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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 22 July 2012

  • Sarah Houboult

    12:45 PM.Sarah Houboult, winner of the inaugural Big A Artistic Achievement Award. Audio

  • Collen Plank and Graham Bennett

    12:50 PM.Artist and tutor Collen Plank is behind a community exihition in Nelson called Slick, where atists and school children are looking at our dependence on petroleum-based products. In Picton, scluptor… Read more Audio

  • Simon O'Neill

    1:34 PM.Tenor and Wagnarian specialist Simon O'Neill is kicking off more than a year of wall to wall Wagnerian operas concerts around the world. Audio

  • Art Fido

    1:45 PM.Melbourne Based Juan Garcia has established an online site called Art Fido. The site has more than 50 New Zealand artists to date. Sonia Sly talked to Gary Langsford of Gow Langsford Gallery in… Read more Audio

  • Mark Dorrell

    2:26 PM.Mark Dorrell. Music Director, musician and vocal coach. Mark can name drop performers such as Dame Judi Dench, Hugh Jackman and Sir Ian McKellen, having working on West End productions with them. Audio

  • Stag Spooner

    2:35 PM.Stag Spooner. A self taught artist who's left a remarkable record of his life in the bush and during the war. Neville (Stag) Spooner grew up in Carterton during the Great Depression. Wellington based… Read more Audio

  • Janet Charman

    2:43 PM.Auckland Poet Janet Charman won the Book Award for Poetry for Cold Snack four years ago. Her latest collection At The White Coast goes back to her years spent living in Thatcher's England. Audio

  • Nuclear Family

    2:52 PM.Desiree Gezentsvey and daughter Yael have brought their play Nuclear Family to New Zealand for it's first perforamce here. It's recieved five star reviews and making the top 100 list of must see shows… Read more Audio

12:43 Big A award-winning artiste Sarah Houbolt

Being a circus performer is a demanding enough artistic career for anyone who pursues it, but the Big A Award-winning artiste Sarah Houbolt is also legally blind.

Mojo Mathers and Sarah Houbolt.
Mojo Mathers and Sarah Houbolt. Image courtesy of Access All Areas.

Graham Bennett12:48 Hard to Swallow

The top of the South Island hosts two exhibitions designed to get people thinking, and talking… one's about whaling with mini sculptures created by Graham Bennett (left), and the other is a community-based project about drilling for oil off the New Zealand coast.

1:10 At The Movies

Two potentially creepy films – from America Ted, about a teddy-bear come to life, and from New Zealand, How To Meet Girls From A Distance, starring a would-be lovable stalker...

Simon ONEILL dpi Credit Fraser Harding1:31 Tenor Simon O'Neill

One of New Zealand's opera sensations – and that's no exaggeration – tenor Simon O'Neill (right), who's been to Wagner boot camp in preparation for a New Zealand production of The Valkyrie. Photograph by Fraser Harding.

Juan Garcia creator of Art Fido1:43 Who is buying art and is art accessible for a new generation of collectors?

Melbourne-based collector Juan Garcia (left) wanted to find a way to make the process of buying art as transparent and simple as possible, and he's set up a website called Art Fido. It works just like TradeMe or eBay with the exception that its purely for selling and buying art online and to-date there are already 50 New Zealand artists listed on the site. But is it a safe way to buy art, what about the risks for artists, and will sites like this take dealer galleries out of the picture? Sonia Sly speaks to Juan Garcia , Gary Langsford of Gow Langsford Gallery and visual artist Bee Dougherty Pratt to find out more.

Sam Neill2:05 The Laugh Track

Actor Sam Neill (right) spins his favourite comedy tracks and talks about his present and future projects, in New Zealand and overseas.

2:26 The Music Director of Wellington's Orpheus Choir, Mark Dorrell

On rubbing shoulders with Stephen Sondheim, Dame Judie Dench and Hugh Jackman, and one of his musical heroes…composer Leonard Bernstein. Mark is behind the choir's upcoming production of Bernstein's comic opera, Candide.

Mark Dorrell
Mark Dorrell with the choir.

2:34 Chapter & Verse

The truly remarkable story of deer culler and bush man Stag Spooner who created a detailed visual diary and illustrated envelopes which he sent home during his war service. His story is told by Chris MacLean in the Craig Potton published book Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush, and the latest poetry collection from Janet Charman, At the White Coast published by AUP.

Stag Spooner and postcard
Left: Neville (“Stag”) Spooner. Right: Envelope decorated by Spooner.

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Extract from page one of Spooner's 1939 diary.

2:53 Nuclear Family

Mother and daughter playwright and actress, Desiree and Yael Geventsky (below) who've brought their Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit play Nuclear Family to New Zealand. It's based on their family story and Russian Jewish immigrants living here when Chernobyl exploded.

Nuclear Family

3:00 The Drama Hour

Actress/writer Sophie Kendrick Goes Solo, O le Samaria is an ingenious retelling of the Good Samaritan story, set in Samoa, and this series of Joe Musaphia's The Gullibles comes to an end.