The CoroCine Film Festival is the first event in the coromandel artbeat spring festival, which will pull together a series of creative events mapped out across the peninsula
artbeat Launch Party- Kicking Off 3 Months of Spring Festival!
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September 2024 Pānui/ Newsletter
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
Potter Fiona Gates’ Incredible Taonga Uku Journey
Isabel Gilbert talks with Fiona Gates about being a potter versus a ceramist, the sensuality of clay and its raw earthiness, dreams of being a shepherdess and wool crafter, plummeting into ADHD and PTSD, and re-building herself through the journey of uku and connecting to Te Ao Māori, and why you can’t be without your reclaim bucket.
Interview With the Late Wailin Elliott
Wailin Elliott and I met at the first Chinese New Zealand Artists Hui, held in 2013 at Corban Estate Arts Centre, where I was the curator. Ten years later I was able to visit Wailin while on a residency at Driving Creek Railway and Pottery. Wailin Elliott is an artist I admire and can relate to as there are distinct parallels between how she forged her practice and the path mine has taken.
August 2024 Pānui/ Newsletter
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
July 2024 Pānui/ Newsletter
News from around the rohe on what’s been happening in the creative industries!
Ties That Bind – A New Play Hitting the Stage in Thames This Month
Rehearsals are well underway for Thames Music and Drama’s Ties that Bind production, written and directed by Thames local Hilary Rodley.
List your event for the artbeat Before 31 July And be in to Win!
Attention all local artists – enter your event early and be in to win a weekend away for two! If you enter your event before July 31st you will go into the draw to win 2 VIP tickets for the CoroCine Film Festival Opening Night and Coromandel Artbeat Lauch Party, plus...
Shannon Silcock: Exploring The Process of Abstraction
A Masters of Science in Art psychotherapy gave Shannon the perfect way to combine her interest in working with people, and her love of art.
Accessible, Focussed and Fairer – Creative NZ’s New Funding Model
Following extensive consultation with the country’s arts sectors during 2023, in early 2024, Creative New Zealand (CNZ) announced a new funding programme, replacing its traditional monthly, highly contested Arts Grants model, which sometimes closed within days of opening.
