As a part of the Someday Stories short film series, this month a film about a takatāpui non-binary person’s experience of returning home to their marae was released online. He Takatāpui Ahau was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more, we are seeing taonga pūoro used in a diverse range of practices across the spectrum of te ao Māori, including rongoā, pōwhiri, whaikōrero, karakia and the telling of pūrākau. They are ...

In the home studio of artists Shreyas Karle and Hemali Bhuta, tucked into a rocky cliff on the edge of the Borivali forest, my references to our locale disrupt the easy flow of our conversation. In ...

Van 梅 (they/them) is an arts polymath, Libra with fire placements and the current Kaitohu of The Pantograph Punch. Since graduating from AUT with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2017, they have worked ...

Sinead Overbye (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou) is our Kaiwāwāhi Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Editor. She is a Libra sun with a Cancer Moon and Aries rising. Her background is in art history, Māori ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucy and her friends reminisced about spending semesters abroad in China and regular visits with family. For me, China had frozen when we left. December 1995 had become a still frame, the snapshot ...