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12:35 PM.After a national trauma, creative arts offer us a "bridge towards possibility" both individually and collectively, says Auckland University professor Peter O'Connor, who teaches theatre in schools… Read more Video, Audio

3:50 PM.Dunedin-based embroidery and textile artist Jay Hutchinson has been turning the trash into art. He takes photos, then spent hours on each embroidered copy for an exhibition he's called On the Way to… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

2:50 PM.Where Memories Sleep is the incredibly hard to describe collaboration between musician Warren Maxwell and documentary maker Jason O'Hara. They blend visuals with sounds recorded on the ice and then… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.How to Take Off Your Clothes is a poetry collection by Hadassah Grace, a former stripper who's also written about sex work and acted for the Auckland Theatre Company. Read more Video, Audio

2:26 PM.Trouble-D is a play about the challenges, obstacles and enticements a recently released prisoner faces in the outside world, being performed at Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn and a first for… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.When the French Film Festival made its debut in New Zealand 17 years ago, it was just one of several regional film showcases. Since then it's grown a staggering 700 percent since 2012. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Canadian community activist, artist and filmmaker Michelle Derosier is in New Zealand talking about how films can encourage our estranged young Maori and Pacific population to connect with their… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.New Zealand animator Peter Monga and legendary animation company Aardman, of Wallace and Gromit fame, are joining forces on a TV pre-school series. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:38 PM.How are they planning to take on the world, how much will it cost? Simon Morris talked to the CEO's of New Zealand On Air and the Film Commission Jane Wrightson and Annabel Sheehan. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:50 PM.Initially inspired by the juxtaposition of beautiful beaches in concrete cities, Ben Young's sublime glass-work captures the look of the sea.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:48 PM.More than 30 years ago, Margaret Mahy wrote a novel about an elderly woman with Alzheirmer's who's befriended by a teenager. A young Swedish composer read a translated version of Memory and instantly… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:37 PM.The just renamed New Zealand Review of Books/Pukapuka Aotearoa has just published its 125th issue since launching its offering of in-depth book reviews and opinion pieces back in 1991. The periodical… Read more Audio

2:24 PM.Auckland performer Julia Croft divides her time between creating new shows and touring them overseas with her company Zanetti Productions, finding audiences in Australia, the UK, Singapore and now… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.For years, Edwina Thorne has been one of the go-to trumpet players in this country - ever since she was a bubbly teenager in the Rodger Fox Big Band! Since then, Edwina's studied alongside the… Read more Video, Audio

1:31 PM.Demons and dancers... They're the starting point for a new production by one of Ireland's best known choreographers and theatre makers - and it's a production that's being created in New Zealand. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:46 PM.The Arts Foundation funds Laureate, Icon and Philanthrophy awards as well as administering several significant overseas artists residences. But now it's undergoing massive changes, losing key staff… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.The scrapping of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition a few years ago robbed writers of an important opportunity to have their work published. The cash prize was handy too! Today that… Read more Audio

2:47 PM.A former senior producer for RNZ, Brandy Scott is now hosting her own show on Dubai's only talk radio station. She's also just published her first novel, Not Bad People, which follows a friendship… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Over the past 90 years our TV and film makers keep returning to the New Zealand Wars - sometimes triumphantly, sometimes with mixed success.. Now Otago University Associate Professor Annabel Cooper… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.Images of Central Otago's high country, from remnants of its gold mining era to small settlements nestled into the distinctive landscape, are captured in paintings by Graham Young. The Auckland-based… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Last year, Dunedin's Fortune Theatre was shut down so suddenly that many productions were left scrambling to find alternative venues. This weekend the city's theatre practitioners are being asked what… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.An experiment to see if the cast of a play can make friends with their audience in just an hour is the latest project by the country's only theatre company involving people who are - or have been -… Read more Video, Audio

12:38 PM.A hundred years separate the portraits of Pacific communities taken by George Robson Crummer and Edith Amituanai. Their work now hangs side by side at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, offering us the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:50 PM.Over a supermarket loudspeaker, at a train station and under bridges - these are some of the locations where Turner Art Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz has performed and recorded sound for her art… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.This week Kaikoura is hosting an arts festival that brings together artists from New Zealand, the wider Pacific and Japan - all places that have been hit by earthquakes and other natural disasters… Read more Audio