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Recent items from Standing Room Only
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Photographer Olivia Harris's documentary exhibition
12:45 PM.A series of photographs of pro-life and anti-abortion law campaigners in Ireland last year won British freelance photographer Olivia Harris a top award in the World Press Photo Exhibition, which is… Read more Audio
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Vanessa Crofskey declares war on art jargon
12:38 PM.Instead of helping people connect with art, the language that's used to describe it often shames and alienates them, says Vanessa Crofskey. In her recent article There's Something Wrong With Art… Read more Audio
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Art photography in Sixties New Zealand
2:50 PM.There's so much more to the 1960s than the hippy movement and free love. And in New Zealand photographers were out on the streets and inside homes, recording everyday life and creating what we now… Read more Audio
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Poet Amy Leigh Wicks
2:40 PM.Kaikoura-based expat New York poet Amy Leigh Wicks reflects on the challenges facing new migrants, as well as relationships, in her latest collection. The Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage is the… Read more Audio
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An Indian epic novel makes it to the stage
2:26 PM.It's a brave playwright who takes on a much loved and multi-generational epic novel, and tries to turn it into something that works on stage. That's exactly what UK writer Kristine Landon-Smith and… Read more Audio
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Laugh Track - James Roquay
2:06 PM.Who knew that the Next Big Thing in Kiwi Komedy was Filipino? There's award-winning standup James Roque of Legal Alien fame. There's that guy from the comedy trio Frickin' Dangerous Bro, not to… Read more Audio
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Expat Kiwi photographer Cody Ellingham
1:47 PM.Showing cities future versions of themselves is what expat photographer and Art Director Cody Ellingham does. And he's about to unleash a vision of Wellington to come on the capital. Cody, who… Read more Audio
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Carried Away: Bags Unpacked
1:33 PM.More than 150 bags, from the practical to the impractical, are going on show at Auckland War Memorial Museum. They include what you would expect - handbags, backpacks and kete - and others you might… Read more Audio
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Dunedin's vanishing cinemas
12:49 PM.Remember when you went to the cinema and it was a real occasion? You would stand for the Queen, there was an interval when you could stock up on treats, and there was only one film on at a time… Read more Audio
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The best of New Zealand crime writing
12:37 PM.When you look down the longlist for 2019 Ngaio Marsh Award for crime, mystery, and thriller writing, you'll see just how broad a church the annual prize covers. There are 10 titles, and two Dames… Read more Audio
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Gallery co-directors' Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh
2:49 PM.Perhaps it shouldn't be unusual but it's certainly rare for a major arts organisation in New Zealand to be run by a couple - let alone two parents with a very young child. Meet Aileen Burns and Johan… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Poet Chloe Honum captures the things unsaid
2:28 PM.Like music, poetry can be a conduit between our feelings and the world. It's an active in-between space, a space within which to let words dance between our internal world and the world outside. This… Read more Audio
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Photographer Sait Akkirman - there at over 3000 openings!
2:26 PM.Wine, cheese, hobnobbing... Openings are major networking grounds, where hopefully a taste for the work of an artist is attained with some alcoholic encouragement. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Cambodian Kim Hak retrieves memories from the Killing Fields
1:47 PM.In Cambodia in the mid 1970s, the Khmer Rouge - under the leadership of Pol Pot - abolished money, schools and private property and evacuated towns and cities. About 1.7 million Cambodians died in the… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Rako Pasefika - putting Rotuma on the map
1:30 PM.Rako Pasefika is a performing arts group, based in Fiji, representing the small Pacific island of Rotuma. They're currently Artists in Residence in Auckland as part of the Pacific Dance Festival. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith - hunting for Guy
12:52 PM.And then we meet "art detective" Bronwyn Holloway Smith, one of the three artists commissioned by Artspace to respond to Guy's exhibition there. But her particular interest is the recovery of Guy Ngan… Read more Audio
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The public and private art of Guy Ngan
12:38 PM."Sculpture is not a static thing, it should not be isolated, but take part in life." So said Wellington artist and designer Guy Ngan. Read more Audio, Gallery
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"Modern Art Makes Me Want to Rock Out!" Standing Room Only Sunday
12:00 PM.Songs about art galleries and art museums lead us into an art radio show tsaking you from Cambodia and Rotuma to Nww Plymouth. Sunday 12.30-4pm Read more
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Bodysnatchers at Golden Bay
2:50 PM.Patupaiarehe, pakepakeha, spities, fairies, goblins and huldregubben. Those are just some of the names for the mythical little people found in stories around the world. And one scary myth is of them… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Children's author Julie Lamb meets a fan
2:40 PM.How does it feel when your Dad leaves and your mum moves you to a new town with a new school, and you have to make new friends? Who do you trust? That's Harriet's situation in Julie Lamb's Harriet and… Read more Audio
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Auckland Music Theatre
2:30 PM.Auckland Music Theatre is the Auckland region's longest-established theatre company, and this year the former Auckland Amateur Operatic Society celebrates its centenary. The occasion is being… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Irony/Sincerity
1:45 PM.One of the most important - and least credited - elements in literature is the desgn of the type. Kris Sowersby is one of top in the field in New Zealand, with an admirable aim to come up with a font… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Indigenous Artist Exchange
1:32 PM.International Artist residency schemes are increasingly popular, but it can be problematic travelling to a new place and making friends. Welcome then is the inaugural Canberra Wellington Indigenous… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Achieving artists' living wage
12:36 PM.A Colmar Brunton survey commissioned by New Zealand On Air and Creative New Zealand has found that the median personal annual income for 'creative professionals' is around $36,000 - below the living… Read more Audio, Gallery
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All sorts of magic and humour on your arts and culture radio show
12:00 PM.This Sunday on Aotearoa’s dedicated radio show with pictures to arts and culture, Standing Room Only Read more
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