WOMAD 2019 is one of a handful of large scale events that opted not to cancel in the wake of the Christchurch Mosque shootings. It is after all a festival about inclusiveness and celebrating diversity.

Creative New Zealand is shaking up its arts grants programme, raising the limits but also making changes to its popular Quick Response funding rounds.

Hamilton's library is one of several public buildings getting a mural make-over this weekend as part of the annual Boon Street Art Festival.

After a national trauma, creative arts offer us a "bridge towards possibility" both individually and collectively, says Auckland University professor Peter O'Connor, who teaches theatre in schools, prisons, psychiatric hospitals and disaster zones.

Dunedin-based embroidery and textile artist Jay Hutchinson has been turning the trash into art. He takes photos, then spent hours on each embroidered copy for an exhibition he's called On the Way to Work.

Where Memories Sleep is the incredibly hard to describe collaboration between musician Warren Maxwell and documentary maker Jason O'Hara. They blend visuals with sounds recorded on the ice and then manipulate them to create a soundscape.

How to Take Off Your Clothes is a poetry collection by Hadassah Grace, a former stripper who's also written about sex work and acted for the Auckland Theatre Company.

Trouble-D is a play about the challenges, obstacles and enticements a recently released prisoner faces in the outside world, being performed at Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn and a first for the Dunedin Fringe Festival.

When the French Film Festival made its debut in New Zealand 17 years ago, it was just one of several regional film showcases. Since then it's grown a staggering 700 percent since 2012.

Canadian community activist, artist and filmmaker Michelle Derosier is in New Zealand talking about how films can encourage our estranged young Maori and Pacific population to connect with their heritage.