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Lemi Ponifasi: Stones in her mouth. Photo by MAU
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Susana Lei'ataua considers the ceremony MAUSINA - mau meaning testimony and sina meaning taonga - reflecting on colonial structures, genealogy and truth.
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The Big Idea Editor
Barbarian Productions company photoshoot 2017 'Ready to Work', photo by Owen McCarthy.
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Jo Randerson is passionate about artists earning their worth. That’s why her company Barbarian Productions just became a living wage employer. James Littlewood clocks on.
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James Littlewood
Ani-Piki Tuari and Annette Morehu. Photo via Facebook
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Shortland Street storyliner and playwright Annette Morehu discovers the racial powers of narrative.
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The Big Idea Editor
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo supplied.
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The PM and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage calls for art for the many, not the few.
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The Big Idea Editor
Photo by Elijah O'Donnel on Unsplash
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In the age of ubiquitous reviews, what the hell’s happened to the arts critic? Vanessa Zigliani demands an answer.
Author: 
James Littlewood
Photo: Andrei Lazarev on Unsplash
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Malcolm Calder laments our introverted creative industries, and dishes up a silo-busting solution
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The Big Idea Editor
Mark Harvey: For the Love of Finland, 2014. Photo: New Performance Turku Festival
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Climate change is the challenge of our lives, and the arts can make a real contribution to the solution. So, why aren't they? Sarah Meads of Track Zero dives in.
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The Big Idea Editor
Aiwa Pooamorn and Daniel Goodwin in Breathe. Photo supplied.
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Writer and performer Daniel Goodwin unpacks schizophrenia ahead of his new show, Breathe
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The Big Idea Editor
Photo by Kevin Grieve on Unsplash
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Think you're getting any younger? Dancer and educator Susan Jordan brings us up to date with the importance of creativity in a life well lived.
Author: 
James Littlewood
James Maeva and Sandra Zvenyika in America Rex. Photo: Carl Drake
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Writer, director & dramaturge Dione Joseph puts the case for a performative art that challenges and connects us all.
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The Big Idea Editor