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Terry Urbahn returns to his hometown of New Plymouth and to the legendary and dilapidated White Hart Hotel in his installation, The Sacred Hart, featuring at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery until 2 March.

Playwright and author David Geary, the 2008 recipient of the Victoria University Creative New Zealand writer-in-residence programme, will be working on a play based on Mark Twain's 1895 lecture tour of New Zealand.

Wellington composer Samuel Holloway continued New Zealand's outstanding record when he won the 2007 Asian Composers League Young Composer's Competition in Hong Kong with his piano trio Stapes. New Zealand composers have won the competition five times since 1998.

Three of New Zealand‘s most celebrated writers - Dick Scott, Bill Manhire and Fiona Farrell were honoured at the 2007 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement at Premier House in Wellington on Tuesday 18 September.

A documentary on the life and work of Wanganui painter Edith Collier, A Light Among Shadows, has received an enthusiastic response from film-goers and played to sold-out houses at the 2007 New Zealand International Film Festival.

New works for gamelan by New Zealand composers attracted a large, responsive audience when they were performed by Wellington gamelan musicians at the 12th Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival in Indonesia in July.

The three recipients of the annual Edwin Carr Scholarship - Dylan Lardelli, Robin Toan and Lissa Meridan - are all overseas undertaking composition studies and building networks with international composers and performers.

A survey of Laurence Aberhart's work, including 235 full-page reproductions of his iconic photographs, is provided in Aberhart, published by Victoria University Press in partnership with City Gallery Wellington and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.