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Email Catch-up, December 2006

aaa Launches its First Arts About Auckland Initiative
 - Regional Brochure Display Service
Presenting your product or service in a professional manner to Auckland residents as well as international and domestic visitors in the right place and time is a real challenge. Our service, developed in conjunction with Jasons Travel Media and marketed under the name Arts About Auckland, provides the solution. Brochure displays comprise high visibility, visitor frequented locations throughout the Auckland region providing you with the opportunity to present your product or service to arts friendly customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For further details and to book your space, contact Jasons Travel Media on 021 678 791 or 021 995 352. aaa members receive a 10% discount rate off standard prices Do you have a specific outlet or site where you want your brochures displayed? Or do you know of any outlets / venues frequented by the wider arts community where the Arts About Auckland racks could be displayed? If so, please contact clive.j@jasons.com

FULL HOUSE - New Arts Marketing Resource Published
Creative New Zealand and the Australia Council for the Arts have joined forces to publish an arts marketing resource, FULL HOUSE: Turning Data into Audiences. FULL HOUSE is a practical guide to using box office data on customers in order to facilitate audience development and effective arts marketing. It looks at issues surrounding ticketing, online marketing and CRM (Customer Relationship Management). It will also include specific chapters focusing on the New Zealand context. FULL HOUSE is an updated version of the 1994 book Boxing Clever, published by Arts Council England. The manual has been written by Tim Roberts from Arts, Research and Ticketing Services in Australia, Roger Tomlinson from ACT Consultant Services in the UK, and Vicki Allpress, Marketing Manager for NBR New Zealand Opera.

The Dome is Here - Auckland War Memorial Museum's Grand Atrium Project
At 10am on Saturday 9 December, after twelve years of continuous building work, and fundraising of roughly $113 million over the same period, Auckland War Memorial Museum opened the doors to the brand new Dome bringing the Stage II Grand Atrium Project to a glorious and welcome conclusion. The Museum's new spaces including two basements for collection storage, additional café, retail and education spaces, a 200-seat auditorium and a rooftop events centre seating 450.

Inaugural Awards of $125,000 - a Shared Surprise for Five Artists
The New Generation Awards are a joint initiative between the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and Freemasons New Zealand. As with other Arts Foundation Awards, the inaugural New Generation recipients were selected without their knowledge - meaning that the Awards come as a surprise to them and the nation. With five donations of $25,000 made to artists who have demonstrated excellence in the early stages of their careers, this Award will allow the recipients to invest in the development of their careers, through the creation of new work or by helping to establish other opportunities that will enrich their chosen practice. The recipients were Eve Armstrong, Warren Maxwell, Tze Ming Mok, Joe Sheehan, Taika Waititi, and the awards were announced 22 November.

Nicolaus Schafhausen, Director of Witte de With, visits New Zealand
Nicolaus Schafhausen, the artistic and financial director of Witte de With, centre for contemporary art in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is touring New Zealand thanks to the ARTSPACE and Creative New Zealand International Visitors Programme and the generous support of the Goethe-Institut Wellington. Schafhausen (b. 1965) is an experienced curator, speaker and advisor in the visual arts field. He has directed several institutions in Germany and initiated projects and publications in and outside of Europe. Schafhausen was director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (1999 - 2005), and he has been the founding director of the initiative for a European Kunsthalle in Cologne since 2005. Schafhausen is the Curator of the German Pavilion for the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. His Auckland lecture is Monday 18 December, 6pm at ARTSPACE. For more information, phone 303 4965 or email ida@artspace.org.nz

Snippets

• aaa Executive Committee member Lloyd Williams became the new chair of SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music in November

• The newest aaa Executive Committee member Marc Laureano is recently appointed Marketing Manager for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

• aaa Adviser Sarah Dugdale is leaving her role as Arts Adviser for Rodney District in January to take up a similar role at North Shore City

• New Papakura District Council Arts Adviser Rhoda Fowler has joined aaa as an Adviser to the Executive Committee

• There will be a new format to the aaa website by the end of the year, with infrastructure that will enable us to further develop our resources for the arts community

• Applications are sought from published New Zealand writers to spend six months in the countryside near Cork, Ireland, from July 2007. The prestigious Rathcoola Residency provides self-contained accommodation, a stipend equivalent of $A20,000 and return airfare

• A workshop for dance teachers of children is being offered Wed to Friday 31 Jan - 2 Feb 1pm to 3pm at The Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts Dance Studios Entry One, Carrington Rd, Mt Albert, Auckland. The facilitator is Chris Jannides and the cost is $70 plus GST. The workshop series focuses on fun movement-games that stimulate and excite young people from primary through to secondary level, offering ways of understanding creative expression through dance. Register online or phone 361 1000

• Objectspace, "under the astute directorship of Philip Clarke," has been declared Best Arts Institution in the December Metro magazine

• Instead of closing at the end of 2006, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki will remain open into 2007

• The November edition of CS Arts - available in PDF - is focused on theology through art. Included also is a special focus on the major showcasing of the nation's art at Te Papa. Damian Skinner talks to Jonathan Mane-Wheoki about Toi Te Papa # 2. CS Arts is published by chrysalis seed trust

• The first deadline for 2007 applications to the International Writers' Programme2007 is 15 December. This programme, delivered by the New Zealand Book Council in conjunction with Creative New Zealand's Audience and Market Development initiatives, provides New Zealand writers with support to attend international literary festivals. Writers on promotional visits connected with the international publication of their work are also eligible to apply for assistance. To apply: director@bookcouncil.org.nz