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Restructures at Penguin, a women's only exhbition & Ria Hall for mayor: Arts News 12 May
3:10 PM.Arts news for 12 May Read more
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Rick Rudd: creating New Zealand's only museum devoted to the ceramic arts
2:30 PM.Ten years ago acclaimed potter Rick Rudd sold his house - together with its unique native and sculpture garden - in Castlecliff, Whanganui to establish Quartz Museum of Studio Ceramics in downtown… Read more Audio
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Creating Aotearoa's own Watership Down: Shelley Burne-Field
2:05 PM.Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds. Yet contemporary fiction providing a bird’s eye view has been slow to arrive.
While Catherine Chidgey’s award winning 2022 novel The Axeman’s Carnival looks… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Kaitaia with Dr Opeloge Ah Sam
1:25 PM.In this week’s Regional Wrap we look at the culture of Far North town Kaitaia. Read more Audio
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Bailey Poching: Here are the Māori comedians - but where are you looking for them?
1:05 PM.In an article on Stuff in 2019, comedian Guy Williams posed the question, “Where are all the Māori comedians?” Williams noted that, despite our main comedy award being named after Billy T James, he… Read more Audio
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Amah: AI nanny pushes a mother to her limits
12:30 PM.A psychological thriller, part of TVNZ’s Motherhood Anthology Series has been released in time for Mother’s Day.
The film’s title Amah holds three different meanings. The term, used in East Asia… Read more Audio
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Getting over writer’s block: Fast Favourites with Troy Kingi
12:15 PM.10 albums in 10 years in 10 different genres - that was Troy Kingi’s goal. But after the release of the seventh album - 2023’s ambient instrumental vibe album Timewasters - he’s admitted in a new TVNZ… Read more Video, Audio
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Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s ode to farting wins NZ on Air Award
3:10 PM.The 2024 NZ Children’s Music Awards have been announced with the NZ On Air Best Children’s Music Video awarded to a two minute ode to flatulence.
‘Let it Out’ by Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair… Read more Video, Audio
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Arts News - 5 May 2024
3:05 PM.Arts News for 5 May 2024 Read more Audio
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How the fight against Covid became a war between each other: Stuart McKenzie and Dame Miranda Harcourt
2:30 PM.In early 2021 writer Stuart McKenzie and director Miranda Harcourt’s verbatim play Transmission opened to sell-out houses at Pōneke’s small, dynamic BATS Theatre. Fast forward three years and a sequel… Read more Audio
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Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
2:05 PM.Festival Opera is celebrating 10 years of introducing, training and supporting young people in the opera through the Project Prima Volta community programme in Hawkes Bay. Read more Audio
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The Last Laugh but first-ever comedy club in Hamilton
1:07 PM.Hamiltonians are getting the last laugh as the first-ever comedy club in the city is opening this month. Coinciding with the Comedy Festival, Last Laugh Comedy Club is the only comedy club in the… Read more Audio
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From a Red Mole to a Goblin in a mask: John Davies addresses our shared violent history
12:45 PM.Actor, director and writer John Davies is celebrating 50 years in theatre with a national solo tour. Te Tupua - The Goblin is travelling to 16 regional centres, with Davies playing nine characters in… Read more Audio
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With City Gallery closing for two years, what's next for Wellington?
12:30 PM.The closure of the City Gallery building won't stop it from bringing art to the capital, its boss says. Read more Audio
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Fast Favourites with Sara Wiseman
12:15 PM.A familiar face from stage and screen in New Zealand and Australia, Sara Wiseman is on stage with ATC for the first time in 20 years, as Dr Lorna James in The Effect. Read more Audio
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Arts news: NZSO head resigns, World Choir Games news & Springboard artists revealed
3:05 PM.Arts news for Sunday 28 April 2023 Read more Audio
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Stitching bling, satin & velvet into Toi Māori with Maungarongo Te Kawa
2:30 PM.The large wall hung quilts of takatāpui fabric artist and storyteller Maungaronga Te Kawa (Ngāti Porou) leap and sparkle as joyous dance. They are blankets of aroha for a world that needs it.
Yet… Read more Audio
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Fixing a screen industry in crisis
2:00 PM.New Zealand’s local production and screen industry is in crisis. But how did it get to this point?
“It’s been years of international streaming companies operating in New Zealand without any… Read more Audio
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Taupō: a secretly prolific arts hub with Jeffrey Addison
1:25 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa and this week it’s Taupō with artist, musician, composer, puppeteer and stone carver, Jeffrey Addison. Read more Audio
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Sir Roger Hall and the end of summer time
1:07 PM.Sir Roger Hall remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most popular playwright. Since 1976 his plays have often been box office gold.
Now 85, and continuing to write plays through retirement, he recently… Read more Audio
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Arovision: NZ's little battler in the digital streaming wars
12:45 PM.This week King Loser, an independent Aotearoa New Zealand documentary won the Taite Music Prize for music journalism. Directors Cushla Dillon and Andrew Moore’s real life tragicomic chronicle of King… Read more Audio
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From aquatic algae to Niuean rites of passage: Loading Docs back for 10th season
12:30 PM.It’s the 10th season of Loading Docs - an initiative to showcase Aotearoa’s documentary filmmakers. For a decade, it’s helped mentor emerging talent who’ve gone on to pursue successful careers in the… Read more Audio
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The return of Auē: fast favourites with Becky Manawatu
12:10 PM.It’s rare for an Aotearoa New Zealand writer to appear at book festivals about a novel, months out from its release. But then the sequel to a book as beloved and devastating as 2019’s Auē by Becky… Read more Video, Audio
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Arts News: NZ wins Golden Lion at Venice while Israel keeps its doors closed, Aardman Animation in NZ & government talks arts strategy
3:00 PM.Arts news for Sunday 21 April 2024 Read more Audio