Working in Progess is an endeavour by one person to use policy, creativity and tenacity to make positive changes in New Zealand's arts sector.
so it was Saturday yesterday & I was in a good mood — put on make-up, my fuck-me-dress then drank a lot of wine & ate some food
me & Sliced beef with Béarnaise sauce were talking loud about love — that it’s fucking impossible, like I’m a really, really big hand & love is a supertiny glove
the more I drank the happier I was — & didn’t think at all about my love loss
— excerpt from ‘My Saturday Night’ in Bad Relationship Stories compiled by Drus Dreyden as a project of sensitiveboyfriend.com
The Auckland Art Precinct project encourages locals and visitors to come to area around the Auckland Art Gallery and make a tour of a range of galleries concentrated in that area. They hold a series of events called ‘Arts Sunday’ which involve gallery talks, catalogue giveaways, kids art classes, exhibition previews and the opportunity to engage with exhibiting artists.
The next Arts Sunday is on the 7th November, 2010.
![Black Grace Dance Company [via]Read a recently released report from Auckland City Council and Creative New Zealand about Aucklander’s attitudes to the arts.
The report found that 8 in 10 Aucklanders agree that the arts help define who we are as New Zealanders.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l96kd9iIkT1qbbe3qo1_500.jpg)
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Read a recently released report from Auckland City Council and Creative New Zealand about Aucklander’s attitudes to the arts.
The report found that 8 in 10 Aucklanders agree that the arts help define who we are as New Zealanders.
A workshop group meeting on Monday nights in Ponsonby, 7-8.15pm. Creative activities to exercise the right side of the brain and help get the juices flowing. Click here for more details.
A project currently in development, to amass and record NZ’s fashion history. The project will establish a website base (fashionmuseum.co.nz) with ongoing exhibitions and pop-up shows. The aim is to raise the profile of NZ fashion, record its development, share connections that people have with their clothes and encourage more intellectual discussion and thinking around fashion and its role in our society.
Supporting creative individuals in Auckland. Applications for this year’s programme are open now. Arts Regional Trust is a public organisation devoted to growing local creative industries in Auckland.
We should value creativity as a form of capital. Creativity is multifaceted resourcefulness. It is applied imagination using qualities such as intelligence, inventiveness and learning along the way. It is dynamic and context-driven: what is creative in one period or situation is not necessarily so in another. Crucially, creativity is a journey not a destination, a process not a status. Every creative output has a life cycle and, as time and experience of the innovation in action unfolds, it will itself need to be adapted and reinvented again. Creativity involves divergent or generative thinking and is linked to innovation, which demands a convergent, critical and analytical approach and ways of thinking that will adapt as the project develops. Being creative is an attitude of mind and a way of approaching problems that opens out possibilities. It is a frame of mind which questions rather than criticizes, which asks ‘Why is this so?’ and is not content to hear ‘It always has been like this.’ Creativity challenges not just what has already become a problem, but many things that seemingly work well. It has an element of foresight and involves a willingness to take measured risks, to stand back and not to pre-judge things.
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