Events in week starting Sunday 3 March 2013

This year the theme for Children’s Day (Sunday 3 March) reminds us to ‘Treasure Our Children’, so we’re working with treasure boxes!

Join Tom Sharplin, New Zealand’s king of Rock & Roll, for a night of fabulous music from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Bring your dancing shoes!

Explore current challenges and opportunities for local industry, including alternative funding models, marketing and distribution for iOS/Android, transmedia, brand-building, and design post-mortems. The discussion includes games and entertainment, serious games for change and education, and games as an art form. 

The Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 are among the most significant events in New Zealand’s history. Te Papa is collecting objects and filming stories around the earthquakes.

Explore current challenges and opportunities for local industry, including alternative funding models, marketing and distribution for iOS/Android, transmedia, brand-building, and design post-mortems. The discussion includes games and entertainment, serious games for change and education, and games as an art form. 

Join videogame pioneer Masaya Matsuura and PikPok producer/product manager Dewi Tanner in conversation. Matsuura’s astonishing career has seen him go from Japanese pop star to godfather of rhythm-based music games.

We are delighted to offer the most exclusive of Game Masters events: an evening with Japanese videogame designer Masaya Matsuura at the acclaimed Hippopotamus restaurant.

The Tasmars expedition involved a crew of four Australians and Kiwis living and working at the Mars Desert Research Station for two weeks. They followed strict site protocols that emulated the working and living conditions on a real Mars base.

Make your own set of mini-poi to embellish your outfit!