Breadcrumbs List.
Arts and culture
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Raranga: Weaving identity through design
14 May 2025
Leah Kampkes (Ngāti Manu, Ngāpuhi) has created a card game that helps inform Tangata Tiriti on Māori culture, the Treaty of Waitangi, and pressing issues – in a safe and informed way.
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Cooking up a literary treat: Julie Biuso graduates in creative writing
13 May 2025
Well-known New Zealand food writer Julie Biuso has added a dash of extra creativity to her repertoire. She will graduate with a Master of Creative Writing in the May ceremony.
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Pacific daughter welcomed home at University of Auckland
13 May 2025
Taiarn Tavui crossed the stage to receive her Arts degree, grateful for her mother’s unwavering support—and for finding her Pacific home.
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Remembering Professor Ivo Holmqvist
7 May 2025
Obituary: Ivo Holmqvist came to the University of Auckland in 1972 to run the Scandinavian Studies Department with wife Ingwor.
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University talent on show at Writers Festival
6 May 2025
As usual, the annual treat for booklovers, the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki, features plenty of University of Auckland involvement.
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Tiopira McDowell: someone to celebrate in New Zealand Music Month
5 May 2025
It’s Aotearoa NZ Music Month and with Dr Tiopira McDowell the winner of the 2025 Taite Music Prize, we ask if his music and academia ever meet.
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Inside the art store
1 May 2025
As part of the regular My Space series, UniNews takes a look inside the art store, where the University's art taonga take their rest.
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Students’ musical adventures in a Viennese café
29 April 2025
It seems like a dream to see an opera by Mozart that no one in the world has ever seen before.
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International showing for powerful exhibition
29 April 2025
The Gus Fisher Gallery has achieved a remarkable first: an international showing for a groundbreaking exhibition launched at the gallery in June 2024 and developed in partnership with City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi.
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Ordinary people, real power: can democracy be more democratic?
28 April 2025
Ingenious podcast: Citizens' Assemblies – ordinary people coming together to make tough political decisions – are gaining traction in a world where traditional democracy is under fire.
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The real world 'manfluencers' among us
13 April 2025
Opinion: The very same masculinist ideology portrayed in the much talked-about show ‘Adolescence’ is espoused in the words and actions of powerful adult men on the world’s largest political stages, says Nicola Gavey.
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Graduate is finalist for project honouring Sāmoan culture
11 April 2025
University of Auckland graduate Lalitpat Chomchoei has been selected as a finalist for a major Australasian design and architecture award.