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A group of woman walk away along the beach, holding hands

18 Jun 2025

Sublime performance from Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance


On a clear blue April day on Ōtepoti Dunedin’s iconic St Clair Beach, the 2025 Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Danc...

The carved meeting house, Mataatua, at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, 1925-1926. Robert Johnstone photograph, P2008-023-018d, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago Otakou Whakaihu Waka.

05 Jun 2025

Performance of ‘The journey of Mataatua Whare: the house that came home’ to première in Dunedin


Te Kāhui Tau School of Performing Arts Senior Lecturer Tessa Petersen is helping to bring the story of Mataatua Whare to...

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28 Mar 2025

‘Caring, passionate and dedicated’ teachers awarded


Five of Otago’s academic staff have received Excellence in Teaching awards for being ‘caring, passionate and dedicated t...

Pictured from left: Professor Terence Dennis, Jonathan Lemalu, Helen Williamson (niece of Honor McKellar) and Emeritus Professor John Drummond at the tribute concert announcing the Honor McKellar Memorial Scholarship in Classical Voice.

28 Feb 2025

Voice scholarship celebrates legacy of Honor McKellar


A new scholarship to remember the life and work of the late voice teacher and performer Honor McKellar is being establis...

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10 Dec 2024

Spotlight on Phoebe Rose


Crossing the stage for her degree tomorrow looks set to be just the start of a career under the spotlight for Phoebe Ros...

Marama Hall with work trucks parked around it

05 Nov 2024

Marama Hall maintenance work to begin


A different type of sound will reverberate from Marama Hall over the coming months, as vital maintenance work gets under...

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31 Oct 2024

University of Otago Research Grants for Te Kete Aronui – Division of Humanities


Congratulations to the six successful projects from Te Kete Aronui – Division of Humanities to receive 2025 University o...

Six people standing next to each other looking happy

17 Oct 2024

Bringing Moriori exhibition Hou Rongo to life


Transporting visitors to Rēkohu (Chatham Islands) and the culture of the indigenous Moriori people, the exhibition Hou R...

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09 Oct 2024

Otago announces 2025 Arts Fellows


Otago’s Arts Fellows for 2025 have been selected. The Fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year and...

24 Sep 2024

Being on stage 'daunting and rewarding'


Ariana Noelle Gepte has come a long way – from playing a chocolate bubble in a stage version of Charlie and the Chocolat...

23 Sep 2024

Otago student set to shine at Oxford


You’d be hard-pressed to find a teenage mind as sharp, questing and kind as the one that sits sparkling away inside Alex...

Otago tauira Jimmy Robinson and alumna Tāwini White in the Robertson Library

06 Sep 2024

Closing time never sounded so sweet


Night owls may have noticed something a bit different in the Robertson Library at closing time recently.

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