Monthly Archives: February 2018

DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER – Crowded House

There is freedom within Its Te Awamutu Museum has a number of permanent exhibitions, focusing on the history of Te Awamutu. There is also an exhibition focusing on Tim and Neil Finn, brothers of the band Crowded House. Neil Finn was born in Te Awamutu. The town is located 30 km south, south from Auckland and Hamilton, in the North …

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THE CARPATHIANS – Novel by Janet Frame, the woman who did not want to live the human world under false pretenses

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water This town is home to Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world. Archaeological evidence, points to the area having been inhabited by Māori, prior to the European arrival. Its urban area lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago, and Its name …

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A FEW RULES FOR BEGINNERS – Katherine Mansfield / When everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming Its oldest building is the 1858 Colonial Cottage in Mount Cook, while the tallest building is the Majestic Centre (on Willis Street at 116 metres high). Wellington it is at the south-western tip of the North Island (between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range). You can discover that this …

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FRANCES HODKINGS (1869/1947), NEW ZEALAND PAINTER – A singular artist

I feel that if I had known what was before me, I should never have had the courage to begin FRANCES HODGKINS was born in Dunedin, the daughter of a lawyer and amateur painter. As a girl, she and her sister attended a private girls’ secondary school, demonstrating artistic talent early. After attended the Dunedin School, she became an art …

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RITA ANGUS (1908/1979), NEW ZEALAND PAINTER – Between Byzantine and cubism art

Paintings clear and sharply-defined Her paintings are clear and sharply-defined. RITA ANGUS was influenced by Byzantine and cubism art, and also by the English painter Christopher Perkins. One of the most famous of 1936′ paintings is “Cass“, in which she portrayed the bare emptiness of the Canterbury landscape, using forms and unblended colours in a style remiscent of poster art. …

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