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Oceania Now: Contemporary Art from the Pacific - Christie's Paris online auction
Christie’s Paris has curated an exhibition and online auction entitled Oceania Now: Contemporary Art from the Pacific featuring many artists practising from New Zealand which they seek to bring to their international audience.
OUT NOW: Devotion by Hannah Kent
From the bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Devotion is a stunning story of girlhood and friendship, faith and suspicion, and the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love.
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery hosts London Pacific Fashion Week event
London Pacific Fashion Week will kick off this Friday with a colourful catwalk showcase of Kirrikin's SS23 collection. Founded by Amanda Healy, an award-winning fashion entrepreneur from the Wonnarua region in Australia, Kirrikin collaborates with contemporary Aboriginal artists to create luxury resort-ware.
A Taste of Live Music to Come in 2022
The year 2021 winds down leaving us no more certain about what lies ahead, but one thing we can be sure of is that creative talent from New Zealand and Australia continues to thrive, and we must support it here in the UK.
Cabaret queen Dolly Diamond lights up the FANZA Christmas party
London may be luminous with festive lights, but none was able to outshine Dolly Diamond as she glided into the FANZA Christmas party in a glittering golden gown.
New book ‘Looted Gold’ delves into mystery of the missing Kruger Millions
This week sees the publication of Looted Gold, a book written by New Zealanders Blake Wilkins and Mike Dwight to debunk the myth of the missing Kruger millions, and expose the efforts of President Paul Kruger’s oligarchic regime to plunder the wealth of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) before Kruger fled the country in May 1900.
Barry Humphries announces new UK tour
The Dame Edna Everage creator will be back on stage a decade after announcing his retirement. The Australian actor will tour the UK next year from April to June, mainly performing as himself but also as his alter egos such as Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
David Gulpilil, ‘one of the greatest artists Australia has ever seen’, dies after lung cancer diagnosis
David Gulpilil, the actor who lit up the screen in his 1971 debut film Walkabout and recently starred in a biographical documentary about his remarkable life, has died aged 68 after being diagnosed with lung cancer four years ago.
Festive Firebird - A Tribute To Ballet performance
A little magic was sprinkled when Tait Memorial Trust hosted Festive Firebird - an evening of music and ballet - at Leslie MacLeod Miller’s glorious and glittering salon in London.
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason serialised on BBC Radio 4
Sorrow and Bliss, the critically acclaimed debut novel by New Zealand author Meg Mason, is being serialised this week as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week.
Cate Blanchett to star with Ben Stiller in The Champions film adaptation
Hollywood stars Cate Blanchett and Ben Stiller are teaming up to turn the 1960s espionage television series The Champions into a film. In addition to acting, Stiller is directing the upcoming adaptation while Blanchett - an ambassador for the UK/Australia Season - is producing through her company, Dirty Films.
Hurry, before it's too late! Tickets selling fast for Jodie Comer's West End debut in Prima Facie
Tickets are selling at lightning speed to see Killing Eve star Jodie Comer make her highly-anticipated West End debut next year. Prima Facie is written by Australian-born Suzie Miller, a former criminal defence lawyer working in the human rights sector whose job required her to listen to people talk about their experiences of being sexually assaulted.
Built for Ballet by Leanne Benjamin hits the shelves
The dazzling new autobiography by Leanne Benjamin - former principal dancer at The Royal Ballet - is the talk of the dance world as it goes on sale on Monday 1 November.
Stars gather for the launch of Leanne Benjamin's autobiography, Built for Ballet
It was a full house at Australia House in London this week for the launch of Leanne Benjamin’s autobiography, Built for Ballet. As the High Commissioner for Australia George Brandis noted in his speech, the room was sparkling with ballet stars.
Sam Neill lights up screens in new series Invasion
Can Hollywood star and FANZA Arts Patron, Sam Neill, defend Oklahoma against a terrifying alien takeover? That is the question that lies at the heart of his exciting new television series, Invasion, in which the New Zealand actor plays Sheriff John Bell Tyson, who is tasked with exactly that.
Three Sisters - latest book from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The long-awaited arrival of the latest book by international bestselling author Heather Morris is finally here! Three Sisters is based on the lives of Holocaust survivors Cibi, Magda and Livia Meller, whom Morris met when she was promoting her bestselling novel The Tattooist Of Auschwitz.
Ōkārito Ways
British songwriter Larry Mindel has just released Ōkārito Ways, a love song to the wetlands of Southland’s beautiful but vulnerable Ōkārito Lagoon.
UK-Australia Season 2021-22 Launch 1 September
(An eye-witness account from your FANZA roving reporter) Mary Beard riddled with guilt. Leanne Benjamin teetering. Julia Gillard disbelieving. Barry Humphries quelling his inner Sir Les. And Professor Chris Gosden delivering an immutable truth.