Dawn Raids was written by Sāmoan playwright Oscar Kightley in 1997. Oscar was a child during the heart of the Dawn Raids era, having recently been sent to Aotearoa from Sāmoa to live with relatives in ...

We are proudly independent, committed to fair pay for contributors, and to commissioning work that meaningfully contributes to the conversations our nation is having. This work is made possible ...

This petition, signed by over 1000 artists including Jane Campion, Chelsea Winstanley, Tayi Tibble, Nigel Borell, Rachel House, and Chris Tse is calling for an immediate ceasefire and political ...

PACE’s foundations were laid in Dunedin in 1998. Dunedin community arts non-profit The Higher Trust had partnered with Creative New Zealand and New Zealand Employment Services to research and model a ...

For Koanga, spring equinox, the assembled collaborators have created a weather report from Haupapa Tasman Glacier, Aotearoa’s fastest growing body of wai, a glacier formed from a deep exhalation of ...

From there I was lucky enough to get a scholarship, which brought me to New Zealand at the tender age of 17. I went to New Plymouth Girls’ High School, which was such a culture shock! The food, the ...

Themes in the exhibition are heavy, but Graham and curator Anna-Marie White unpack these complex narratives with clear, concise and even-handed messaging. Tainui iwi caused huge devastation here in ...

Where are all the badass cool Asian girls in bands? If Bic Runga and Boh Runga are the only Kiwi-Asian musicians you can name, do better and expand your listening range. Karen Hu and Sherry Zhang chat ...

As a non-binary person interacting on dating apps like Bumble, OKCupid and Tinder, Ellie Lee-Duncan got asked the same thing a lot: “Do you have a cock?” “Not just: how were we fucked by gender, but ...

Lucinda Bennett talks to the artist about craft, storytelling and finding his clay. My interview with artist Daegan Wells begins with a confession. I hold my phone up to the laptop camera to show him ...

The many stages of the night, the many movements before the world of the light. And it seems we are drawn back to that monthly, that place of darkness where the moon is a black memory of itself. An ...

Going out to a club night where pulling a risky look is expected, harassment isn’t tolerated, a genuinely diverse DJ line-up is booked and playing sets of high-energy genre-bending bangers is kinda ...