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Get your finances in order!

Staying on top of your finances is not an easy feat. But going under is much worse! Sam Grover shares some advice to keep your creative enterprise afloat.

Trudy Lane's Sunroom, Dunedin. Photo: Justin Spiers

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Are our cities too full for artists?

Collective benefit demands collective responsibility: Sophie Jerram finds spaces for artists and creative social makers in a limited and over-heated property market.

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What are we fighting for?

Johanna Knox on all the reasons why art is a necessity, and not a luxurious extra.

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How to unlock your invisible CV

Mercedes Ackerman sniffs out the real value of soft skills vs hard skills

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Lowdown #27: Art and about

James Littlewood rips open Pandora’s box of this week’s shenanigans.

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What you want is what you get: The return of the critic

Kate Powell is right: the art critics have not vanished. But their work needs to be cultivated and supported. So here is Kate again, presenting you a review written in her lunch break. You’re welcome.

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Digital Tools for creative professionals

So, you got the talent, the idea, the skills? Great - but wait, there's more: Sam Grover shares some nifty tools to help you through the admin.

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Who Got the Gig? Jessica Aitken is working with infamous murderers.

Emanuella de Ruiter learns about mysterious safes and strong family connections from the new Curator of Collections.

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How to survive and thrive as an introvert in the arts

Do you prefer to listen more than you talk, deep conversation over small talk, solitude over parties – Madeleine Dore has advice on how being an introvert can help you thrive.

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SOAPBOX: What it really takes to juggle an arts organisation with family life

LitCrawl director Claire Mabey reflects on why flexibility is harder than we think.

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SOAPBOX: There is limited art criticism in New Zealand – but it's not why you think

In an age when rigorous critique gives way to hot takes, freelance arts writer Kate Powell asks just what the hell is going on. It’s not what you think. It’s worse.

Whose Oceania? panel discussion

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Contemporary HUM announces newly published transcript of Whose Oceania? panel discussion

Now available to read online: transcript of Contemporary HUM's Whose Oceania? public panel discussion held in London in September 2018

Te Waka Toi Award 2018 award recipients

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Te Waka Toi Awards celebrate and recognise excellence and achievement in Maori ārt

Te Waka Toi Awards 2018 recognise 12 of the country's distinguished and influential Maori artists for their contribution to Nga Toi Maori

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An Interview with a new kind of director, Sara Cowdell.

An Interview with director and artist Sara Cowdell about her new venture with Performance Art Week Aotearoa and where life is taking her next.

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Opportunity to represent New Zealand at the London Design Biennale 2020

Postcard from the London Design Biennale 2018

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Te Tuhi

Cafe operator/partner at Te Tuhi, Pakuranga

Te Tuhi is seeking expressions of interest for a new operator for the café space at its gallery in Pakuranga.

Region:

Auckland

Closes:

19 Nov 2018

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Antoinette Godkin Gallery

Internship at Antoinette Godkin

Learn how to run a contemporary art business and work with a international curator that has been in the business for over 40 years

Region:

Auckland

Closes:

1 Dec 2018

Events

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Daily - 11am to 6pm, Weekends 11am to 3pm

INTERPERSONAL: Disrupted Realism

An exploration of figure, form, colour and quirkiness.

Venue:

Potocki Paterson Art Gallery

Wellington

Opportunity / New Zealand AIDS Foundation

Call for artists

Opportunity / Māoriland Charitable Trust

Māoriland Hub Manager 

Opportunity / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Artistic Coordinator

Opportunity / SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music | Toi te Arapūoru

Kaihautū Puoro Māori - Director of Māori Music

Event / 29 Mar 2019

Mixed Media Workshop with artist Lisa Chandler

Event / 12 Jan 2019

Shoreside Theatre presents Auckland Shakespeare in the Park- Henry V and Twelfth Night

Event / 1 Mar 2019

National Geographic Exhibition Coming to Pātea

Event / 28 Nov 2018

Who is Circa? LIVE History Experience

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