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Wikuki Kingi: carving a new creative path
1 December 2021
Wikuki Kingi is the new Kaiārahi for the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries (CAI).
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Diane Brand: childhood home a catalyst for a career
1 December 2021
Professor Diane Brand says the move from professional architect to academia was liberating. Now she’s taking a step in another direction.
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Robert Ellis (1929-2021): committed to biculturalism and ethical arts practice
30 November 2021
The University community is saddened to learn of the loss of one of its most important former staff, Emeritus Professor Robert Ellis, who died on 23 November in Auckland, aged 92.
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Jazz students in lockdown blow teacher’s socks off
23 November 2021
If there is a silver lining to the 2021 lockdown, Dr Olivier Holland from the School of Music, has seen it in a record-breaking number of A-plus jazz music compositions by Stage 2 students this semester.
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Ones to watch: meet Auckland's 40 Under 40
8 November 2021
They are the trailblazers, innovators and bright young professionals who are changing the status quo. The University of Auckland’s 40 Under 40 list for 2021 provides a glimpse into New Zealand’s rising stars and leaders.
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Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses
5 November 2021
Opinion: Timothy F Welch explains how digging deep to address our massive car addiction will help us meet climate goals – and may also save local businesses.
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Kate Bell: choir director in tune with communities
4 November 2021
It took a nudge from staff in the University of Auckland School of Music to get Kate Bell where she is today – teaching singing to the masses.
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Mark Beehre: doctor turned artist documents lives of gay men
4 November 2021
Mark Beehre's book profiles the lives of gay men living in a time when homosexuality is legal. It follows on from his book on gay men who lived in a time when it wasn't.
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Ngārara in the Raukumara
1 November 2021
A new documentary lays bare the distress and urgency felt as myrtle rust compounds an already precarious situation for threatened native species - one of the first creative projects commissioned by Toi Taiao Whakatairanga, a cross-disciplinary collaborative research project hosted by Creative Arts and Industries.
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Lama Tone's inspiring story: from rugby to architecture
1 November 2021
Lama Tone was inspired by the buildings he saw all over the world as an international rugby player. Now he's an architecture lecturer who brings a Pacific lens to housing.
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Opera singer and teacher appointed to NZ Opera board
27 October 2021
Dr Te Oti Rakena, senior lecturer in Vocal Studies at the School of Music, has been appointed to the board of the NZ Opera.
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A new and very contemporary take on the quarter acre dream
6 October 2021
A photo of a bedroom featuring a sleeping person in bed, houseplants, and a print of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Broadacre City’ - his plan for a ‘perfect but very imperfect community’ - is this year’s winner of the Simon Devitt Prize for Photography.
