THE GROOVE BOOK REPORT

They've reached double digits! AudioCulture Iwi Waiata, the noisy library of New Zealand music, turns 10 years old this month, with the site being launched on May 31st 2013, to coincide with the last day of NZ Music Month. To mark 10 years of celebrating Aotearoa New Zealand music, and in a first for the website, AudioCulture has launched the  AudioCulture Classic NZ Album Readers Poll for 2023 . It’s time for you, the public, to tell them which locally recorded and produced album you consider to be the very best of all time.  Aotearoa is teeming with award-winning, chart-topping, and critically acclaimed albums worthy of consideration. Or perhaps your idea of classic is something a little more seminal? Everyone who casts their vote goes into the draw to win a Thorens TC201 turntable* and $500 credit to spend, thanks to  Real Groovy . There will also be spot prizes of exclusive AudioCulture merch to be won over the month.  *Terms and conditions apply Go to the  ...

A 400-year-old edition of Shakespeare’s first collection of plays (incl. Macbeth and Twelfth Night) was sold at  Sotheby’s auctionhouse in NYC for  £2m. The First Folio, considered to one of the most important books in English literature, was bought by a private collector. This edition is more than 400 years old.  It contains a collection of 36 plays.  Originally only 750 copies of the book were printed.  About 220 are known to survive. It is also believed that without the First Folio 18 of Shakespeare’s best-known works, including Macbeth, The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night, would've been lost because no contemporary manuscripts of these plays survive as individualcopies or un any other collections. Shakespeare’s partners in the acting company John Heminge and Henry Condell were behind editing of the book, first published in 1623, 7 years after the playwright’s death. The First Folio was intended to preserve the plays as they are and avoid...

The Commuting Book is a community-based organisation that aims to promote an appreciation and love of reading as a source of knowledge and entertainment by bringing literature to public spaces and in people’s daily activities.  Storytelling and reading are skills for life and the importance of books and literature, in general, has been widely researched and documented. We want to encourage and engage the community in reading by finding new ways to make books and stories more available to many people, by using public spaces in unusual ways, that create opportunities to tempt non-readers and to engage those who have not read a book in a long while or don’t have the time.  INITIATIVES Distribution of free books on public transport;  Promotion and development of spaces/interventions in urban settings to connect people through words in books and stories;  Design of innovative platforms and creation of interactive installations using technology to support, publ...