Our work | International
The role of the International team is to position the best of Aotearoa New Zealand arts and artists internationally, and to work with key partners to have enduring impacts in target markets for the benefit of the people working in the arts industry in this country.- Creative NZ invites you to an open panel discussion on 3 March 2008 with International Festival Directors on "Creating a Festival Programme".
- This March Creative New Zealand, in partnership with the New Zealand International Arts Festival, is bringing UK specialist Gary McKeone to New Zealand to give two workshops about Literature in the UK to the New Zealand Literary community
- Rotorua artist, June Grant (Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tuhourangi, Ngati Whaio) has been selected to undertake a two and a half month artist’s residency at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
- Creative New Zealand is developing its priorities around investment in international market development for the visual arts. These priorities will inform its Strategic Plan and investment decisions for 2007 to 2010 and beyond.
- Wellington author Damien Wilkins has been awarded the $100,000 inaugural New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize, announced by the New Zealand Post Group and the Katherine Mansfield Menton Trust.
- Lower Hutt sculptor/carver Barry Te Whatu (Taranaki) was one of two international and six Japanese artists invited to participate in the 11th Nasunogahara International Sculpture Symposium 2007, held every year in the Japanese city of Ohtawara.
- Denver, Colarado is a long way from Ohope Beach, Whakatane. One of seven international artists invited to participate in the inaugural exhibition of the dynamic new Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, New Zealand artist Rangi Kipa is bringing a piece of Aotearoa to Colorado.
- Acclaimed New Zealand writer Patricia Grace was selected as the 2008 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, announced at a ceremony at the University of Oklahoma in the United States in October 2007.
