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NZ’s largest literary award for Dunedin author
Friday, 15 June 2007, 9:56 am | Creative New Zealand
Dunedin author Neville Peat has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship to write a major work about the Tasman Sea. The Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship is the largest writing fellowship ... More >>
Creative NZ welcomes new Arts Council Chair
Friday, 8 June 2007, 1:02 pm | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand welcomes Alastair Carruthers as the new Chair of its Arts Council. Creative New Zealand Chief Executive Stephen Wainwright said he is delighted that Alastair Carruthers has accepted the position as Chair of the Arts Council. More >>
Edwin Carr Scholarship goes to talented NZ
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 9:48 am | Creative New Zealand
Wellington composer Lissa Meridan is the 2007 recipient of the $26,000 Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship. The annual Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship, administered by Creative New Zealand, supports outstanding New Zealand composers to further their ... More >>
NZer wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2007
Monday, 28 May 2007, 9:55 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand congratulates Lloyd Jones, whose novel Mister Pip has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Overall Best Book Award 2007. This is the first time a New Zealand author has won the award since 1989 when Janet Frame won with her novel, ... More >>
Nominations open for the Arts Pasifika Awards 2007
Friday, 25 May 2007, 9:40 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand is calling for nominations for its Arts Pasifika Awards 2007, which celebrate excellence in the Pacific arts in New Zealand. Pele Walker, Chair of Creative New Zealand’s Pacific Arts Committee, said the Arts Pasifika Awards ... More >>
Promoting New Zealand performing arts to the world
Friday, 25 May 2007, 12:20 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand is leading a team of producers and agents to attend a major international market for the performing arts of the Asia Pacific region. The Asian Arts Mart, in Singapore from 31 May – 4 June, provides an opportunity for presenting ... More >>
Insight into Asian Aucklanders’ attitudes to arts
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 4:40 pm | Creative New Zealand
A research study being launched today offers a valuable insight into the attitudes of Auckland’s Asian communities towards the arts in New Zealand. The qualitative research study, Asian Aucklanders and the Arts, was jointly commissioned by Auckland ... More >>
Nominations: PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 9:06 am | Creative New Zealand
Readers, writers, groups and organisations are invited to participate in the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2007 by nominating an outstanding New Zealand writer in the genres of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. More >>
Lloyd Jones regional winner of Commonwealth Prize
Friday, 16 March 2007, 12:05 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand congratulates Lloyd Jones whose novel Mister Pip has won the South East Asia and South Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award 2007. More >>
Int'l scouts seek top performing arts talent
Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 1:02 pm | Creative New Zealand
Leading international producers, agents and festival directors will be in New Zealand this month to soak up the sights and sounds of New Zealand’s top performing arts talent. More >>
Lloyd Jones awarded Berlin Writers’ Residency
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 9:45 am | Creative New Zealand
Lloyd Jones, author of the acclaimed novel Mr Pip, will spend a year in Berlin from August 2007 as this year’s recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency. More >>
Arts Council Chair to take up new role
Monday, 12 February 2007, 3:20 pm | Creative New Zealand
Christopher Doig, Chair of Creative New Zealand’s Arts Council, announced today that he is leaving this role to take up a position as Executive Chairperson of a new opera company for Christchurch and the South Island. More >>
Celebrating creative arts projects in communities
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:43 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand is calling on city and district councils throughout New Zealand to enter their innovative arts projects in the Creative Places Awards 2007. More >>
Kingsley Baird awarded Flanders residency
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 4:08 pm | Creative New Zealand
Kingsley Baird, the artist who led the team that created the Tomb of the Unknown New Zealand Warrior memorial in front of the National War Museum in Wellington, has been awarded a residency at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium. More >>
An Auckland base for national arts organizations
Friday, 24 November 2006, 2:02 pm | Creative New Zealand
Five major national arts organizations are planning to make a virtue of the fact that their Auckland offices are adjacent to each other. The third floor of the Southern Cross building on the corner of High and Wellesley Streets houses the offices of ... More >>
Awards celebrate excellence in Pacific arts
Monday, 20 November 2006, 9:50 am | Creative New Zealand
Six of New Zealand’s top Pacific artists were honoured at the Arts Pasifika Awards 2006, which encourage and celebrate excellence in Pacific arts in New Zealand. The awards were hosted at Parliament by the Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs, ... More >>
Scholarship awarded to gifted young composer
Monday, 6 November 2006, 4:03 pm | Creative New Zealand
Award-winning young composer Robin Toan is the 2006 recipient of the $20,000 Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship. The annual Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship, administered by Creative New Zealand, supports outstanding New Zealand composers to further their ... More >>
Artists to Antarctica Programme
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 12:11 am | Creative New Zealand
New Zealand artists across all artforms and at any stage of their careers are invited to apply to the Artists to Antarctica Programme, a partnership between Antarctica New Zealand and Creative New Zealand. Applications close on 31 October 2006. More >>
Award offers Travel Grant of $5000
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 3:30 pm | Creative New Zealand
Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Art Award Launched for 2006 The Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Art Award, in partnership with the Pacific Arts Committee of Creative New Zealand, is calling for entries for the 2006 Award. More >>
Nanette Lela’ulu awarded Cook Is Artist Residency
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 10:13 am | Creative New Zealand
Painting portraits and depicting the histories of people living in the Cook Islands is the next project of Auckland artist Nanette Lela’ulu, who will take up the three-month Cook Islands Artists’ Residency next month. More >>
