Arts

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

Anne Hamblett was married to Colin McCahon. But a new exhibition is a reminder that she was also an important artist in her own right, although she gave up painting to raise her family and to support… Audio

Dimanche tells one story of a family battling extreme weather conditions and another of three filmmakers braving the Arctic to document species doomed to extinction: The show is coming to New Zealand… Audio

Music by women expressing their strength, from Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin in the 60s to Helen Reddy's feminist anthem 'I am Woman', Mahinārangi Tocker leading the way in Te Reo and today's techo… Video

Actor, playwright and painter Carl Bland wrote and co-directed Mr Red Light, a comic story about a bank robbery that goes wrong (so badly wrong in fact that the would-be robber ends up taking hostages… Audio

Taking the conventional wedding rom com and giving it a First Nations twist, Australia's ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and New Zealand's Te Rehia Theatre Company bring cultures together in Black Ties. Audio

Irish director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan (aka Micháel MacAodhagáin-O'Dobhailen) was last seen at the festival in 2018 with a production of Swan Lake. He returns with the Teac Da sa… Video, Audio

Oscar-winning songwriter, and one half of world-conquering comedy folk duo Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie is also one of this year's Festival of The Arts' curators. He's assembled an eclectic… Audio