# NZ Pacific Studio is a multicultural Residency Centre providing working space to international creative practitioners in the Wairarapa and Tararua regions. - **Email:** support@example.com - [New Zealand Pacific Studio | New Zealand Artist Retreat] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/contact/apply.html): Apply for a Residency with our programme in New Zealand, or sponsor a Fellowship to fuel a creative project. - [Vera Ellen our Inaugural Singer Songwriter in Residence] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/971470): NZ Pacific Studio has selected Flying Nun artist Vera Ellen as our inaugural Singer-Songwriter in Residence for 2023. - [Vera Ellen] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/970820): Singer-Songwriter Residency - [Film Fundraiser, 20 Aug, at Regent 3 Cinemas, Masterton] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/970299): RADICAL film benefit for NZ Pacific Studio as part of the NZ International Film Festival. Radical won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival!! The film stars Eugenio Derbez (CODA) as a Mexican teacher who thinks outside the box. Sunday, 20 August, 3pm - with snacks from 2.30. Tickets $20 from Regent 3 Cinemas from 3 August. Film in Spanish, with English subtitles. - [Nau mai, haere mai! All welcome to our July AGM] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/969206): New Zealand Pacific Studio will be holding our AGM on Tuesday the 25th of July, at 6:00pm. This year’s AGM is being kindly hosted at the Kahungunu ki Wairarapa office, Whakaoriori (Masterton). If you plan to attend, please let us know by the 20th of July by emailing us at info@artistresidency.org.nz. - [Shortlist announced for 2023 Singer-Songwriter Residency] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/968724): Kia ora. NZ Pacific Studio is pleased to announce the shortlist: -Maggie Cocco (USA/NZ) -Vera Ellen (NZ) -Callum Lee (NZ) -Courtney Naera (NZ) Thank you to each and every person who applied for this award. We have felt honoured to review the applications from around Aotearoa and the world and are thrilled by the quality and diversity of the musicianship. We will be announcing the winner soon! (Pictured is the cottage in Greytown where the resident will be based in August) - [Applications are open for our 2023 Singer-Songwriter Residency] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/965823): New Zealand Pacific Studio invites applications for this 2-week residency in the last two weeks of August 2023. This residency includes complimentary accommodation in Greytown, Wairarapa, a studio space to write and practice in, a modest stipend, an opportunity to give two public (yet intimate) performances, and participating in a collaborative songwriting workshop with local musicians. Here's what applicants need to know: https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/page/576150 - [Juliette MacIver] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/963860): R.A.K. Mason Writer's Residency - [Natasha Lampard] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/963859): Te Ao o Te Pūkeko Residency - [Juliette MacIver awarded 2023 R.A.K. Mason Writer's Residency] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/963855): NZ Pacific Studio has awarded Juliette MacIver the 2023 R.A.K. Mason Writer’s Residency. The author of 20 picture books and a featured writer at the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival, Juliette MacIver won the 2022 Global Children’s Entertainment Awards - Picture Book of the Year with The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist. The selection committee saw Juliette as keen to delve into new writing genres, which embodies the spirit of R.A.K. Mason - during the residency, Juliette will shift to writing for older children (aged 9-13), working on a seven-book series set on seven islands. For community engagement, Juliette will lead a storytelling with young children (10am), and a workshop for teens and adults (11.30am), through Wairarapa Library Service, Wairarapa Word, and Almo’s Books, at Greytown Library, 23 May. The R.A.K. Mason Residency has been supported by generous (and anonymous!) members of the Wairarapa community since 2014. NZ Pacific Studio is also grateful t - [Natasha Lampard awarded 2023 Te Ao o Te Pūkeko Residency] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/963854): NZ Pacific Studio has awarded Natasha Lampard (Whakatōhea, Ngāpuhi, Pākehā) the 2023 Te Ao Te O Pūkeko Residency. Natasha co-founded Webstock and Lil Regie, created Extraordinary Tales of Strength & Daring, and was named ‘Inspire Wellington Ambassador’ by the mayor for services to Pōneke. