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• @Massey arts quarterly / Massey University
  @Massey Arts Quarterly provides news and information to the arts, music and design communities in the Wellington region. Latest issue only available; also available via email subscription.
  
  
• @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 : Aotearoa Digital Arts Network
  Message board of Aotearoa Digital Arts Network with open link directory article library.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 of Christchurch
  The Arts Centre is one of Christchurch's most significant cultural attractions. The distinctive gothic revival buildings are a colourful venue for arts, crafts and entertainment. The site has sections on: events, history, venue hire, merchandise and the Artist in Residence.
  
  
• Arts Foundation of New Zealand
  Describes the work of the AFNZ, an independent charitable trust. The Foundation aims to support artists from all disciplines and periodically makes awards from its Edowment Fund. Site has profiles/biographies of the Icon award winners (artists at the highest level of their careers), Laureate award winners (mid-career artists) and Governors' award winners (individuals or institutions which 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
  Provides online teaching and professional resources for teachers, including interactive support services. Product of professional development contract between UNITEC Institute of Technology and the New Zealand Ministry of Education.
  
  
• 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 Maori 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.
  
  
• Comics.org.nz
  Collection of information and links regarding the New Zealand comics scene, including New Zealand comic bibliography and FAQs.
  
  
• Creative New Zealand : 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• f*ink : Dunedin's weekly entertainment guide
  Dunedin entertainment guide, with listings of concerts, gigs, performances, theatre, film, and exhibitions.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Fuel4arts
  Delivers free audience and market development tools and ideas to professional arts marketers and artists. Operates as an online community with 16202 regular members from all areas of the global arts and cultural industry.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• MOSAIC, Manawatu One Stop Arts Information Centre
  Local Manawatu artists, performers, events and arts related activities. Developed alongside the Tuia website (for Māori artists and performers).
  
  
• Nelson Bays Arts
  This site has been produced in conjunction with the book "Nelson regional guide book : art in its own place" produced by the Nelson Bays Arts Marketing Network. Its purpose is to provide a framework for exploring art in the Nelson region at your own pace. There are listings for art studios and galleries, including Māori art, and listings for hospitality providers, including cafés, wineries and accommodation. The site also includes information about Nelson and its heritage, and a section on cultural tourism.
  
  
• 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 International Arts Festival
  Information about the New Zealand International Arts Festival, including 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.
  
  
• New Zealand Professional Conservators Group : Pu Manaaki Kahurangi Incorporated
  Association of professional conservators of cultural property. Directory of conservators.
  
  
• Package.co.nz : an urban survival kit
  Provides information and reviews on art, music, films, books, culture, design and places of entertainment. Includes event guides for Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton and Wellington.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Pander OS 2.0
  A journal of ideas, art and literature from New Zealand. More than eighty articles from the Pander print publication have been re-released on the Pander online.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Tai Poutini Arts Project
  Funded by Creative New Zealand through the Regional Strengths Strategy, the Project aims to increase arts based tourism in the West Coast Region by supporting the professional development of visual and performing artists. The site highlights some of the artists and provides directories of art organisations and retail outlets.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities
  Information about the establishment, membership, aims and activities of Te Whainga Aronui, including links to international organisations, and the Council's policy documents and submissions.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Tuia
  Website for Manawatu Māori artists and performers, includes performing and visual arts and crafts.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Wizard of New Zealand
  The official website of The Wizard of New Zealand (Christchurch). The site offers information about the Wizards view of the cosmos, articles, online shop, documents, links to overseas wizards.
  
  
• 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.