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• *Ink : Dunedin's weekly entertainment guide
  Dunedin entertainment guide, with listings and information about concerts, gigs, performances, theatre, film, and exhibitions. Issues available in full-text.
  
  
• @MCH
  @MCH is published by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, and covers the Ministry's work in the culture and heritage sector. All issues are available in full-text.
  
  
• ADA message board
  Message board of Aotearoa Digital Arts Network. Site also has articles and interviews.
  
  
• Ao hou = The new world
  Te Ao Hou/The New World was published from 1952-75 by the Dept. of Māori Affairs to provide "interesting and informative reading for Maori homes". All issues available in full-text.
  
  
• Arlis : Arts Libraries Society, Australia & New Zealand
  Information about ARLIS/ANZ including projects, discussion forums, membership and conference details.
  
  
• Armageddon Expo
  Armageddon is a recurring popular-culture exhibition and fan convention with a particular focus on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, anime, manga and cartoons. Site includes event information and ticketing details.
  
  
• Arts : view beyond the plain
  Information and publicity about the Christchurch Arts Festival. Events by name and by date, venue map, bookings and contact details.
  
  
• Arts Access Aotearoa = Whakahauhau kātoa o hanga
  Arts Access Aotearoa is a charitable trust whose objectives are to ensure that people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts. The Trust promotes the following principles: that all people have a right to creative expression; that all people should be encouraged to develop their creativity; that people with limited access to the arts should be provided with opportunities to access the arts; that barriers restricting access to the arts should be removed. The site features its publications, programmes and news.
  
  
• Arts Centre : [web site]
  A Christchurch venue for New Zealand made arts and crafts, shopping, education, and entertainment. Contains information about the Centre, its heritage and history, the Artist in Residence programme, venues for hire, and events. Includes directory search and news.
  
  
• Arts Foundation
  Website describes the work of the Arts Foundation which celebrates and supports artist excellence across all art forms. Site has profiles/biographies of award winners who have contributed to the development of the arts in New Zealand.
  
  
• Arts Medicine Aotearoa NZ
  The mission of Arts Medicine Aotearoa NZ (AMANZ) is to encourage arts and health practitioners to work together towards better prevention and management of health issues. The site provides access to strategic and business plans; newsletters from No. 1, August 1998; and links to web sites specific to arts medicine.
  
  
• Arts online = Te hāpori o ngā toi
  The Ministry of Education in association with other organisations provides an online community with teaching resources for dance, drama, visual arts, art history, music and drama teachers in primary and secondary schools.
  
  
• Arts Promotion Trust
  An Arts Calendar and information resource for Northland. Lists arts and cultural events in Northland, arts news and opportunities for grants, awards and competitions.
  
  
• Auckland Debating Association (ADA) Incorporated
  This website is a personal project by Wayne McDougall. It provides information about the Auckland Debating Association and resources for preparing a debate. Also includes a who's who of New Zealand debating.
  
  
• Big Idea web : the home of NZ's creative community
  Online community encompassing the creative industries of New Zealand. The Big Idea is a project of The Arts Work Project, initiated by Creative New Zealand. The site provides access to current work and professional development opportunities, industry news, interviews and focuses on what is happening in New Zealand's creative sector.
  
  
• Brown Pages : an independent Māori and Pacific Island people's indigenous arts and media network
  Arts and media news and events, and an online newsletter. Includes Pacific news.
  
  
• College of Arts
  University of Canterbury's College of Arts. Includes information for prospective students, listings of the departments and schools and contact details for key staff.
  
  
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences constituent schools, degrees offered, programmes available and teaching methods. Information on various degree options and places of study.
  
  
• Community Arts Palmerston North
  Site features local Manawatu artists, performers, events and arts related activities. Includes searchable arts database and arts trail.
  
  
• Creative NZ : Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa
  Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, promotes the arts and supports the artists of New Zealand. Site includes information about Creative NZ, funding, initiatives, and resources.
  
  
• Creative People's Centre : a home, place and resource for the arts
  CPC is a community centre and web-based information service for people involved in the arts and creative industries. Contains articles focusing on arts related topics, information about the latest CPC events, and legal factsheets.
  
