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ASB Showgrounds to Host Auckland Eid Day 2013 for Muslims
Monday, 29 July 2013, 2:46 pm | Auckland Eid Day
Up to 10,000 Muslims are expected to unite at ASB Showgrounds to celebrate the third annual Auckland Eid Day on 9 or 10 August 2013 (lunar dependant), from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. More >>
Free events at Wellington Central Library in August
Monday, 29 July 2013, 2:06 pm | Wellington City Council
There’s plenty on at Wellington Central Library during August – and these events are all free to the public. Celebrated Australian writer Isobelle Carmody, author of the popular Obernewtyn Chronicles and The Kingdom of The Lost series, will talk ... More >>
Love Your City takes off in central Auckland with Instagram
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:52 pm | Love Your City
As the fresh chill of winter ensues, Auckland’s budding photographers have been snapping up a storm with BIG little City’s recently launched Love Your City campaign. More >>
Countdown On To Find Tararua District’s Voluntary Groups
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:46 pm | TrustPower
Locals have just a few more days to ensure their favourite voluntary groups are part of the Tararua District’s biggest celebration of volunteers. Entries for the TrustPower Tararua District Community Awards close at 5pm on Wednesday 31 July and there is ... More >>
Final Call for Palmerston North Community Award Entries
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:38 pm | TrustPower
Locals have just a few more days to ensure their favourite voluntary groups are part of Palmerston North’s biggest celebration of volunteers. Entries for the TrustPower Palmerston North Community Awards close at 5pm on Wednesday 31 July and there is ... More >>
New Direction Planned For Iconic Queen Street Event
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:32 pm | Lindenberg and Partners
Two iconic Auckland events will become one from April with the Queen Street Golden Mile (QSGM) becoming part of the 2014 ITU Triathlon weekend on April 5 and 6. More >>
Emirates Team New Zealand update - on to the LV finals
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:17 pm | Emirates Team New Zealand
Emirates Team New Zealand has exercised its option to skip the Louis Vuitton Cup semi-finals and go straight to the final. The option was available to the team by virtue of its top position on the round robins leaderboard. More >>
Adventure guru Steve Gurney chases next buzz in Queenstown
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:10 pm | Steve Gurney
Kiwi adventure sport legend Steve Gurney is seeking a new adrenalin buzz by establishing his business in Queenstown. He has recently moved to Queenstown from Christchurch because his Redcliffs home remains red-stickered and red-zoned following the February ... More >>
From logs to blogs
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:05 pm | Department Of Internal Affairs
“…got plenty of wild Sellery for the Soup and Pease … Several Canoes of Indians came on board and gave us Fish in truck for White Rags…” More >>
New device will help optimise swimming
Monday, 29 July 2013, 12:59 pm | University of Auckland
A miniaturised data logger that can record speed and movement in the water will soon be available to help swimmers analyse their performance. More >>
This Is Muzai – 2009 - 2013
Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:51 am | Muzai Records
A 27 track sampler now streaming from the MUZAI Records Soundcloud page. In May, MUZAI celebrated its forth anniversary as a label – so many changes have happened since the label first started up in 2009, from the way it releases it's music to ... More >>
X Factor Favourite Benny Tipene Suprises Fans - Debut Single
Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:47 am | Sony Music
Although BENNY TIPENE didn’t take out the winning title on this season’s X FACTOR NEW ZEALAND, that hasn’t stopped Benny answering the calls from thousands of kiwi fans begging him for new music, choosing today to release his debut single titled ... More >>
Chilean Actress to Attend Film Festival
Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:44 am | NZ International Film Festival
Chilean Actress to Attend Film Festival Chilean actress Pauline García will attend the New Zealand International Film Festival to support the Civic Theatre screening of her film Gloria . Gloria is a Chilean/Spanish co-production that tells the story ... More >>
Youthtown encourages film-stars of the future with new clubs
Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:43 am | Youthtown
Budding young TV and film stars now have the opportunity to hone their acting, filming and production skills, with the launch of Youthtown Central’s new after school programme clubs today. More >>
Nelson Celtic Pipe Band Ready to March onto the World Stage!
Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:28 am | Celtic Pipe Band of Stoke
There’s more good news for Nelson’s Celtic Pipe Band as the final flourishes are put on its Scottish Cultural Highlight of the year, Saturday night’s Braveheart – The Concert. The band’s just accepted an invitation to play in Europe early ... More >>
Ewen Gilmour to Bring Fun And Funds to Waikato Kids
Monday, 29 July 2013, 11:02 am | Variety Club
Variety – The Children’s Charity is thrilled to be bringing the Variety Mini Bash to South Auckland, Port Waikato, Pukekohe and the Awhitu Peninsula for the weekend of September 20 – 22, 2013. More >>
Stars come out for opera of our time
Monday, 29 July 2013, 10:52 am | New Zealand Opera
New Zealand Opera’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Don Giovanni , comes to life in Christchurch in three weeks, heralding the rebirth of fully staged opera in the city. More >>
Hip Op-eration Crew all kitted out and heading to Las Vegas!
Monday, 29 July 2013, 10:14 am | Hip Op-eration
On Wednesday 31st July and Saturday 3rd August, 27 members of The Hip Op-eration Crew: The World’s Oldest Hip Hop Dance Group will be leaving Auckland for Las Vegas where they have been invited to do a tribute performance at the World Hip Hop Championships. More >>
Victoria University goes 3D
Monday, 29 July 2013, 9:57 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University goes 3D A kiwi feather cloak, a jug from 1890 and samurai armour from 1735 are just some of 100 objects that will be filmed in 3D in a new partnership between Victoria University and Te Papa. As the first university in New Zealand to ... More >>
Halliday Upbeat After Dramatic Spa 24 Hour Race
Monday, 29 July 2013, 9:54 am | Matt Halliday
MATTHEW HALLIDAY RACING - MEDIA RELEASE Date: 29th July 2013. Halliday Upbeat After Dramatic Spa 24 Hour Race. American based New Zealand racing driver Matt Halliday has come away from his debut appearance in the Total 24 Hours of Spa race with an ... More >>
Graves Grabs Second Catlins Coast Rally
Monday, 29 July 2013, 9:30 am | Catlins Coast Rally
Andrew Graves and Jared Leebody of Gore won an action packed Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday. It was the duo's second win in the event after they also took the spoils in 2010. More >>
Monique Jansen wins inaugural Parkin Drawing Prize
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 1:22 pm | Museum Art Hotel
Monique Jansen from Titirangi in Auckland has been announced the winner of the inaugural Parkin Drawing Prize and a $20,000 cash prize – sponsored by Chris Parkin, arts patron and owner of Museum Art Hotel in Wellington. More >>
X Factor winner debuts at top of the charts
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 12:34 pm | Sony Music
JACKIE THOMAS, winner of the X FACTOR NEW ZEALAND, has hit the ground running since her victory on Monday night with her debut single ‘IT’S WORTH IT’ entering the Official NZ Top 40 Singles Chart at #1 with Gold sales. More >>
Aussie Chris Atkinson Joins Hyundai WRC Test Team
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 12:30 pm | Hyundai
• WRC specialist Chris Atkinson joins Hyundai Motorsport’s testing programme • The Australian will support the development of the i20 WRC at selected tests in 2013 More >>
Fagan wears shear black singlet again
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 12:28 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing icon David Fagan will wear the New Zealand singlet in a test match against Wales tonight, stretching his international career to more than 28 years. More >>
TV3 Secures Anticipated New US Drama Series The Blacklist
Friday, 26 July 2013, 5:12 pm | Mediaworks
The highly anticipated new drama series The Blacklist, starring multiple Emmy Award winning actor James Spader, will screen on TV3 as part of a new partnership between MediaWorks and Sony Pictures Television, it was announced today. More >>
Wellington Repertory Theatre Presents Abigail’s Party
Friday, 26 July 2013, 4:25 pm | Wellington Repertory Theatre
Following its revival on the West End and throughout the UK over the past year, Wellington Repertory Theatre presents Mike Leigh’s 1970s classic, Abigail’s Party, from 7-17 August. More >>
Welsh triumphant in historic win over NZ shearers
Friday, 26 July 2013, 3:16 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand has lost a shearing test series in Wales for the first time in a decade of annual tours in the Northern Hemisphere. The latest defeat came at this week’s Royal Welsh Show, taking Wales to a 3-0 lead and hoping to complete a series whitewash ... More >>
2013 Speight's Coast to Coast Movie Tour
Friday, 26 July 2013, 3:15 pm | Speight's Coast to Coast
Established in 1983, the Speight’s Coast to Coast is the world’s longest running multisport event and doubles very year as the world title race. The Speight’s Coast to Coast movie tour will visit 11 venues nationally, five in the North Island and ... More >>
Precious Early Learning - Botany Town Centre’s 'Baby & Me'
Friday, 26 July 2013, 1:16 pm | Botany Town Centre
In light of the latest addition to the Royal family, local parents and royalists alike can get together at Botany Town Centre’s upcoming Baby & Me event and talk about the trials and tribulations of parenthood, knowing all too well that on ... More >>
