2019 news

Read news items from our 2019 archives.

  • Manawataki

    Manawataki: Cadence of Youth—A creative showcase

    A two-night creative showcase of poetry, spoken word, and rap conceived by BA student Fin Johnson will give young people—rangatahi a platform to creatively express themselves and share their stories during Matariki.

  • Theatre students performing as part of the 6 Degrees Festival.

    6 Degrees Festival

    Theatre students from Victoria University of Wellington’s Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) programme presented a season of work—6 Degrees Festival—to the public last week. For the first time, these MFA(CP) works were shown at BATS Theatre.

  • Millie Singh at the award ceremony

    Inaugural Day Scholarship for Art History recipient named

    BA (Hons) and LLB graduate Millie Singh is the inaugural recipient of the Oroya and Melvin Day Postgraduate Scholarship for Art History (the Day Scholarship). The Day Scholarship, worth $25,000, will allow Millie to take a break from her successful law career to follow her passion by studying a Master of Arts in Art History at the Courtauld Institute in London.

  • Fresh talent showcased in Turbine | Kapohau 2019

    This year’s issue of Turbine | Kapohau, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s annual online literary journal from the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), has now been published.

  • A classroom of children and a teacher playing guitar, whoever a unique filter has been applied making the image look morre like a painting.

    Giving kids confidence to learn language

    Victoria University of Wellington researchers are developing a world-leading programme aimed at giving multilingual pre-schoolers the confidence and tools to improve their language skills with the help of Viclink.

  • Associate Professor Kate Hunter, Professor Sarah Leggott (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), Julia Paton, Professor Jennifer Windsor (Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences and Education).

    Great Futures transforming lives

    Victoria University of Wellington’s Great Futures programme is enabling alumni to pay it forward for future generations of students.

  • Stevie Hancox-Monk as Hamlet.

    Hamlet, Summer Shakespeare 2019

    Sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, this year’s Summer Shakespeare production is a powerful contemporary take on Hamlet.

  • A profile image of Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.

    History Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay retires

    ‘Love and respect’ were on full display on Thursday 21 November as Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay of the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations marked his retirement from Victoria University of Wellington.

  • Molly Turner

    Honours graduate wins Australasian thesis prize

    Congratulations to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) graduate Molly Turner who has been awarded the inaugural AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia) Honours Thesis Prize.