Articles tagged as Community
One unitary council, one mayor, 20 councillors representing 13 wards, 149 local board members representing 21 local board areas. If we value and want community to remain strong and present in the new Supercity we need to exercise our right to vote on the basis of informed decisions.
MEET THE CANDIDATES STANDING AS COUNCILLORS FOR YOUR [...]
DEVONPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATES INC.
Three events of interest to readers and writers wanting to get their work published:
One: Publishing Today and How to Get Published
7.30 pm, Thursday, 9 Sept 2010
A panel of experts to discuss Publishing Today and How to Get Published with particular reference to e-books.
Harriet Allan, Random House Ltd
David Ling, David Ling Publishers
Liz Allen, [...]
Auckland’s local government elections in 2010 signal the big pond we’re about to be thrown into. Supercity causes us concern because we fear this smallness, powerlessness, disintegration of community identity, and of what we perceive community to be, which includes nurturing the individual and meeting their need for a sense of belonging. However, as we’ve [...]
Academic and historian Professor John Davidson has been appointed to the board of the Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand, and Alastair Carruthers has been re-appointed as chair of the council, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Christopher Finlayson announced today.
The Arts Council is responsible for overall policy development for Creative New Zealand, which [...]
Make sure you can vote in upcoming Auckland elections
Aucklanders are being urged to take the first step to getting ready for the Auckland Council and district health board elections by ensuring they are correctly enrolled to vote.
Almost 100,000 Aucklanders are not enrolled to vote in the upcoming local Auckland Council elections – making up four [...]
Arts Alive is an Auckland City Council performing arts funding programme that supports independent performing arts professionals.
The fund’s objectives are:
to build audiences for the performing arts and
to develop and maintain Auckland’s performing arts infrastructure including resources, skills, information, professional support and networks
Auckland City Council receives proposals in March and August each year from individuals, organisations, [...]
An attempt is being made by Rodney District Council to retain money set aside for arts and cultural funding within the region after the change in governance.
The sum of $10 million was distributed to all the territorial authorities in the Auckland region to spend on “significant art and culture projects” when the Auckland Regional Services [...]
As more Super City mayoral candidates emerge, Auckland art practitioners and art lovers need to be considering what questions they want answered during the campaign race to election.
There will be a number of Mayoral Candidate Forums held over the next four months and it is imperative that probing questions on [...]
A small studio, suitable for a writer, has become available at the Kerr Street Artspace in Devonport. $25 per week. Please contact Linda Blincko on Ph. (09) 963 2331 for further information.
MORPH NON-FICTION WRITERS WORKSHOP
A workshop aimed at aspiring non-fiction writers and future Morph contributors.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
“Inform like a journalist…entertain like a novelist” Lee Gutkind
The aim of the Morph Non-Fiction Writers Workshop is to help writers bring greater focus to their non-fiction writing and to provide aspiring writers with the literary tools and techniques that will assist [...]