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HAPPY FIFTH BIRTHDAY OTEPOTI HE PUNA AUAHA | DUNEDIN UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE!
Check out this beautiful festival of pink on the Ground Floor, Dunedin City Library courtesy of the wonderful Jill Bowie!
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
Julie gives the Dark Destroyer his 10,000 names in braille sash!
When the opportunity came along to go to the Kensington Tavern here in Dunedin to meet the Dark Destroyer, Shaun Wallace, from the Chase, I certainly said why not!
Posted: Tuesday November 19, 2019
WRITER - Winning words from the University of Otagos inaugural creative writing competition
In 2019, the University of Otago held a creative writing competition as part of the Universitys 150th celebrations.
Posted: Monday November 18, 2019
Heritage work excellence to be celebrated
Posted: Saturday November 16, 2019
Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani not seeking NZ asylum - for now
Prominent Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who landed in New Zealand last night, will not seek asylum here for now but will look at it later as a possibility.
Posted: Friday November 15, 2019
Emma Farry receives international recognition through the NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD!
Posted: Friday November 15, 2019
Ian Cross, celebrated Listener editor, 1925-2019
The former Listener editor turned around a magazine going through turbulent times which he discussed in a previously unpublished 2014 interview.
Posted: Friday November 15, 2019
Call for Auditions
A unique opportunity for actors to engage with and present the work of one of the 20th centurys most colossal yet controversial literary figures. D. H. LAWRENCES 1922 short story THE FOX in a world premiere of a new stage adaptation.
Posted: Monday November 11, 2019
Outstanding Pasifika artists to be celebrated at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards 2019
Posted: Thursday November 7, 2019
Sinad Gleeson: sickness, health, motherhood & writing
Sinad Gleeson is an Irish writer and the author of the critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction Constellations. She was diagonosed with arthritis at 13, and an aggressive form of leukemia in her 20s, and her book is a powerful depiction of sickness, health and ultimately motherhood, as well as...
Posted: Thursday November 7, 2019
Starting a national conversation about arts and creativity
Posted: Wednesday November 6, 2019
Blue Oyster Arts Trust is pleased to announce curator and writer from Murihiku Southland, Hope Wilson, as our incoming director.
Posted: Wednesday November 6, 2019
Welcome Dunedin Fringe Artists!
The next festival is 19 - 29 March 2020 and Registrations are NOW OPEN!
Posted: Wednesday November 6, 2019
Communities of Readers
The Communities of Readers project is an initiative designed to connect more children and young people to reading. This initiative is enabling the National Library to work with a small number of communities to strengthen reading engagement.
Posted: Wednesday November 6, 2019
Neighbour writers win award each
Posted: Tuesday November 5, 2019
Residency stimulating for artistic couple
Posted: Tuesday November 5, 2019
Let there be light: macular degeneration and me
Posted: Monday November 4, 2019
The Big Red Ride: a community bike programme
Posted: Monday November 4, 2019
Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks
Posted: Monday November 4, 2019
Writer alights in the land of birds
Prize-winning children's author Swapna Haddow has arrived in Dunedin in the nick of time, writes Karen Trebilcock.
Posted: Monday November 4, 2019