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3:05 PM.Arts news for 19 May 2024 Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.The Auckland Writers Festival has set central Tāmaki Makaurau abuzz this week with a strong lineup of leading local and international authors, panel discussions, and events, including the Ockham New… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Te Whare Tapere in the Christchurch Arts Centre is neither a European-style gallery or theatre. As a space principally by Māori, for Māori, it is, says co-founder artist Juanita Hepi, “a… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.You know those embarrassing uncomfortable thoughts and feelings you have you usually keep inside? Pōneke playwright and comedian Viki Moananu uses theatre and comedy to let them out. He calls them… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Gore is quite rightly known as our Capital of country music. But there’s always been much more going on culturally in this East Southland town. Read more Video, Audio

1:07 PM.Vast exclusion zones operate around the cities of Pripyat, near the ruined Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, and Plymouth, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, decimated by the island’s… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.The notoriously punishing, elite world of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet Academy is centre stage in Joika - the first ever film collaboration between New Zealand and Poland.  Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Over 100 years ago artist Ahilapalapa Rands’ great-grandfather, the ukulele virtuoso Ernest Ka’ai wrote the song ‘Across the Sea’, the lyrics speaking to the pull that Hawai’i has for Kānaka Maoli… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.A professional in the comedy scene for more than a decade now, Rhys Mathewson knew he was going to pursue comedy as a career after taking part in Class Comedians in 2006 at the age of 15. 

From that… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Arts news for 12 May Read more

2:30 PM.Ten years ago acclaimed potter Rick Rudd sold his house -  together with its unique native and sculpture garden - in Castlecliff, Whanganui to establish Quartz Museum of Studio Ceramics in downtown… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds. Yet contemporary fiction providing a bird’s eye view has been slow to arrive. 

While Catherine Chidgey’s award winning 2022 novel The Axeman’s Carnival looks… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.In this week’s Regional Wrap we look at the culture of Far North town Kaitaia. Read more Audio

1:05 PM.In an article on Stuff in 2019, comedian Guy Williams posed the question, “Where are all the Māori comedians?” Williams noted that, despite our main comedy award being named after Billy T James, he… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A psychological thriller, part of TVNZ’s Motherhood Anthology Series has been released in time for Mother’s Day.

The film’s title Amah holds three different meanings. The term, used in East Asia… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.10 albums in 10 years in 10 different genres - that was Troy Kingi’s goal. But after the release of the seventh album - 2023’s ambient instrumental vibe album Timewasters - he’s admitted in a new TVNZ… Read more Video, Audio

3:10 PM.The 2024 NZ Children’s Music Awards have been announced with the NZ On Air Best Children’s Music Video awarded to a two minute ode to flatulence. 

‘Let it Out’ by Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.In early 2021 writer Stuart McKenzie and director Miranda Harcourt’s verbatim play Transmission opened to sell-out houses at Pōneke’s small, dynamic BATS Theatre. Fast forward three years and a sequel… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Festival Opera is celebrating 10 years of introducing, training and supporting young people in the opera through the Project Prima Volta community programme in Hawkes Bay.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Known for its surf and beaches, Mangawhai may not strike you as a hub for arts and culture. But locals are extremely proud of the modern museum which celebrates the town’s rich history, life around… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Hamiltonians are getting the last laugh as the first-ever comedy club in the city is opening this month. Coinciding with the Comedy Festival, Last Laugh Comedy Club is the only comedy club in the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Actor, director and writer John Davies is celebrating 50 years in theatre with a national solo tour. Te Tupua - The Goblin is travelling to 16 regional centres, with Davies playing nine characters in… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The closure of the City Gallery building won't stop it from bringing art to the capital, its boss says. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.A familiar face from stage and screen in New Zealand and Australia, Sara Wiseman is on stage with ATC for the first time in 20 years, as Dr Lorna James in The Effect.  Read more Audio