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Many companies treat U.S. expansion as a real estate and incorporation problem: pick a city, register the entity, open a bank account, post the job. But the harder calls come next. Which city do you actually build around, and what does that signal to the talent you’re trying to hire? Who’s the first U.S. hire? What happens when someone transfers over from headquarters? Those decisions often get made fast, by teams that haven’t had to think about U.S. employment or immigration rules before.

​Join Manifest Law for a live conversation between Chief People Officer Harry Uffindell and Principal Immigration Attorney Nicole Gunara on what it actually takes to build a first U.S. team.

​You’ll learn:

• ​How to choose a U.S. base, and what that decision signals to talent, investors, and customers

• ​How to build an employer brand in the U.S.

• ​What changes about interviewing and evaluating candidates once you’re hiring in the U.S. market

• ​Which relocation options work fastest, and where a status you assumed was safe, like a Green Card, can still create risk

• ​Who should sign off when a U.S. hire, transfer, or promotion turns into an immigration or compliance question

*Liquid Land* marks the debut European solo exhibition by Australian South Sea Islander artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby. Created in response to the architectural history of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, *Liquid Land* presents new site-specific installations and sculptural works. Exploring histories of enslavement and domestic labour whilst tracing relationships across the Pacific, Australia, and wider dialogues about the transatlantic slave trade, these works illuminate the global scope of industries and exploitation.

Spanning sculpture, photography, installation, and video, Jasmine’s multidisciplinary practice is a profound exploration of “blackbirding”, the nineteenth century practice of deceiving or kidnapping Pacific Islanders for forced labour on Australian sugar plantations. Through the optical deception of mirrors, where flashes of light were perceived as signs from the spirit world or communication from ancestors, slave recruiters compelled people out into the water to investigate.

In *Liquid Land*, Jasmine lures with beauty and intrigue, intentionally mimicking the trickery that once weaponised Pacific Islanders’ cultural and spiritual beliefs and curiosity. At the exhibition’s heart is a full-scale recreation of Jasmine’s ancestral home in Australia, originally built by her Ni-Vanuatu ancestors. The thatched hut, modelled after an archival family photograph, houses an oceanic, crow-feathered installation. Throughout *Liquid Land*, Jasmine addresses notions of home, belonging, and retreat within the contradictions of confinement and violence.

Presented by Glasgow International and the Gallery of Modern Art.

Supported by Glasgow International through support from core funders and Henry Moore Foundation, with presentation support from Glasgow Museums. This exhibition is additionally supported by the Glasgow 2026 Festival which is designed to complement the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, activating the city through culture and sport and inviting everyone to get involved as part of the wider public celebrations.

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To find more exhibitions around the world by New Zealand artists, visit ArtNow.NZ

While much of the global commentary right now is about risk, what if the world is actually at the start of a supercycle of growth?

Anna Fifield (award-winning journalist) explores this contrary view with Roger Dennis (futurist) and Reuben Steff (academic and former diplomat). The conversation will traverse geopolitics, opportunities, and how Kiwis abroad – and New Zealand as a nation – could thrive in volatility.

A frank and thought-provoking 45 minutes on the forces shaping the next decade, and what to do about them.

When:

• US West Coast (PDT): Sunday 19 July, 1pm
• US East Coast (EDT): Sunday 19 July, 4pm
• Central Europe (CEST): Sunday 19 July, 10pm
• UK (BST): Sunday 19 July, 9pm
• New Zealand (NZST): Monday 20 July, 8am

Where: Zoom Webinar (online). The session is recorded and shared afterwards.

Anna Fifield was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and the Washington Post for 20 years, and is now writing about the world for a New Zealand audience on Substack. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Roger Dennis advises boards and CEOs on the strategic implications of a fast-changing world, with a focus on the long-term interactions between complex systems. In 2015 he led a team that spent four months analysing the impact of a global pandemic on supply chains. His work has been published in Scientific American and Knowledge at Wharton.

Reuben Steff is an Associate Professor at Mendel University in the Czech Republic, researching US-China competition, Indo-Pacific and European geopolitics, and small-state strategy. A former New Zealand foreign ministry official, he is the author of five books, most recently New Zealand’s Geopolitics and the US-China Competition (2025).

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