Various Artists with Nicholas & Beth

Arts community organisation Proud Dad is bringing their mix and mingle events to Tāmaki Makaurau for the first time, taking place at the Birdcage Tavern on August 23rd. 

Proud Dad has been running for a few months, aiming to support artists across the motu and amplify their work. 
The event is aiming to bring a less businessy lens to networking, allowing for a chill space for artists to meet, connect, and make some pals.
Liam talked to the proud dad himself, Taylor Nixon, about the event and the organisation's kaupapa.

Women In Film and Television (WIFT) have this week highlighted information gathered from a series of industry surveys that have revealed the extent of the gender pay imbalance in the sector. To hear about the gap and what needs to be done, Frances talked with Patricia Watson, Executive Director of WIFT.

Whakarongo mai! 

Just last night at Studio 445 on Karangahape Road, the Without Appeal Collective’s ‘A Garden To Banish Loneliness’ window exhibition had its opening night. 

The exhibition will be on until the sixteenth of August, and explore collaborators Will Greeson and Iulia Boscu take on a futuristic sci-fi landscape that reassess the optimism that used to be in futuristic fiction. 
Liam had a chat with the duo to learn more about the exhibition and what went into it.

Tauranga artist Tawhai Rickard has won this year’s National Contemporary Art Award for his installation Scenes from a Victorian Restaurant. For Various Artists this week, Frances had the pleasure of speaking with Tawhai about the work, its meaning, and his process in making it.