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Rudimental (DJ Set) Announced for R&V
Friday, 9 August 2013, 4:06 pm | Rhythm and Vines
Rhythm and Vines are thrilled to be bringing chart toppers Rudimental to New Zealand audiences for the first time for a DJ set on New Year’s eve. More >>
Roger Hall’s Side-splitting Comedy - You Gotta Be Joking
Friday, 9 August 2013, 3:30 pm | Skip Ink
Roger Hall’s Side-Splitting Comedy - You Gotta Be Joking You Can Take the Cow Cockie Out of the Country ... But the Manure Remains Directed By Geraldine Brophy Starring Tim Bartlett More >>
MASSAD - Girl Next Door Video!!
Friday, 9 August 2013, 3:21 pm | Noise PR
The highly anticipated video for Massad's new single " Girl Next Door” is online now!! Featuring quirky internet star Jamie Curry from Jamie's World, you can view the video here; More >>
Award for young conservationists
Friday, 9 August 2013, 2:59 pm | Department of Conservation
The Otago Peninsula Trust and the Department of Conservation are calling for nominations for the Toroa Award. The Toroa Award acknowledges environmental action programs undertaken by students that support conservation in their community. More >>
Te Ara exhibition opens in Vancouver
Friday, 9 August 2013, 2:44 pm | Libro International
Launches new trilingual book featuring Musqueam alongside Māori and English. The exhibition Te Ara: Māori Pathways of Leadership, opens today in Vancouver, Canada, in the final stage of its world tour before returning to New Zealand in February ... More >>
Rudimental (DJ Set) Announced For R&V
Friday, 9 August 2013, 2:14 pm | Rhythm and Vines
Rhythm and Vines are thrilled to be bringing chart toppers Rudimental to New Zealand audiences for the first time for a DJ set on New Year’s eve. With a melting pot of influences stamped firmly across the brilliant and adventurous album Home, Rudimental ... More >>
Emirates Team New Zealand hand delivered support from home
Friday, 9 August 2013, 2:06 pm | Emirates Team New Zealand
Less than 10 days out from the all important Louis Vuitton Finals in San Francisco, the spirits of the Emirates Team New Zealand crew have been buoyed by the well wishes of thousands of New Zealanders. More >>
Midwives of change - Progressives shaping faith communities
Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:55 pm | St Andrew's Study Trust
Rev Dr Margaret Mayman and Rev Glynn Cardy will present their keynotes to the Australian Common Dreams conference Birthing with Blood, Sweat and Tears: Progressive Public Theology and Praying When G-o-d is Not a Person: Non-Theistic Prayer. More >>
Tiszaujvaros Presents a Two Day Challenge for Triathletes
Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:46 pm | Triathlon New Zealand
Triathlon New Zealand has a host of young development athletes competing at the next ITU World Cup event in Tiszaujvaros (Hungary) this weekend, with the focus very much on performance rather than results at this stage of their careers. More >>
Hawke’s Bay Poetry Conference – Time to Register!
Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:25 pm | Hawke's Bay Poetry Conference
A weekend poetry conference, marking the 21st year of the Hawke’s Bay Live Poets’ Society (HBLPS), is being held in Havelock North on 1-3 November. More >>
It's LIQUID International Contest 3rd edition
Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:00 pm | It's Liquid
The Contest is born with the goal of promoting contemporary art, architecture and design through all the divulging tools that the communication platform It's LIQUID has used for years (press release, mailing list with more than 100.000 subscribers, ... More >>
Bridging the Digital Divide
Friday, 9 August 2013, 12:46 pm | Michael Thorp
Universal Music NZ’s Scott Maclachlan talks to Michael Thorp about how 16 year old singer-songwriter, Lorde, got noticed online and how other artists can do the same. © Michael Thorp More >>
NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year finalists announced
Friday, 9 August 2013, 12:01 pm | New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year
FROM AN ALBATROSS plunging into the sea to a university toga party, the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year 2013 offers a fresh vision of our country’s environment and culture. More >>
Legends ABL Chicos netball team head into 17th final
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:54 am | Amalgamated Builders Ltd
Local netball team ABL Chicos is this week celebrating its longstanding success and decades of milestones as it heads towards the team’s 17th final in the Wakatipu Premier league, to be held this Saturday (August 10th) at the Queenstown Event Centre ... More >>
Silver Ferns and National Accelerant Squad Announced
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:37 am | Netball NZ
Netball New Zealand (NNZ) has confirmed the Silver Ferns and National Accelerant Squads for the 2013-2014 season. More >>
Challenging male stereotypes with theatre
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 6:56 pm | Massey University
A theatre show that challenges sterotypes and focuses on the experiences of New Zealand men will be performed in Albany next week at the Massey’s Theatre Lab on August 14 and 15. More >>
More than Half a Million Votes Cast in ‘the X Factor Final
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 6:49 pm | Mediaworks
More than Half a Million Votes Cast in ‘the X Factor NZ’ Grand Final The number of votes cast in The X Factor N Z Grand Final was 553,976 with Kiwis voting both via text and for free on Facebook. Jackie Thomas was crowned The X Factor NZ winner ... More >>
