2009 Māori Art Market

UPDATE - Call for entry to Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti

Updated coverage on New Zealand's Venice Biennale representation

Downstage Director Hilary Beaton will be holding an open forum at the Hannah Playhouse, Courtenay Place on Saturday 20 June from 2.30 – 4 pm.

Two New Zealand short films screened in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival this year, with The Six Dollar Fifty Man, directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, being awarded a Special Distinction.

Auckland video artist Janet Lilo is the latest New Zealander chosen to be a resident artist in Sapporo, Japan, under the JENESYS residency programme.
In her first video blog, she talks about dust masks, the playground, the S-Air programme, her flat & introduces the other artists she is working with.

You can check out her video blog here.

The 2009 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was recently featured in the New Yorker Magazine. Reporter Judith Thurman was welcomed to New Zealand and the Festival.

Here is a link to the article she wrote, describing the experience.

15 New Zealand cities and towns will this year host the annual International Film Festival which for the first time will relinquish its various regional names to be called the New Zealand International Film Festival.

On May 29 2009, The Forge at The Court Theatre presents the powerful and provocative story of a peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip in the New Zealand première of My Name Is Rachel Corrie.

New Zealand Post Book Awards announced

Auckland Theatre Company is looking for talented boys to play Oliver, the Artful Dodger and Fagin’s Gang in their end of year musical OLIVER!

Intersect, a nationwide network of Young Leaders in Sustainability, is calling for young New Zealand artists (aged 18-25) to create artwork that explores ideas around water and cultural diversity.

Jon Puka (Tokelau Islands) has been appointed to the Pacific Arts Committee.

Music lovers can now tender for their own unique work created by one of five New Zealand composers.

Celia Dunlop collection of New Zealand 250 works by 121 artists at The New Dowse

Flying Solo is an exhibition drawn from private collections within the Wellington region, featuring 18 large-scale John Walsh paintings alongside a number of his smaller works.

An exhibition at the Galerie Impaire in Paris, featuring the work of thirteen New Zealand artists and photographers, is causing a stir among the city’s "art brut" (self-taught art/outsider art) community.

Amateur photographers are invited to submit up to three photos in the Pacific Island Heritage in Focus international photo contest. Entries will be formally displayed and shots that best represent the theme will be published in a Pacific Island Heritage 2010 Calendar. The contest is part of the Pacific Island Archaeology in the 21st Century: Relevance and Engagement conference to be held in Palau from July 1-3, 2009.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Performance works from Pacific artists will bring a vibrant vibe to the Galatos stage this Friday, for the opening night of the Auckland Fringe Festival

Two Screen Innovation Production funded films, An Ordinary Person and Shustak have received awards at the recent DOCNZ film competition

The shortlists for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and Best First Book were announced on the 18 February in London. Three New Zealand writers are amongst those shortlisted

ARTSPACE, The Physics Room and Enjoy Public Art Gallery and RVCA are pleased to announce the recipients of the People¹s Choice Award 2008/2009.

For the past two years a passionate team of theatre practitioners have been creating edgy, challenging and dynamic theatre. In its 2009 season, The Forge at The Court Theatre continues to proudly present a line-up of contemporary theatre that will challenge, stimulate and entertain audiences

Tuesday 24 March
10am to 2pm at Toi Poneke Wellington Arts Centre

Promotion and getting your message across - how are you communicating what you do and the benefits of dance to your target clients and audience?

Workshop Hui for community arts

Wellington

8-9 April 09
(Wed 9am-Thurs 1pm)
Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Island Bay

Auckland

6-7 April 09
(Mon 9am –Tue 1pm)

Te Piringatahi o te Maungaarongo Marae 

Information sheet about the workshop

Jeffry Feeger has been announced as the successful recipient of the inaugural Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust and Pacific Cooperation Foundation Artist Residency 2009

Legendary choreographer and soloist Susanne Linke is performing in the Auckland Festival in March. The Goethe Institut, Auckland Festival, DANZ and TAPAC are providing two more opportunities with her in Auckland.
 

