Events, News and Comment
Arts and Schools
- Government backs down on some changes to NCEA arts but academic sounds warning
- Opinion: Peter O’Connor – Why are we not resourcing all teachers to be creatives?
- Teachers hope to end “near death” of arts in school
- Time for art and history to rhyme
- Government arts funding boost lacks vision
- UNESCO panel to look at Te Rito Toi concept
- How schools kill creativity
- Confronting the "incredibly effective" destruction of creativity
- Schools - where creativity goes to die
- Easing Children back into schools
- Choosing a school: Survey reveals what Kiwi parents think is most important
- NZEI Te Rito Toi Webinar - Returning to school through love and care
- How to imagine a better world: rich resources for teachers
- Māori values added to world social studies kit
- Ready Steady Learn with Marta Estellés
- Irish Teacher: The most important skill for children to learn? Compassion
Arts and the Homeless
- Finding hope on Skid Row
- Making friends and breaking boundaries
- A Kiwi in Los Angeles' Skid Row
- Making Art on LA’s Skid Row
- On Skid Row - the New Zealanders at the heart of the 'worst manmade disaster in the US'
- How long does it take to make a friend?
Arts and Wellbeing
- Joy, Colour, Wonder, Fun, Life: Wellbeing and the Arts
- The arts are vital to wellbeing, but where’s the Govt support?
- Peter O'Connor - the arts in healing
- Youth at risk to benefit from creative partnership
- We deserve better than Auckland’s art vandal
Arts Post-Disaster
- Peter O'Connor: connecting to grief through creativity
- Don’t let hope be a casualty of the virus
- No words
- Teacher Staffroom Episode 13: Supporting teachers through a crisis
- A Teaspoon of Light with Peter and Cait O'Connor
Creativity
- World Creativity and Innovation Week/Day
- 11 Dimensions of Creativity Symposium
- 11 Dimensions of Creativity animations
- Why creativity is vital to our tamariki in a post-pandemic climate
Social Transformation
- Planet FM 104.6’s KickArts with The Centre for Arts and Social Transformation
- Raising the Bar Auckland Home Edition 2021: Are terrorists monsters? Or are they ordinary people?
- Public v private: parents urged to consider children's needs rather than prestige when deciding on schools
- Pākehā must take the lead against racism
- Pākehā should take the lead against racism - a korero with 95bFM
Covid-19 Response
- Vaccinate now and let children out of lockdown
- The education tool addressing COVID-19 student anxiety
- Arts: Healing balms for a sick world
- Twelve Questions with Professor Peter O'Connor
- An arts-based approach to student resilience
- Report finds 57% of parents are worried their kid's learning has suffered during the pandemic
Events and conferences hosted by CAST
- Te Rito Toi: The Twice Born Seed public lecture series
- Creative Schools: A Blaze of Colour Conference
- ADSA Conference 2022 (Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies)
- A Teaspoon of Light book launch - Telling the Untold panel discussion
- Being Asian in Aotearoa: Moving Between Cultures Through the Arts
- International Teaching Artists Conference (ITAC7)