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing. During her residency in April in West Taratahi, Wairarapa, she will work on her manuscript on motherhood and language/identity, and will engage with Hurunui-O-Rangi Marae. “To have not only a room of one’s own in which to write, but the very special privilege of time in which to do it: what an extraordinary thing,” said Natasha. “Massive mihi to the donors for the invaluable support and recognition of the expansive power of stories and art.” Sponsors Gaye Sutton and Michael Woodcock: “We really enjoyed reading Natasha’s project proposal and are looking forward to meeting - [NZ Pacific Studio Re-opens] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/961312): After a hiatus due to the pandemic, our international arts residency programme re-opens with two residency opportunities for Tangata Whenua and Writers. We invite sponsors for additional residencies, and we invite members for the 2023 year. - [Applications now open for 2023 Te Ao o Te Pukeko Residency!] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/958795): Open to creative people from Aotearoa, this two-week residency is offered between the 13th and the 30th of April. An amazing opportunity, though applications are closing on the 31st of January 2023 so make sure you jump in quickly and check it out. For more details on this residency and how to apply, please go to: - [Applications open for NZ Pacific Studio 2023 RAK Mason Writer's Residency] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/958760): Open to writers in Aotearoa and abroad. The 3-week residency is offered in May 2023. Application deadline: 31 January 2023. Many thanks to our kind - and anonymous - donor for supporting this opportunity. For more information: - [Thank You, Cross Creek Blues Club!] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/958482): We are incredibly appreciative of the Cross Creek Blues Club's generous donation of $1,500 to our music fellowship fund. We are sad to say farewell to your wonderful club which supported and encouraged live music in the Wairarapa for many years, and we intend to continue the success you had dating back to the late 1990’s.  - [New Board Members Announced] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/914336): NZ Pacific Studio turns 20 years old and announces new Board - [ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING -- 26 July 7pm] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/905796): NZ Pacific Studio will hold its AGM on Monday 26 July, 7pm at REAP Wairarapa, 340 Queen St, Masterton All welcome AGENDA Present Apologies Confirmation of Minutes of previous AGM Matters arising Chairman’s Report for 2020 Confirmation of Chairs report Financial Review for 2020 Confirmation of 2020 Financial Review Appointment of Auditor for 2021 Board resignations Nominations of new Board members Nomination of Office Bearers Any other business - [Artist's ANZAC Flags to fly at Bridge, Pukāha & across 6 Towns] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/894439): NZ Pacific Studio and the Friends of ANZAC Bridge present this beautiful community arts initiative led by portrait artist Esther Bunning, our 2020/2021 ANZAC Bridge Fellow and NZ Photographer of the Year. - [ALLSORTS - 2020/2021 Music Fellowship] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/892390): NZ Pacific Studio & Wairarapa Community Orchestra welcome you to ALLSORTS -- music for everyone!! - [Music Fellowship - Application deadline 1 August 2020] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/865527): New Zealand Pacific Studio Artist Residency Programme invites applications from creative practitioners working in music for the Music Fellowship in Wairarapa, New Zealand. Open to NZ-based artists only. Emerging and established practitioners are welcomed to apply. The three-week opportunity must be taken up before 30 Nov 2020. Supported by Carterton Creative Communities Scheme and Cross Creek Blues Club. Application deadline: 1 August 2020, midnight, NZ time. For details: https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/page/576150 - [2020 RAK Mason Fellowship - open for applications] (https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/blog/866826): RAK MASON FELLOWSHIP (since 2014) Open to fiction writers and poets based in Aotearoa New Zealand only. Application deadline: 1 August 2020 Residency period: 3 weeks (not between 15 Dec - 15 Jan) With thanks to generous sponsors from the Wairarapa community,  the Fellow will live in a self-contained rural cottage hosted by people with an interest in supporting the arts. The purpose of this RAK Mason Fellowship is to support writers by giving them time and space to focus on their project, and to honour one of New Zealand’s foremost writers, RAK Mason (1905-1971), with his intense energy, commitment to literature, and his interest in the ways different literary forms inform each other. Applicants can be at any stage in their creative ‘careers.’ For more information, visit our website: