Culture 101 for Sunday 18 February 2024

4:00 PM.Music played on our show Read more

2:45 PM.A theatre show at this year’s Hamilton Arts Festival was inspired by an incident and debate at Waitangi in 2021.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Poetry and music at their best share a trick: the ability to be both celestial and grounded; dealing with the particulars of our lives, yet moving into abstraction. They can be at once very personal… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Super Bowl 58 was held in Las Vegas this year with the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the San Francisco 49ers. The event has become a cultural phenomenon across the world, televised in more… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.Every week Culture 101 speaks to a creative correspondent to gauge the cultural pulse of Aotearoa’s regions.

This week, we’re in Kaikoura with writer, poet, researcher and museum curator, Te Awhina… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Kristen Ng aka electronic artist Kaishandao has been touring Aotearoa this summer in support of her beat-filled album Homeland. She describes it as an “atemporal exploration through the places, spaces… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.It’s one of the great cultural events of Aotearoa New Zealand – certainly one of the longest established: Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival. But now, RNZ film critic and… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.2023 Billy T winner Abby Howells is taking her award winning show La Soupco to the Hamilton Arts Festival.  Read more Audio