TBI Q&A: WOMAD NZ Programme Director Emere Wano originally became involved in the festival to ensure Maori culture was an integral part the event. She talks about how her role has grown since then, and what keeps her involved.

“It connects music, language and culture in such a beautiful way and in such a beautiful environment.”

WOMAD NZ 2010 is on at New Plymouth’s Brooklands Park and TSB Bowl from 12-14 March.

How Freelancers Can Succeed: Ande Schurr recommends three prerequisites to making a long term plan that will lift you towards your goals.

The Creative Collide: Philip Patston reflects on the state of education and the place of creativity, and asks for your ideas.

Inside: Work - A Marketing and Publicity Coordinator for SCAPE 2010 Christchurch Biennial and a Youth Arts Coordinator for Auckland Theatre Company are some of the latest jobs in the creative sector on The Big Idea.

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  • New Zealand's biggest Pacific event, Pasifika Festival, is expanding for 2010, with new events and new locations.

  • A visitor experiencing Fragrant Earth.

    Raewyn Turner has created a fragrant paddock as an Environmental Art Project for Art in the Woolshed at Tawharanui Regional Park.

  • The New Zealand Society of Authors has strong reservations about the proposed merger of Archives New Zealand and the National Library into the Department of Internal Affairs.

  • Collaborating at a distance has been a new experience for leading New Zealand chamber music ensemble NZTrio.

  • Watch the video highlights from The Learning Connexion Festival of Art and Creativity, held on March 6.

  • A hilarious and vibrant day in the life of Faz and his feeble-minded assistant Twoo who discover that their lives have become staid and listless, so create a wondrous, all-consuming and contagious device-of-life to reinject the jizz and zoom back into their daily routine.

  • Tiffany Singh What Colour is the Sacred? (detail), 2010.

    Tiffany Singh will transform the MIC Toi Rerehiko Gallery into a neutral space for exchange, dialogue and debate in her exhibition Union.

  • Séraphine Pick, Girl (with offered eyes) 2004. Private collection, Auckland. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.

    Work by three distinctly different artists share the bill for City Gallery Wellington’s contribution to the New Zealand International Arts Festival.

  • How to be a Domestic Goddess won Best in Dance at the 2010 Fringe Awards

    The Fringe Festival in Wellington held its closing party and awards on March 7, blowing out the candles on its 20th birthday festival celebrations.

  • Battered explores the difference in our public personas versus the private: what a mayoral candidate and his wife will hide and what they will reveal - whether they mean to or not.

  • {lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery in Dunedin opens only at night - when the sky is dark. Work is viewed only by candlelight.

  • The NZ International Comedy Festival has assembled some of the best talents locally and internationally to present a Kids’ Comedy Season that is both kid-friendly and at the same time a lot of fun.

  • Further to our Crossing Wires installation/lab, we're hosting a discussion on Multisensory Perception -
    on YASMIN Arts Science Mediterranean International Network in March 2010.

  • Marty Jestin has set up his own studio creating his signature style of contemporary jewellery and wearable art.

    Using a wide range of recycled and found objects in his pieces, contemporary jeweller Marty Jestin's aim is to encourage an alternative way of communicating through art.

  • As part of the Battle of Kororareka celebrations, Russell Museum and John Osborne DDT, FSG Commandant NZACFRS Inc. will conduct live firings of four cannons from the Russell foreshore.

TBI Q&A

  • WOMAD NZ Programme Director Emere Wano.

    WOMAD NZ Programme Director Emere Wano originally became involved in the festival to ensure Maori culture was an integral part the event. She talks about how her role has grown since then, and what keeps her involved.

    “It connects music, language and culture in such a beautiful way and in such a beautiful environment.”

Blogs

  • Old fashioned typewriter with screen and TBI logo

    This time on The Creative Collide, Philip Patston reflects on the state of education and the place of creativity.

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    The Creative Collide

Latest from GROW

  • A snapshot from Creative New Zealand's 21st Century Arts Conference

    Creative New Zealand has published a discussion paper to generate dialogue and feedback on proposals for its funding model for recurrently funded organisations (RFOs).

    From:
    Tips and News
  • Objectspace's Best In Show 2010 will feature 17 contemporary design, craft and object graduates from around New Zealand.

    From:
    Tips and News
  • New Plymouth will be bursting at the seams this week with some of New Zealand’s most celebrated and exciting musicians performing at the inaugural Sounds Aotearoa.

    From:
    Tips and News

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Enterprise News

  • In the latest instalment of How Freelancers Can Succeed, Ande Schurr recommends three prerequisites to making a long term plan that will lift you towards your goals.

  • Chiradina Cerweny

    Inside: The Big Idea Community is a focus on members of our community with great profiles.

  • Holiday Architecture Classes

    A Marketing and Publicity Coordinator for SCAPE 2010 Christchurch Biennial and a Youth Arts Coordinator for Auckland Theatre Company are some of the latest jobs in the creative sector on The Big Idea.

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