Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Opposition leader Chris Luxon have been formally welcomed to Waitangi in what is shaping up to be their first big face-off
There is a new Sight & Sound critics' survey of the greatest films of all time and Dan Slevin is going through the top 50 one at a time. Equal 50th is Aotearoa’s The Piano.
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The WSWS spoke with Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) founder Dawn Sanders, actor Waihoroi Shortland, and Professor Michael Neill about Creative New Zealand’s decision to cut funding for SGCNZ, claiming that Shakespeare was part of “a canon of imperialism.”
The decision by Creative NZ to cut its funding for the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand, which runs highly popular programs for high school students, reveals the deeply reactionary character of racial identity politics as applied to the arts.