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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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The spectacular art of Khatija Possum
The third generation of painters in her family, Khatija Possum is the granddaughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, a founding artist of the contemporary indigenous art movement in Australia. The artist…
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Rare breeds of New Zealand
The native flora and fauna of Aotearoa New Zealand is often newsworthy but what of its introduced species? From the earliest days of human habitation the islands have been home…
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The historic woolsheds of Aotearoa
New Zealand, at least by measurement of human habitation, is a young country and any building more than a century old is considered to be venerable. Meet New Zealand’s woolsheds……
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Tracks from the Spotify playlist
Indonesian Gendhing Gamelan The gamelan music of Indonesia is on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Made up mainly of percussive instruments, gamelan orchestras may include xylophones, gongs, metalophones, voices and…
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