About the event

Join us for the Wellington launch of a new report by Rosabel Tan for the Asia New Zealand Foundation, New Waves: Meeting the Growing Hunger for Asian Art in Aotearoa.

Hear from Rosabel and the Foundation's Director Arts, Craig Cooper, on the growing unmet demand for art and entertainment — from traditional forms of theatre to K-pop and contemporary visual art — from Asia in New Zealand. The report includes recommendations for policymakers in the creative sectors as well as artists and art programmers seeking to deepen engagement with Asia and make the most of the exciting opportunities emerging in Asia.

This event will follow our usual Asia After Five format — where we blend Asia-focused discussion with an evening of drinks, nibbles and making connections.

Date/time: Tuesday, 30 April, 5:30-7:30pm
Venue: Level 16, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace

Tickets are limited. Please RSVP by Friday, 19 April 2024.

Speakers

Rosabel Tan

Rosabel Tan is a writer, researcher and producer of Peranakan Chinese descent.

She is the Director of Satellites — currently working on an archive of Asian diaspora artists and art-making in Aotearoa — and Programme Manager for The Next Page, a national training programme for early-career magazine editors. Rosabel is a founding editor of arts and culture journal The Pantograph Punch and was the inaugural Curator: Asia for the 2022 Auckland Writers Festival and co-programmer for Verb Festival 2023.

Craig Cooper

Craig Cooper has worked in the Australian and New Zealand arts sectors for over twenty-five years in a variety of roles. As a producer and programmer he worked at Sydney Opera House, Christchurch’s Court Theatre and more recently as head of the arts development programmes at Auckland Live as associate Director Arts Programmes.

In the festival sector he directed both Taranaki and Christchurch Festivals and led the establishment of Auckland Fringe as a founding board member.

Craig also has extensive experience in the strategy and funding sector, working as a Senior Advisor at Creative New Zealand (New Zealand Arts Council) and with local councils as an arts consultant and cultural development officer and assessor.

Craig’s work now has an international focus as head of the Arts Programmes at Asia New Zealand Foundation.