Arts
Lockdown T-shirt Competition: design tips from Dick Frizzell
Today we launch our lockdown t-shirt competition. We speak to artist Dick Frizzell for some tips. Audio
Auckland Theatre Company’s first online play
For the next four weeks the Auckland Theatre Company is putting on its first ever play designed to be watched online. Audio
Arts industry has low expectations for work resuming in short-term
Nearly two-thirds of Auckland's arts sector is worried there still won't be work in six months' time.
A survey of 332 Auckland creatives for Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi found 80 per cent had cancelled an… Audio
Covid-19: Arts sector survey 'paints stark picture' of vulnerable industry
More than 80 percent of people who participated in a survey of Auckland's creative sector say they had to cancel an event or service due to Covid-19.
Top quality players create new versions of popular tunes
Classical musicians put their considerable skills to the test creating new versions of popular tunes. Video
Dick Frizzell: 'I'm a habitual isolator by nature'
Artist Dick Frizzell has been busy during lockdown putting the finishing touches on his new book Me, According To The History Of Art. The self-described 'habitual isolator' joins the show to discuss… Audio
VIDEO: Royal New Zealand Ballet - Romeo & Juliet
'Romeo & Juliet' with music by Prokofiev is performed by Royal New Zealand Ballet.
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Graham Swift: Booker prize winner's latest novel
Good literature retains a magical quality that is both enlightening and subversive, offering an authentic inner experience of life, English Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift says. Audio
Gao Ping's tribute to virus whistle blower Dr Li Wenliang
Gao Ping's classical work 'Bitter Cold Night' for violin and piano, is a poetic acknowledgement of the pandemic sweeping the earth in 2020. It is also a celebration of music responding to the world… Video
Artists let their lockdown emotions out in a street near you
The biggest public art exhibition ever seen in Aotearoa in now showing on digital billboards in five of our biggest cities. In Isolation focuses on art produced by local artists during the current…
Too Hot to Handle, Love is Blind, Cheer
Sarah McMullan looks at the spate of new dating shows hitting New Zealand TV screens, including the three week experiment "Love is Blind". She'll also talk about the fascination with cheerleading… Audio
After-school activities also online under lockdown level 3
From ballet to karate to singing - it is not just school that has gone online - after-school activities have too.
And many are realising the potential of virtual lessons.
Lydia Batham reports. Audio
Michael Schur on comedy and humour in the Covid era
We speak to TV sitcom creator, writer and director Michael Schur. Audio
Novel recording project a happy coincidence for a Kiwi composer
New Zealand composer Nigel Keay is keeping busy under strict quarantine in Paris. He's been working with saxophonist Daniel Kientzy who has his own internet radio outlet. By sheer coincidence their… Video
Tom Sainsbury's lockdown laughs
Tom Sainsbury has kept us entertained in Lockdown with characters who have had Zoom calls, given themselves disastrous Lockdown haircuts, given covid swabs and been Lockdown snitches. He's very kindly… Video, Audio
The arts go online - A creative round-up with Lynn Freeman
The world as we know it might have turned upside down but artists are still being artists… they're just delivering their art slightly differently. At 9:30 Lynn Freeman from RNZ's art programme… Audio, Gallery
Musicians unite twelve thousand miles apart
What do you do when all your gigs get cancelled? You make your own.
Lyttelton violinist Fiona Pears and her long time hero Roby Lakatos have made a second recording from twelve thousand miles apart… Video
We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together
Latin music from the stars of the Buena Vista Social Club, romantic ballads from Cuba, Argentine tangos and Afro-Peruvian songs. Video
Film and TV actor Bruce Allpress dies aged 89
New Zealand actor Bruce Allpress has died aged 89.
LIVE VIDEO: Royal New Zealand Ballet - Anzac Salute
Join us at 10.30am for a special video presentation for Anzac Day, presented by the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
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