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Menstruation, myth, and medicine
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
Te Tahua Whakatinana Papakāinga | Lottery Community | Grants that help improve the quality of people’s lives in their communities
Lottery Community grants are available for not-for-profit organisations with a community or social service focus for ong...
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
Become a refugee support volunteer and support new Kiwis as they resettle in your community
Our refugee support volunteers do an extraordinary job and are a core part of the services we offer to former refugees.
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
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...
Posted: Tuesday November 19, 2019
WRITER - Winning words from the University of Otago’s inaugural creative writing competition
In 2019, the University of Otago held a creative writing competition as part of the University’s 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 ...
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 u...
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 century’s most colossal yet contr...
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
Sinéad Gleeson: sickness, health, motherhood & writing
Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer and the author of the critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction Constellations...
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 ...
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
Expressive Arts Therapy: Arts-based research and new motherhood
Posted: Monday November 4, 2019
Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks
Posted: Monday November 4, 2019
say WHY NOT to WHY NOT! ONLY 2 DAYS TO GO
Can you support this amazing woman and her book?
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
Ian Cross, novelist, editor and former head of NZ Broadcasting
Posted: Sunday November 3, 2019
Transition to retirement 'very important'
Posted: Saturday November 2, 2019
A life behind the lens
Newspaper photographers are in a privileged position, says Stephen Jaquiery, whose career is the focus of a new book. Ki...
Posted: Saturday November 2, 2019
Celtic Noir a criminally good time
Posted: Thursday October 31, 2019
Wellington becomes a UNESCO City of Film
Posted: Thursday October 31, 2019
David Howard's Residency in Ulyanovsk Unesco City of Literature
Posted: Wednesday October 30, 2019
A Seattle Playwright in Dunedin
Posted: Tuesday October 29, 2019
Best Nest Design Competition
Presented by the Ignition Children's Festival www.ignitionkids.nz
Posted: Monday October 28, 2019
Paper's history and characters recorded
Dunedin writer Ron Palenski has been indefatigable in writing the history of the Evening Star newspaper, first published...
Posted: Monday October 28, 2019
Marking Halloween's Celtic roots
Posted: Saturday October 26, 2019
say WHY NOT to WHY NOT!
Can you support this amazing woman and her book?
Posted: Monday October 21, 2019
Winners of the Lan Yuan Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition
Posted: Tuesday October 15, 2019
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2019 – winners announced
Posted: Friday October 11, 2019
2019 Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards
Posted: Thursday October 10, 2019
Down in Edin Magazine - Issue 18
Check out this article highlighting the Celtic Noir Festival 10-13 October 2019
Posted: Wednesday October 9, 2019
Honour to join 'roll call of New Zealand literature'
Posted: Wednesday October 9, 2019
New Zealand Young Writers Festival
Listen to panel discussions and readings from the New Zealand Young Writers Festival on OAR FM Dunedin
Posted: Wednesday October 9, 2019
New Zealanders are distracted readers, new research finds
Posted: Tuesday October 8, 2019
Mr Red Light in Dunedin
Mr Red Light was shortlisted for the Adam New Zealand Play Awards in 2019 and writer Carl Bland was the recipient of the...
Posted: Tuesday October 8, 2019
Emergency Accommodation
Posted: Monday October 7, 2019
Crossing to surgery’s side
Posted: Monday October 7, 2019
“The Track”: word-walking through pain
Posted: Monday October 7, 2019
No Friend But The Mountains: seeking the human in asylum
Posted: Monday October 7, 2019
2019 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced
An illustrated memoir for children, a novel which inspired a screen adaption starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, and translat...
Posted: Monday October 7, 2019
Celebrating with words
Posted: Monday October 7, 2019
Sue Wootton announced as 2020 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Posted: Thursday October 3, 2019
Janet Frame's debut novel retold for the theatre
The creators of a stage version of Owls Do Cry explain how their non-literal retelling pays tribute to Janet Frame’s ori...
Posted: Wednesday October 2, 2019
Landfall essay competition joint winners profound and persuasive
Posted: Tuesday October 1, 2019
Issue 18 of Down In Edin Magazine
This issue features: Arts, Culture and Natural Lifestyles of Dunedin and Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. Liter...
Posted: Monday September 30, 2019
Dyslexic author Paul Russell is on a mission to unleash the creativity of children with dyslexia
Posted: Monday September 30, 2019
Secrets of the dark art
There’ll be murder in the library next month as top crime writers from Scotland, Ireland and closer to home gather for t...
Posted: Monday September 30, 2019
Pair added to festival line-up
Posted: Sunday September 29, 2019
Poetry performed
Posted: Saturday September 28, 2019
International Week of the Deaf
Posted: Tuesday September 24, 2019
David Howard meeting Ulyanovsk composer Sofia Filyanina as she arrives by train from Moscow.
Sofia has set a sequence of my poems to music, and was preparing to rehearse musicians for a formal presentation (and wo...
Posted: Monday September 23, 2019