Soapbox

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Soapbox: The Power of Music Therapy

What on earth is Music Therapy? Shari Storie hears this a lot.
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The Big Idea Editor
LitCrawl. Image by Russell Kleyn.
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SOAPBOX: What it really takes to juggle an arts organisation with family life

LitCrawl director Claire Mabey reflects on why flexibility is harder than we think.
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The Big Idea Editor
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SOAPBOX: There is limited art criticism in New Zealand – but it's not why you think

In an age when rigorous critique gives way to hot takes, freelance arts writer Kate Powell asks just what the hell is going on. It’s not what you think. It’s worse.
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Kate Powell
Serious: The Hamilton Sept of the Clan McGillicuddy at 100 Old Farm Road, December 1992.
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Soapbox: The funny thing about satire

Social media and smartphones mean everyone can now have their own soapbox
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The Big Idea Editor
Amy Shamblin
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Soapbox - Doing arts ain’t for sissies!

Think the arts are all opening nights and cocktail parties?
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The Big Idea Editor
A Lost Cause
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The miseducation of Loren Black

Writer and dramatist Loren Black unpacks her life experiences. Maybe you should, too.
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The Big Idea Editor
LA Contemporary Dance Company: Adaptation. Photo supplied.
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The new normal: what it takes to be a crazy fool

Tempo director Carrie Rae Cunningham uncovers the basic motivations for artistic endeavour. It’s not what you’re thinking.
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The Big Idea Editor
Drowning In Milk
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Soapbox: Why I’m Coming for The Good Guy

Saraid Cameron elaborates on the infinite truth that “all your faves are problematic”
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The Big Idea Editor
Peter O'Connor
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Time for art and history to rhyme

The arts matter, and education matters. So why are they further apart than ever? By director and educator Professor Peter O'Connor.
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The Big Idea Editor
Fanny Fern 1811-1872 Library of Congress
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Suffrage essay winner! The damned mob is coming for your words.

Steff Green dives into the outpourings of dead misogynists, and finds their ugly sentiment alive and well and walking the Earth.
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Steff Green