COMMUNITY IS THE FUTURE
As lockdown passes the halfway mark, what have I learnt from it? A big thing, as I travel around my local bubble and observe signs of a regenerating environment, that I’ll be taking greater care of this living planet…
SUBMISSION TO THE DEVONPORT-TAKAPUNA LOCAL BOARD PLAN 2020
A Face to the Future: Depot Artspace Perspective on the Creative Community Post Covid-19 This submission to the Local Board’s Annual Plan was prepared before Covid-19 required NZers to Lock down, leaving many community organisations and small businesses uncertain of,…
LETTER BY JOHN MINTO
WHEN A CRISIS SIGNALS THE NEED FOR CHANGE We have included this letter on the Arts In Action page, because we believe that alternative views by people with a long history of involvement in creating a more equitable society…
GROUNDHOG DAY IN THE CREATIVE SECTOR: DECADES OF ACTIVELY GOING NOWHERE
“You want a prediction about the weather?…….. It’s going to be cold, it’s going to be dark and it’s going to last you for the rest of your lives!” Phil O’Connor, in Groundhog Day, 1993 Jerry Howlett: Ascend, 2019 (diorama…
MEASURING THE TRUE WEALTH OF OUR COUNTRY: A GENUINE PROGRESS INDICATOR FOR AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
Depot Artspace is a socially conscious creative hub. We employ the transformative capacity of the arts to engage, inspire, and challenge the community. We are guided by the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi: partnership, protection and participation. In…
ARTS NATION AOTEAROA: DEVELOPING A CREATIVE COUNTRY
Much as I’m opposed to over-utilised, populist aphorisms there’s one that’s particularly pertinent to our previous posting on advocacy and activism. It’s ‘walking the talk’ and the piece by Jermaine Reihana is an example of this as he describes Depot…
ADVOCACY AND ACTION: GRASS ROOTS ACTIVISM FOR CHANGE IN THE CREATIVE SECTOR
Peace posters workshop based on Nigel Brown’s peace painting These days advocates outnumber activists and nowhere is this more evident than in the current creative sector. Academics, bureaucrats, politicians and other self-ascribed experts jostle for a place as harbingers…
KEEPING PACE: WHY THE REINTRODUCTION OF PATHWAYS TO ARTS AND CULTURAL EMPLOYMENT (PACE) WILL HELP SAVE THE CREATIVE SECTOR
It’s now over a year since the Labour led government was voted in, with an agenda for the arts and culture which created a lot of optimism. At Depot Artspace we were particularly enthusiastic about the reintroduction of PACE and…
STATE OF THE ARTS: CHANGES IN THE ART WORLD 2018
The Depot has been in the art world for twenty-one years now and continues to remain sustainable by being perspicacious, predictive and proactive. We have been researching the changes in the art world. STATE OF THE ARTS We first discussed…
