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2:24 PM.Irreverent Australian children's writers like Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths have a huge following over here, and an expert at reading their works out loud is heading to New Zealand libraries. Stig… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Dunedin songwriter Nadia Reid is not only enjoying success in the international music scene but and making time to pass on what she's learnt with the next generation of young musicians. Nadia is… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.When it comes to being a multi-skilled artist, Miriama McDowell ticks a lot of boxes. She's an actor, director and writer for stage and screen. And she's got two big projects on the go over the next… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.From the Phoenix Foundation to filmmaker Taika Waititi, The Pathways to Arts and Cultural Employment or PACE scheme was credited with giving much needed space for artists to develop a career. Read more Audio

12:25 PM.After several years of intense focus on New Zealand's involvement in World War One, sculptor Brett Graham is offering what he describes as an anti-monument to the Great War in his new exhibition… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.A technological thriller has taken out the top 48hour Film Challenge for 2018. The Chillybox team won the 2018 Grand National Champion Award for Peptok - as well as Best Director for Thomas Sainsbury… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.Before the Christchurch Police Station, with its distinctive 1960s brutalist design, was demolished three years ago, a handful of artists were given permission to collect artefacts, to film inside and… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.It was a crime so sensational that 1990s New Zealand wasn't sure whether to be shocked or turn it into a source of jokes. Now the story of cricket umpire Peter Plumley-Walker, teenage dominatrix Renee… Read more Audio

12:33 PM.For 40 years, master craftsman Tony Williams has crafted top-end jewellery from his favourite materials - gold, gems and enamel. Tony's highly detailed dragonfly broaches are one of his signature… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Years after the earthquakes, Christchurch is still desperately short of theatre space. But now the city council's investment of 30-million dollars to help the Court Theatre replace its very successful… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.This year Tim Bray Productions is celebrating its 27th year - which is pretty much ancient in New Zealand theatre company terms - that's 27 years of school holiday productions in Auckland. Tim adapts… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.Sam Duckor Jones is a talented young artist best known for his distinctive, whimiscal clay sculptures of men - characters he sends out into the world. But sculpture is just one of Sam's media. He is… Read more Audio, Gallery

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Australian artists who regularly exhibit in new Zealand are rarer than you think - particularly those reflecting Australian aboriginal culture. One exception is artist Jonathan Jones -… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Silo Theatre in Auckland's latest production Hir is what its American playwright Taylor Mac called a critique of "troglodyte fascist heteronormative" culture. But as Mark Amery finds out there's some… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Established in 2002 and held biannually the Walters Prize is New Zealand's preeminent contemporary art award. As well as discussing the work of Jacqueline Fraser - The Making of Mississippi Grind -… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.For a culture to progress - or even exist - it needs the chance to tell its stories. And Maori and Pacific performers have experienced a massive growth in the popularity of spoken word poetry - in… Read more Audio, Gallery

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This week Ferns - a giant aluminium ball by Neil Dawson that became something of a visual icon for Wellington City - was re-suspended midair above Wellington's Civic Square. Its back… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.If you research anything in New Zealand, sooner or later his name will crop up - but who knows much about Alexander Turnbull, apart from the fact he gave his name to one of our great libraries? Simon… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.This month in our literary slot we're focusing on poets with interesting new volumes of poetry. The Facts is the second book of verse by Therese Lloyd, following 2013's Other Animals, published by… Read more Audio

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An audio visual spectacle which combines live digital painting and and improvised electronic musical performance, Kuki Koori is the brainchild of Fat Freddy Drop's Iain Gordon aka Kuki… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:12 PM.Photographers are no longer just thinking about presenting their work blown up on the wall in exhibitions - or in the pages of magazines. The digital and web age has brought new forms of online… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.All this month on Standing Room Only we're talking to the people behind the shortlisted exhibitions for the Walters, New Zealand's top art prize - a glimpse into some of the most exciting artwork… Read more Audio