Inclusive dance company Jolt will be joining the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra on stage in a performance of Max Richter’s The Seasons, a reimagination of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. Keep Reading
Arts Access Aotearoa wishes to contract a specialist who can empower the Auckland community art sector’s creative spaces. Creative spaces are inclusive arts organisations in the community/not for profit sector that provide the place and facility for people with limited access (due to disability or circumstance) to have access to and... Keep Reading
The response from creative spaces throughout New Zealand to the Government’s $18 million fund for creative spaces has been “overwhelmingly positive”, says Hannah Dahlke, one of two funding advisors at Arts Access Aotearoa. Keep Reading
Auckland creative space Circability will host Aotearoa’s first Youth Circus Festival in early May and hopes it will become an annual event. The festival is aimed at young people aged 12 to 24 years and will be held during Youth Week 2021. Keep Reading
Artists and practitioners interested in social justice and working with women in the justice system are invited to apply for a place in the Home Ground artist training hui, to be held in Wellington on 21 and 22 May. Keep Reading
Hamilton theatre company Equal Voices Arts is featured on the latest episode of UK podcast The Green Room. The Green Room is an accessible video podcast series celebrating the work and telling the stories of Deaf, disabled, or neurodiverse artists and their allies in the performing arts. Keep Reading
"I do artwork instead of use drugs all day," says one of the participants at Christchurch creative space Art-East. Others say it was lifesaving, and helped them feel supported, understood and less alone. Keep Reading
An award-winning play, Up Down Girl, the story of a young woman with Down syndrome leaving home for the first time, will open at Wellington’s Circa Theatre on 20 April after a sell-out season in Palmerston North in 2020. Keep Reading
Tim Bray Theatre Company celebrates its thirtieth birthday with a large-scale Auckland regional tour of their acclaimed adaptation of A Lion in the Meadow and Other Stories. The 2021 tour is the largest in the company’s history. Keep Reading
Collaborations with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, a three-day residency with two secondary schools, and performances in the community are among the projects marking Christchurch creative space Jolt’s twentieth anniversary celebrations. Keep Reading
For the first time, a Deaf/hearing arts company showcased its work at the Performing Arts Network New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market 2021. The company, Equal Voices Arts, pitched its new work, Where Our Shadows Meet, at the market, held online because of COVID-19. Keep Reading
“Funding creative spaces will support new jobs and expand existing roles to help build a more sustainable sector and skilled workforce,” said Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni, in a media release announcing the $18 million fund over three years to support creative spaces. Keep Reading
Family, friends, children, sunshine, love, happiness and exercise are the seven nouns one woman used in a painting of her body to describe the things that give meaning and joy to her life. Keep Reading
Talofa Lava everyone. At the moment, the Arts in Corrections sector is reliant on champions – people who uphold the arts and understand their value in supporting rehabilitation and reintegration into the community on release. Keep Reading
The weaving roopū at Whanganui Prison is learning through te ao Māori the responsibility of both parents to keep babies safe while sleeping. Keep Reading
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