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New Zealand Pacific Studio invites applications from poets
for its three-week Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship.

Deadline:
31 July 2015

We invite applications from creative practitioners who seek to make a connection with the Wairarapa and its history.

Join our inaugural Music Fellow, Jona Byron for an informal recital of songs and discussion of his creative process.

Pop-up exhibition of 100+ images from Susan diRende's residency at NZ Pacific Studio Artists' Residency Centre, Wairarapa, part of an ongoing 2015 project entitled 'A Year in Miniature'.
19 Tory St, Wellington, 3pm.

Join the Friends of the ANZAC Memorial Bridge and the local community for a memorial service at the beautiful ANZAC Memorial Bridge at 2pm on ANZAC Day, Saturday 25 April. Also join in a cup-of-tea at Pukaha Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre afterwards and see the culmination of 2015 ANZAC Fellow, artist Connah Podmore's project 'Writing to History'.

Join 2015 ANZAC Fellow Connah Podmore to write on beautiful postcards that will form part of an artwork and contribute to the ANZAC Day service at the ANZAC Memorial Bridge. Masterton Library, Friday 10 April, 11am; Eketahuna Library, Friday 17 April, 11am; and NZ Pacific Studio, Saturday, 18 April, 2pm. All Welcome.

Congratulations to Madeleine Slavick who has been selected for a three week Fellowship at NZ Pacific Studio.

Congratulations to Wellington-based multidisciplinary artist Connah Podmore, who has been awarded a three week Fellowship at NZ Pacific Studio.

You are invited to NZ Pacific Studio's open afternoon, 2:00 - 5:00pm. There will be a special artist's talk by Lavinia Winter Fellow, Emma Chalmers, and a special reading by R.A.K. Mason Writer's Fellow, Madeleine Slavick, at 2:30pm in the Clockmaker's Loft.

We are very pleased to announce that Emma Chalmers of Dunedin will be our next Lavinia Winter Fellow, in residence most of March 2015.

Previous R.A.K. Mason Fellow, Tracy Farr, has won the prestigious Sunday Star Times Short Story Award. With Tracy's short story, 'Once had me,' the nearby historic Norwegian church in Mauriceville is now living well beyond the bounds of its geography and history. With thanks to Fellowship sponsors Christine Hunt Daniell and Derek Daniell, and maybe even to the late R.A.K. Mason, the namesake of the Fellowship CLOSING THIS SUNDAY, 30 November, for 2014.

We invite applications for the ANZAC Fellowship 2015.

We invite applications for the R.A.K. Mason Writer's Fellowship from writers of all kinds.

Our call-out for applicants for the Lavinia Winter Fellowship closes on the 12th of October. If you are a woman aged under forty and are engaged with writing and/or the visual arts, be sure to apply.

In memory of Lavinia Winter who passed away before reaching forty, the Fellowship is generously offered by the Winter family to make a difference in the life of a young woman in the early stages of her career.

With humble thanks to the Winter family.

You are invited to visit NZ Pacific Studio.
Poetry Reading 2:30pm
Open Studios 2:00 - 5:00pm

Join us at Regent 3 Cinemas in Masterton on September 3rd at 7:30pm for 'The Lunch Box'--the film to open the International Film Festival. Refreshments served from 7pm.

Justine Fletcher, Friends of Aratoi Fellow, Opens her exhibition '607' at Aratoi Museum of Art and History, Friday 18 July, from 5pm. She is also giving a floortalk on Saturday the 19th at 2pm. All Welcome!

An opportunity to see artists at work and attend a special reading of short fiction.