It wasn’t easy, making a cunnilingus mix. No sooner had I started than an uncomfortable truth settled: few songs qualified, and I had to scrape and dig for ones that did. I also had to wade through a ...

Rosabel steps down as editor (but refuses to leave completely) and welcomes the Pantograph Punch's dreamy new team, including Editor-in-Chief Janet McAllister and editors and writers Lana Lopesi, ...

Discovering in my first months at CNZ two simple words ‘’public servant”, anchored me and grounded me. I understood my purpose: I tautua and serve my arts village, my community. I believe we need to ...

We are proudly independent, committed to fair pay for contributors, and to commissioning work that meaningfully contributes to the conversations our nation is having. This work is made possible ...

Uther Dean spends most of his time writing plays but when he’s pretending to be more normal he’s a critic, lighting designer, and director. He was one of the two editors that lead Salient to its 2011 ...

We are proudly independent, committed to fair pay for contributors, and to commissioning work that meaningfully contributes to the conversations our nation is having. This work is made possible ...

Amie is Pou Tuku Pūtea / Head of Funding at Irirangi Te Motu / NZ On Air, an independent government funding agency delivering public media to local audiences. Alongside Rachel Trow, she is the ...

The Pantograph Punch is proudly independent. Our work is only possible through a mixture of grants, donations, our Pals, and partnerships with likeminded arts organisations and businesses. Become a ...

Six hours in a theatre. Six hours in a darkened theatre on a stunning Saturday afternoon during peak beach hours. Six hours watching five grown adults wearing banana suits enacting a fake break-up. On ...

All good things must come to an end. And so should auteur theory, if cinema is to advance. Pity the poor, tired, worn auteur theory. Conceived in France in the 1940s by the likes of André Bazin and ...

But Spirit House is not that play.It’s quite consciously not that play, but suffers instead from problems of its own design. Set in parallel decades, it follows two artists in the same house – a ...

Stacey Teague (Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāpuhi) is a writer, editor and teacher living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Rebecca Hawkes is a poet and painter living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her first book Meat Lovers, a ...