Stories by
Erin Harrington
Erin Harrington edits Flat City Field Notes (est. 2021), a blog about arts and culture in and around Ōtautahi Christchurch. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury. Her academic work on film, especially horror media, has been featured everywhere from community radio to BBC Culture and the New York Times, and her arts and theatre writing has appeared in publications across Aotearoa.
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‘A bit of sizzle, and not a lot of steak’: The Great Big Arts Debate
Six political candidates answered complex, multi-pronged questions and fluffy queries in front of a community that is frustrated, and sick of being under-estimated and under-funded in Ōtautahi on Monday. -
If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding
Under austerity, funding decisions are especially consequential, so it’s concerning that South Island orgs received less than 10% of the funding offered in the highest AOG tiers.