One Month to go until Possum Returns
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 6:28 pm | NZ Rally
In one month’s time the Franklin and North Waikato Districts set the scene for the return of a legend of the road and an icon of New Zealand sporting history. More >>
Newtown on Film, 1900 - 2011
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 5:28 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
A selection of over 20 short films and clips illustrating some of the events, institutions, and people associated with Newtown, Wellington over the years. More >>
Eyes on Vink as Benchmark series starts again
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 5:22 pm | Benchmark Homes Elite Cycling Series
It may have been over two months since his last serious race but all eyes will be on Michael Vink when the Benchmark Homes Elite Cycling Series gets underway again on the West Coast of the South Island in Hokitika on Saturday after a winter break. More >>
Auckland Trio Wins National Chamber Music Contest
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 4:09 pm | Chamber Music New Zealand
Auckland’s Sollertinsky Trio has won the New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest for 2013. The piano trio of Ray Ong (violin) from Westlake Boys High School, Mathias Balzat (cello) from Wentworth College and Delvan Lin (piano) from King’s ... More >>
Help celebrate infantry anniversary
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 4:01 pm | Wellington City Council
Come and help celebrate the 150th anniversary of 5/7 Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (5/7 RNZIR) this Saturday, 10 August. The regiment – comprised of 7th Wellington (City of Wellington’s Own) and Hawke’s Bay Battalion Group Charter – will parade ... More >>
Stan Walkers Extends Trumpet World Tour of New Zealand
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 3:59 pm | Sony Music
Stan Walker's Trumpet World Tour of New Zealand has just gotten bigger! Christchurch and Whangarei have sold out, and a brand new show has been announced for Arrowtown, set for Sunday 22 September at the Athenaeum Hall. Not only that, a second show has ... More >>
Eight Medals for Local Photographer at National Awards
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 3:39 pm | New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography
Cromwell photographer Janyne Fletcher has won eight medals at the prestigious National Iris Photography Awards held in Auckland on 5 August. Ms Fletcher received five bronze medals, two silver medals and a coveted silver distinction medal at these awards. More >>
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Return to New Zealand
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 3:17 pm | Muchmore Music
Making a welcome to return to NZ in November are Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who are thankfully just as fuzzed-up and blissed-out as ever. With a catalogue now six albums strong, the San Francisco trio's latest offering, this year's Specter at the ... More >>
Bailterspace Announce New Album Trinine
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 3:12 pm | Arch Hill Recordings
Bailterspace will be releasing a new album Trinine on Arch Hill Recordings on 27th of September. Trinine was recorded in New York prior to their last album Strobosphere. It features all three original members - Alister Parker, John Halverson and Bent ... More >>
Love in the air for Kiwi couple
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 3:12 pm | Air New Zealand Public Affairs
An Auckland-based same-sex couple with three children will make history when they exchange vows in New Zealand skies, when the Marriage Amendment Act comes into effect on 19 August. More >>
Arcade Records present: Dad Jokes - True Love
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 2:17 pm | Arcade Recordings
It’s been a while since Arcade Recordings have put something out; fear not though – the boutique label is alive and kicking and have just released Auckland duo DAD JOKES second EP – available now on cassette and for download. More >>
Wellington Storytellers Cafe - 3rd September 2013
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 2:04 pm | Wellington Storytellers
The Three Sisters have travelled from three different lands to meet each other and share tales in Aotearoa. They bring stories to make you laugh and ponder, tales about first love to the love of longing, and what happens between old married couples and ... More >>
Inaugural New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:46 pm | NZ Post Book Awards
New Zealand’s top authors will be celebrated in their home towns as part of the first ever New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival, from 12-18 August. The finalists for the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards were announced in July - with the winners, ... More >>
Oily Rag - Shopper Watching
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:40 pm | Oily Rag
After decades of shopper watching, we would like to share our observations of shopping personalities. More >>
Jon Stephenson to Attend Screenings of New Documentary
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:12 pm | NZIFF
Jon Stephenson to Attend Wellington Screenings of New Documentary Jon Stephenson will make a guest appearance at the Wellington screenings of a new documentary about the role of media and military in Afghanistan. Co-directed and produced by Annie ... More >>
Rhythm and Vines First Line Up Announcement!
