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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, for round two of the 2020/2021 financial year, are open until 5pm 28 February 2021. Community Developm...

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 through the pandemic – a new digital-first operation. Within an hour of that text, Oliver and the 3...

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 looking for young people aged 9 to 16 years for a week-long creative frenzy in the Harakeke Room at ...

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 law reforms, including prohibitions on unfair contract terms, fairness in consumer credit contracts, c...

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 Fieme'a 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 institution, after she became part of the senior leadership team at Creative New Zealand. As an artist...