TV3 Invites Kiwis to Cook with Jamie Oliver
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:43 pm | TV3
Jamie Oliver is coming to TV3 weeknights, with Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals screening at 5.30pm, Monday to Friday from 19 August. More >>
Four Students receive NZ Art Show Emerging Artist Awards
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:40 pm | New Zealand Art Show
Four Fine Art Students receive NZ Art Show Emerging Artist Awards Four art students who are exhibiting at this year’s NZ Art Show later this week have each won a $2,500 Emerging Art Award. They are: Daniel Roberts from the Dunedin School of Art at Otago ... More >>
Triathlon New Zealand Names Team for London World Champs
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:37 pm | Triathlon New Zealand
Triathlon New Zealand Names Team for London World Champs Triathlon New Zealand High Performance Director Graeme Maw has confirmed the New Zealand team for the 2013 ITU World Triathlon Championships in London in September with the Tri NZ Selection Panel ... More >>
Never-seen-before images and stories from the Korean War
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:29 pm | Ministry for Culture and Heritage
On 27 July 1953 – 60 years ago this Saturday – an armistice ended three bitter years of fighting in the Korean War. No peace treaty was ever signed and tensions on the Korean peninsula remain high. More >>
Big Angry Fish takes to the water with lifejackets
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:14 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) is taking a new lead to encourage “gung-ho” fishermen to wear lifejackets by sponsoring the popular fishing show Big Angry Fish . The first of 13 episodes screens on TV3 on Sunday, 28 July, at 5.30pm. More >>
First 13 Aces contracts announced for 2013/14 season
Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:55 am | Auckland Cricket
The return of Jeet Raval and the inclusion of Tipene Friday are the main features of the first 13 Auckland Cricket contracts announced for the coming season. More >>
Students respond to Warhol: Immortal
Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:49 am | Te Papa
An event celebrating Andy Warhol’s famous studio, The Factory, is set to transform Te Papa into a social playground next Wednesday night (31 July 2013). More than 300 people are expected to attend POP, an experiential night being put on by students ... More >>
Strong Regional and Community Focus for Haier Pulse in 2014
Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:48 am | Haier Pulse
The Haier Pulse home draw for the 2014 ANZ Championship has a distinct regional feel, with games in Napier and Palmerston North, two at Wellington’s TSB Arena and two more at Te Rauparaha Arena, Porirua, the home of the Haier Pulse. More >>
Super City II premieres tonight on TV3
Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:41 am | TV3
Madeleine Sami returns tonight with four new outrageous characters living in the country’s Super City. These acutely observed personalities are drawn from the more suburban parts of Auckland. More >>
Whenua Patuwai releases debut single
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:52 am | Sony Music
Sony Music is proud to announce that due to overwhelming public demand X FACTOR NEW ZEALAND runner up, WHENUA PATUWAI will release his debut single ‘SOMETHING SPECIAL’ today, available on iTunes now and available as a physical single from Tuesday 30th ... More >>
NZ Digital Music Company Going Global with Kiwi Music
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:47 am | The Label
New Zealand’s leading digital music company, DRM, has enlarged its coverage for NZ artists ten-fold with the announcement of new international supply outlets including world leaders Amazon and Google Play. Alongside a deal to provide content to YouTube ... More >>
Competitors leap at opportunity to honour Possum
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:43 am | NZ Rally
In the build up to a very special tribute which honours world renowned New Zealand Rally great, Possum Bourne competitors have leapt at the opportunity to register their involvement in the Vantage Aluminium Joinery Possum Bourne Memorial Rally. ... More >>
City Of Gold and Lead: Ann Shelton Exhibition
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:38 am | Sarjeant Gallery
Wellington-based photographer Ann Shelton is an internationally recognised artist whose works explore the layers of histories embedded in place and located in archival collections. More >>
Results from FINAL DAY of the NZAGC U17
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:33 am | Netball New Zealand
Christchurch have been crowned New Zealand Age Group U17 Champions for 2013 defeating Auckland 1 in a tense and thrilling final in Hastings. More >>
One wonderous day at Waikaremoana
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:26 am | Sportzhub Media
‘Hard but achievable’ sums up an exciting new race format for the Genesis Energy Lake Waikaremoana Challenge. More >>
Royal Prince to Inspire 1,400 Extra Georges