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 11:55 am | Rhythm and Vines
Now in its 11th year, Rhythm and Vines is delighted to reveal the first acts on our 2013 line up including some of the best and biggest international and kiwi artists playing over three days on the beautiful Waiohika Estate in Gisborne. More >>
Record Number of Finalists in Newmarket Designer Awards
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 11:49 am | Newmarket Young Fashion Designer
Thirty nine budding fashion designers will see their outfits strut down the runway at the Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Awards on Friday 11th October at the Centennial Theatre in Auckland. More >>
Rhythm and Vines first line up announcement!
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 7:04 pm | Rhythm and Vines
The long wait is over. Fans of New Zealand’s biggest music festival, Rhythm and Vines, can finally stop counting down the days to this year’s first line up announcement. More >>
Smashing preconceptions – NZTrio tour 6-15 September
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:35 pm | Arts on Tour New Zealand
NZTrio is considered a national musical treasure. Its members, Justine Cormack (violin), Ashley Brown (cello) and Sarah Watkins (piano), have been described as the rock stars of the NZ classical music scene. More >>
Pacific Couture Show Powers Disabled Athletes to Marathon
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:17 pm | Achilles International NZ
Glam up on Saturday 5th October for Pacific Couture is ART , a glitzy evening of Pacific couture, art and performance, and help send disabled athletes to compete in New York. More >>
Fashion In the Capital Line-up Announced
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:13 pm | Fashion In The Capital
Wellington has added yet another string to its bow with a five day consumer fashion event, from the 11th-15th of September, capturing the vibrancy of the current season. More >>
Joan Baez Opens Australasian Tour to Rave Reviews
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 1:43 pm | Elephant Publicity
NZ is in for a treat as legendary activist and musician Joan Baez performed the first date of her 8-Centre Australasian tour in Adelaide last night - receiving a standing ovation and rave reviews. More >>
Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum celebrates turning 20
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 1:42 pm | Voyager NZ Maritime Museum
This August, Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum celebrates its 20th birthday. Come rain or shine, seven days a week, the museum on Auckland’s glorious Waitemata Harbour has flung open its doors to visitors from near and far. More >>
New art installation in Auckland gives nod to Kodak legacy
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 1:31 pm | Auckland Art Gallery
Kodachrome Presents by Mladen Bizumic is the latest sculpture for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki's Edmiston North Sculpture Terrace opening 10 August. The artwork marks the end of Kodak film company’s production of their legendary Kodachrome 12-colour ... More >>
In Conversation: Screenwriter/script editor Keith Thompson
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 1:18 pm | Script to Screen
Script to Screen, the NZ Film Archive and the NZ Film Commission present an evening with award-winning Australian screenwriter and script editor Keith Thompson (The Sapphires) in conversation with script editor and acting/directing coach Brita McVeigh. More >>
Mark Morrison relseases "N.A.N.G. 2.0.”
