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12:36 PM.The Government's 4 million dollar boost for the Creatives in Schools programme has been welcomed by artists and schools. Read more Audio

2:49 PM.A two metre high Space Cow that references life, death, DNA and Spanish artist Salvador Dali's famous Space Elephant has won this year's Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award. Napier artist Asaki… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.After telling her coming-out story numerous times to high schoolers Lil O'Brien decided to write the full and often painful story in a memoir. The Auckland freelance copywriter felt the time was right… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.On Standing Room Only we've spoken to Creative New Zealand about its Covid-19 pivot so it could get emergency grants out quickly to artists. Now we are hearing from some of the successful applicants… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Video Artist Lisa Reihana had just opened one of her biggest commissions for the famous shoemaker Christian Louboutin, when Covid-19 shut it down and her other 5 shows on show around the world. Lynn… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.This week the Government acknowledged the importance of the screen industry to New Zealand - feature films, local and international... television series for home and overseas audiences... as well as… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.Nelsonians are able to see a work in progress in a shopfront, as actor Helen Moulder rehearses her new solo play, The Bicycle & the Butcher's Daughter in an empty retail space. The Shopfront Theatre… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.The Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, which champions contemporary Pacific arts, is entering new territory, with the opening of a dedicated gallery space in Auckland. Tautai already works with artists… Read more Audio

2:38 PM.Ronnie, a New Zealand nurse, volunteers to work at a South Vietnamese hospital for a year. She meets Joseph, an American pilot and their war zone romance survives the chaos - for a while. This is the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Michael Smither hit the headlines last October when his painting "Sea Wall and Kingfisher 1967" sold for $342,000 at auction - one of the highest prices paid for a work by a living artist. He and… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Lockdown proved to be the perfect time for Cassandra Tse and James Cain, to dust off an old script and turn it into a audio drama podcast series. Apocalypse Songs by Wellington's Red Scare Theatre… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Rugby has featured heavily in New Zealand's legend - from Greg McGee's Foreskin's lament and Lloyd Jones' Book of Fame to feature films about Richie McCaw and Dan Carter, and TV docudramas Jonah and… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.A lot of organisations have had to pivot like crazy to keep their artists in work, during and since lockdown. That includes Pacific Dance New Zealand, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year… Read more Audio

2:41 PM.In the second part of Lynn's recent visit to Archives New Zealand she visits the vaults, where it houses the bulk of the millions of items entrusted to its care. Last time on Standing Room Only we… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.A young woman joins the Land Service to fill the shoes of her twin brother who's off to the Second World War. But she finds more than she bargained for when she arrives at the North Otago farm… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.This September marks the 25th Going West Writers Festival, though it won't be the big public birthday bash the organizers had planned. Instead, they've been poring through the archives to create an… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.A  small Hamilton-based media streaming company is punching above its weight on the global stage by playing a big part in the Cannes Film Festival and other similar events this year. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Auckland's arts community is worried that the Council's call for submissions on its emergency budget will see a substantial funding cut for arts and cultural groups and events. Submissions closed on… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.Every day of lockdown, award winning illustrator Anna Crichton documented this unprecedented period in our history through the antics of Mr and Mrs Dear. Her affectionate cartoons became daily… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.Still with life after Covid, a leading Australian screen industry figure says New Zealand's Covid-free status gives it a huge advantage when it comes to enticing high-value overseas film and TV… Read more Audio

2:36 PM.The vaults of the Archives New Zealand are a labyrinth of historic files, films and documents - labelled, colour-coded, and many in urgent need of preservation before they deteriorate beyond saving… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Rumours of writer Kevin Ireland's death were - thank goodness - unfounded, but they did make their way into his latest poetry collection. In Shape of the Heart, he also reflects on getting older, on… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Tightly packed crowds, busy streets and skies filled with planes feature among the more than 200 photographs from around the world taken for an exhibition that was launched before the Covid-19 era of… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Canterbury Museum hopes to persuade the government that its proposed 200-million-dollar redevelopment should be treated as a shovel-ready project to help stimulate the post-Covid-19 economy. The… Read more Audio

12:37 PM.Celia Imrie is best known as a staple of English film comedies - notably Calendar Girls, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the upcoming Love Sarah. But she's been equally prolific on television -… Read more Audio