Arts

This weekend, Wellington's Verb Festival hosts its annual worst poet wins event which rewards aspiring writers for indulging their most cliched, cringeworthy tendencies.

Harry Ricketts is a poet… Audio

On today's show, Evie catches up with celebrity bird debate moderator Katie Fitzgerald, So'omālō talks music with KY Canoy, and Waimirirangi shares wisdom passed onto her from the Kaumātua Audio

​Dan Slevin has watched three recent streaming series that try – sometimes not all that hard – to entertain a casual viewer while delivering thrills to long-time fans. Video

If you're a horror movie fan then Auckland's Silo Theatre has got the show for you with a twist. George Romero's 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead will be performed live with actors providing… Audio

When accomplished illustrator Hilary Jean Tapper was offered the chance to work on a children's book written by New Zealand author Joy Cowley, it was an opportunity she couldn't refuse.

At the Bach… Audio

On today’s show, music video extraordinaires Sports Team chats with Evie about their first-ever feature film, Waimirirangi fills us in on her trip to Te Tai Tokerau, and So’omālō wants us all to go… Audio

Dan Slevin says the elevation Charles Burnett’s film to the top 50 shows how the cinema canon is changing. Video

She's dressed a future Queen and a Prime Minister and now top end fashion designer Emilia Wickstead is onboard to create Air New Zealand's next uniform. The kiwi who is based in the UK was chosen from… Video, Audio

Karin Bettley tells Culture 101 about how her love of creative life in the coastal town of Raglan.  Audio

An annual Spooky Disco means Halloween proves the busiest day of the year for a community and arts centre established on the green and surrounding buildings of a former bowling club in the Eastern… Audio

In the handsome just released book Don Binney Flight Path Gregory O’Brien tracks the avian-like swoops in the career of the late Tāmaki Makaurau painter, teacher and ornithologist (1940–2012).     Audio

He’s best known for fronting rock band Shihad, but musician Jon Toogood says playing acoustic solo shows is now where he feels most “human”. Audio

Hailed as one of NZ's first internationally successful playwrights, Robert Lord divided his life between provincial New Zealand and the hedonism of life as a gay man in New York in the 1970s and 80s… Audio

With a brave new film in cinemas, Jennifer Connelly is on the radar once again. Dan Slevin looks at a Blu-ray box set celebrating her four-decade career. Video

Dr John Gillies has had a life long love of Skippers Canyon, and his new book showcases his paintings of the iconic gorge in Otago. He was born in 1945, and discovered his love of art at St Andrew's… Audio

Judges Tina Makereti and Harry Ricketts reveal their top five short stories from the hundreds entered in this year's competition. Audio

On today’s show, Tim Provise talks about all his different jobs - from hosting to being ‘The Pie Guy’, Coast Arcade opens up about the changes in their band lineup, and we get passionate about Bird of… Audio

Life is good for British Malaysian stand up comedian Phil Wang. We talk to Phil Wang ahead of his show in Auckland, Wang In There, Baby!. Audio