Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand Craft/Object Art practitioners, curators and writers for the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship. The Fellowship was offered annually for its first three years (2004 – 2006) and is now offered biennially.

Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand choreographers for the Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship. The Fellowship was offered for the first time in 2004 and is now offered biennially. This will be the fifth fellowship.

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.

Creative New Zealand is calling for applications for the International Writing Program, University of Iowa Writers’ Residency 2009.

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.