This year, 2018, marks the 125th anniversary of womenâs suffrage in New Zealand. While Council is honouring this significant event, we are bemused by their omission of Devonport as a site for a commemorative sculpture since Devonport has been recorded…
On Saturday (6.5.18) I was privileged to attend, in the packed Rawene Town Hall, the premiere of He Oranga Pumau, a film which launched the movement for a significant change in the existing health services, one which would recognise and…
Since the shocking announcement last month that Auckland University was about to burn books in its specialist libraries there has been a deluge of collective opprobrium at what amounts to an outrageous attack on democratic values and represents the zenith…
Why is small beautiful when everything promoted as powerful, spectacular and worthy of respect in society â motor vehicles, buildings, personal appendages, bank balances – seems to mock the statement? Super yachts, super powers and, more lately, super cities all…
The Depot has a sibling arts centre in Rawene, comprising gallery, cafĂŠ and bookstore, Erewhon Secondhand Quality Books. We travel between places as often as time allows, to pick up and drop off artwork as part of a creative exchange,…
In the giant ocean small fish swim more safely in schools. There is no desire amongst them to draw attention to their presence as personalities; it would more than likely mean danger, the possibility of being picked off by creatures…
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only…
âThe essence of a revolution is the direct intervention of the masses in the political life of the nation. It represents a radical break with the normal routine of existence, where the masses leave the key decisions affecting their lives…
Art â such a small word; unprepossessing, uninspiring even. If you repeat it over and over, it sounds like nothing more than stone in a rotating tyre. There is nothing in its form or sound that supplies it with the…
This essay by Linda Blincko explores the various dimensions of the Arts in Action. “At the most fundamental level creating is a natural attribute of living beings. It is continuously in motion, limitless in its permutations and infinite in its…
