Culture 101 for Sunday 3 November 2024

3:04 PM.Arts News: Quasi on the move, live performance contributes $17.3 billion and a Yorkshire Pud halloween costume Audio

2:30 PM.Collaboration with artists across many disciplines and styles has long marked out the work of Pōneke Wellington musician David Long. 

David Long is perhaps still best known as a key musical partner… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.When asked by the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi to describe the highlight of soon becoming a 2024 arts laureate, and winner of the Toi Kō Iriiri Queer Arts Award, playwright and producer Victor Rodger… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.It’s the ‘Gumboot Capital of the World’, and proudly lives up to that reputation. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.You could describe Iwen Yong as an accidental artist. Malaysian-born, he moved to New Zealand with his family at the age of six. First settling in Wellington, they moved to the Hutt Valley where he… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Two bananas duct taped to the wall find themselves unexpectedly in the spotlight. In a clown, fruit mash-up of physical theatre, How To Art is hitting the walls of Basement Theatre in Auckland. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.To say the artist duo Kemi Whitwell and Niko Leyden have an obsession with backcountry huts is no overstatement. 

It’s been the focus of their art and design for more than 12 years. The Waikato-based… Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.For more than two decades, award-winning journalist and presenter, Amanda Gillies has been gracing the screens in the living rooms of Kiwi homes.  Read more Audio