WSS 2016 The Whangarei Sculpture Symposium is a biennial event with artists working onsite to create sculptures from wood and stone. This year the theme was Migration and the event was held at beautiful Hihiaua Peninsula, Town Basin. The public was invited to come along and observe the 20 artists at work. Over the weekend of […]
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The Whangarei District Council supports community groups for a variety of events, amenities and services through our community funding scheme. They want to hear from not-for-profit community organisations who are working to benefit our communities of place, of people and of interest. If you need support with a project or activity that is helping to
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Activism is not something you associate with David Sarich and yet he has picked up his brushes and painted a 1.2 x 2.4-metre mural to protest against the proposed Chicken farm south of Dargaville. Reading an article written by the author, writer Therese Sjoquist, Sarich commented ‘ Painting is another language; a more truthful language, but
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This news update is to inform you of a grant scheme for the arts that is now open for applications from Creative Communities. The Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) helps to fund local arts projects. This fund is aimed at local communities to create and present diverse opportunities for people to access and participate in the
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Michael Botur Northlanders have achieved highly in this year’s National Flash Fiction Day competition, which celebrates one of the shortest forms of creative writing. 13-year-old Jana Heise, who was raised in Whangarei, won the NFFD Youth Award on June 22. Her story was performed, with those of other Northland and national finalists, at a workshop
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