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Musician, festival director joins CPIT
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:57 am | CPIT
Liam Ryan joined CPIT’s Department of Creative Industries as the new Performing Arts Manager this week. He will lead the Jazz School and National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA) degree programmes, CPIT is delighted to announce today. More >>
Lead Your Future breaks through barriers
Friday, 19 July 2013, 3:33 pm | CPIT
CPIT’s Sela Faletolu has broken through barriers to stimulating Maori and Pasifika high school students’ interest and engagement in their education. More >>
Fashion collections on top form
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 3:42 pm | CPIT
In the brand-driven world of fashion, strong imagery is a key to success so CPIT third year fashion design and technology students were delighted to work with one of Christchurch’s best fashion photographers Dave Richards recently. Richards shot ... More >>
Drawing a fine line for Māori Language Week
Friday, 28 June 2013, 3:29 pm | CPIT
The technology may have changed but Tā Moko artist Maia Gibbs is still firmly grounded in the designs of traditional Māori tattoos. Gibbs will demonstrate his Tā Moko skill and cultural expertise next week (1 – 3 July) in a special event for CPIT’s ... More >>
CPIT campus open
Friday, 21 June 2013, 8:46 am | CPIT
Please be advised that all CPIT campuses are currently open. We will be monitoring the situation throughout the day. More >>
More Māori Wanted For Trades Training
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 9:46 am | CPIT
CPIT, Te Rūnanga Ngāi Tahu and Hawkins Construction will host a Māori trades open evening at CPIT’s Trades Innovation Institute on Friday evening [5 April] at 6pm to encourage more Māori to learn the skills they need to contribute to the rebuild ... More >>
No Challenge Is Too Great, Quincey Tells Graduates
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 3:45 pm | CPIT
No challenge is too great – that’s the message that cross-Tasman rower Shaun Quincey plans to give graduates when he speaks at CPIT’s two Autumn Graduation ceremonies on Thursday 28 March. More >>
CPIT Remembers with EQ sculpture Unveiling - Radar, March
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 8:54 am | CPIT
On the Radar this month: • CPIT's earthquake commemoration sculpture 'Song song' is unveiled • TV personality Ben Boyce visits NZBS first year students • The much anticipated ArtBox is launched • Cultural regeneration in the Rakaia Centre More >>
Fashion graduates wow Kuala Lumpur
Friday, 15 March 2013, 12:39 pm | CPIT
CPIT fashion graduates Phoebe Ratcliff-Reid and Melissa McIndoe are “over the moon” after winning first and second prize, with their Malaysian counterparts, in the New Zealand Week fashion competition in Kuala Lumpur last night. More >>
Degustation dinners are in demand
Friday, 15 March 2013, 11:44 am | CPIT
Degustation dinners are in demand Demand is high for CPIT’s degustation dinners with the March series sold out and solid bookings already being taken for six dinners in August. More >>
Fashion graduates wow Kuala Lumpur
Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 5:27 pm | CPIT
CPIT fashion graduates Phoebe Ratcliff-Reid and Melissa McIndoe are “over the moon” after winning first and second prize, with their Malaysian counterparts, in the New Zealand Week fashion competition in Kuala Lumpur last night. More >>
Studio Christchurch takes on the Green Frame
Friday, 8 March 2013, 2:18 pm | CPIT
A Waltham factory hosts an exhibition of models of students’ fresh new design ideas for the Green Frame and Avon Precinct aspects of the Christchurch Central Development Unit (CCDU) blueprint this Sunday 10 March, 11am to 4pm. It’s a typical post-earthquake ... More >>
Ellerslie entrants take it to the rooftops
Monday, 4 March 2013, 4:42 pm | CPIT
They’re approaching the Emerging Designs competition at Ellerslie International Flower Show from a different angle, but CPIT Architectural Studies students are confident their rooftop garden designs will impresses the judges tomorrow. More >>
NASDA performers promote safe partying
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 4:49 pm | CPIT
CPIT performing arts graduates are using the skills they’ve honed over three years of training to show teenagers how to stay safe while partying. More >>
Rebuilding Christchurch’s Arts
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 3:28 pm | CPIT
ArtBox organisers at CPIT are expecting a large turnout tomorrow evening [Wednesday 27 February] for the official launch of an initiative that has already gained widespread awareness and appreciation in Christchurch. More >>
Life in China on show at CPIT
Monday, 25 February 2013, 3:05 pm | CPIT
CPIT launched an eye-opening Chinese photography exhibition in the Rakaia Atrium today in association with the Chinese Consulate General for the People’s Republic of China in Christchurch. More >>
Scholarships pay homage to nurse’s dreams
Friday, 22 February 2013, 10:33 am | CPIT
Japanese student Rika Hyuga was committed to practising nursing in New Zealand. Now a fund established in her name by her parents will ensure that others with similar passion for nursing have the opportunity to follow their dreams. More >>
EQ Memorial To Strike Many Chords
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 9:54 am | CPIT
CPIT’s earthquake commemoration artwork, to be unveiled at the Madras St Campus on Friday 22 February, will be a “listening chamber for interaction and reflection” according to artists Chris Reddington and Stuart Lloyd-Harris. More >>
CPIT Nursing study on earthquake response highly commended
Monday, 18 February 2013, 4:31 pm | CPIT
National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, AKO Aotearoa has highly commended a study of CPIT staff responses to the February 2011 earthquake. More >>
Sweet outcome for pastry coach
Thursday, 14 February 2013, 2:36 pm | CPIT
Hundreds of voluntary hours spent preparing for events like the World Junior Pastry Championship are gaining international recognition for New Zealand’s pastry industry. They look far too good to eat – if you knew where to start. More >>