As a result of two public meetings held to address the implications for the arts community under the Super City transition, a working group has been formed. Meeting attendees recognised that due to the rapid rate of transition, there is a pressing need for a representative group to act on behalf of the arts during this stage.

Wellington-based composer Jonathan Crehan has won the Classical Marimba League Composition Competition with his work, Bold Spark.

Sumatran musicians, Irwansyah Harahap and Rithaony Hutajulu, who have been in Wellington on a three-month artist residency, will give a farewell concert of new compositions on 30 November.

Judy Millar has been awarded the Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency in New York.

The recent Art for a Cure exhibition and auction has raised $150,000 for breast cancer research.

Bellydancing artist and tutor Ishtar Hathor will take the audience on board for an exotic journey on 13 November, with her show Ancient Gods and Goddesses of the Past presented as a Te Tuhi public programme.

Arthur Meek’s new play 'Collapsing Creation' follows the development of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and the dramatic aftermath of its publication.

Graphica Britannica, at Hawke’s Bay Museum & Art Gallery, brings together a selection of forty-one significant British prints spanning the first half of the twentieth century.

In 2010, for the first time in a single year, Howick Little Theatre is featuring two New Zealand works in its season line-up. Also included are three overseas comedies, two of which will be New Zealand premieres.

UnCommon Company is the first in a series of 'pop-up galleries'.

 TV One’s Good Morning show presenter Steve Gray, will auction a unique contemporary jewellery  collection at The New Dowse on Monday, 23 November 2009.

This opportunity is facilitated by jewellery students from The Learning Connexion (the Hutt Valleys latest learning institution) . It is an initiative to fund specialty tools for the school’s jewellery department.

Pip Hall has been awarded the 2009 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.

If you enjoy attempting to solve murder mysteries, go and see Dolphin Theatre’s final play of the year 'Nightmare'.

A preview of The Julian and Josie Robertson Promised Gift is at Auckland Art Gallery, featuring five works never before seen in New Zealand by Picasso, Braque, Dalí, Derain and Matisse.

New Zealand painter Francis Potter has taken his work and ideas to the other side of the world in Warsaw, Poland.

New Zealand short film Poppy was the big winner at the 2009 Show Me Shorts Awards.