Manurewa’s Nathan Homestead presents an exciting exhibition that combines art and craft from talented tutors and students, and features a unique, interactive art opening.

The three finalists for the 2009 SOUNZ Contemporary Award are - My Name is Mok Bhon by Jack Body, Symphony III by Ross Harris and Volti by Michael Norris.

Kyle Sattler Paintings at Satellite Gallery in Auckland is a fresh and relevant exhibition by a talented artist working in a unique vernacular.

Enjoy presents Too Orangey for Crows, an exhibition of new work by British artist James R Ford. As part of the show, A Tweet a Day, 2009-2021, will continue an 11 year word-for-word reading of a childhood book through Twitter.

Creative New Zealand mourns the loss of iconic New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925–2009).  The author of numerous poetry collections and works of fiction from the mid-twentieth century onwards, his work is amongst those writers that characterise the rise of a New Zealand literary tradition.

Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 18 has been translated into te reo Maori and was unveiled at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London on August 19.

Celebrating what she describes as ‘learning how to talk tree’, Luise Fong came out of the McCahon House artist-in-residence concerned that urbanised New Zealanders are wilfully neglecting their surroundings.

Toa Fraser will use the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency to write his second draft of the screenplay for a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Beach at Falesá.

In anticipation of the Reel Brazil Film Festival in November this year, the Film Archive, Arariboia Cine (Brazil) and the Reel Brazil team have put together a series of short films and documentaries that celebrate Brazilian Rhythms.

Live at Six is a newsroom thriller, examining the intense rivalry between New Zealand’s two major television news programmes.

Ludwig van Beethoven is one of today’s best-loved and most popular Classical composers. Not only his music, but also his fascinating life has inspired movies and documentaries such as Immortal Beloved and In Search of Beethoven. On Saturday 22 August, Manukau Symphony Orhestra presents an all-Beethoven programme at the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre in Manukau.