Arts on Sunday for Sunday 14 December 2008
12:40 Cuba Street Carnival
Lucy Orbell re-lives 10 years of Wellington's Cuba Street Carnival, and gets an extreme hairdo for the sake of the show.
12:50 24 hour sculpture
We meet the UK artists behind a 24 hour sculpture in the Capital city - we'd tell you about it here if it wasn't a secret!
Below: The Zabbaleen, Cairo, Egypt, 2008, (research image for One Day Sculpture). Photo: Ivan Morison.
1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris confirms the usual holiday season trio: one musical - High School Musical 3 (picture below); one dysfunctional family comedy - Four Holidays; and one cheap horror film - Quarantine. And a partridge in a pear treeā¦
1:30 The Arts Year in Review
Theatre, with Kate Ward-Smythe, Faith Oxenbridge and Jackson Coe.
1:50 Marty Welch
Portrait painter to the celebs, Marty Welch, chats about his TV portrait show The Sitting and an exhibition of the works.
Pictured right: The Marty Welch portrait - Study of big red.
2:00 The Laugh Track
NZ Comedy champion Scott Blanks from Auckland's The Classic, returns with his Kiwi picks.
2:20 Gary Schofield
One time Hamiltonian now makes a living painting in the USA, working largely with the Military, and heads the environmental group Global Concern.
Below: US Pentagon Full Honours Ceremony painting.
2:30 Writer's Block
We mark the 50th anniversary of Otago University Press with Wendy Harrex who runs it and Donald Kerr who's curated an exhibition about the history of the Press.
2:50 The Arrival
Kate Parker talks about her hugely ambitions multi-media theatre project The Arrival, commissioned for AK09 in March next year and based on the graphic novel of the same name by Shaun Tan.
3:00 Radio Drama: Crumpy
Christchurch playwright Carl Nixon has woven his drama from all the strands of Barry Crump's colourful life, . . from his wild bushmen days in the late 50's through to his death in 1996. But despite his fame and popularity we discover a man crippled emotionally by the violence of his early years.