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:48 pm | 2spr.com
"N.A.N.G. 2.0.” shines a spotlight on women suffering due to domestic abuse. Inspired by Morrison's cousin, who was housed by UK national charity REFUGE during an abusive relationship. The single will be released digitally worldwide on October 1st, 2013, ... More >>
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:37 pm | The Bacchanals
The Bacchanals Present . . . GUNPLAY / Happiness Is A Warm Gun / The Complete History Of Firearms And High School Shootings Written by Paul Rothwell Directed by David Lawrence 20-24 August, 8.00pm BATS Theatre, Cnr Cuba & Dixon Sts Bookings: 802 ... More >>
It's LIQUID News - Jessica Joyce
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:32 pm | It's Liquid
Fashion designer Jessica Joyce of the eponymous label Jessica Joyce, launches her new collection. The designer sees both the hip and creative Mary Quant (1934) and the stylishly dressed Jackie Kennedy (1929), united in herself. More >>
Minarets Journal & National Poetry Day
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 11:41 am | Minarets Journal
The latest venture comes for New Zealand National Poetry Day this year (Friday 16th August), housed in the substantial artist-run warehouse space known affectionately as the Union Street Event Centre (47 Union St, Auckland CBD). More >>
English Language Partners wins supreme community award
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 10:31 am | English Language Partners New Zealand
English Language Partners – an organisation providing resettlement support and English language teaching for migrants and refugees – won the Supreme Winner of the 2013 Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards for Wellington City last night. More >>
Check out what's happening in the Revolve world
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 7:29 pm | Revolve Cycling
Despite a dire weather forecast, the weekend wasn't too shabby. Nicole's monthly excursion took us up to the Wind Turbine and down to Red Rocks. There was even a mobile barista at the top...setting a new standard for monthly rides, ha! More >>
Judges prepare their palates for NZ Food Awards
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 7:21 pm | Massey University
With more than 100 entries received in the 2013 NZ Food Awards, the panel of judges convening this week are preparing their palates for the challenge ahead. More >>
Sharpie Crows New Album '12 Omeros'
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 5:28 pm | Flying Nun
Flying Nun Records is proud to present 12 Omeros, the latest release from Auckland's industrial-tropicana pioneers Sharpie Crows . More >>
2013 Prisoner Art Auction To Benefit Youth Alive Trust
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 4:48 pm | Department Of Corrections
Prisoners from Canterbury’s three prisons and community-based offenders are busy creating artwork for this year’s art auction, with all funds raised going to Christchurch’s Youth Alive Trust. More >>
Reflecting on disaster
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 4:11 pm | Adam Art Gallery
The symposium After the Event, co-hosted by the Adam Art Gallery and Victoria University’s School of Architecture, is a response to the Adam Art Gallery’s current exhibition All There is Left . More >>
Getting comfortable with Māori cultural practices
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:50 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Worry about performing a waiata or pronouncing your marae hosts names correctly could be a thing of the past for people who enrol in a new Victoria University course teaching Māori cultural practices for professionals. More >>
Crawford Brothers take the prize in Australasian Band Battle
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:35 pm | Global Battle of the Bands
In a tight result, this year’s Australasian Final delivered a deserving winner in 4-piece Newcastle alt- rock band, the Crawford Brothers. After coming joint first in the NSW Regional Final, the bands confidence sky rocketed. It was clear from their ... More >>
Justine Smith and Cohen Holloway - Comedy at the Bristol
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:24 pm | Humorous Arts Trust
Billy T winner and AotearoHA regular, Justine Smith, host’s Hotel Bristol’s Monthly comedy special on Sunday, 18 August. Boy and Eagle vs. Shark star, Cohen Holloway headlines the show, which also features several up and coming Wellington comedians. More >>
Ellerslie One Act Play Festival 2013
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:20 pm | Ellerslie Theatrical Society
You might find all of these genres in this fourth season of the Ellerslie One Act Play Festival. Six plays, including three new works, and six directors cover six stories ranging from abductions and embezzlements to climate change and proposals. More >>
White Fungus To Be Nationally Distributed in New Zealand
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:17 pm | White Fungus
Starting in Wellington in 2004 as a photocopied freebee, White Fungus editor Ron Hanson says the distribution deal marks the culmination of quite a journey in running the magazine. More >>
Photographer of the Year named - NZIPP Award
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:07 pm | New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography
Kaye Davis, of Palmerston North, has won the coveted Photographer of the Year at the Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards, announced in Auckland last night (Monday). More >>
Summer Tri Series Dates and Venues Confirmed
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 2:59 pm | Triathlon New Zealand
Triathlon New Zealand today announced the dates and venues for the 2013/14 Tri Series, with some exciting changes in store for the thousands of participants who take part in the popular series each year. More >>
Enjoy the best at Going West
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 2:56 pm | Auckland Council
Come and experience New Zealand’s top writers and performers at the Going West Books and Writers Festival 2013. This festival, proudly brought to you by Auckland Council and the Going West Trust, presents and celebrates New Zealand writers, theatre ... More >>
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