Te Papa is bringing this special celebratory period to all people of Aotearoa New Zealand with an 18-day Matariki Festival.

Kate De Goldi has been awarded the $100,000 CNZ Michael King Writers’ Fellowship to research and write a non-fiction book about children’s literature.

The play is so clever, intriguing and well produced, it is more like a satisfying, even uplifting, thriller than a depressing tale of dysfunctional relationships, which it is as well.

In Goldenage, at TheNewDowse, artist Andrea du Chatenier has created a futuristic vision of a world where beauty is everything - and retail is the one and true therapy.

Home by Christmas has been selected for a further three international film festivals – the Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and the Shanghai Film Festival.

The NZ Film Archive and the National Film Preservation Foundation are working together to preserve and make available a collection of 75 American films that no longer survive in the US.

The first ever New Zealand Art n Tartan Wearable Art Awards will be held at the Waipu Coronation Hall, south of Whangarei, on July 3.

The cold weather has arrived in Christchurch but the sixth Lyttelton Harbour Festival of Lights, from 18 to 27 June, is sure to put some sparkle and some warmth into winter.

Walters Prize nominee Alex Monteith and artist Natalie Robertson’s work ‘A mohia Te Mauri – Carrying the Legacy’ commemorates c company Maori battalion at the Corban Estate Arts Centre.

Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor has received a knighthood for service to film in this year’s Queens Birthday Honours. Poet Sam Hunt, theatre director Colin McColl and writer Ian Wedde were among the other creative New Zealanders honoured.

This exhibition at Lake House Arts Centre in Takapuna showcases Kapa Haka as it has not been portrayed before - up close and personal.