When the Prime Minister made her announcement yesterday about the steps being made in the light of the coronovirus threat, it was clear that it was going to affect any large gatherings of people in New Zealand. And that particularly affected the arts and entertainment fields, of course.
Big events currently under way include the Auckland Arts Festival and Womad, but there are more on the way. Simon is joined by Justin Gregory who's been covering the Auckland Arts Festival, as well as RNZ's Brad Warrington from Womad, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's chief executive Peter Biggs, and Mark Christianson from the NZ Motion Picture Exhibitors Association.