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Top women share the secrets of their success 12 minutes to read Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz To mark International Womens Day, Jane Phare talks to six women about their experiences in business and in life, about building confidence, speaking out and battling with imposter syndrome. What struck me about these six high-achieving women was how candid they were, and how willing they were to pass on advice that might help ...

SUPPLIED After Tsunami Galu Afiʻ (2013) by Yuki Kihara. Kihara is New Zealand’s exhibitor for the upcoming Venice Biennale. Somewhere in Tāmaki Makaurau Yuki Kihara sits in a hotel room wrapped in a red shawl and takes a sip of tea. It’s yet another impromptu lockdown for the Auckland region, and the Wi-fi is struggling to co-operate with Zoom. Kihara is New Zealand’s representative at the 59th Venice Biennale, a prestigious event colloquially referred to as the Olympics of the art ...

Press Release – Arts Access Aotearoa I want more than inclusion. I want equity and an arts sector committed to including disability artistry in its annual programme of works rather than a tick-box measure or one-off accessible performance, says Pelenakeke Brown, one of a dozen artists, … “I want more than inclusion. I want equity and an arts sector committed to including disability artistry in its annual programme of works rather than a tick-box measure or one-off accessible performance,...

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 1:22 pm “I want more than inclusion. I want equity and an arts sector committed to including disability artistry in its annual programme of works rather than a tick-box measure or one-off accessible performance,” says Pelenakeke Brown, one of a dozen artists, practitioners and accessibility advocates profiled in the recently published third edition of Ngā Toi mō te katoa: Arts For All. Arts For All is a practical guide providing information and tools to encou...

“But they’re all just doing their own thing in their sheds or growing timber quietly, there’s not really this cohesion or celebration.” Graham had worked as a carpenter and builder, and now runs a sawmill and teaches traditional timber-framing courses. The couple co-own Tiny Lifestyle, a company which builds sustainable small homes using traditional techniques. Scott said her husband started talking about “how amazing it would be” to create a traditional wood fair that supported...

Press Release – Horowhenua District Council Horowhenua District Council is inviting applications for funding from two community grants schemes. Applications to the Horowhenua Community Support Grant and the Creative Communities Scheme, for round two of the 2020/2021 financial year, are open until … Horowhenua District Council is inviting applications for funding from two community grants schemes. Applications to the Horowhenua Community Support Grant and the Creative Communities Scheme, fo...

Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 20.51 EST At 8.31am on a Thursday, Henry Oliver received a text message from his employer, alerting him to a company-wide Zoom call in 29 minutes’ time. The day was 2 April 2020, a week into New Zealand’s national lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus. Oliver, who is the editor of Metro magazine, and his team had been scrambling to adjust to remote working and – with magazine publishing not among the “essential services” permitted to continue t...

Free re-purposed arts workshop for Whanganui young people 7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read All kinds of found objects are ingeniously displayed in the Sculpture Garden at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre. Photo / Supplied Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron It will be trash to treasure all over again in a free arts workshop at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre this month. Artist and teacher Esther Topfer is ...

Wellington.Scoop Two Wellingtonians have become Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today’s New Year Honours List: Sue Chetwin, for services to consumer rights. Having begun her career in journalism, Ms Chetwin was editor of the Sunday News from 1994 to 1998, the Sunday Star-Times from 1998 to 2003, and founding editor of the Herald on Sunday from 2003 to 2005. As Chief Executive of Consumer New Zealand from 2007 to 2020 she successfully campaigned for many important consumer la...

Mark Tantrum At the Arts Pasifika Award 2018: Back, from left: Makerita Urale Caren Rangi, Dame Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, Hon Minister Carmel Sepuloni, Minister ‘Aupito and MCs Malama T Pole and Fuimaono Karl Endemann. Front, from left, award winners: Rosanna Raymond, Sulieti Fiemea Burrows, Tui Emma Gillies, Iosefa Enari, Angela Tiatia, Leki Jackson Bourke, and Appollonia Wilson on behalf of Benson Wilson. In this week’s guest arts column, Makerita Urale writes on being an artist in an inst...