Dorothy – 19/11/99 Heated discussion and opposition from primary teachers have followed recent Government plans to introduce national tests for children in all primary schools so that their progress can be measured against that of their peers. The present system of national testing Since 1995 tests have been conducted in a national representative sample of…
Conrad – 5/11/99 Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan Starring Bruce Willis, Toni Colette, Haley Joel Osmond. One criteria for judging a film can be the amount of time you spend thinking or talking about it afterwards, and on that count The Sixth Sense scores highly for me. In fact it stayed with me…
Reviewed by Juliet Neill – 8/10/99 Watea – performed by the inmates of Christchurch Women’s Prison Directed by Jim Moriarty in conjunction with the Christchurch International Festival of the Arts, at Christchurch Women’s Prison, Templeton, 22 July to 8 August 1999. July 27th was a snarling winter’s night. Numerous people left their cars on the…
NZine Editor – 27/8/99 On September 4 "The Dream of Bones", the first Internet interactive fantasy novel in New Zealand will appear in NZine. Ged Maybury Ged Maybury is no stranger to readers of NZine although they know him as Designasaurus, who writes the entertaining critiques of architecture, children’s playgrounds, supermarket trolleys, etc. Since 1986…
Richard Liddicoat – 9/7/99 A pilot Christchurch radio station will be the first in the country to showcase New Zealand music as its primary format. Aimed at youth and with a strong emphasis on radio education, The Switch 96 will also host programmes and broadcasts put together by schools and other youth-oriented organisations around Canterbury…
Val Elley – 9/7/99 What lies ahead for the New Zealand Graduate Woman? What are the employment opportunities? This two part article is based on a paper I presented at the IFUW Conference held at Graz, Austria, in August 1998. Part 1 – Graduate women in careers Val Elley To set the scene for this…
Warwick Elley – 2/7/99 Millions of people have heard Alan Duff’s name through his books and films, especially “Once were Warriors” and now “What becomes of the Broken Hearted?” In these books and films he shows his understanding of the difficult lives of disadvantaged families. Not so many people are aware of the work he…
Lee Harris – 18/6/99 A sparkling array of the very best New Zealand and international artists take centre stage in the 1999 Christchurch Arts Festival. For 18 days from July 21 to August 8 audiences will have the chance to enjoy more than 300 extraordinary theatre, music, literature, dance, jazz, cabaret, visual arts events and…
Dorothy – 23/4/99 His passionate desire to paint persisted even when in New Zealand being an artist was not regarded as “a proper job”. Art a fascination from childhood Bill Moore painting at Mount Cook Art shop windows and the McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch were magnets for Bill in his childhood. Drawing and painting…
Dorothy – 5/3/99 The craft of weaving a changing art form since the 1950s. Elizabeth Arnold in her studio The work of Elizabeth Arnold, well-known New Zealand weaver, has reflected the changes. It all began at the Ilam School of Fine Arts. In 1965, while a student of the Ilam School of Fine Arts at…
