Greg Semu Photo: Provided
This week on your arts and culture radio show, 12.30pm to 4pm winners and going solo. We speak to the winner of the National Contemporary Art Award, have Billy T winner Kura Forrester on the Laugh Track and have the Adam New Zealand Play Award winning play The Mercy Clause by Philip Braithwaite. Tahi Festival is a new theatre festival for that Kiwi favourite the solo theatre show, and our writer is one of our crime writing greats Paul Cleave. Photographic artist Greg Semu has brilliantly reinterpreted the classic Goldie and Steele painting The Arrival of Maoris (sic) to New Zealand for a new century, collaborating with the community in Rarotonga and we talk to the creators of an online journal dedicated to giving us hope in a time of climate change: theanthropozine.org. And we kick off the show with a discussion about whether charging an admission price at our museums and galleries is a good idea - with Museums Aotearoa director Phillipa Tocker and Dunedin Public Art Gallery director Cam McCracken - and news on how new entrance charges at Auckland Art Gallery and the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth are going.
