Making Light of Time CD a Victoria collaboration
A CD launching at Victoria University of Wellington next month represents the fruits of a decade-long collaborative partnership between three of New Zealand’s creative masters.
2017 news
Read news items from our 2017 archives.
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Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) broadens skills and minds
Wellington opera company, Eternity Opera, is giving Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) (MFA(CP)) students the chance to learn new skills and put them into practice with internships on their next production, The Marriage of Figaro.
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Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice): Creative careers
“This internship has given me everything I need to have a future career in music. I now have the skills, tools and confidence to work in this industry.”—Caitlin Morris, Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) – Music, who recently completed an internship with Wellington-based composer Stephen Gallagher.
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National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future
Zora Patrick, a year 12 student of Wellington High School, has won first place in the 2017 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Dampening’.
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National centre of music will confirm Wellington as capital of culture
The establishment of a world-class national centre of music in Wellington’s Civic Square is a step closer with Victoria University of Wellington’s Council unanimously confirming its support for the venture.
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New Zealand School of Music presents Polish vocalist Jolanta Kossakowska
Polish vocalist and string player Jolanta Kossakowska joins Wellington musicians for a night of ancient, traditional Slavic songs and ethno-jazz.
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New Zealand School of Music presents world’s premier pipa virtuoso—Wu Man
The New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) and Victoria University’s Confucius Institute are collaborating to bring Wu Man—the world’s premier pipa virtuoso—together with celebrated chamber ensemble, the New Zealand String Quartet, for a masterful evening of music spanning the centuries.
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New Zealand poetry given an Italian stage
Victoria University of Wellington’s Wai-te-ata Press and the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation (NZCLT) have launched Florilegio di Poesia Neozelandese Contemporanea—Best New Zealand Poems (2015) Italian edition, translated by Francesca Benocci.
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Victoria offering New Zealand’s first bicultural MOOC
Through the lens of one culture, the city of Wellington was formed by geological forces that include a network of jittery fault lines running through the region. Through another, the landscape was shaped through the actions of two taniwha, Ngake and Whātaitai.
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Exploring New Zealand’s rivers and other realities
Victoria University of Wellington’s Cultural Anthropology Programme is hosting a public lecture on the current state of New Zealand’s rivers by Professor Dame Anne Salmond, as part of its fiftieth-anniversary celebrations.