Arts
The Pre-Panel for 4 March 2024
Today on the Pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show and producer Ayana Piper-Healion joins to discuss how messy things can get if Banksy decides to create art on your house. Audio
Parihaka inspiration for Melbourne Fashion Festival show
A Taranaki designer will showcase a collection inspired by the story of Parihaka at the Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Vince Ropitini's "Art of Passive Resistance" collection will show on the Global… Audio
NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny’s work has long explored the culture of new technology and the dreams tech entrepreneurs sell us.
Back in 2016, Denny was one of the first artists to… Audio
Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for community groups, and a 'user pays' approach to… Audio
The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
At the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Pōneke hangs an enormous New Zealand flag upon which artist Richard Lewer has painted the words: “To have a future I must reconcile with MY past.”
Lewer’s… Audio
Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
Habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and flying bikes launched on waste heat thermals are just a few of the 100-plus bonkers ideas artist and industrial designer Steve… Audio
80,000 people expected at Newtown Festival in Wellington
Today will be the 30th outing for one of New Zealand's biggest street fairs and free music festivals.
How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
It was billed as a "place where chocolate dreams become reality" - but families who flocked there found "little more than an abandoned, empty warehouse".
Playing Favourites with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
One of New Zealand's finest musical exports, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, has a voice that has taken her all over the world. Audio, Gallery
What the small screen did to magazines
Magazines are facing extinction by internet. Are they special enough to save? Audio
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident film critic, Dan Slevin, reviews Denis Villeneuve's long-awaited epic Dune: Part Two (2024), Oscar-nominated comedy-drama American Fiction (2023), and (in the free streaming… Audio
Travelling thespians performing Shakespeare with a modern twist
The Barden Party are a group of travelling thespians from Nelson who've just returned from their first Australian tour. Show directors and performers Laura Irish and Ollie Howlett speak to Jesse. Audio
Best of the Fest #2: a morning rave, the Savage Coloniser, Witi’s Wahine, The National, Soweto Gospel and the mighty Waikato
What is it with tall people up the front at gigs? Should morning raves replace gym sessions? Joining us this week on Best of the Fest are writers Emily Perkins and Arihia Latham, artist Suzanne Tamaki… Audio
Dune Part Two: heavy, long, dense - and exciting
Part Two of Denis Villeneuve's space opera saga is a big watch, but it's worth the time says Dan Slevin. Video
What's on in Dunedin for Fringe Festival
The world's most southern Fringe Festival has launched it's programme for this month in and around Dunedin. Nathan Rarere asked co-director of Dunedin Fringe, Kate Schrader to tell us what to expect… Audio
'I felt like I was just living and breathing Middle Earth'
On 29 February 2004, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every single category it was nominated for at the Oscars, with a record-breaking 11 trophies. Audio
Shipping woes delay Auckland Arts Festival's tent, performances canned
The Spiegeltent was meant to arrive on a boat passing through the Suez Canal, but instead had to go around Africa.
Wellington thriving ahead of event-filled weekend
Wellington is in for a busy time, with more than 15 events happening this weekend alone.
There's something for everyone - from arts, to sport, to festivals, and even playgrounds.
Pretoria Gordon… Audio
The TAHI 29/2/2024
On today’s show, So’omālō reckons he could win a fight against 100,000 wasps, Evie updates us with what's happening with Newshub, as well as appearances from band Double Parked, and… Audio
Fifty best films: M
A film that’s almost one hundred years old turns out to have a very modern sensibility, reports Dan Slevin. Video