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 4:24 pm | Ancestry.com.au
With the exciting news of the Royal baby naming, Ancestry.com.au has done some research into the Royal naming trend which reveals there will be an additional 1,400 Georges born next year in the UK. Key findings include: More >>
Students Score Sexy Success
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 4:08 pm | University of Waikato
A group of Waikato University students have taken out two categories at the national Rialto Channel 48HOURS filmmaking competition with their short film called The Empath. More >>
Emily Hartley-Skudder Tableware at Suite Gallery
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 3:34 pm | Suite Gallery
A still life is most commonly understood as a representation of a themed arrangement of ordinary, often domestic, material objects. This convention of still life is pervasive, having travelled a trajectory through time - from the once dark Vanitas of the 16th ... More >>
Documentary to have its home premiere at NZ Film Fest
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 3:16 pm | Us and the Game Industry
US and the Game Industry, NZ Filmmaker Stephanie Beth’s acclaimed feature film documentary on the world of computer games has won selection into this year’s NZ International Film Festival (NZIFF) following its recent successful screening at ... More >>
APRA Silver Scroll Award – Top 20 Announced
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 3:06 pm | APRA
The Top 20 songs were selected by an anonymous panel of judges (all significant APRA writer member themselves), and it’s now over to the wider APRA membership to decide their champion for 2013. More >>
Sealy searches for sleep ambassador
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 2:44 pm | Pead PR
Dollars while you doze? Sound like it’s too good to be true? It’s no dream. More >>
Low cost winter recipes and a right Royal treat
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 12:58 pm | Oily Rag
The winter chill has descended upon the country so we thought it time to dig into the oily rag archives to find more reader tips for low-cost warm-winter meals - but first we too are going to join the masses and celebrate the Royal baby with a special ... More >>
Marvelous mums flounce for fashion fundraiser
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 12:30 pm | Bluefox PR
25 July 2013, Auckland – A group of amazing mothers are giving back to the charity that helped them when their family needed it most. Overcoming a few nerves, towering heels and the flash of lights they will be taking to the catwalk for fun-filled charity ... More >>
Ma-V-Elle Are Back After 15 Years
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 12:23 pm | Williams Entertainment
Lavina Williams, Marina Davis and Maybelle Galuvao are Ma-V-Elle; one of New Zealand’s premier singing groups of all time. With strong R&B sensibilities, Ma-V-Elle turned heads with their 1997 debut album; ‘Spoken To’. More >>
MIT lecturer Eleanor Catton nominated for Man Booker Prize
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 12:12 pm | Manukau Institute of Technology
Eleanor Catton, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manukau Institute of Technology, has just been long-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. More >>
Kobo Enhances Kobo Writing Life
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 12:07 pm | Kobo
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, July 25, 2013 – Kobo , a global leader in eReading, today announced its Kobo Writing Life (KWL) self-publishing platform now offers advanced features that enable authors to easily create eBooks and edit their work directly ... More >>
Take the Extreme Poverty Challenge
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 11:49 am | Fred Hollows Foundation
The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ today announced that it will play an active role in Live Below the Line 2013, and called on the NZ public to take up the challenge and help end avoidable blindness. More >>
Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan Together In Concert
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 11:46 am | Noise PR
The 2013 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour presents two of New Zealand’s most beloved songwriters and artists, Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan, together for the first time in a concert collaboration like no other. More >>
Pop Superstar David Guetta to Headline Our:House Festival
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 11:35 am | Steven Fernandez Media
OUR:HOUSE is excited to announce superstar DJ and pop producer DAVID GUETTA as the headline act for this year’s massive OUR:HOUSE FESTIVAL. More >>
New venue for DNA Gay Ski Week Queenstown’s dance party
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 11:27 am | DNA Gay Ski Week Queenstown
The 2013 DNA Gay Ski Week QT final dance party is set to be bigger and better than ever thanks to a new venue announced today (Thursday July 25). The finale of this year’s week-long celebration, the GAYDAR Mystery Dance Party, will now be held ... More >>
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