  
• Cultural icons : conversations with iconic people
  Audio and video interviews with significant contributors to the arts and culture in New Zealand. Includes news items, a list of resources consulted and an alphabetical index.
  
  
• Culture
  A web-based directory of culture, arts and heritage in the Whanganui region.
  
  
• DenisDutton.com
  Denis Dutton's personal site, including commentary, essays, book reviews and articles written by him. Also includes information about his philosophy courses.
  
  
• Faculty of Arts = Te Wahanga Tikanga Tangata
  University of Auckland's Faculty of Arts offers a range of qualifications in the social sciences, the humanities, languages and literatures, education and teacher training, music and the creative and performing arts. Information about courses; degrees and diplomas; admission and enrolment; seminars and events; and the Arts Students Centre. Online resources are available for some courses.
  
  
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences = Te Kura Kete Aroui
  University of Waikato's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences departments and courses, student and international student information, careers, research and publications, news. Link to Language Institute and University of Waikato at Tauranga website.
  
  
• Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
  Victoria University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences includes the departments of Anthropology, Art History, Asian Languages, Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, and Women's Studies; the schools of Education, English, Film and Theatre, European Languages, Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Māori Studies, Music, and Political Science and International Relations; the Asian Studies Institute; Stout Research Centre; Language Learning Centre; Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery; and Leisure and Heritage Studies. The site provides information on staff, teaching programmes, research, publications, boards and committees.
  
  
• Fringe
  Site features information about the current year's Festival, including a photo gallery.
  
  
• Goethe Institut Wellington
  Promotes the German language and fosters international cultural cooperation. An important goal is to promote international cultural cooperation by organising a broad variety of events to present German culture. Offers workshops and teacher training seminars for teachers of German as a second language, and also provides an extensive examination program.
  
  
• Hamilton Community Arts Council : HCAC
  HCAC promotes, represents and encourages community participation in the arts. Includes a 'What's on' page, arts noticeboard, and monthly newsletter. Provides information on membership, funding, mentoring opportunities and grants.
  
  
• Heritage. Art publications
  Collection of digitised visual arts publications primarily about the Canterbury region.
  
  
• Humanities research network = Te whatunga rangahau aronui
  The HRN, Humanities Society of New Zealand includes databases of organisations engaged in research in the humanities, people engaged in research and their areas of interest, funding opportunities and news.
  
  
• Humanities, Otago
  Information about schools and departments of the University of Otago's Humanities Division; faculty and staff; academic programmes; research; and alumni. It also includes news and events, and information about opportunities for international study.
  
  
• Hutt Valley Community Arts
  HVCA site aims to facilitate community art activities. Includes information on the Farsite Gallery and the Arts Hub; exhibitions, news and events; and online newsletter.
  
  
• Jennifer Ward-Leland official website
  Chronology of Jennifer Ward-Leland's professional roles and appearances in film, television, theatre, radio, and music.
  
  
• JET
  Produced for 15 to 25 year-olds, JET Magazine combines information on lifestyle, career, and personal issues with music, film, and fashion. Latest issue only available.
  
  
• Jitterati / Grant Buist
  Jitterati is a four-panel weekly comic strip that can be read online as a webcomic or in print in the Wellington arts newspaper, Capital Times. Website contains previously published comic strips.
  
  
• Kete Hamilton
  Digital knowledge basket of Hamilton memories maintained by Hamilton City Libraries. Describes memories of its communities through their stories, photographs, video and audio footage.
  
  
• Kiwi comics
  Collection of information and links regarding the New Zealand comics scene, including New Zealand comic bibliography and FAQs.
  
  
• Kiwiarts.com
  Links to New Zealand web sites about art and craft galleries, artists, crafts and music, musicians and bands. Includes book and movie reviews.
  
  
• Kura kete aronui : TKKA : graduate and postgraduate e-journal / Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  Te Kura Kete Aronui (TKKA) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal showcasing the work of University of Waikato Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences graduate and postgraduate students. All issues available in full-text.
  
