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Ten Auckland tertiary students exhibit 'Make/Shift'

Ten Auckland tertiary students exhibit 'Make/Shift'

On the cusp of a new decade, a group of senior-level art students demonstrate what it means to create art in an environment no longer bound by rigid geographical notions of place. A large-scale multim

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Opportunity to act in an all Samoan feature film

Celebrated Samoan actor Nathaniel Lees is looking for three or four major characters to take over to Samoa for a film written and will be directed by Tauti Tusi Tamasese. Lees is associate producer fo

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Albert Wendt Reads from his Award Winning Novel at Books and Writers Festival

Albert Wendt Reads from his Award Winning Novel at Books and Writers Festival

Much-lauded Pacific writer and poet Albert Wendt will read from his award-winning novel in verse, The Adventures of Vela, at the Going West Books & Writers festival at Waitakere City’s Titirangi

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Art and geology in Sheyne Tuffery's new 'Tectonic Plates' exhibition

Art and geology in Sheyne Tuffery's new 'Tectonic Plates' exhibition

Wellington based multi-media visual artist Sheyne Tuffery, best known for the dynamic style of his prints and woodcuts, is exhibiting Tectonic Plates at Wellington’s Solander Gallery (218 Willis Str

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Last Few Days for Pacific Urban Art Exhibition

Last Few Days for Pacific Urban Art Exhibition

Niu Pasifik is an exhibition of contemporary art from New Zealand and the Pacific Rim from the personal collection of curator and educator Giles Peterson. It features multi-media work including graph

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Manukau Celebrates the Opening of a New Arts Facility

Manukau Celebrates the Opening of a New Arts Facility

Manukau’s much-anticipated new arts facility, Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, will officially open on Friday 3 September 2010. The opening will be followed by a full weekend of celebrati

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“Paperskin” exhibition celebrates tapa from across the Pacific

“Paperskin” exhibition celebrates tapa from across the Pacific

The Paperskin: the art of tapa cloth exhibition at Te Papa is an invitation to celebrate the breathtaking visual sophistication and richness of Pacific tapa. From dramatic and ornate four-metre-high c

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Okaioceanikart Exhibition Celebrates Three Female Artists

Okaioceanikart Exhibition Celebrates Three Female Artists

The spirited work of three Pacific female artists is to be exhibited for a month at Auckland’s Okaioceanikart Gallery and then at the Calder and Lawson Gallery in Hamilton. The Flora Koloa Kapkap ex

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Louise Tu’u’s 'Le Tauvaga': a Playreading not to be Missed

Le Tauvaga (The Competition) by Louise Tu'u is a warm and funny play written for Pacific Island teenagers who call New Zealand home. Shunning traditional theatre, the play has already been performed i

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John Pule’s 'Hauaga': Landmark Exhibition by a Pacific Artist

John Pule’s 'Hauaga': Landmark Exhibition by a Pacific Artist

John Pule’s Hauaga (Arrivals) exhibition at Wellington’s City Gallery has been described by critics as a “landmark survey of work by a contemporary Pacific artist”. The exhibition shows Pule

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