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Technology
This week’s blog entries are all to do with technology. From the rise of the computer to AI, we are surrounded by technology. Some of it is useful, some is…
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The tracks on Spotify
The audio this week on the playlist features these tracks. The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček This well-loved opera in Czech started out as a newspaper comic strip before…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is curated on the Spotify platform for readers to listen to while browsing the blog. The tracks on the playlist have something to do with the…
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Iceland and the poetry of weaving
The Nordic nation of Iceland sits on the Mid Atlantic Ridge, midway between Europe and North America. Wild, windswept, beautiful, bleak and filled with fire and ice, the country is…
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Conversation and Cloth
The next in the series of Conversation and Cloth talks will be on the 6th December 2024 at 10am in the Regent Theatre Cafe in Greymouth Māwhera. After a hiatus…
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Timelines
Myriam Dion’s work, currently on show in New York, uses repurposed paper and ephemera to tell stories about women. In this exhibition, the artist has used paper to explore and…
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Rise Kagona
Back in the 1980s as the world awakened to what we now know as “world music” the sounds of the Bhundu Boys made centerstage. The band were Zimbabwe’s biggest export…
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Tracks from the Spotify playlist
This week the playlist features these tracks. Kara Toprak (Black Earth) by Fazil Say and Hunter Noak Fazil Say, the Turkish composer and pianist, meets Hunter Noak, a classical pianist,…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of audio is compiled and curated to go with the articles in the blog. The tracks have something to do with the blog entries and you…
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DY Begay’s Sublime Light
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian is currently hosting a show of tapestries by fibre artist DY Begay. In these works the artist explores her birthplace and home…
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