Welcome to Festival Zone for March 2012. Thanks to everyone who participated in our Maori Auckland Photo Blog in February. There were lots of great entries and varying interpretations of the theme. Below is the winning photo - congratulations Jason Burgess.
Maori Blog Theme - Photo of the Month
Powhiri at Splore at Tapapakanga Regional Park by Jason Burgess
March is an Open Theme. Enter your photos here.
Auckland Festival of Photography June 2012
This year's festival is just a few months away and is shaping up to be another great Auckland regionwide exposition of photography, in all its forms and genres. In 36 Signature exhibitions & events and 60 Fringe exhibitions, over 400 professional and amateur photographers' work will be on display, along with our excellent national and international speakers in our Talking Culture series. Next month is the official launch of our 2012 Programme so keep an eye out on our website and in your local galleries, libraries, cafes, community centres etc for our printed Programme sometime after 12th April.
Welcome
We'd like to extend a haere mai, e hoa to Al Kwun, our Publicist for the 2012 Festival and to our volunteers Antonina, Faria, Yaning, David and Denise for their much needed assistance.
Other news
Don't miss the amazing work on display at the Auckland Art Gallery in the Degas to Dali exhibition. This is an excellent tour through some of the great Modernist works http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/degas-to-dali/welcome
On until the 25th March is the Harbourview Sculpture Trail, an exhibition of sculpture displayed along a trail through salt marsh and pond areas of Harbourview Walkway on Te Atatu Peninsula. On the trail, look out for our Bev's (Fringe and Marketing Coordinator) work. Just $10 for adults and $5 for children, all proceeds go to Hospice West Auckland. Bev Goodwin has work on show at Art in the Woolshed at Tawharanui Regional Park til 18th March too. Follow Takatu Road after Matakana or just Google it.
Asia Pacific Photoforum
Our Asia Pacific Photoforum partner FotoFreo in Western Australia starts next week on 17 March. Also finalists of the newly announced Portrait Prize by the Queensland Festival of Photography can be seen here. And only two months until Head On Festival in Sydney launches.
Subscriber Prize Draw sponsored by D Photo & Apix
Each month til end of 2012 Festival, one lucky subscriber to Festival Zone will be selected to win a free subscription to the D Photo Magazine worth $39.95 and plus a mystery product prize to the value of $50 from Apix each month. Tell your friends, family and networks to subscribe to Festival Zone to be in to win this month. See here to subscribe. February's lucky winner was Henry Ren He.
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