At this stage of preparation for “Matchbox” we wish to thank Moray Gallery for their generosity in hosting this fundraising exhibition.

Here are a few images from last weeks  event at the University Bookshop – Dunedin.  Attendees were treated to an eclectic array of New Zealand poetry readings.   Congratulations goes to Sue Wootton for being this years first prize winner.

First prize of $500 in the fifth annual Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize for 2015 has been won by Dunedin poet Sue Wootton, for her poem ‘Luthier’. Second prize ($250) was awarded to Jessica le Bas, of Nelson, for ‘Four Photographs from a Window’.

If you are in Glasgow this month, pop in to The Glad Cafe. Deirdre was in Dunedin in 2014 staying at the Caselberg Cottage, whilst researching St Kilda. www.kildas.com

Just a reminder to look at the brilliant prints we still have available through our shop. There are only a handful of each left, so why not make a beautiful Christmas gift to someone. Go to our shop and click on the image for full details, then why not add it to your cart.

The competition opens 1st September 2014 and closes on 31st October 2014. Entries are judged blind.

The Caselberg Trust is looking for projects that reach out and make links across a variety of creative media, professional disciplines, and/or communities relevant to the planned project.

Competition.

Otago poet Brian Turner has been awarded the $500 first prize for his poem ‘Mulching’, in the annual Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition.

Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1992, I have pursued a parallel career in creating work for exhibition and commission and in working as an artist facilitator to various groups.

We are very grateful to Marshall and  Analise Seifert for surprising us with this donation after the Recital by Sydney Manowitz and Donald Cullington.

On behalf of the Caselberg Trust our Chairperson Dr Janet Downs has provided a letter of support for Dunedin’s current bid to be recognised by UNESCO as a City of Literature.

Available now through our shop.

The competition opens 1st October 2013. Entries will be judged blind.

A little bit of magic happened on the weekend of August 10th – 11th with Pacific Underground (our 2013 Creative Connections Residents) and friends, spending time in the University of Otago recording studios.

Reading this year’s selection alongside last year’s winners, it became clear that popular music and cinema have, to some considerable extent, become the collective memory of the tribe, the shared things that bind us together – a primary rather than a secondary experience.

Two questions worth asking of a poem: From whence does its order come (or, alternatively, from whom does it take its orders?) And, from whence cometh the chaos. A lyric poem needs both.

The winners have been announced for the 2013 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize, which was judged this year by Wellington poet, painter and curator Gregory O’Brien.

20+ New Zealand artists present 20+ works of art