The Women in Film and Television Awards have been handed out this week.
Outstanding Newcomer went to Filipino actor and writer Marianne Infante while the Award for Achievement in Film went to producer Desray Armstrong who has released 3 significant feature films within 18 months - Coming Home in the Dark, Millie Lies Low and Juniper.
The Entrepreneurship Award went to Chelsea Winstanley, while the Te Reo Māori Champion Award went to Mihingarangi Forbes.
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The Great Mosque of Algiers has opened in the Algerian capital after seven years of construction.
With space for 35 thousand worshippers in its large prayer hall and 120 thousand visitors in total, it will be the largest mosque in Africa and the third-largest mosque in the world.
It's designed by German architects KSP Engel and cost 1.4 billion dollars.
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The Auckland Arts Festival opens on Friday but has had to postpone four performances because of global shipping delays.
The festival is still waiting for the delivery of the outdoor show tent - being shipped from Belgium.
Festival chief executive Robbie Macrae says world shipping is in disarray.
The wooden tent was meant to come through the Suez Canal but had to be shipped around Cape Horn, adding weeks to its journey.
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Artists Kereama Taepa and Tiaki Dahm have been commissioned to produce works for the new Naenae Community Centre in a heritage-listed former Post Office in the Hutt Valley, which opens in May.
Taepa's aluminium work uses tūrapa (tukutuku) traditions of cross-stitched lattice work, while dahm has created two Toi Whakairo (carved timber pieces) for people to remember past stories about the local area.
The oak used comes from a tree felled nearby.
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Jordan Davey-Emms has been announced as the curatorial intern for Te Tuhi's Parnell Project Space in Tamaki Makaurau for 2024 - a 12-month, full-time, paid position.
Davey-Emms has been running experimental art space Wormhole in Edgecumbe, and is a founding member of the Kauae Raro Research Collective.
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And finally: Papa Rererangi i Puketapu / New Plymouth Airport has unveiled a replica of artist Don Driver's iconic aluminium mural of Charles Kingsford Smith's trans-Tasman flight outside its terminal.
The original mural was commissioned in 1966 and hung in the old terminal until the new Te Hono terminal was built in partnership with Puketapu hapū.
The new weather protected resin-based replica has been installed outside.
