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Curtain rising on short play festival
Posted: Thursday September 12, 2019
Writer Returns for 2020 Residency
Posted: Thursday September 12, 2019
A tribute to Dunedin poet: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr (1940 – 2019)
Posted: Monday September 9, 2019
Guiding a privileged journey
Knowing your family's stories can be profoundly grounding, says publisher Gareth St John Thomas. So he has set out to help you capture yours.
Posted: Monday September 9, 2019
Kezia Field - Art Nesting Shapes Illustrated Book
"My daughter and I are creating an illustrated book in honour of my late husband Hunia, who we recently lost to suicide. The book is based on a letter we found soon after, where Hunia thanks me for my support throughout his ongoing depression.
Posted: Sunday September 8, 2019
British playwright and dramaturg Fiona Graham
28 Plays from around the world are about to be performed in Dunedin, over just three days. There's a Jacobean farce, there's a comic murder mystery, but the marathon also includes plays that cover tough issues like self harm and rising sea levels.
Posted: Sunday September 8, 2019
Challenging the audience
Chicago-based producer and director Tanya Palmer will have some advice for young playwrights when she visits Dunedin for next week’s Unesco Cities of Literature Short Play Festival. She tells Rebecca Fox it is part of making sure theatre remains a vital live art form.
Posted: Sunday September 8, 2019
Foundation laureate awarded to Fearnley
Posted: Friday September 6, 2019
David Howard has just arrived in Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature to take up his residency!
Posted: Wednesday September 4, 2019
Are you the next Director of Blue Oyster?
Blue Oyster Art Project Space exists to enable emerging and experimental arts practitioners to work in an innovative, experimental and non-commercial environment. We aim to broaden the interest and understanding of contemporary arts by providing a forum for discussion and debate.
Posted: Monday September 2, 2019
Students prepare for Short Play Festival
Posted: Monday September 2, 2019
Cheese is not a vegetable
With slightly less than a week until I depart for my Unesco Cities of Literature residency in Krakow, Poland, as a representative of Dunedin Unesco City of Literature - how many emotions can you pack into the start of one sentence?
Posted: Monday August 26, 2019
From 'margins' to Poet Laureate
Dunedin poet, writer, reviewer and former Burns Fellow David Eggleton has been appointed as the latest New Zealand Poet Laureate.
Posted: Friday August 23, 2019
Ngā Kura o Ōtepoti Kapa Haka
OAR FM visits Dunedin Schools kapa haka groups as they get ready for Polyfest in honour of Te Marama Pūoru Waiata Māori (Māori Music Month)
Posted: Wednesday August 21, 2019
Celtic Noir Crime Writing Festival - Tickets now on sale!
Posted: Wednesday August 21, 2019
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 WriteNow poetry competition
Posted: Monday August 19, 2019
Te Mahi Tamariki
In 2018, He Waka Kōtuia ran a series of waiata composition workshops facilitated by Troy Kingi and Mara TK, resulting in an album of original contemporary, bilingual waiata, written by rakatahi at Ōtākou Marae. On this show, Tunai, Kiliona and Paulette talk about their involvement in the making of the...
Posted: Thursday August 15, 2019
Please nominate for 2020 International Literary prize, named after Ivan Goncharov (Ulyanovsk)
The International Annual Literary prize, named after I. A. Goncharov - Ulyanovsk, The Russian Federation - REGULATIONS 2020
Posted: Tuesday August 13, 2019