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Ju Percussion: powerhouse ensemble performs in NZ for the first time
17 Mar 2024Taiwan’s first professional percussion ensemble, Ju Percussion Group, was founded in 1986 by Tzong-Ching Ju who still leads the group today. Read more Audio
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Aiga: Lusi Faiva’s disability-led Pasifika show on her life in her own words
17 Mar 2024In Samoan, aiga means family. Not just your immediate family but your wider circle. It could be through blood, marriage or even an adopted connection.
It’s also the name and central theme of Lusi… Read more Audio
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The 12-year-olds who meet a mountain in Rachel House's first feature
17 Mar 2024There are four shining stars on screen in the new joyous and heartfelt Aotearoa New Zealand film The Mountain - the directorial debut of acclaimed actor Rachel House.
The first is the majestic… Read more Video, Audio
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Fast Favourites: Black Grace choreographer Neil Ieremia gives movement to Pacific anger
17 Mar 2024Dance company Black Grace has just returned from a US tour where thousands of people watched their latest work, Paradise Rumour. The company performed in Portland, Laguna Beach and Chicago.
Black… Read more Audio
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Best of the Fest #4: Tim Minchin, The King’s Singers, Arooj Aftab, Bernie Dieter’s Kabarett, Lost Lear, Belle, and In the Name of the Son
15 Mar 2024In episode four of Best of the Fest, Culture 101 co-hosts Perlina Lau and Mark Amery find Aotearoa in full festival swing.
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When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
10 Mar 2024In 2018, Sandro Kopp was tasked by film director Wes Anderson with creating ten monumental paintings for the film The French Dispatch in less than three months.
Kopp’s works needed to look like the… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
10 Mar 2024A well known arts critic, historian and commentator, Andrew Paul Wood in Timaru fills us in on ‘drama’ around the Timaru Theatre Royal redevelopment, which includes a new venue for South Canterbury… Read more Audio
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Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli
10 Mar 2024What would a map that represents a more distinct lived human cultural perspective look like? That has been the very personal question for Icao Tiseli with her award-winning project Mapping the Wheke.
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Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
10 Mar 2024It’s the 96th Academy Awards on Monday 11th March - the final ceremony of the awards season which started almost a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more Audio
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Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
10 Mar 2024The true story behind theatre show Boy is both controversial and compelling. Appearing at the Auckland Arts Festival theatre and written by Dutch-born, Netherlands-based playwright Carly Wijs (Us/Them… Read more Audio
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Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
10 Mar 2024Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Robert Scott is best known as a member of seminal New Zealand bands The Bats and The Clean, but more quietly he’s been painting for decades with work appearing in both exhibitions… Read more Audio
