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Biting the Big Apple
by Ila Couch in New York City
Biting the Big Apple: With a self-professed love of waste, Auckland artist Brydee Rood took her work to a New York festival which questions our culture of consumption. Ila Couch talks to Rood about her impressions of a city where even the smallest purchase comes with a plastic bag.
Date02 November 2009
Biting the Big Apple: Ila Couch takes the Lomo LC-A for a test drive around the streets of New York City and rediscovers her love of analog photography.
Date21 October 2009
Right Brained Web
Simon Young on social media strategy
What can Murray Hewitt (of Flight of the Conchords) teach us about marketing, social media and common sense?
Date01 September 2010
For some, leadership is something we seek. For others, it's a necessity to achieve the vision we have. Either way, we need to know about leadership in the 21st century. Simon Young calls it Ragtag Leadership.
Date17 August 2010
Sets and The City
by James Hadley in London
Investigating foreshadowings of the financial recession may be timely, but the stuff of great theatre? I was sceptical. But the five star reviews which 'Enron' by Lucy Prebble has received were clearly justified.
Date22 February 2010
Jeanne Mordoj is one of those performers with striking stage presence. Perhaps her background as a circus performer helped her to command our attention so. Perhaps the way she makes a self-conscious spectacle of herself as a bearded lady leads to an ambition to keep every eye in the room focussed on her.
Date08 February 2010
TalkWrite
Renee Liang's emerging street artist blog
Renee Liang talks about the difficulty of taking risks in theatre, and interviews Melissa Fergusson about her new play Motherlock.
Date08 September 2010
Renee Liang explains the concept of Metonymy, a collaboration that seeks to “spark new creative connections”, and interviews Metonymy co-organiser Christian Jensen on poetry, being Norwegian and the value of collaboration.
Date26 August 2010
The Creative Collide
Diversity is a complex concept that encompasses thoughts, emotions, experiences, social context, political process, identity and more. Philip Patston calls for a more in-depth dialogue about diversity and offers a creative opportunity for artists to participate.
Date23 August 2010
Philip Patston compares the decision making process of funders and business investors and asks some candid questions...
Date26 July 2010
