Short film 'The Six Dollar Fifty Man' has taken out the top prize at Flickerfest 2010 in Australia, which qualifies the film for consideration for the 2011 Academy Awards.

The 2010 Summer Sounds series begins on Saturday, 23 January at Coyle Park in Auckland. New Zealand funk-rock band, Dimmer, will take to the stage along with University of Auckland Songwriter in residence, LA Mitchell, songwriter and producer SJD, and up-and-coming electro-synth pop band Computers Want Me Dead.

The One Love outdoor summer music festival in Wellington on Waitangi Day has an emphasis on unity within diversity, summer fun and a keen expression of our unique contemporary cultural identity as citizens of Aotearoa.

End Of The Road opens on Thursday 28th January from 6pm at Cross Street Studios; it is the last exhibition to be hosted at the gallery space on Cross Street, near Auckland’s K’rd.

With her distinctive dream-like quality and meticulous attention to detail, Harmony Gaw takes us on a symbolic journey of her reflections of growing up in Taranaki, and where she now resides in Central Otago.

First Thursdays is an arts organisation and a community-conscious collaboration of artisans and art lovers whose ultimate goal is to showcase new and exciting talent in the fields of visual arts, music and performance.

Join Garry Trotter and his chums from Sheepforts School of Wizardry, Wichcraft and Agricultural Technology to solve magical mysteries, meet mythical beasts and bring the cows in for evening milking.

A new piece of physical theatre devised from an original script, Buffoon's Birthday is a quirky, funny, deranged vision of a birthday turned upside down.

Michael Houlihan has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.