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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 13 September 2009

  • La Fine del Mondo

    12:40 PM.Photographer Edith Amituana'i documents the story of immigrants who make a new life at the end of the world. Audio

  • World Press Photo Exhibition

    12:55 PM.Colin Peacock from Mediawatch surveys 200 examples of photojournalism currently on display in Wellington. Audio

  • Kristen Darragh

    1:33 PM.An up and coming mezzo-soprano describes her progression from appearing in television advertisements as a child to the rarefied world of opera. Audio

  • Stephen A'Court - Body

    1:43 PM.Stephen A'Court has documented his love of dance in a new exhibition for the Dance Your Socks Off festival. Audio

  • The Bird Wife

    1:50 PM.Textile artist Jane Siddall has created a series of intricate minature embroideries depicting an old folk tale. Audio

  • The Box Woman

    2:28 PM.A travelling Brazillian theatre troup presents the tale of a mystical woman with a magical box for a head. Audio

  • Joanna Orwin

    2:35 PM.Collision is a novel that recounts the clash of cultures that occurs when a French expedition washes up in the Bay of Islands in 1772. Audio

  • Charlotte Trevella

    2:45 PM.At only 17 Charlotte is one of the world's top young poets who has a newly published collection entitled 'Because Paradise'. Audio

  • The Girl with No Words

    2:52 PM.Lucy Orbell previews a new multi-media performance due to open in Wanaka next week. It is the story of a young woman whose inability to express herself verbally leads to self-harm. Audio

13 September 2009

12:40 La Fine del Mondo

Lucy Orbell chats to photographer Edith Amituanai about her latest installation, La Fine del Mondo. It's a collection of portraits of a Burmese family resettling in Auckland, complemented by Film Archive footage of the immigrant experience in New Zealand.

Edith Amituanai

Image by Edith Amituanai from La Fine del Mondo

12:50 World Press Photographic Exhibition

Media commentator Colin Peacock assesses the year's best press photographs now on show at the World Press Photographic Exhibition in Wellington.

Callie Shell

Photograph by Callie Shell from the World Press Photographic Exhibition

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

Simon looks at one of the most surprisingly attractive movies of the year - The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Junior.

Kirsten Darragh1:30 Opera star Kirsten Darragh

Kirsten Darragh (right) started out as a TV ad child star - now she's headed for international stardom in the world's opera concert halls. She's about to star as Olga in Eugene Onegin for NZ Opera.

1:40 Body

Stephen A' Court is mad about dance - not performing it himself but photographing it. Sonia Yee chats to Stephen about making multi-dimensional dance work as a one-dimensional image.

Body

Images by Stephen A' Court

1:50 The Bird Wife

The ancient art of embroidery gets a revival at the hands of Jane Siddall from the Waikato, who's used the folk tale The Bird Wife to create a series of miniature masterpieces.

2:00 The Laugh Track

Gemma Gracewood - TV producer of New Artland on TVNZ7 and member of the in demand ukulele star.

2:20 The Box Woman

An insight into Brazilian theatre with the arrival in New Zealand of a production about a woman who has a magical box for a head. We meet actress Joana Curvo.

The Box Woman can be seen on Sunday 13 September at Te Papa at 10 am, at TheNewDowse in Lower Hutt at 1pm, on Tuesday 15 September at 1 pm at The Quad at Victoria University, and the next day at 12:30 in Midland Park in Wellington.

In Auckland the show is on Thursday 17 September at 12:45 at the Plaza at Auckland University, and finally the next day at Britomart at 5:30pm.

Boxwoman

Brazilian theatrical play The Box Woman

2:30 Chapter and Verse

She's still in her teens but already Cantabrian Charlotte Trevella has won national awards, international attention and has published her first book of poetry, Because Paradise.

And Joanna Orwin's New Zealand historical novel, Collision, looks at the culture clash between early French explorers and Maori in the Bay of Islands.

2:50 Lucy looks at a play with an underlying message of hope for people who self-harm

3:00 The Sunday Drama

Jean and Richard - a fantasy by Mervyn Thompson that brings together New Zealand's most famous aviators, Jean Batten and Richard Pearse. Incidentally, this week marks the centenary of Jean Batten's birth.