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Going it Alone: Taking Your Next Step as a Creative Entrepreneur
Is 2022 the year your passion transitions from idea to career? Some crucial tips to take on board before diving in head-first to your destiny.
Arts Smarts
Art Suffering in Red Light Reality
Omicron’s impact on the arts from every angle - as The Lowdown seeks answers on what support creatives need - and how you can help.
The Lowdown
Carmel Sepuloni: Navigating 2022's Arts & Culture Recovery
The Minister for Arts, Culture & Heritage - in her own words - explains to The Big Idea what the Government's priorities are for the creative community in 2022 and beyond.
Soapbox
Silver Lining Saving NZ Events from Financial Hardship
Many are feeling the pinch as Omicron tears shreds off Aotearoa's performance events calendar. Find out why some organisers are breathing a sigh of relief after joining a MCH scheme.
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Oh C'mon, Omicron! Inside The Latest Cruel Blow to Creatives
Once again, the creative community's the hardest hit by Aotearoa's Red Light shift. We touch base to see what's been cancelled, what's forging on and how they're coping.
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How to Stop Social Media Haters Impacting Your Creativity
When you put your work or thoughts online - the threat of online trolls and cynics can be crippling. Verity Johnson gives a raw insight into how if affected her & how she finally found a way out.
Soapbox
Brace for Impact
The Lowdown's back for 2022 with a look at the latest headache for live performers - who's pulled the pin & who's announced their returns - as well as staunch replies to music industry legal threats.
The Lowdown
Anti-Resolutions: 10 Things to Embrace in 2022
Why making your artistic ambitions ones you can relate to and can actually achieve will be the ones that actually bring you happiness.
Arts Smarts
What if The Earth Had a Heart?
“They’re tired of hearing about what adults are doing to nature. They’ve had enough.” Kate Parker explains how the environmental views of school children sculpted her latest thought-provoking work.
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Art in the Outfield
Nothing says summer like a music festival - find out how one event is amplifying their sounds with creative sights.
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EXCLUSIVE: Major Breakthrough for Artist Royalties Movement
Artists involved in one of the creative community's hottest topics has received an early Christmas present. The Big Idea reveals breaking news of a precedent setting move.
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Flight Through Adversity
“I think we should strive for artistry and mastery over success” - The Big Idea gets into the minds of some of NZ's finest creative minds backstage at the Aotearoa Music Awards.
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Going it Alone: Taking Your Next Step as a Creative Entrepreneur

Art Suffering in Red Light Reality

Carmel Sepuloni: Navigating 2022's Arts & Culture Recovery

Silver Lining Saving NZ Events from Financial Hardship

Oh C'mon, Omicron! Inside The Latest Cruel Blow to Creatives

How to Stop Social Media Haters Impacting Your Creativity

Brace for Impact

Anti-Resolutions: 10 Things to Embrace in 2022

What if The Earth Had a Heart?

Art in the Outfield

EXCLUSIVE: Major Breakthrough for Artist Royalties Movement

Flight Through Adversity

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