A photojournalism exhibition opening at Britomart on 24 May will give Aucklanders the opportunity to reflect on the stories of Cantabrians who lived through the earthquakes, and discover universal lessons learned from the aftermath.

The ‘legal highs’ industry has admitted to TV3’s The Vote that their products are more dangerous than ordinary cannabis - and advised: "If you want to get rid of synthetic cannabis, the best way is to decriminalise natural cannabis."

The countdown to the Rialto Channel 48Hours Filmmaking Contest is on, and AUT University is excited the Auckland leg of the national competition will now call the AUT Sir Paul Reeves Building home.

With ambitious sopranos, gossipy mezzos, uneasy baritones and those infamously charming tenors, a full range of talent will be let out of the box in two short works presented by the Opera Factory in the inaugural season of the Opera Box.

Media Design School has conquered Los Angeles and returned with not one BUT seven Los Angeles Movie Awards for short films Shelved and Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game.

Surf City will be releasing their second album We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This in August - via Arch Hill in New Zealand and Fire in the US/Europe.

The band have had a bit of a break and now they are back, having recorded their album in New York, New Zealand and South Korea.

Cantores Choir, affiliated to the Otago University Students Association (OUSA), is excited to announce a charity fundraiser, 'The Nine Faces Of The Octagon', the story of the iconic Octagon, past, present, and future, told via an arts-fusion spectacular, with music, dance, drama, comedy and illum

Kiwis have chosen the era that gave us disco, heavy metal, funk and punk and as their favourite decade of song in the recent Share a COKE and a Song survey for COCA-COLA.

Garin College led the field at the Smokefreerockquest regional final at Nelson’sTheatre Royal on Friday night, with winners of both sections of the teen music event coming from the same school that produced 2011 national winner The Peasants.