland this month of April. The best 'arthouse' films of the past year, including Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class will be gracing the screens of The Paramount (Wellington) and Academy (Auckland) cinemas

The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui is proud to launch the new online home for New Zealand's creative community.

New Zealand opera star Wendy Dawn Thompson – now a major name overseas – returns to New Zealand in May to cast aside her usual “witches, bitches and britches” roles for that of Isabella, the feisty heroine in Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers.

First show of three in the series Pick of the Fringe at Downstage Theatre.