‘Arts...illuminate the world we live in’: 2023 fellows appointed

Albert Einstein once said "creativity is contagious — pass it on". With that in mind, the University of Otago has appoin...

Posted: Wednesday October 5, 2022

Open Call for Nanjing International Writers Residency 2022

Nanjing is offering 6 virtual residencies in 2022 to writers, poets and translators from all UNESCO Cities of Literature...

Posted: Wednesday October 5, 2022

SuperGrans team with visiting authors on reading mission

Two Dunedin authors and a SuperGran visited a local kindergarten recently as part of the SuperGrans Readaloud Programme.

Posted: Friday September 30, 2022

Are you the new Director of Blue Oyster?

Posted: Thursday September 29, 2022

APPLICATION: Writers Residencies 2023

Posted: Tuesday September 20, 2022

The Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellowship

The 2023 Creative New Zealand RCWT residency will run from May to October 2023.

Posted: Monday September 19, 2022

Māori scholar receives top award

Being awarded the University of Otago’s top honour has left Jacinta Ruru emotional, saying it is a significant moment fo...

Posted: Sunday September 18, 2022

Light after darkness

A desire to speak the truth and see change in the care and justice system for young people has seen Fa’amoana John Luafu...

Posted: Friday September 16, 2022

Ben Wilson on The Write Spot radio show

Posted: Friday September 16, 2022

The 8th New Zealand Young Writers Festival

Posted: Tuesday September 13, 2022

Insight ahead of arts festival

OAR FM’s weekday OARsome Morning Show is presenting interviews with national and international artists and directors in ...

Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2022

Mansfield stories form new operas

Opera Otago returns to the Mayfair Theatre stage this weekend with an ambitious production of The Mansfield Trilogy, thr...

Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2022

Talk features acclaimed Scottish crime writers

"Revenge and death and violence and bloodshed and mayhem" — what more could you want? Dunedin crime fiction fans will be...

Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2022

Portrait: Peter Olds, by Victor Billot

On a delinquent, a wanderer, a literary icon

Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2022

How Covid affected the arts

The impact of Covid-19 on creativity was among the topics of a panel discussion with the 2022 University of Otago Arts F...

Posted: Sunday September 4, 2022

Review: Return to Harikoa Bay

A review by Sam Finnemore

Posted: Thursday September 1, 2022

A trio of Chinese celebrations

A celebration on September 10 aims to thread the strands of Dunedin’s multicultural community together.

Posted: Thursday September 1, 2022

Theatre group marks 30th year

Theatre folk from across the country came together in Dunedin at the weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of profes...

Posted: Thursday September 1, 2022

Teen’s trilogy shows he’s a creative force

Kavanagh College pupil Tom Davis (15) has published three books since 2019, a trilogy which now resides in the school li...

Posted: Monday August 29, 2022

WE ARE MOVING BACK... UPDATE

Posted: Thursday August 25, 2022

'In Plain Air'

One feature of the new Pauline Bellamy website is that it's home to 'In Plain Air', the 2020 short documentary film abou...

Posted: Thursday August 25, 2022

Tour of New Zealand with cabaret show is 'last hurrah' for poet laureate

David Eggleton’s current tour of the country is his “last hurrah” as New Zealand’s poet laureate.

Posted: Wednesday August 24, 2022

Dirty Deeds Down Under - crime on both sides of the Tasman

It's apparently the first ever compilation of Australian and New Zealand crime short stories, but already several more a...

Posted: Monday August 22, 2022

A new novel remembers the plight of German internees

The brutality endured by First World War internees on Wellington's Matiu/Somes Island is remembered by Dunedin author Pa...

Posted: Monday August 22, 2022

1981 Springbok tour movie set to be filmed in city

The drama of the 1981 Springbok tour is set to return to Dunedin streets in a coming-of-age feature film.

Posted: Sunday August 21, 2022

Kidd wins media award

Otago Daily Times reporter Rob Kidd was named regional journalist of the year at the Voyager Media Awards in Auckland on...

Posted: Sunday August 21, 2022

The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship

The English and Linguistics Programme at the University of Otago invites applications for a doctoral scholarship in lite...

Posted: Friday August 19, 2022

My Grandfather is a Canoe

My Grandfather is a Canoe has received heartfelt praise and accolades and now has another season – warmest congratulatio...

Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022

Short play competition

SaHara Breeze Productions launches its annual Shot Glass Shorts short play competition from tonight, showcasing new and ...

Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022

A treat for Jane Austen fans

The stately Olveston Historic Home will be the backdrop for a Jane Austen-themed soiree, with Regency dance, this week.

Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022

Belated welcome for university arts fellows

It was late, but that was better than never, as the University of Otago last night welcomed its 2022 arts fellows.

Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022

First Maori literature hub launched online

The first Māori literature hub has just been launched online.

Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022

You Know I Can't Grab Your Ghost Apples, Taika

Claire Lacey reads their poem You Know I Can't Grab Your Ghost Apples, Taika, which appears in takahē issue 105. You can...

Posted: Monday August 15, 2022

Play gives dementia a voice

Few of us can understand the all-encompassing effect that Alzheimer’s and dementia have on the lives of sufferers and ev...

Posted: Monday August 15, 2022

Open Auditions at Playhouse Theatre

Auditions will be held on Saturday, 27 August from 1-4pm for The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard.

Posted: Monday August 15, 2022

Online wānanga with Mr G

If you follow artist ‘Mr G’ (Graham Hoete) you may have seen him announce an upcoming online wānanga Te Pūtahitanga star...

Posted: Monday August 15, 2022

Ōtepoti Writers Lab Residency

Ōtepoti Writers Lab is proud to announce a brand new opportunity for a local writer to carve space and time to focus on ...

Posted: Monday August 15, 2022

Whakahoa Whakawatea Kaitoi Tangata Holdsworth Creative Spaces Fellowship

This fellowship supports a tutor/facilitator-led project that involves artists within a creative space working collabora...

Posted: Thursday August 11, 2022

University's 2022 creative writing competition opens

Writer 2022 offers Otago’s staff, students and alumni the opportunity to harness their creativity and write a short stor...

Posted: Thursday August 11, 2022

A H Reed Track

Posted: Wednesday August 10, 2022

Dunedin singer steps out at Abbey Road

A former Dunedin resident is making the most of opportunities offshore by recording at the same studio where The Beatles...

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

Buried Treasures: The Secrets of Foulden Marr

Foulden Maar holds globally unique fossil secrets revealing not just our ancient past but our possible future. Today, ho...

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature celebrates Friendship

To mark International Friendship Day on 30 July 2022, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature highlighted the exceptional writ...

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

Verb Wellington Writer’s Residency With Katherine Mansfield House & Garden

Verb Wellington and Katherine Mansfield House & Garden have come together to offer their third annual opportunity to spe...

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

New book shares stories of life with a brain injury

Dunedin woman Beverley Livingstone shares living with a brain injury and her love of community and singing in a new book...

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

Funding keeping creative work alive

Five new theatre residencies have been awarded to allow Dunedin practitioners to develop - rather than perform - new wor...

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

Ngāpuhi writer wins Surrey

The winners of the coolest writers residency award in the Southern Hemisphere

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

Te Kaihau: The Windeater and Lost Possessions by Keri Hulme

Reviewed by Paula Morris

Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022

First episode of 'Minor Gossip'

Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022


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