Folk Tui finalist and ‘country sweetheart’ Mel Parsons presents a three-night series of intimate shows at BATS Theatre in Wellington for NZ Music Month in May.

Toi Maori Aotearoa is proud to announce an exciting line-up of Maori musicians to play at Pao Pao Pao 2010 during NZ Music Month.

The focus at this year’s Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is on lives -  the well-lived and the well-read. It's about the stories we hope will live on (whatever the format), stories that deserve a life of their own, and the people who strive to give them life.

Big World is the newly recorded third album from singer/songwriter Tim Guy. To celebrate the release, the band will give a one-off performance of the album in its entirety, with each track accompanied by original footage.

Comedians are banding together for a late addition to the 2010 NZ International Comedy Festival “Benjamin vs. The Volcano!” Benjamin Crellin was forced to cancel his show after Iceland’s volcano caused his flight to be cancelled.

Christchurch Art Gallery are launching Sign Language Tours for the Deaf community to coincide with New Zealand Sign Language Week on 2-8 May.

The New Zealand Film Commission has announced the twelve film maker teams selected to attend the Escalator Low Budget Feature Film boot camp in June.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will mark composer Fryderyk Chopin’s 200th anniversary with an evening of sweeping Polish classical music on 29 April in Wellington.

The Designers Institute of New Zealand says it is essential that the ATA engages a professional design agency to ensure that the new Super City logo is developed as a “sophisticated, contemporary and effective” visual identity and subsequent brand for the city.

Jenny Baker is raising funds for YearoutIndia with two exhibitions of photos taken in India last year.

This month Te Tuhi adds to its track record of ambitious installments with Wall of Sound, an exhibition consisting entirely of large-scale sound projects by local and international artists.

Auckland artist Ruth Thomas-Edmond will contribute to Te Tuhi’s Drawing Wall project with a sculptural installment which utilises both the wall and floor surfaces.

Celebrating the achievements of one of the most illustrious alumni of the School of Architecture at The University of Auckland, this exhibition reveals Sir Miles Warren’s substantial contribution to modernism in New Zealand.

Meccano Man: Laconic Constructions by John Lyall is at Objectspace, Auckland until July 3.

No fewer than three high-class soloists will grace the stage of the Captaine Bougaineville theatre accompanied by the Northland Sinfonia on the 16th May 2010.

Wellington five piece ‘future folk’ band, Urban Tramper, plays the May session of Late Lounge on Thursday 6th May.  

Capital E National Theatre for Children is putting on two signed performances of its production, The Farm at the End of Road, for New Zealand Sign Language Week running from 2 to 8 May.

An exhibition at Solander showcases two suites of paintings featuring Kathryn Madill's signature rich, allegorical imagery  - 'The Red Forest' and 'Time is Bleeding'.

The winning Auckland Super City logo was designed by retired commercial artist Jim Dean.

Auckland’s popular urban oasis, St Patrick’s Square, has won the George Malcolm Supreme Award at the 2010 New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Awards.

Finalists for the Walters Prize contemporary art award have been announced.

An artist’s initiative will see an under-utilised reserve in Otara transformed into an edible orchard, the fruits of which will be readily available for the local community to harvest and consume.

They’ve all been there, done that and got the (coveted) towel; and now they’re coming back for a celebrated evening highlighting the best talent New Zealand has offered to the rest of the world. It’s The Best Of The Billys.