Pacific Starmap » Literature http://www.pacificstarmap.com LIGHTING THE WAY FOR PACIFIC ARTISTS Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:13:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Albert Wendt Reads from his Award Winning Novel at Books and Writers Festival http://www.pacificstarmap.com/albert-wendt-reads-from-his-award-winning-novel-at-books-and-writers-festival http://www.pacificstarmap.com/albert-wendt-reads-from-his-award-winning-novel-at-books-and-writers-festival#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:33:37 +0000 admin http://www.pacificstarmap.com/?p=2452

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…

]]> http://www.pacificstarmap.com/albert-wendt-reads-from-his-award-winning-novel-at-books-and-writers-festival/feed 0 Manukau Celebrates the Opening of a New Arts Facility http://www.pacificstarmap.com/manukau-celebrates-the-opening-of-a-new-arts-facility http://www.pacificstarmap.com/manukau-celebrates-the-opening-of-a-new-arts-facility#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:17:29 +0000 admin http://www.pacificstarmap.com/?p=2431

Manukau’s much-anticipated new arts facility, Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, will officially open on Friday 3 September 2010. The opening…

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Creative New Zealand’s third review of its Recurrently Funded Organisations (RFOs) is recommending that two feasibility studies be undertaken in the next year.…

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Playwright and documentary director, Makerita Urale, has been awarded the 2010 Fullbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency at the University of Hawai’i. She…

]]> http://www.pacificstarmap.com/prestigious-award-for-makerita-urale/feed 0 Selina Tusitala Marsh Wins National Poetry Award with ‘Fast-talking PI’ http://www.pacificstarmap.com/selina-tusitala-marsh-wins-national-poetry-award-with-fast-talking-pi http://www.pacificstarmap.com/selina-tusitala-marsh-wins-national-poetry-award-with-fast-talking-pi#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:37:20 +0000 admin http://www.pacificstarmap.com/?p=2367

Auckland poet Selina Tusitala Marsh has won the First Book of Poetry prize at the National Poetry Awards. Fast-talking PI is a collection…

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Young artists aged between 15 and 18 years old are urged to participate in Word Up! a free youth event, aiming to support…

]]> http://www.pacificstarmap.com/young-artists-invited-to-perform-at-word-up-2010/feed 0 ARTSpeak PASIFIKA 2010 – Two Day Fono for the Pacific Arts Industry http://www.pacificstarmap.com/artspeak-pasifika-2010-%e2%80%93-two-day-fono-for-the-pacific-arts-industry http://www.pacificstarmap.com/artspeak-pasifika-2010-%e2%80%93-two-day-fono-for-the-pacific-arts-industry#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 00:39:27 +0000 admin http://www.pacificstarmap.com/?p=2345

Creative New Zealand in association with Pasifika Festival presents ARTSpeak Pasifika – a two-day national fono for the Pacific arts industry. Open to…

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Several useful resources about Pasifika art are now available from the New Zealand Film Archive, Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua. These resources…

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Christchurch-based actress, musician, song-writer, playwright and manager of Pacific Underground, Tanya Muagututi’a, is the 2010 Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and Creative…

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A new purpose-built Mangere Arts Centre is being built in South Auckland and is expected to be completed by September 2010. Once completed…

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