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H.R. The Musical - putting office culture on stage
12:30 PM.Most of us at some point have worked for a company with an HR (Human Resources) Department. We’re familiar with the jargon and usually have brushes with the team entering and exiting a role.
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Witi Ihimaera on the massive rise to come of Māori culture in 2024
12:10 PM.Witi Ihimaera joins Mark Amery on Culture 101 to play ‘Fast Favourites’ - sharing some of his favourite current Aotearoa artists and cultural moments.
“We’re international now. It’s fantastic when… Read more Audio
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The year that was: best of Aotearoa culture 2023
2:05 PM.Joining Mark Amery and Perlina Lau on Culture 101 to consider the year that was and pick some cultural highlights are Erin Harrington in Ōtautahi Christchurch, André Chumko and Sarah Laing in Poneke… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: creative Kerikeri
1:30 PM.As the summer break starts, many New Zealanders will be heading to the warmer climes of Te Tai Tokerau Northland and a town known for its arts, culture and heritage: Kerikeri.
Culture 101’s Mark… Read more Audio
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‘Don’t look behind you!’ A history of folk horror with Kier-La Janisse
1:05 PM.The phenomenon and history of folk horror has been explored in a new documentary, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (2021) screening at City Gallery Wellington. A sub-genre of horror, folk horror is… Read more Video, Audio
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Bruce Mason Playwriting Winner: Tainui Tukiwaho
12:45 PM.Actor, director, producer and writer, Tainui Tukiwaho (Te Arawa, Tūhoe) is the recent winner of the 2023 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Known for roles on Step Dave and having taken on portraying… Read more Audio
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Connecting to our landscapes through artist Marilynn Webb
12:30 PM.When we talk about the pioneering generation of modern Māori artists, the names most typically heard are men: Ralph Hotere, Sandy Adsett, Selwyn Wilson, Muru Walters or Para Matchitt.
Deserving more… Read more Audio
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Fast Favourites: Grace Palmer on landing an American sitcom
12:15 PM.Each week Culture 101 invites a guest to share their cultural favourites and shout-out to other artists. This week it’s former Shortland Street and Good Grief actor and writer Grace Palmer.
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Dame Anne Salmond: connecting people through culture
2:40 PM.The journey anthropologist and award-winning writer Dame Anne Salmond has made into Te Ao Māori as a Pākehā over 50 years - creating a bridge for others to connect with our histories, our environment… Read more Audio
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Tango with world champion accordionist Grayson Masefield
2:20 PM.To celebrate International Tango Day on Monday 11 December, Aotearoa’s quintet Aotango will be turning the Te Ao Mārama South Atrium at the Auckland Museum into a dance floor with a world music and… Read more Audio
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Writing and performing a third act in your ‘third age’
2:05 PM.Nine first time stage actors and playwrights in Te Whanganui a Tara, all in their ‘third age’ have co-created a play that explores their personal experiences of the only consistent thing in life… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Motueka with Donna McLeod
1:20 PM.Every week on Culture 101 we check the pulse of a different area of Aotearoa. This week, we’re in Motueka with Donna McLeod. Read more Audio
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Ngahuia Harrison: the consequences of cannibal capitalism on the land
1:07 PM.In her major exhibition Coastal Cannibals at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, with a camera, Ngahuia Harrison offers different views on our landscape than we are used to seeing in a frame. She… Read more Audio
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Renowned Chinese haute couture designer Guo Pei in Aotearoa
12:30 PM.Just a glimpse of Guo Pei’s magnificent gowns reveal her vivid imagination. Read more Audio
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Creative funding will be tight, warns new Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage
12:10 PM.In former government minister Chris Finlayson’s 2022 book Yes Minister he wrote that “The primary responsibility of a National minister for arts, culture and heritage, is to keep the luvvies at bay… Read more Audio
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Fixing the desperate state of arts and culture coverage in the media
2:30 PM.On the brink of collapse - that’s the stark portrayal of the state of the arts media in a new report New Mirrors, commissioned by Creative New Zealand. Read more Audio
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Manu Vaea: the spiritual and mundane in being fakaleitī - Tongan third gender
2:05 PM.In Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī (The Freedom/ Emancipation of the Leitī), Tongan New Zealand artist Manuaha’apai Vaeatangitau (or Manu Vaea for short) deals in “radical honesty” about her experiences as… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Marton building turns into an ‘unsettling immersive’ sculpture
1:27 PM.In 2021 artist Isabella Loudon returned to her family home in the town of Marton Tutaenui in the lower North Island to recover from glandular fever. Loudon has since stayed on, making the most of a… Read more Audio
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Kauae Raro Research Collective's passion for earth pigments
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Celebrating traditional Fijian hair practice from a Wairarapa farm
12:45 PM.The buiniga is a traditional Fijian unisex hairstyle. Similar to the afro, but more sculpted, it’s become a source of national pride. Increasingly young women in Fiji are bucking Western trends and… Read more Audio
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Moutere valley jeweller wins gold at Florence Biennale
12:30 PM.A New Zealand jeweller has won big at the XIV Florence Biennale Exhibition and Awards, taking first prize for Jewellery Art and Design. Read more Audio