Unitec Bachelor of Performing & Screen Arts graduate (2014), Paloma Schneideman’s debut feature film ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, was included in this year’s prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It’s a coming-of-age portrait of queer adolescence set in 2006 and based on her formative years in Omaha. Read more
Nancy Wijohn, 41, (Te Rarawa, Tūhoe) is co-director of Body Island and ConTact C.A.R.E Central with her partner Kelly Nash, 48, (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi). Both are Unitec Dance graduates and have a new dance theatre work: Mythosoma, showing at the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts in Wellington from February 25-27. Read more
NZ Herald/Opinion: Associate Professor Dion Enari (Ngā Wai a Te Tūī – Māori and Indigenous Research Centre) and Lincoln University’s Dr Hoani Smith say the All Blacks can learn from The Warriors about fan engagement in the rival code
Associate Professor Lefaoalii Dion Enari, suggests the next All Blacks coaching era may need to think beyond strategy and selection, and pay closer attention to team environment, culture and connection with others, after Scott Robertson’s abrupt departure as coach. Read More..
For Associate Professor Lefaoalii Dion Enari’s family, Christmas is a time for gathering, celebrating, remembering, and giving thanks. Read more
At Unitec, the phrase “find your thing” is the institution’s call to new students’ purpose. In this year’s end-of-year SHOWCASE, the Unitec dance programme seems to have indeed found its thing. Read the full review of this year’s show in Theatreview
Unitec computing students Krijesh Karki (22), Arishay Reddy (21) and Quinton Gillanders (26) helped develop the code for the NZ School Hive Marketplace helping local families in South Auckland. Read more in PMN
Special Olympics swimmer and recent Unitec graduate, Laetitia Tan has made club history, graduating as its first ever Athlete Leader at a ceremony held at Parliament earlier this month. Read more in Local Matters
Lefaoali’i Associate Professor Dr Dion Enari tells Radio New Zealand that sport has long been a site of cultural identity and expression for Māori and Pacific peoples, even within systems not designed for them. Read more
Fresh from performing at China’s biggest arts festival, current Unitec Dance lecturer and alumnus, Xin Ji is bringing his new show Body Story to the Nelson Arts Festival this Saturday 25 October. Read more