  
• Māori art cyberwhare
  Links to sites displaying a variety of Māori arts.
  
  
• McDermott Miller Ltd : strategic planning and management consultancy
  Site has the quarterly Consumer Confidence Survey a key economic performance indicator for New Zealand. Also has information from the government funded Heart of the Nation project which looked at the creative industries in NZ.
  
  
• Ministry for Culture & Heritage = Te Manatū Taonga
  The Ministry for Culture and Heritage site includes information on New Zealand arts and history. It also includes online publications.
  
  
• New Zealand art and culture web directory
  A directory of New Zealand art and culture websites which is updated fortnightly, includes an online store and New Zealand auction site. Zeroland links to web pages, as well as to directories linking to such pages.
  
  
• New Zealand arts resources on the web
  A directory of web sites relating to the New Zealand arts: music, dance, visual arts, photography, crafts, festivals, Maori arts, theatre, and performing arts venues and listings.
  
  
• New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Materials : [web site] = Pu Manaaki Kahurangi Incorporated
  Association of professional conservators of cultural property. Contains Directory of conservators, Code of ethics, Constitution, and information on disaster recovery, conferences and membership. Includes members-only area.
  
  
• New Zealand International Arts Festival
  Website of the biennial Festival. includes programme information for the current festival.
  
  
• New Zealand listener
  The online edition of the New Zealand Listener, the country's only national, weekly current affairs and entertainment magazine. The site focuses on the arts, books and opinion content of the print edition, and is updated and archived at 7:00am every Monday.
  
  
• Paint Pit & Quayhole Gallery
  Paint Pit is an online and a physical art gallery. The gallery organises art groups, art classes, displays works of resident artists. Paint Pit has a newsletter entitled Quayhole newsletter. It has a calendar of events for art events occurring in Wanganui. Paint Pit promotes the fine arts and specialises in leasing and the sales of art.
  
  
• Spark : international festival of media, arts and design
  Festival showcasing national and international artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and media personalities. Includes programme of events for the current festival.
  
  
• Sport / New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
  New Zealand literary journal Sport contains poetry, short stories, novel extracts, essays and art. Issues are available in full-text.
  
  
• Talent On Line
  Provides details about people working in front and behind the scenes of the entertainment and advertising industries in Australia and New Zealand. The Talent section contains performing artists working in front of the camera, microphone or on stage. The Production section contains film crew, stage crew, production companies, casting people, illustrators, photographers, equipment hire and production services. The Function Planning section has bands, entertainers, dinner theatre shows, comedians, speakers, entertainment agents, MCs, function services and event managers.
  
  
• Taranaki Arts Community Trust
  TACT site has details of local artists, musicians, music and dance teachers, galleries, classes, resources; performance venues and a calendar of events.
  
  
• Toi Māori Aotearoa
  Charitable trust fostering the development of Māori arts, supported by Creative New Zealand through Te Waka Toi. National network of contemporary Maōri artists. Includes artist profiles and online gallery.
  
  
• Toi Ora Live Art Trust
  The Trust provides arts classes and resources to adults using mental health services. Site includes information about the Trust and its activities; gallery images; artist and tutor profiles; and online enrolment forms.
  
  
• War art
  Archives New Zealand site. Brings together a diverse collection of artworks covering major conflicts involving New Zealanders from World War One onwards. Includes artist's biographies.
  
  
• Website of the Wizard of New Zealand
  Introduces the Wizard of New Zealand (Christchurch), with information about his life, worldview and thoughts on cosmology. Includes images and a chatroom.
  
  
• Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design = Te Whare Takiura o Wikiriwhi
  Accredited to offer and award a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Master of Arts Degrees in Arts Administration and Arts Therapy, and a Master of Fine Arts.
  
  
• Wordworx
  "The latest hi-tech news and comment, spiritual inspiration, articles and resources relating to entertainment, culture, personal development and humour."
  
  
• www.artists.co.nz : providing information on the arts in Christchurch, New Zealand
  Directory of performance, visual and literary arts; listings of artists, venues, galleries, teachers, performance and events managers; concert diary; and current arts events in Christchurch with links to related sites.