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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 4 July 2010

  • Arts Foundation laureate Shane Cotton

    12:40 PM.Shane Cotton on taking his art in new directions, on the canvas and trying to break into the London art market. Audio

  • The New Zealand Portrait Gallery

    12:50 PM.It's been a long, long fight but at last New Zealand's portrait gallery is to get a permanent home. Audio

  • Review of the Film Commission

    1:10 PM.Simon Morris delves into the Jackson/Court report on the NZ Film Commission with 48 hour Film Festival head Ant Timpson and filmmaker Robert Sarkies. He also talks to Film Commission CEO Graeme Mason. Audio

  • Freedom Fruit Gardens

    1:30 PM.Lucy Orbell visits the ultimate community art project - the planting of the first Freedom Fruit Garden in Otara. Audio

  • Young and Hungry

    1:41 PM.We find out what three playwrights think their young actors and audiences want to see on stage, including bullying, pop culture and Justin Bieber. Audio

  • Artist Joanna Langford

    1:50 PM.Artist Joanna Langford transforms the stuff we throw out to turn into fantastical new worlds. Audio

  • Eulogy

    2:25 PM.Kate Ward Smythe reviews a play satirising religious evangelism, 'Eulogy' starring Scott Wills. Audio

  • Wellington's Wind Sculptures

    2:30 PM.We find out about the logistics of designing sculptures that use the wind rather than being buffeted by it, as Wellington's decade long wind sculpture project comes to an end. Audio

  • Chapter and Verse - Deborah Challinor

    2:35 PM.Deborah Challinor has brought out the third in her series about the feisty Kitty who gives up life on board ship to look for gold across the Tasman in lawless Ballarat. Audio

  • Chapter and Verse - Penelope Todd

    2:48 PM.Penelope Todd has moved easily from writing for young adults to their parents with 'Island' Audio

  • The Rhythms of Ireland

    2:57 PM.Jenny Stevenson reviews one of the main successors of the wildly popular Lord of the Dance -"The Rhythms of Ireland". Audio

12:40 Arts Foundation laureate Shane Cotton

Shane Cotton on taking his art in new directions, on the canvas and trying to break into the London art market.

Shane_Cotton
Hum, by Shane Cotton.

12:50 It's been a long, long fight but at last New Zealand's portrait gallery is to get a permanent home

1:00 The review of the Film Commission by Sir Peter Jackson and David Courts

Simon Morris delves into the Jackson/Court report on the NZ Film Commission with 48 hour Film Festival head Ant Timpson and filmmaker Robert Sarkies.

1:30 Lucy visits the ultimate community art project - the planting of the first Freedom Fruit Garden in Otara

First Freedom Fruit Gardens planting
Freedom Fruit Gardens planting, at Preston Road Reserve in Otara. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.

1:40 Young and Hungry

We find out what three playwrights think their young actors and audiences want to see on stage, including bullying, pop culture and Justin Bieber.

Young and Hungry

1:50 Artist Joanna Langford

Artist Joanna Langford transforms the stuff we throw out to turn into fantastical new worlds.

Joanna Langford.

2:00 The Laugh Track

Visiting screen comedy consultant Stephen Kaplan, a guest of Script to Screen.

2:25 Kate Ward Smythe reviews a play satirising religious evangelism, Eulogy, starring Scott Wills

Eulogy

2:30 Wellington's Wind Sculptures

We find out about the logistics of designing sculptures that use the wind rather than being buffeted by it, as Wellington's decade long wind sculpture project comes to an end.

See images of some of Wellington's Wind Sculptures.

Akau Tangi by Phil Dadson
Akau Tangi by Phil Dadson. Image courtesy of Amy Schulz Photography and the Wellington Sculpture Trust.

2:40 Chapter and Verse

Our featured writers are Penelope Todd who's moved easily from writing for young adults to their parents, and Deborah Challinor, who's brought out the third in her series about the feisty Kitty who gives up life on board ship to look for gold across the Tasman in lawless Ballarat.

Band of Gold by Deborah ChallinorIsland by Penelope Todd

 

2:55 Jenny Stevenson reviews one of the main successors of the wildly popular Lord of the Dance - the Rhythms of Ireland

3:00 The Sunday Drama

Mizlantzi- Zilinski - a tale of dodgy doings in Hollywood, starring Broadway legend Nathan Lane.