News and Opportunities
CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT DEPICTING THE UPSIDE OF LOCKDOWN
Artists, designers and writers living in Dunedin are being invited to submit their artwork to a new project from the Dun...
Posted: Tuesday May 5, 2020
Possibilities
Posted: Monday May 4, 2020
Admissions by Mira Harrison now available on Amazon
Posted: Monday May 4, 2020
Annabel Wilson talks about the Possibilities Project
on Otago Access Radio
Posted: Monday May 4, 2020
20 Possibilities
Posted: Saturday May 2, 2020
Automated for the People
Posted: Thursday April 30, 2020
Tulip and Doug by Emma Wood
Posted: Thursday April 30, 2020
Possibilities: For my daughter
Posted: Wednesday April 29, 2020
Otago University Press announces release of Diane Brown's Every Now and Then I Have Another Child
Posted: Wednesday April 29, 2020
Virtual visit to Hereweka/Harbour Cone through Colin McCahon's Otago Peninsula (1946-49)
Posted: Tuesday April 28, 2020
Wisteria
Posted: Tuesday April 28, 2020
Go Thy Way After Refreshed
Posted: Monday April 27, 2020
Highlighting PHILIP JARVIS
Philip Jarvis (b. 1968) completed a BA at the Camberwell School of Art (1987-1990). Born in Winchester, U.K., he has spe...
Posted: Monday April 27, 2020
Notable contributions to Milton Scholarship
Each year the Milton Society of America honours a scholar for “notable contributions to Milton scholarship.” This year, ...
Posted: Monday April 27, 2020
Twelve
Posted: Sunday April 26, 2020
Sorcery
Posted: Sunday April 26, 2020
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Posted: Saturday April 25, 2020
Possibilities (for an introvert)
Posted: Friday April 24, 2020
Oho! A virtual book launch at a snazzy cocktail bar
Everyone is cordially invited to the virtual launch of a stunning - yeah, it really is; world-class, actually - book of ...
Posted: Friday April 24, 2020
Wrath n Bubble (life in isolation)
Posted: Thursday April 23, 2020
Literature can transport us elsewhere, and transform home
Upon first alighting in Edinburgh, I had the oddest feeling of both strangeness and familiarity.
Posted: Thursday April 23, 2020
Calling all literary innovators!
Posted: Wednesday April 22, 2020
Possibilities: La Couronne (Part I)
Posted: Wednesday April 22, 2020
Possibilities: Across the Gap
Posted: Wednesday April 22, 2020
I prefer weather
After Wisława Szymborska / The Possibilities Project
Posted: Tuesday April 21, 2020
Liz Breslin on the Possibilities Project
Liz Breslin talks with Jeff Harford on Otago Access Radio 105.5FM about the Possibilities Project
Posted: Monday April 20, 2020
I prefer Connect Four
Hello from my iso to yours. Since my hair is now fully buzzcut, I’ve run out of piercing jewellery, my screen time is up...
Posted: Sunday April 19, 2020
Possibilities
Posted: Sunday April 19, 2020
War Stories from the Olveston Library
OAR running an encore series of War Stories From The Olveston Library, Sundays at 10am starting 19th April on 105.4FM an...
Posted: Wednesday April 15, 2020
Dmitry Sadovnikov's poem translated by Ulyanovsk poet Sergei Gogin will be presented in Nanjing and Slemani
The poem "To the Volga" will be presented at the World Book Day event in Nanjing (China) and the Modern International Mu...
Posted: Wednesday April 15, 2020
WE’RE GOING VIRTUAL FOR 2020 OCKHAMS WINNERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS ON 12 MAY
In a creative response to the restrictions imposed on travel and public gatherings during the Covid-19 crisis, the New Z...
Posted: Wednesday April 15, 2020
The Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Memorial Writers' Residency
A Givealittle page has been setup to raise $5000 to fund a residency for writers at the Caselberg Trust, in memory of po...
Posted: Tuesday April 14, 2020
Possibilities
After Wislawa Szymborska’s poem of the same name, From “Nothing Twice”, 1997 Translated by S. Barańczak & C. Cavanagh an...
Posted: Monday April 13, 2020
New campaign celebrates Kiwi men and what they read
A new online campaign launching on April 12 will focus on New Zealand men and their reading habits.
Posted: Saturday April 11, 2020
Kick off for online book launch 8 pm this Saturday!
Peep peep,(that’s me blowing my whistle) it’s time to kick off my online launch for my latest and hottest book! Get read...
Posted: Thursday April 9, 2020
RDS Gallery Exhibition Postponed
We are postponing our exhibition "Work by Felix Harris, Philip Jarvis and Pete Wheeler".
Posted: Friday April 3, 2020
2019 Printer in Residence
The 2019 Printer in Residence programme project was the hand-printing of a selected number of letters written by Charles...
Posted: Wednesday April 1, 2020
COVID-19: The importance of collaboration, science and communication
In light of the Government’s decision on Monday 23 March to move immediately to level 3 (and subsequently level 4) of th...
Posted: Wednesday April 1, 2020
ArtExplore during the Lock Down
Hoping everyone is staying safe and staying well. We are offering you a daily on line art fix hoping you will not be art...
Posted: Tuesday March 31, 2020
New writing on Corpus.nz
Posted: Monday March 30, 2020
Audible Children's Stories
In response to lockdowns throughout the world, Audible has made its children's stories open and free to all.
Posted: Monday March 30, 2020
New Zealand International Science Festival will be postponed until 2021
We regret to inform you that the New Zealand International Science Festival will be postponed until 2021, in light of th...
Posted: Friday March 27, 2020
Little libraries sidelined, but not all gloom
In one of the quirkiest sidelights of the national coronavirus lockdown, the books in some popular community mini-librar...
Posted: Friday March 27, 2020
Paintings colour landscape's meaning
Colin McCahon is considered one of New Zealand’s key 20th Century painters. To commemorate the centenary of his birth la...
Posted: Wednesday March 18, 2020
Change to programme of public events – COVID-19
Posted: Monday March 16, 2020
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Writers' residency
Opportunity for a Writers residency in Dunedin
Posted: Thursday March 12, 2020
English /Linguistics Seminar, Friday 13 March: two topics in medieval literature (Pamela Treanor and Roberto Suazo)
The Otago English and Linguistics Seminar series for semester 1, 2020 continues this week with shorter presentations by ...
Posted: Thursday March 12, 2020
A City as Writer's Workplace: Open Call 2020
The "Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature" program office announced the open call for applications for the project "A Cit...
Posted: Wednesday March 11, 2020
Dunedin: The Literary Jewel Half a World Away
Our ex-librarian volunteer Carol travelled to New Zealand, so just had to drop into the most distant (to us) Cities of L...
Posted: Tuesday March 10, 2020
Literary youth mentorship programme seeks emerging young writers
Four New Zealand secondary school students have an opportunity to be mentored by a professional writer in order to devel...
Posted: Monday March 9, 2020
Unique Ōtepoti 2020 - Celebrating cultural expression through music and performance
Unique Ōtepoti 2020 is an opportunity for young Dunedin creative performers to express their cultural identities across ...
Posted: Monday March 2, 2020
Listen, Memory
In September 2019 David Howard, representing Dunedin, took up a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk, Russia...
Posted: Sunday March 1, 2020
Blue Oyster Art Project Space News
Current and upcoming exhibitions plus a job opportunity
Posted: Thursday February 27, 2020