APRA AMCOS and Recorded Music NZ are all wiggly with excitement to announce the winners for the 2020 NZ Children’s Music Awards - celebrating music written for children.

APRA Best Children's Song - Kath Bee and Doug Stenhouse for I Love Life (feat. Joelle)

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) joins the New Zealand and international film community in sadly acknowledging the passing of Bill Gavin. Our thoughts are with his close family and friends and we celebrate his achievements.

The Dame Malvina Major Foundation is offering talented young performing artists with a connection to Wellington up to $10,000 through its Arts Excellence Awards.

Miranda Easten completes New Zealand Music Month perfectly with her next single release.

Farewell Spit released today

- May 6th as single upon release for radio

"Farewell Spit is a record of ebbs, flows and stillness - imposing peaks, impossibly deep valleys and serene wide plains." - Weirdo Wasteland

New single release "Blue Pillow" comes 5 years since the Sou'Westers’ album "Going West" dropped in 2015.

Three of the world’s best violinists - Nicola Benedetti, Janine Jansen and Karen Goymo - will perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra over Queen’s Birthday weekend in a series of streamed concerts.

Waikato Museum educators are part of a national television series to support home and school-based learning which starts screening today.

The television series focusses on the concept of kaitiakitanga (guardianship) in its various forms and is being broadcast on Papa Kāinga TV.

The National Aquarium of New Zealand is encouraging Hawke’s Bay families to get reconnected with their aquarium. For a very limited time, families have the chance to snap up a half price membership offer to become Friends of the Aquarium.

New Hastings City Art Gallery curator Clayton Gibson counts himself as lucky to be part of an enthusiastic and highly skilled exhibitions team, who he can now see in person with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.