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12:35 PM.The country's biggest art award, the bienniel Walters Prize, marks its 20th year in 2021. It's undoubtedly had a powerful influence on the landscape of contemporary art in Aotearoa. Now the four… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Sports Literature often falls between two stools - too populist for the literati, too highfalutin for sports fans. Why is sports writing often seen as the poor relation of literature? The case for… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.A new dance show is attempting to put one of the big changes of the 21st century into a human format. Artifact approaches the world of "Future Tech" by putting the algorithm on stage. It's part of an… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Like many of New Zealand's opera singers who would have been singing on international stages now if it weren't for the Coronavirus pandemic, tenor Cameron Barclay has come home looking for other… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A stage play about the abuse of a boy in state care and the lifelong emotional damage that came from that traumatic time, is about to be broadcast as a radio drama. The bold move is partly due to… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.A new series is looking at our past through material history. The Single Object series traces the whakapapa of items to tell the many histories of Aotearoa. The series has just launched and today Lynn… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Adapted from an Australian play, Single Asian Female Kiwi-style tells the story of a first-generation Chinese immigrant and single mother living in Mount Maunganui. Pearl Wong is also a restaurateur… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.It's been an interesting year for film makers and distributors in Aotearoa. While cinematic releases were restricted and filming schedules were interrupted kiwi film makers and producers got busy… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Do you have a diary hidden away somewhere at risk of being chucked out or just deteriorating due to lack of attention? Dr Vivienne Plumb is a devotee of diaries. She's also a poet, fiction writer… Read more Audio

2:38 PM.Burst Kisses on the Actual Wind is the latest collection of poems by author, playwright and slam artist Courtney Sina Meredith. Courtney's first poetry book Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick came out… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Dr Alys Longley from the University of Auckland has become an expert in collaborating with artists around the world in these pandemic disrupted times. The Associate Professor of Dance Studies in the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.On ANZAC Day, flags will fly around the Wairarapa to commemorate both the soldiers and the horses who made up the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade serving in the first World War. Creating the flags… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.More than 20 hours of interviews recorded during and since the New Zealand-wide lockdown in March last year, have been distilled into a stage show called Transmission. The key figures for creators… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Caren Rangi, the first Pacific Chair of the Arts Council in its 55-year history, is confident more Pasifika leaders will head the body that governs arts funder Creative New Zealand in the future. Ms… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Portraying the invisible through visual art - that's the challenge more than 20 artists from universities in Poland, America and New Zealand set themselves back in 2019. The exhibition Invisible's… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.It's ironic - you spend years researching a book, it wins acclaim and awards when it's published, and then it generates new information that you wish you'd been able to include in it. But the good… Read more Audio, Gallery

5:32 PM.Christchurch's Court Theatre has outlived all the other first professional theatres set up on New Zealand. It proudly celebrates its 50th birthday on the 21st of April. Felicity Price, a long time… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.The fictional New Zealand seaside town of Gabriel's Bay is the setting for a third novel by Hawkes Bay based author Catherine Robertson. The central theme explored in Spellbound is power, from family… Read more Audio

1:43 PM.What's on the back of a painting can tell as story as fascinating as what's on the front. There are not only the obvious - signatures and labels - but all kinds of other tantalising clues. Three New… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM."I want to prove that people with Down syndrome can do anything." That's Lily Harper's mission. She's an award winning actor from Palmerston North who's starring in Up Down Girl, directed by Nathan… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Recently the Chair of Te Tuma Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission, Dame Kerry Prendergast, announced that CEO Annabelle Sheehan would step away from the role, after three years leading the… Read more Audio