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Nathaniel Kahn: My father, my architect

January 17, 2011 by  
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Nathaniel Kahn is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated maker of documentary films. His journey to understand his distant father, the legendary modern architect Louis Kahn became the film ‘My Architect’.

Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift

January 16, 2011 by  
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Natalie Jeremijenko’s unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting “fish,” planting fire-hydrant gardens and more.

Chris Abani: Muses on Humanity

January 6, 2011 by  
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Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It’s “ubuntu,” he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

Red Dust Role Models

December 28, 2010 by  
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“Red Dust Role Models seek to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged youth living in remote communities. Each year, they conduct around 12 tours to remote communities around Australia and now internationally, in Fiji and India. As part of these tours, Red Dust Role Models visit remote communities and deliver programmes in the areas […]

Sixdays Old Graffiti

January 16, 2009 by  
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Continuing on from yesterday’s blog and highlighting some thoughts from the article written by Peter McLennan in 1998 called ‘Bombing Shelter – Graffiti Art in Aotearoa’ (Pavement Magazine) we’re able to read views expressed by graffiti artists and make a note of the efforts of community agencies to minimise the effects of widespread graffiti.

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