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![Festival review: Splore, Tapapakanga Regional Park](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Festival review: Splore, Tapapakanga Regional Park
Nestled in beautiful Tapapakanga Park Splore festival became annual for the first time this year, and it seems the move was a very successful one, write Lydia Jenkins and Rachel Bache.
![Collection a gift to us all](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Collection a gift to us all
A gallery has grown in the heart of Coromandel Town. In a purpose-built space designed by Ron Sang, Barry Brickell's Driving Creek Art Gallery is hosting its sixth exhibition Using Paint and Clay Expressively.
![Auckland Arts Festival: A question of humanity](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Auckland Arts Festival: A question of humanity
"I don't make lollies!" Lemi Ponifasio is talking about the often-extreme reaction to his latest production, I AM, from which many audience members walked out when it was staged at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.
![Fringe Festival: A sense of otherness](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival: A sense of otherness
Mother/Jaw is a youthful, passionate and promising exploration of being and identity. It emphasises "otherness" - arising from ethnicity, on one hand, and states of mind on the other - and takes a significant stance in the Fringe Festival dance programme.
![Jewels on the horizon](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Jewels on the horizon
In painting, even at its most abstract, a strong horizontal across a work is inescapably read as a horizon.
![Egg hunt to raise funds for sick kids](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Egg hunt to raise funds for sick kids
Super-sized eggs of all colours are to be placed around the country - making for the ultimate Easter egg hunt.
![Confessions of an erotic writer](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Confessions of an erotic writer
Award-winning Auckland playwright Elisabeth Easther was once an erotic fiction writer. As Fifty Shades of Grey hits our screens, she reveals the highs and lows of her short-lived career in smut.
![Intimate photo wins top award](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Intimate photo wins top award
Other winning photographs highlighted animal cruelty in China and the Ebola crisis in west Africa.
![Theatre review: Girl on a Corner, The Basement](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Theatre review: Girl on a Corner, The Basement
Local playwright Victor Rodger has followed up last year's revival (Sons) and premiere (At the Wake) with a new play that brings a light touch to tragedy.
![Patricia Greig: Music with a conscience takes us all on a journey](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Patricia Greig: Music with a conscience takes us all on a journey
High above the K Rd kingdom, opposite St Kevins Arcade, is Kfm, a station that aims to provide a soundtrack to the heart of Auckland's music-centric community.
![Teen painter receives world's best marks](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Teen painter receives world's best marks
A NZ student who took only two years of art classes has received the best subject marks in the world in the Cambridge International Examinations.
![Paul Thomas: Hysterical 'intellectuals' fail the Hitchens test](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Paul Thomas: Hysterical 'intellectuals' fail the Hitchens test
Sections of the left-wing intelligentsia appear to believe the Eleanor Catton brouhaha says something disturbing about New Zealand.
![Phallic art stuns residents](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Phallic art stuns residents
'Oh my God, it's a cock and balls.' A $200,000 public sculpture being installed in Auckland is causing a stir with locals, who say it resembles a penis.
![Legend given flesh and humanity](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Legend given flesh and humanity
How to bring a legend to life? That was the challenge for film-maker Ava DuVernay when she was given the opportunity to direct - what is remarkably - the first major motion picture about Martin Luther King.