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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 28 August 2011

  • WOW Review

    12:45 PM.Dawn Tratt went to last night's performance of the World of Wearable Arts and gives us her impressions. Audio

  • Arohanui - The Greatest Love

    12:50 PM.Arohanui - The Greatest Love, an event combining a multitude of Maori cultural elements into a tour de force performance to showcase during the Rugby World Cup. Co-directors Tanemahuta Gray and Jim… Read more Audio

  • Pip Cheshire - Q Theatre

    1:35 PM.Architect of Auckland's new mid-sized flexi-form Q Theatre. Audio

  • Fiona Samuel - Bliss

    1:45 PM.Fiona's the writer of a new TV series, Bliss, which looks at the life of short story writer Katherine Mansfield from her latter teenage years, it premiers tonight. Audio

  • Frank Kozik - vinyl artist

    1:50 PM.Orinally coming to prominence through his poster design for bands including the Butthole Surder and Pearl Jam, Frank is now better know for collectable creations crafter in vinyl. Audio

  • Art Restoration - Poedua: The Pacific Island Mona Lisa

    2:30 PM.Whilst the painting's conservators take a break, Sonia Sly catches up with framing conservator Matthew O’ Reilly to discuss the function of a frame fit for a Princess.  Audio

  • Alex Calder - The Settler's Plot

    2:40 PM.Dr Alex Calder has taken his fascination with early New Zealand storytelling and compiled it into an historic of pioneer tales. Audio

  • Xuefei Yang - guitar virtuoso

    2:50 PM.Extraordinary Chinese classical guitarist touring parts of New Zealand with the NZSO. Audio

  • Opera Review - Cav & Pag

    2:55 PM.Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are being performed together back to back by the New Zealand Opera. Dave Armstrong tells us what he thought of these two diminutive operas as a single performance. Audio

  • Jacquelyn Greenbank - Knitted & Knotted

    3:05 PM.Intricate and imaginative are the knits which are pearled and planed away in an exhibition at the Dowse in Lower Hutt. Artist and Christchurch earthquake refugee Jacquelyn Greenbank talks to Lynn… Read more Audio

12:40 Dawn Tratt assesses this year's biggest World of Wearable Arts Event yet

12.50 Arohanui promises to be one of New Zealand's most spectacular and ambitious stage spectaculars… we cross live to rehearsals

Arohanui
Arohanui. Image courtesy of Te Matatini Society Incorporated.

1:00 At The Movies with Simon Morris

Simon Morris looks back on the blockbuster season – the profitable Northern summer – and wonders if all those billions were worth it.  He also looks at the rather more economic New Zealand film Love Story and the new Jim Carrey family movie, Mister Popper’s Penguins.

1:30 Q Theatre

It's a rare event for New Zealand architects, the chance to design a purpose built theatre… that was Pip Cheshire's brief for Auckland's long awaited Q Theatre, a project which has taken more than a decade to realise.

1:40 Bliss

Short story writer Katherine Mansfield gets a made for TV makeover by screenwriter Fiona Samuel.

Fiona Samuel and Kate Elliot as Katherine Mansfield
Left: Fiona Samuel and right: Kate Elliot as Katherine Mansfield.

1:50 San Fransiscan-based artist Frank Kozik

Frank Kozik used to make his money from vinyl back in the day of records and music posters, but now he's turning vinyl into crazy limited edition toys.

Gallery: See images of Frank Kozik's work

Godzilla Rabbits
Godzilla Rabbits by Frank Kozik.

2:00 The Laugh Track

Star of stage and TV, and former McLeod's Daughter, Lisa Chappell. Lisa's choices are Eric Idle - Always Look on the Bright Side; Rowan Atkinson & John Cleese - Bees; Excerpts from the movies Bridesmaids and Going The Distance.

2:20 Framing Poedua - part two of a series on the restoration of the Pacific Mona Lisa

Whilst the paintings conservators take a break, Sonia Sly catches up with framing conservator Matthew O’ Reilly to discuss the function of a frame fit  for a Princess. 

2:30 Chapter & Verse

Dr Alex Calder looks at how early settlers and later New Zealand writers have described their relationship with the land in his new book The Settler's Plot.

The Settlers Plot

2:45 Chinese virtuoso guitarist, Xuefei Yang

The first Chinese music student to study an instrument which was banned during the Cultural Revolution.

Xuefei Yang credit Neil Muir
Xuefei Yang. Photo by Neil Muir.

2:50 Dave Armstrong reviews the latest New Zealand interpretation of the operatic double bill, CAV and PAG

3:05 Knitting and crotchet artist, Jacquelyn Greenbank

How Jacquelyn Greenbank turns wool and lace into barbeques, royal carriages and now a 16th century sailing ship and jellyfish ufo.

Jacquelyn Greenbank

Jacquelyn Greenbank's Lady Boras (detail), 2010. Courtesy of the artist.

3:10 Sunday Drama

Stuart Hoar's On the Road, Off the Record tells the story of a star-crossed string quartet.