Breadcrumbs List.
Arts and culture
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Gridiron Capital: how American football became a Sāmoan game
23 August 2022
Senior lecturer in Pacific Studies, Dr Lisa Uperesa, launched her new book 'Gridiron Capital' with her aiga, friends and colleagues to a full house at the Fale Pasifika.
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Reclaiming a te ao Māori approach to injury recovery
22 August 2022
A whānau-centred health programme designed to help Māori recover more swiftly from injury is being piloted by the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries in partnership with ACC.
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Exhibition captures lesser known and entangled histories
18 August 2022
Creation Stories, an exhibition by Dr Karamia Müller and Simon Denny, visualises our lesser known histories and connections between Sāmoa, German speaking Europe, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
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English Premier League fails NZ football fans
18 August 2022
Opinion: Rights to the English Premier League are now with Sky Sport. Neal Curtis asks why New Zealand sports fans should have to accept something so second rate.
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Emily Bell wins prestigious internship
16 August 2022
Dreams don’t often begin with the promise of cupcakes, but Emily Bell will tell you that’s how hers started.
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Sondheim, my teacher
12 August 2022
Dr Gregory Camp, who will steer an Auckland Writers Festival event that pays homage to the late, great Stephen Sondheim, credits Sondheim as being one of the most significant influences on him as a teacher.
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We need to recognise Indigenous design
10 August 2022
Opinion: Design academics and practitioners need to reflect on the politics of design, says Dr Diana Albarrán González.
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How learning jazz is a study of the self
10 August 2022
Internationally renowned jazz pianist and composer, Michael Cain, is visiting the School of Music where he will be teaching jazz students how learning jazz is a study of the self.
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Poetry is the best medicine
10 August 2022
Visitors to two central Auckland hospitals will be able to read the work of some of Aotearoa’s most prominent poets from this August until October.
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Dancing a fine line: women in Bollywood
3 August 2022
The changing position of female performers in Bollywood is the focus of University of Auckland doctoral candidate Kooshna Gupta’s research.
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Adapting an ancient Chinese construction technique
3 August 2022
For her Master of Architecture thesis, Rosemary Li revived an ancient Chinese construction technique, to mark and encourage reflection on the pandemic.
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Graduate goes for gut feeling as one half of sibling duo
3 August 2022
Danielle Hao-Aickin, who graduated with a Bachelor of Music is already establishing a name for herself one half of the Chinese-Pākeha singer-songwriter duo Ersha Island.