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Armistice Day commemorations
Two minutes silence at 11.00am and eleven tolls of the Peace Bell will signal the beginning of the Armistice Day commemorative service at the National War Memorial tomorrow.
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10 November 2009

MCH Annual Report 2009
The Ministry's 2009 annual report is now available.
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4 November 2009

Submissions to public discussion paper, Digital Futures: Planning for Digital Television and New Uses
Over August-September 2009, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) and the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) invited submissions on a public discussion paper outlining options for the transition of regional television to digital transmission, and proposed changes to the VHF and UHF radio spectrum bands. These matters are related to the upcoming switch-over of television broadcasting to digital-only transmission.
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14 October 2009

New appointments to the Arts Council announced
Academic and historian Judith Binney and artist and curator Helen Kedgley have been appointed to the board of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage Chris...
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07 October 2009

Ian Athfield appointed to Historic Places Trust
Architect Ian Athfield has been appointed as to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Board, Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage Christopher Finlayson announced today. The New Zealand Historic Plac...
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07 October 2009

Review to improve arts philanthropy
A taskforce consisting of several of New Zealand's most high-profile supporters of the arts will investigate ways to improve levels of philanthropic giving in New Zealand, Minister of Arts Culture and...
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30 September 2009

Review of the New Zealand Film Commission
Comments/submissions on the Review are now available.
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8 September 2009