Six Screen Innovation Production Fund films have been selected for DOCNZ International Film Festival

Encouraging creativity, skill and innovation in contemporary glass.

Visit www.ranamok.com or call 8248 1267 for entry forms and further information.

Bravery and fame have many resting places
Taki Rua Productions' Strange Resting Places brings stories of humanity and survival from the Māori Battalion in Italy to Downstage
 

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 2009

Auckland-based Richard Francis (aka Eso Steel) has been active as a musician since the mid-90’s. His sound work is dominated by an interest in recording, manipulating and combining acoustic and electronic sounds from a variety of sources. In live performance Francis uses acoustic objects, microphones, a modular synthesizer and a computer to create textural and tonal sound works.

The New Zealand International Arts Festival announced today that it has a new executive director, Sue Paterson. 

Street art spreads through the galleries, walls and courtyard of TheNewDowse in Common Ground, a collaborative exhibition from Germany’s Via Grafik and NZ’s own Cut Collective.

The Art Studio AMATERAS in Sofia, Bulgaria, is launching a series of international paper art events for exhibition both in Bulgaria and internationally. Calls for entry are currently open, with prizes to be awarded by an international jury.

27 of New Zealand’s most outstanding young musicians will assemble in Nelson on 7^th February for the annual Adam Summer School. 

Sri Lankan Sound Sorcerers meet New Zealand Improvicians

TheNewDowse is calling for proposals for the 5th Gold Award for Jewellers. Applications for this $10,000 award close on 3 April 2009. The winner will be announced in May.

Lisa Chappell and Mike Edward star in The Thirty-Nine Steps, the hilarious whodunit thriller and quick-change comedy adaptation of John Buchan’s classic spy novel which opens Auckland Theatre Company’s 2009 season at the Maidment Theatre on February 12.

The SEEyD Theatre Company returns with Turbine to Downstage Theatre

A one-man-does-all musical extravaganza with 15 instruments, 1 vegetable and so many possibilities!

Entries for the 2009 S³ Pacific Music Awards are now open!

Seresin Estate has highlighted its commitment to the arts and creative endeavour with the development of an annual writer's residency.

The Adastra Foundation is currently inviting applications to the first of their 2009 Elite and Rising Star Awards.

Two writers have been selected for residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport, Auckland, in early 2009.

They are prominent Wellington poet, fiction writer, editor and biographer, Vincent O’Sullivan, and Dunedin writer and poet, David Eggleton.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Writer and former children’s librarian Bill Nagelkerke, Children’s Literature Consultant Rosemary Tisdall, and children’s editor and career bookseller Jenni Keestra, are the three people who have been chosen to judge the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

The Auckland Regional Council (ARC) is giving an artist the opportunity to live and work on a regional park through its Artist in Residence project.

Visual artists and other creators including writers, composers and choreographers are invited to apply.

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand, Principal Sponsor Forsyth Barr, and Freemason’s New Zealand are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Awards. Five artists have each received $25,000 and been recognised for their early achievements at the Awards, held in Christchurch on Monday evening, 24 November.

Two Wellington artists - Wendy Randall of Vincents Art Workshop and Athina Moisa of Pablos Art Studio - are exhibiting their work in Auckland for the first time at a new exhibition at Objectspace from 15 November to 20 December.

New Zealand choreographer, Raewyn Hill, will premiere a new contemporary dance work in the inaugural Asia Pacific Dance Platform, as a part of the 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival in February 2009.

Chart-topping American jazz greats will headline a stunning international line-up of artists planned for the new Wellington Jazz Festival in March 2009.

ARTSPACE appoints new Director

ARTSPACE is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Director, Emma Bugden.

Bugden joins ARTSPACE after two and a half years at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Manukau City, where she is credited with transforming a regional community organisation into a world-class public art gallery and bustling cultural hub.