"It’s not about the applause or the limelight; it’s about the growth that flourishes in the quiet moments.” Student Archer Bernards wrote a wonderful, and timely, monologue about the value of theatre in his life. Shared with permission.
https://t.co/juZF5vfJaK
Pouwhenua: Marking and storying the ancestral landscape · Indigenous communication landscapes. Important new paper by Margaret Forster and Peter Meihana out now. https://t.co/f5PUx8CgMl
Out now! How art drives change: Special issue on The Aesthetics of Creative Activism, guest eds Elspeth Tilley & @NickHFHolm 🎉Includes fantstic open-access thinking from Sondra Bacharach (VUW) and Mark Harvey (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Auckland U) too. https://t.co/bzrRjSQHq0
"It’s difficult to work in theatre without good communication, so the degree allows people to develop a skill that helps them for life." https://t.co/GnjFQLtIsu
"Theatre education is inherently about relating to others.... It is grounded in dialogue and is all about listening. It’s a mode of learning that requires empathy and critical thinking." https://t.co/lFJzTI1DPi
@JamesWenley As do we with you. And this hurts us all, the whole nation now and into the future suffers when the crucial value of the arts to wellbeing, healing, social cohesion, decolonisation, and so, so much more, is not understood or is ignored.
“The darkness that is us, must inevitably arc into light.
Ki te whaiao, ki te ao mārama.”
Kurangaituku, Whiti Hereaka
(Doing my bit to increase the Māorification around here ❤️🤍🖤😤)
NZ unis didn't get the Covid wage subsidy - but everyone else did. With funds returned that were not needed or improperly claimed amounting to $800m, just a fraction of that would #saveVUW and #saveOtago. There is $, there are fixes - is govt hearing us? https://t.co/2hpX6kfuE7
Are you interested in how writing for the stage is different? This new book is the first about embodied playwriting. It has lots of practical exercises and insights, including a chapter by Elspeth Tilley on writing social justice plays. @MasseyHumSocSci https://t.co/Xv4Jsy4tLo
"The late physicist Sir Paul Callaghan had a vision for New Zealand as “the place talent wants to live”. However, I fear that the continuous underfunding of Kiwi universities takes us in the opposite direction." https://t.co/bPm3ppYOgl
Thread on ecosystems and culture and knowing how to read. Wanna be a backwater? Then don't fund arts. Half the Wellington bureaucracy (the innovative half) come out of the humanities.
Interested in an international study experience? The world is open again and our students are making the most of it. @MasseyUni @MasseyHumSocSci https://t.co/kj401t2Dev
Come write your play with us! We have awesome playwrights available to supervise your theatrical masterpiece in our Master of Creative Writing. Applications close on 31 October for study commencing 2024. Get working on that portfolio! Deets here: https://t.co/VdvdDV5ksL
Art saves lives. Check out this new post about the amazing creative activism we discovered on our @educationnz PMSLA trip to @Uniandes in Colombia, in the @MasseyUni Expressive Arts blog. https://t.co/bpsRlye2Lu
How exactly does art work upon the world? A new open access article by @NickHFHolm & Elspeth Tilley on the aesthetics of creative activism just came out in @JAestheticsArtC There will also be a whole special issue coming soon, stay tuned for more. https://t.co/ExAQ1FPKTD