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Do you love spending Sundays browsing your local art gallery? Come Saturday night are you often in the audience for a new play? Do you challenge your mind with movies that fall outside the mainstream?
If you like to stretch your cultural muscles and you're always on the lookout for new and cool forms of expression then this is the place to come...
95bfm Brand Art Campaign Exhibition
This special art exhibition at Auckland’s Rakinos café 
features a retrospective of exclusively-commissioned works by radio station 95bFM.
Twelve artists and designers were asked to create pieces, which offered an answer to the question: “What does 95bFM mean?". Instead of promoting 95bFM with the usual branded advertising, they used the the creations.
The individual artworks were published on street posters,
postcards and magazine pages. With one piece released each month during the year.
The exhibition includes works from Ruban Nielson (Mint Chicks), Bradley Fafejta Harris, Alan Holt, Stella Corkery (Saturday Shop), Jack Brougham, Peter Heckman, Vincent (Teenwolf/Brand New Math), Matt Henry, the Demiwhores’ Ed Gains and MF Joyce, Henrietta Shields, and Damon Belchalmers.
WHAT: 95bfm Brand Art Campaign Exhibition
WHERE: RAKINOS, Level 1, 35 High Street, Auckland City
WHEN: from December 18th, 2007
Limited edition prints will be available for sale, and the exhibition will be followed by the release of a 2008 calendar of all works on show.
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Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens
4 Nov to 31 Jan 08, Auckland Botanic Gardens
27 sculptures from some of New Zealand’s iconic sculptors are displayed along a 1.8 kilometre trail through the Auckland Botanic Gardens.
The Wallace Art Awards 2007 Exhibition
Nov 29, 07 - Sun 30 Mar, 08, TheNewDowse, Lower Hutt
57 finalists' artworks, which use a variety of materials from human teeth to stamps, beer to hand-dyed wool, and featuring a set of beehives made of bubble-gum sitting on a carpet of fresh mud!
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Sweetland
Rialto Cinemas, from December 27
Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young farmer named Olaf, but her German heritage and lack of immigration papers raise suspicion, and she and Olaf are forbidden to marry. Inge moves in next door to Olaf and slowly they fall in love. They live together openly, despite the scorn of the neighbours. When his friend's farm is threatened, Olaf takes a stand, and the community unites around the couple, accepting Inge as one of their own... Check the trailer out here | | | | | | | |  | 
Janet Frame House
Nov 1, 07 - Apr 30, 08, 56 Eden Street, Oamaru
Visit the house where our very own inspiring nzgirl lived. Janet Frame spent 1931-1943 in this Oamaru house, and incorporated it into her first novel Owls Do Cry. Lectures and creative writing workshops are held in the house. "I wanted an imagination that would inhabit a world of fact, descend like a shining light upon the ordinary life of Eden Street ... the world of Oamaru, the kingdom by the sea." To The Is-Land, Janet Frame. Click here for more info.
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Kings of Leon in concert
January 11 2008, TSB Arena Wellington
January 12 2008, Vector Arena, Auckland
You'll be kicking yourself if you miss Kings of Leon when they’re here in January. Made up of three brothers and a cousin who all hail from Tennessee, this band’s diverse influences combine a unique medley of Southern rock, indie sounds and blues styles. Click here for Auckland tickets and here for Wellington.
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Sideroom Magazine
Sideroom.com Magazine #002 hits the shelves early December 07, and I am so excited! It features 108 pages of pure art adventure overflowing with creative talent from New Zealand and around the globe. Artists such as skateboard graphic pioneer Jim Phillips and comic book supremo Nathan Fox, plus local illustrators and talented musicians - The Unscene and Olmecha Supreme - feature. Issue #001 is still on my coffee table at home and each page is near dog eared from all my oogling. Available in all good book and magazine stores.
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