Sunday, May 30, 2004

A Gift from the Miners of the Sea

1996 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
March 19, 1996
The John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Eisenhower Theater Washington, D.C

Delivered by Carlos Fuentes:

I deem it a special honor to be the first foreign citizen to give this lecture. Yet I am not, in truth, a stranger to your city or indeed to your culture. I spent my school years, between 1934 and 1940, when I was

Sunday, May 9, 2004

Wellington's Creation Station

The Arts Centre at the Oriental Bay Rotunda Offers Everything from Life Drawing, Portrait Painting and Book-binding to Vocal Training, Yoga, and Music for Babies


The word is out: if you're looking to be creative in the New Zealand capital, then Wellington Arts Centre is the place to go. The Council-run facility (which includes an art studio, photographic darkroom, and community function room)

Thursday, May 6, 2004

The No. 8 Wire - Issue 3

An Electronic Alert for Wellington's Creative People


Item 3.1 New Creative Space Forming in Porirua
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Neil Furby, a Pukerua Bay poet and arts organiser, has been working to convert a warehouse space in Porirua into the Wellington Region's next multi-purpose art and studio space. The facility is to be called“Your Space “, and intends to provide programming

Sunday, May 2, 2004

Wellington Streets Getting Back to Nature

NEWS RELEASE
2 May 2004


Conservation and art will meet in the classroom before hitting Wellington streets together as Drive By Art later in the year to mark Conservation Week.

Drive By Art is a student art programme which began last year. An initiative run by Wellington City Council’s Community Arts Office, it saw banners featuring innovative summer designs by Wellington schoolchildren