Toi Aro d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency! I held the Toi Pōneke version of this residency earlier this year and it was an amazing opportunity. If you're a Wellington region artist and meet the criteria I'd really encourage you to apply. www.toiaro.nz/residencies

New takahē this Saturday (NZ time, of course)!

takahē magazine@takahemagazine.bsky.social · 2d ago

There’s heaps more, including book reviews by Brannavan Gnanalingam, Neema Singh, Jessie Neilson, Niamh Hollis-Locke and Vaughan Rapatahana 🖤 As ever, takahē 117 also includes fiction and poetry from some of the most exciting new and established voices from Aotearoa and beyond!

Current small joy: watching Celebrity Escape. It's New Zealand comedians solving escape rooms together. Completely low stakes, silly fun.

If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding. flatcityfieldnotes.com/2026/08/03/i...

If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding

Erin Harrington on the lack of South Island investment in Creative New Zealand’s Arts Organisations and Groups (AOG) funding round, including the news that South Island organisations collecti…

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Ohh, my favourite band is coming to NZ in February!!

To vote in this years general election you need to be enrolled by midnight, 13 days before Election Day. Days left to enrol or update your details. Maori Roll: 3 days General Roll: 83 days Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

The SETI Institute's Wow! Literary Award invites writers and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work that reflects and expands on the SETI Institute’s “Intelligence and Consciousness” research area...

Glad I noticed the new episode of Strange New Worlds has a 16VC rating before I pressed play. This show really has some big swings in tone, and I am really not in for grit or gore. Guess I'll read an online summary and cross my fingers that the next one's watchable.

Hello beautiful people. If you didn't catch my post from a few weeks ago, I've been spending the past 4 months setting up a pay-what-you can/affordable indie writing festival that will be both in-person here in Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand, but also online. (Ooohh ahh.) www.beautifulwords.net

Beautiful Words Con | Writing festival

A writing convention based in Nelson, New Zealand & Online that focuses on Independent, alternative & underground writing and publishing.

beautifulwords.net

A colleague recently sent me an article about the importance of pushing through and doing activities with chronic pain. It's 2:30pm on a sunny Saturday. All I want to do is go outside and play, but I feel like I've been run over by a cement mixer. I keep thinking about that article.

Last night, Women in Sport Aotearoa, alongside InsideOut and the Clare Foundation launched a new toolkit for community sports providers to support the participation of transgender and nonbinary people in sport. Filling the gap created by the deletion of the previous guidance by the Minister of Sport

Just finished another Premee Mohamed audiobook. Just such good writing. And her post-apocalyptic Alberta is so well conceptualised.

Oh shoot, the Dunedin Arts Festival didn't recieve Creative NZ funding. Between UBS, the downsizing of the uni music programme, the struggle to fund the arts fellowships... there's a ton of good fresh stuff happening in Ōtepoti, but there's so much bad news at the moment.

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

Powered by SimpleSurvey.com | Build and manage your own online survey, voting, form and panel management applications.

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Opened up this book to find islands of text on the page. I knew it had to come home with me.

Etta Bollinger telling it like is

Why we cannot let the disability support changes happen

Opinion - I was hopeful about the future. This is not what that future looks like. This is a massive step backwards into the past, Henrietta Bollinger writes.

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Ōtepoti: Community meeting coming up about University Book Shop (UBS) "SUPPORT THE BOOKSHOP! UBS Friends Meeting Thursday 30 July 2026 8:00-9:00pm The Athenaeum, The Octagon" image: same info, illustrated with a drawing of the bookshop building with lots of folk holding books in front of it

Government is breaching UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilites next time they say NZ is a "world leader" in disability rights, remind them of how we fucking aren't

Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · last wk.

Around 2700 young people in NZ with a health condition, injury, or disability are at risk of losing the Jobseeker benefit. Around 70% of those have psychiatric or psychological conditions. Others have cancer or other conditions. This move will kill teenagers. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Spiral Collectives exhibition opening & panel discussion on adapting 'the bone people' to graphic novel!! (both at Dunedin Public Library (moray place) (the info for these events is on City of Literature website, RSVP is due today/Monday but if keen it prob still worth contacting library & ask)

Jasmin Taylor@meshedlight.bsky.social · last wk.

Ōtepoti: theres heaps of cool events happening, if anyone is on fb or insta please help share the notices (I have little capacity to do so this week) Woof is doing a garage sale Lammet Watan next Tues (in August, not tomorrow) Our Food Network launching local food pilot and there will be more!

This study demonstrates that continuous HRV monitoring through wearables can effectively identify overexertion and autonomic dysfunction during daily activities in patients with long COVID. Patients with long COVID have lower heart rate variability during sleep, and HRV remained significantly lower

Wearable Heart Rate Variability Monitoring, Autonomic Dysfunction and Post-exertional Malaise in Long COVID: An Observational Study - Sports Medicine

Objectives Patients with long coronavirus disease (COVID) experience disabling fatigue, autonomic dysfunction, reduced exercise capacity and post-exertional malaise (PEM). Heart rate variability (HRV)...

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Thanks to Kirby for lighting up our event with a poem from CAConrad! xxx

This game looks gorgeous

Eva Navratilova@evanavratilova.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is deeply emotional for us.🥹 Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey. ❤️ Steam: store.steampowered.com/app1553260

What a shame.

Aaron Hawkins@ahawkins.bsky.social · 2w ago

RIP University Book Shop

Why are the best bananas at the bottom of the bunch?

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, the National Library's partnering with Blackout Poetry Aotearoa to run a blackout poetry competition inspired by original newspaper articles from the Homosexual Law Reform era. natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/m... Entries close 21 August.

It feels like time to move on from Dunedin. But where to next? Elsewhere in Aotearoa? Back to Canada? Europe?

We hear the link in our original post might not be working: here’s a better one www.frontierpoetry.com/2026-myths-f...

Frontier Poetry 2026 Myths & Fables Prize

2026 Myths & Fables Prize July 13 to September 13, 2026 Add to Calendar To make sense of paradoxes that define human experience, people have erected pathways towards understanding that transcend time....

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IIML@modernletters.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Frontier Poetry Myths & Fables Prize for emerging writers is now open for entries! First Prize USD$3000. ‘We are especially interested in work that explores underrepresented mythologies and stories not often given space in the Western literary canon.’

The Green Party will cut your power bill and take power back from the big four power companies, because a warm, dry home powered by clean energy should be within everyone's reach 💚💡

fatigue is a bear trap on the first day of spring

It's been a bad migraine day so I've been listening to Bullseye episodes. This interview with Jinkx Monsoon is particularly wonderful: www.npr.org/2026/07/10/n...