Launch date for Urban-Rural:The Great Divide?

Launch date for Urban-Rural:The Great Divide?

Depot Press is thrilled to be launching the latest issue of The Vernacularist on Wednesday 16 December.  This is the fifth issue of The Vernacularist, an independent journal in book form celebrating/exploring the vernacular identity of Aotearoa New Zealand, and…

Urban-Rural Contributors Announced

Urban-Rural Contributors Announced

  We are very pleased to announce our confirmed contributors. The publication will be a wonderful array of ideas and images thanks to the input of the following people: Jack Gray, Atamira Dance Company; Tony Watkins, Vernacular Architect; Linda Blincko, Depot Artspace Creative…

Advertising Opportunities Now Open for Urban-Rural Edition

Advertising Opportunities Now Open for Urban-Rural Edition

We are seeking advertisers for our upcoming edition of The Vernacularist, Urban-Rural: The Great Divide. It’s going to be a fascinating and insightful edition. Advertising with us means a unique opportunity to make a lasting impression with a timeless, beautiful advertisement…

Submissions are closed, construction begins!

Submissions have closed, and now a new phase  begins for the Urban-Rural edition of The Vernacularist, poring over the submissions and curating a fine assemblage of stories and visual content. We have had such a fantastic set of submissions. We are looking forward to…

Devo Youth Directory

Devo Youth Directory

The Devo Youth Directory is out! This fantastic guide is produced by local teenager Loretta Riach, as part of community work she was undertaking for the Duke of Edinburgh Award, and supported by the Depot.  The Directory is a map…

PARTICIPATE: Urban-Rural Survey

PARTICIPATE: Urban-Rural Survey

We’re on the hunt for memories, stories and opinions, about how landscape and where we reside affects our outlook on life. Therefore, we’ve put put together this survey to gather some little standalone snapshots/quotes about the urban-rural divide. The hope…

The Making of The Great Divide

We’re putting together a special edition of The Vernacularist themed Urban-Rural: The Great Divide? And it’s wonderful to be back, five years after I worked here last. The Depot is just as I left off – an open and welcoming place. Our present task is…

Submission Call-Out for Urban-Rural: The Great Divide

Submission Call-Out for Urban-Rural: The Great Divide

The theme for the upcoming issue of The Vernacularist is Urban-Rural: The Great Divide?. It cannot be denied that the functions, intentions and structures of rural/urban communities and economies have undergone huge change. With this issue of The Vernacularist we…

The Vernacularist: Wāhine – Women, Publication Launch, Thursday 28 May

The Vernacularist: Wāhine – Women, Publication Launch, Thursday 28 May

Please join us on Thursday the 28th of May from 6 – 8pm at Golden Dawn for the launch of our new publication The Vernacularist: Wāhine – Women. This special fourth edition of The Vernacularist is limited to only 150…

The Driving Force exhibition opening at Depot Artspace Saturday February 28

  The last day in February 2015 (Saturday February 28) saw the opening of The Driving Force – A group exhibition featuring the work of emerging and newly established artists  Nicholas Boyd, Paris Kirby, Jermaine Reihana, Sash and Yonel Watene. Artist…