Read news items from our 2019 archives.
Theatre students from Victoria University of Wellington’s Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) programme presented a season of work—6 Degrees Festival—to the public last week. For the first time, these MFA(CP) works were shown at BATS Theatre.
Hastings District Council has recognised the benefits of engaging more closely with tangata whenua and should be congratulated for taking steps to strengthen its relationships with tangata whenua, says Victoria University of Wellington Te Kawa a Māui Head of School Associate Professor Maria Bargh.
Associate Professor Nikki Hessell recently took part in 'A Hyde-Out in Whanganui', an event to celebrate writer Robin Hyde's connections with Whanganui.
Associate Professor of Art History Roger Blackley’s book Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880–1910 has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 Ernest Scott Prize for History.
For the first time New Zealand is represented on the Executive Board of the International Council for Traditional Music, with the election of Dr Brian Diettrich, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī.
New Zealand composer Salina Fisher will be the Creative New Zealand Composer-in-Residence for 2019 at Victoria University of Wellington’s New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī.
Award-winning fiction writer and essayist Dr Tina Makereti will join Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) in 2020 as co-convenor of the highly regarded Master’s in Creative Writing.
Acclaimed novelist Catherine Robertson has been appointed the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for 2020.
On 5 August, the Centre for Strategic Studies hosted one of the few public addresses ever in New Zealand by a Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
Wai-te-ata Press is known for its expertise in printing with ink but in celebration of World Kindness Day (13 November) they experimented with a more unusual substance—Whittaker’s chocolate. This was part of Porirua-based Whittaker’s promotional campaign for World Kindness Day fronted by the design and advertising agency, The Breakout Room, and art director Duncan Munro.
