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Thief! - Dunedin Fringe Festival

Posted: Monday March 29, 2021

Dispatches from the fringes

Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021

Chinese Garden documentary given to southern schools

Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021

Prison creative-writing stimulus

The Otago Daily Times prison creative-writing competition is back and promises to be bigger than ever.

Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021

Significant Archibald Baxter poetry find

A Dunedin student’s discovery and publication of poems by World War 1 conscientious objector Archibald Baxter is sheddin...

Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021

Pupils put favourite things to verse

Anderson’s Bay School pupils prefer climbing trees and writing poetry.

Posted: Friday March 26, 2021

UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature join forces to celebrate World Poetry Day 2021

Posted: Tuesday March 23, 2021

Memoir tells the story of a Dunedin family

A new book, Mornington Memoirs, delves into the lives of the Jelley family, their friends and neighbours.

Posted: Friday March 19, 2021

Multitude of events for Race Relations Week

Race Relations Week will celebrate diversity, Dunedin Multi-Ethnic Council president Lux Selvanesan says.

Posted: Thursday March 18, 2021

New festival celebrates women’s art and music

The Dunedin Festival of Women’s Art and Music (DfestWAM) will be launched this weekend, as part of the Dunedin Fringe Fe...

Posted: Thursday March 18, 2021

Festival showcasing homegrown diversity

As New Zealand travellers pile into camper vans to discover beaches and bistros across the country, the Dunedin Writers ...

Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021

2021 Camperdown Robert Burns Scottish Festival

Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Programme

Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021

NZSA Oral History Podcast – New Season

Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021

Small town boy

Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells To...

Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021

Five visual writing prompts

Inspired by everyday items in a beautiful city – from nature webcams to abandoned shopping lists

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

The Back of the Painting by Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary and Jenny Sherman.

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

PLAYWRIGHTS B4 25

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

New Landfall editor sought

Expressions of interest are sought for the position of editor of Landfall (two issues per year)

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

Paula Green reviews Vincent O’Sullivan’s substantial new poetry book Things OK with you? for Kete Books

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

Alan Roddick on David Eggleton's blog

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

All Saints' Church

All Saints’ Church is a building of exceptional significance” Salmond Reed Heritage Architects.

Posted: Friday March 12, 2021

Shared experience

For two Dunedin first-time playwrights seeing their plays on the stage at Dunedin’s Fringe Festival this year will be th...

Posted: Thursday March 11, 2021

WAIRUA’S Boosted NZ campaign is now LIVE!

Posted: Wednesday March 10, 2021

THE ANNUAL TEXT PRIZE FOR YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S WRITING

Awarded annually to the best manuscript written for young readers, the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s...

Posted: Wednesday March 10, 2021

Richard Reeve on David Eggleton's Blog

Posted: Tuesday March 9, 2021

DPAG Rear Window 2021...

Posted: Tuesday March 9, 2021

Prize-winning Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan on RNZ

Posted: Tuesday March 9, 2021

CARGO BIKE ART SPACE

Cargo Bike Art Space brings artists and art to the streets, cycle ways and public spaces in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Posted: Monday March 8, 2021

Juliet Blyth's World Book Day Lecture (excerpt)

Posted: Monday March 8, 2021

OTAGO MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!

Posted: Monday March 8, 2021

Calling all writers, poets and playwrights! CompleteMS manuscript assessment programme on offer

The NZSA CompleteMS Programme is supported by Creative NZ and is open to financial members of the NZSA.

Posted: Monday March 8, 2021

Caselberg Trust farewells Kim Morton

Posted: Monday March 8, 2021

Sometimes Playful, Always Compelling

Harry Ricketts reviews Nouns, Verbs, Etc: Selected poems by Fiona Farrell (Otago University Press, 2020), 211pp, $35 for...

Posted: Monday March 8, 2021

Tapestry documents ‘ODT’ newspaper since 1861

Dunedin's influence on the history of daily newspapers in New Zealand has been woven into tapestry.

Posted: Sunday March 7, 2021

Navigators’ ‘untold’ stories presented for young people

Abel Tasman, James Cook, Jean Francois Marie de Surville — stories of the explorers’ lives and achievements are well tra...

Posted: Sunday March 7, 2021

NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist

The winner in each category will be announced on 18 March 2021, and each winner receives $500 from NZ Booklovers.

Posted: Thursday March 4, 2021

Globe goes back to the future

Sixty years after The Glass Menagerie was first performed at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre, it is being revisited. Rebecca Fox...

Posted: Thursday March 4, 2021

Arts Grants

Arts Grants offer short-term project funding for New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations (includi...