KarinWarnaar
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Join Diana Wichtel, Sarah Shieff, and me on Dec 9th (Dec 10th in NZ) as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link:
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November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join Diana Wichtel, Sarah Shieff, and me on Dec 9th (Dec 10th in NZ) as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-la...
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-la...
"Alaïa started collecting at a time when couture houses had not yet grasped the importance of their own archives. Dior didn’t establish its archive department until 1987 – nearly 20 years after Alaïa began."
www.vogue.co.uk/article/dior...
www.vogue.co.uk/article/dior...
A New Exhibition Casts Light On Azzedine Alaïa’s Encyclopedic Dior Couture Collection
At La Galerie Dior in Paris, “Alaïa’s Dior Collection” showcases 140 Dior couture pieces collected by the Tunisian couturier over 40 years.
www.vogue.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Alaïa started collecting at a time when couture houses had not yet grasped the importance of their own archives. Dior didn’t establish its archive department until 1987 – nearly 20 years after Alaïa began."
www.vogue.co.uk/article/dior...
www.vogue.co.uk/article/dior...
NZ mention klaxon.
Join us in December for the virtual launch of the next title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's remarkable 1940 novel about one German Jewish woman's experiences from 1919 to the rise of the Nazis and emigration to New Zealand.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
NZ mention klaxon.
Starter question: difference between disrupting and ruining...
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Starter question: difference between disrupting and ruining...
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
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WORDS ARE MY MATTER is a selection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best writing on literature, articulating with precision and passion her belief in the social and political value of storytelling
‘Splendid. A clarion call for resistance’ Marginalian
‘Splendid. A clarion call for resistance’ Marginalian
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
WORDS ARE MY MATTER is a selection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best writing on literature, articulating with precision and passion her belief in the social and political value of storytelling
‘Splendid. A clarion call for resistance’ Marginalian
‘Splendid. A clarion call for resistance’ Marginalian
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In trying to thin down my slightly chaotic work space, I have rediscovered 4 (I think) A3 Forton prints. I was selling them for £30 before. If I sourced some poster tubes and work out posting is there any interest, or should I keep them for our next pop up shop.
#ThePhotoHour #Photography
#ThePhotoHour #Photography
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In trying to thin down my slightly chaotic work space, I have rediscovered 4 (I think) A3 Forton prints. I was selling them for £30 before. If I sourced some poster tubes and work out posting is there any interest, or should I keep them for our next pop up shop.
#ThePhotoHour #Photography
#ThePhotoHour #Photography
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
"A similar generational ban proposed in the UK is still going through the legislative process, while New Zealand – the first country to enact such a law against smoking – repealed it in November 2023, less than a year after it was introduced."
"A similar generational ban proposed in the UK is still going through the legislative process, while New Zealand – the first country to enact such a law against smoking – repealed it in November 2023, less than a year after it was introduced."
Maldives becomes the only country with generational smoking ban
Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to ‘promote a tobacco-free generation’
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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"A similar generational ban proposed in the UK is still going through the legislative process, while New Zealand – the first country to enact such a law against smoking – repealed it in November 2023, less than a year after it was introduced."
"A similar generational ban proposed in the UK is still going through the legislative process, while New Zealand – the first country to enact such a law against smoking – repealed it in November 2023, less than a year after it was introduced."
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Private Eye hits it every time @chadbourn.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Private Eye hits it every time @chadbourn.bsky.social
We told you. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals
Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
We told you. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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We’re spending all our money on roads that suck
We’re spending all our money on roads that suck
At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one....
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October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We’re spending all our money on roads that suck
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Haartelijk feliciteerd, allemaal. amsterdam750.nl/en/article/7...
75-hour celebration for the capital's anniversary - Amsterdam750
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October 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Haartelijk feliciteerd, allemaal. amsterdam750.nl/en/article/7...
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Gene Pitney called it “the weirdest show I have ever heard in my life”; he was talking about a show by NZ radio pioneer Arthur Pearce.
Here, Pearce holds the sheet music to Duke Ellington's 'Black Butterfly' - for which he wrote the lyrics. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/arth...
Here, Pearce holds the sheet music to Duke Ellington's 'Black Butterfly' - for which he wrote the lyrics. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/arth...
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Gene Pitney called it “the weirdest show I have ever heard in my life”; he was talking about a show by NZ radio pioneer Arthur Pearce.
Here, Pearce holds the sheet music to Duke Ellington's 'Black Butterfly' - for which he wrote the lyrics. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/arth...
Here, Pearce holds the sheet music to Duke Ellington's 'Black Butterfly' - for which he wrote the lyrics. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/arth...
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This looks superb 🙏
Just landed: copies of THIS AIN’T ROCK N ROLL by award-winning writer @danielrachel.bsky.social, tackling the deeply disturbing fascination with Nazism held by some of our biggest music stars. Why have so many been drawn to a movement responsible for the twentieth century's worst atrocities?
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This looks superb 🙏
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I was so moved to return to my Robin Hyde chapter and to support Mary Paul's drive to save Penham House. What can you do or add?
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
Poetry Shelf supports saving Robin Hyde’s Penman House: A plea from Mary Paul and my Wild Honey chapter
What would the response be in Wellington if you were waking up to find that the Katherine Mansfield house had fences and a demolition sign on it? Would important people reverse the decision with in…
nzpoetryshelf.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I was so moved to return to my Robin Hyde chapter and to support Mary Paul's drive to save Penham House. What can you do or add?
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
This appears to be a hold our beer situation.
So to summarise: the Tas government bought two ships, that are years late, to run between Devonport and Geelong, but there is no wharf at all for them at Devonport because people forgot to build one and they can't safely use the wharf at Geelong.
Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-15/spirit-of-tasmania-iv-unable-to-berth-at-geelong/105883912
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This appears to be a hold our beer situation.
For its centenary year's final issue, NZ's oldest student magazine profiles its oldest living editor, the inspirational Paul Oestreicher. Originally meant for the centenary issue, the story was held over because it 'deserved the time to write it properly'. They did. www.critic.co.nz/features/art...
Critic’s Oldest Living Editor: Paul Oestreicher
Long before he was a peace campaigner, a priest, or a friend of Desmond Tutu, Paul Oestreicher was an enemy alien. His family had fled fascism, seeking refuge in Dunedin – a city that offered safety, ...
www.critic.co.nz
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
For its centenary year's final issue, NZ's oldest student magazine profiles its oldest living editor, the inspirational Paul Oestreicher. Originally meant for the centenary issue, the story was held over because it 'deserved the time to write it properly'. They did. www.critic.co.nz/features/art...
All hail Dunedin weather.
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
All hail Dunedin weather.
Another Lou Reed sort of day.
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Another Lou Reed sort of day.