Arts

When the Prime Minister made her announcement yesterday about the steps being made in the light of the coronovirus threat, it was clear that it was going to affect any large gatherings of people in… Audio

Comedian Stephanie Laing falls down... a lot. But she always gets herself back up again. And then sometimes falls down again. Stephanie's back in Wellington to perform her new show, Butterfingers, at… Audio

The threat of Covid-19 invites us to think as communities rather than as individuals, says Irish poet and conflict mediator Pádraig Ó Tuama. Audio

In this week's art festival review Mark Amery considers the Auckland Wellington festival relationship. Audio

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra will perform the song cycle 'Compassion' on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the mosque attacks.

The concert will also feature the world premiere of He… Audio

Organisers of the Womad festival in Taranaki this weekend are asking ticketholders who feel unwell to stay home as part of their plans to mitigate the affects of the Covid 19 virus.

They insist that… Audio

Beethoven's masterpiece The Grande Fuge is interpreted by three contemporary choreographers with very different styles in one of the highlights of the final week of the New Zealand Festival of the… Audio

The annual 3-day international festival celebrating world music, art and dance WOMAD is taking over New Plymouth this weekend. Nick Bollinger, critic and commentator from the Music 101 team will be… Audio

The New Zealand Dance Company is looking ahead with a new programme designed to better prepare their dancers for their professional lives on and after the stage.  Audio

The Last Thing He Wanted on Netflix is a tragic misfire, reports Dan Slevin. Video

This week on Lately Book Club Dr Carolyn McKay speaks with Karyn Hay from Sydney about the colour green and its close association with crime books. Audio

Aotea Square will be filled with song when the Auckland Arts Festival opens tomorrow evening with the free event Tira. It is a gathering of choirs from around the city, singer Hollie Smith and Hatea… Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival opens this week.

RNZ reviewer Justin Gregory won't be elsewhere, he'll definitely be there.

He speaks to Corin Dann. Audio

Hiwirori Maynard is a musician, a kapahaka performer and a taa moko artist. One of his designs is the MOKO guitar, MOKO is an acronym for MY OWN KIND OF…..the artist draws intricate koru patterns onto… Audio

Selecting from more than 30 years of poetry to fit into one book was the challenge New Zealand's first Poet Laureate set herself. Michele Leggott's called the collection Mezzaluna. It starts with… Audio

Greek pop singer Marina Satti's track "Mantissa" became an anthem for young Greeks facing unemployment when it was first released in 2017, at the time of her country's debt crisis. Marina Satti's… Audio

A young Belgian couple have become champions of New Zealand performance and visual artists, offering them a pop-up gallery or performance space around the country in their modified truck. They call it… Audio

Auckland's Hobson Street Theatre Company, whose actors have all experienced homelessness, is representing New Zealand at an international Arts Festival held every three years in Rotterdam. The… Audio