Liz Hale

Hey one of the largest disability support providers in the country has COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF MONEY and no one is hearing me SCREAM IT FROM THE HILLTOPS. Please boost this and please send it to your MPs.

The Government must apologise to disabled adults, children and their whānau Signed by Awhi Ngā Mātua, IHC,  Disabled Persons Assembly NZ Inc, Parent to Parent, Disability Connect, Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, NZEI Te Riu Roa, Parents of Vision Impaired PVINZ,...

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The New Zealand Government must apologise to disabled adults, children and their whānau

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The Copyright and AI consultation - how to respond as an illustrator – The AOI The Copyright and Artificial Intelligence consultation was published by in December 2024, and we are encouraging illustrators to submit a response to the consultation to demonstrate the negative affec...

TWO DAYS left to respond to the UK Govt consultation on Copyright and AI. The AOI has created a brilliant guide to help with this - the consultation is onerous but their tips make completing it quick and easy for any creator, not just an illustrator. PLEASE ADD YOUR VOICE: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...

A crosshatched pen and ink drawing. A moonlit landscape, empty except for a spindly tree with a single leaf, and a low flat stone. A bearded man in a large fur coat stands with his hands in his pockets and a strange, black creature wearing a striped scarf and sneakers sits on the stone. Neither looks happy. Below are the words "They wait and wait till things turn glum -- but Mister Gorey does not come"

"Waiting for Gorey" is my tribute to Edward Gorey (with a dash of Samuel Beckett) for the Phantasmagorey show at Custom House, Leith in Edinburgh. The show features forty other artists and is open for two more days.
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Lego and the Mummy Queen: a visit to the Otago Museum On a whim this weekend, I visited the Otago Museum to see the travelling Relics: A New World Rises exhibition. The theme of Relics is civilisations old and new: the year is 2530; human civilisation…

My visit to the LEGO Relics exhibition at the Otago Museum:
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Research Assistant in Irish Literature and Classical Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - English, Department of, Aarhus University

#classicalreception Full-time Research Assistant position (12 months) in Classical Culture and Irish Literature - Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark - international.au.dk/about/profil...

Jigsaw Odyssey–piece by piece I’ve recently gone back to jigsaw-land, following a fascination with the world of jigsaw competitions. I have no ambitions to do a 500-piece jigsaw in under 30 minutes. I do, however, enjoy t…

"the #Odyssey as a journey through the emotional spectrum–in this brightly coloured, vivid representation, is something to think about further." #blog Jigsaw Odyssey–piece by piece - Antipodean Odyssey blog by Dr Elizabeth Hale @ebrhale.bsky.social antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2024/10/24/j...

Slow and Steady wins the race… turtles, foxes, and the 1 million turtles project This weekend I went to Albury-Wodonga, to La Trobe University, for an event celebrating the work of the 1 million turtles project. It is an amazing project, in which academics, students and volunteers...

#blog Slow and Steady wins the race… turtles, foxes, and the 1 million turtles project - Antipodean Odyssey by Elizabeth Hale (UNE) @ebrhale.bsky.social antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/s... "even the smallest creature can make a mighty journey"

Those who decry classical education. . . can hardly conceive the sense of strength and freedom which a young and ingenuous intellect acquires in all literature . . . (Frederic Farrar and the nectar sweets of classics)

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Children’s Literature and Whenua at the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research Nicola Daly, co-president (with me) of ACLAR (the Australasian Children's Literature for Research) has sent out the Call for Papers for our biannual conference. The theme is Children's LIterature and ...

CFP: Children's Literature and Whenua at the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research: abstracts due 15 March.

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Crying child reaching out for pancakes. Text read 'He knows a good thing when he sees it!'

A delightful child, crying and reaching out for pancakes.

(From the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, 1890s.)

Happy Pancake Day!
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Brilliant!

The advent calendar printed and halfway through being made. It’s pretty!

✨The download-and-print PDF version of my Ancient Greek Women Of Myth advent calendar is now available✨
- see below for the colour version AND a colouring-in/draw your own version for schools

Thanks @resaustrales.bsky.social! It's a delightful work :)

#blog Introducing Ode and Melody: the First Chord…- @ebrhale.bsky.social's Antipodean Odyssey antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/i...

On this day - October 4 - in 2020 The Simpsons released an episode set in Ancient Rome. I confess to not having seen it, but the promotional posters were brilliant.