Culture 101 for Sunday 29 October 2023

2:35 PM.American slime mould tours Aotearoa creating giant kinetic sculpture of rubbish Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The name of the northern Hawkes Bay river town of Wairoa has been translated as "the long water which bubbles, swirls and is uneven". That certainly became true earlier this year when Cyclone… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.While other kids went to kindergarten, when he was a small child Tongan New Zealand artist John Vea was on the factory floor where his father worked.

The experience has led Vea to make the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Toi Mahara gallery director Janet Bayly offers the whakatauki: ‘ahakoa he iti he pounamu’, when she speaks of the Kāpiti Coast’s regional Gallery in Waikanae. “The gift of something small but… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.This week saw the passing of a legend in the arts in Aotearoa. Sir Jon Trimmer, arguably New Zealand’s most beloved dancer has died aged 84. With him to the end in Paekākāriki alongside his wife Lady… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Freshwater ecologist, environmental science researcher and activist Dr Mike Joy is a well known outspoken voice in the need for our society to make radical changes to deal with our major environmental… Read more Audio

2:10 AM.Lucy Godoroja unfastens the miniature world of wonder and the surprising history of the button. In her book, All Buttons Great and Small.  Read more Audio