News
Kick off for online book launch 8 pm this Saturday!
Peep peep,(that’s me blowing my whistle) it’s time to kick off my online launch for my latest and hottest book! Get ready to get in position for kick off on Saturday 11 April at 8 pm on Instagram!
Posted: Thursday April 9, 2020
RDS Gallery Exhibition Postponed
We are postponing our exhibition "Work by Felix Harris, Philip Jarvis and Pete Wheeler".
Posted: Friday April 3, 2020
2019 Printer in Residence
The 2019 Printer in Residence programme project was the hand-printing of a selected number of letters written by Charles Brasch to the editor of the ODT.
Posted: Wednesday April 1, 2020
COVID-19: The importance of collaboration, science and communication
In light of the Government’s decision on Monday 23 March to move immediately to level 3 (and subsequently level 4) of the COVID-19 response, we felt it was important to reflect on the responsibility UNESCO has—both as a National Commission and internationally—to support the sharing of reliable, trusted information.
Posted: Wednesday April 1, 2020
ArtExplore during the Lock Down
Hoping everyone is staying safe and staying well. We are offering you a daily on line art fix hoping you will not be art deprived throughout the Lock Down.
Posted: Tuesday March 31, 2020
New writing on Corpus.nz
Posted: Monday March 30, 2020
Audible Children's Stories
In response to lockdowns throughout the world, Audible has made its children's stories open and free to all.
Posted: Monday March 30, 2020
New Zealand International Science Festival will be postponed until 2021
We regret to inform you that the New Zealand International Science Festival will be postponed until 2021, in light of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Posted: Friday March 27, 2020
Little libraries sidelined, but not all gloom
In one of the quirkiest sidelights of the national coronavirus lockdown, the books in some popular community mini-libraries are being replaced by bears.
Posted: Friday March 27, 2020
Paintings colour landscape's meaning
Colin McCahon is considered one of New Zealand’s key 20th Century painters. To commemorate the centenary of his birth last year, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is celebrating his Otago connections in a novel way, discovers Rebecca Fox.
Posted: Wednesday March 18, 2020
Change to programme of public events – COVID-19
Posted: Monday March 16, 2020
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Writers' residency
Opportunity for a Writers residency in Dunedin
Posted: Thursday March 12, 2020
English /Linguistics Seminar, Friday 13 March: two topics in medieval literature (Pamela Treanor and Roberto Suazo)
The Otago English and Linguistics Seminar series for semester 1, 2020 continues this week with shorter presentations by two Otago postgraduate students in English, both working on topics in medieval literature with associate prof. Simone Marshall.
Posted: Thursday March 12, 2020
A City as Writer's Workplace: Open Call 2020
The "Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature" program office announced the open call for applications for the project "A City as a Writer's Workplace". Writers, poets, playwrights and other authors from the UNESCO literary cities are invited to tell about places in their cities where they like to work on texts.
Posted: Wednesday March 11, 2020
Dunedin: The Literary Jewel Half a World Away
Our ex-librarian volunteer Carol travelled to New Zealand, so just had to drop into the most distant (to us) Cities of Literature...
Posted: Tuesday March 10, 2020
Literary youth mentorship programme seeks emerging young writers
Four New Zealand secondary school students have an opportunity to be mentored by a professional writer in order to develop their craft and hone their skills.
Posted: Monday March 9, 2020
Unique Ōtepoti 2020 - Celebrating cultural expression through music and performance
Unique Ōtepoti 2020 is an opportunity for young Dunedin creative performers to express their cultural identities across multi-platform media.
Posted: Monday March 2, 2020
Listen, Memory
In September 2019 David Howard, representing Dunedin, took up a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk, Russia. His project, the church that is not there, organically divided into a triptych. In the left ‘panel’, resurgent trees, lyric fragments were inspired by the 1905 and 1947 clockwork figurines made by...
Posted: Sunday March 1, 2020
Blue Oyster Art Project Space News
Current and upcoming exhibitions plus a job opportunity
Posted: Thursday February 27, 2020