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12:45 PM.550 migrants or their advocates laid complaints last month. It comes as less than 2000 overseas workers arrive. Meanwhile Immigration New Zealand reports they have revoked the accreditation of 500… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A new show by dance group Company B is giving emerging choreographers a creative platform, and mentoring and training 10 young dancers. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Maori-Samoan RnB artist Jordyn Rapana - also known as Jordyn with a Why is on a roll. Read more Audio

2:35 PM.You may have heard the phrase ‘triple threat’ in the arts, but Petmal Petelo is perhaps a quadruple threat. A dancer, actor, stage manager and assistant director she’s been steadily rising in the… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.The Ōtepoti arts scene has long had a gloriously independent fertile, multi-generational, cross art form approach. But is that culture - once famously dubbed the Dunedin Sound - under threat? 

Many… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa. This week, we’re in Feilding in Manawatū as the town celebrates 150 years.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Kōanga Festival in Tāmaki Makaurau is celebrating 10 years with a packed three-and-a-half week programme and more than 12 events. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The paintings that Whanganui painter Edith Collier created in England 100 years ago remain to this day, utterly fresh. At that time, there was no one in Aotearoa New Zealand painting with such… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.It’s a striking and brutal name for an art collective. The Killing is made up of six friends and former Elam School of Fine Arts students in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. At the time, they say, the choice… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Mīria George (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Tumutevarovaro, Enuamanu) and Hone Kouka (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Kahungunu) are both acclaimed, experienced writers and directors in theatre and film in… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News - Sunday 1 September Audio

2:30 PM.What happens when you fund 10 artists a part time wage - a universal basic income - for an entire year, to help facilitate change within their community across an entire region? 

Over 2022 and… Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.Writers, poets, musicians, artists and storytellers have descended on Otautahi Christchurch this week for the Word Festival. More than 100 guests have been taking part in sessions across venues in the… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Every week on RNZ’s Culture 101 we explore the cultural richness of this country by catching up with a local in a place, big or small.  

There’s no better demonstration of that richness than the… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Remember making dioramas with pen and card in shoeboxes as a child? 

As a quick survey of German artist and writer Antje Damm’s instagram will attest, Damm creates a world of hand-cut wonder with… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.While festivals around the world have been either cancelled or scaled back, Electric Avenue in Ōtautahi Christchurch is doing the opposite. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.It may be true that the most exciting place at a flat party is the bathroom. Private, yet not so private. 

In a queasy bravado move for local television, that bathroom over one long night is the… Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.This year marks 25 years since the Aotearoa band Stellar exploded onto the music charts in 1999 with multi-platinum album Mix. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.They flit around you in the back garden at the compost, or dive at your feet in the bush. The pīwakawaka or fantail is a special bird: so common, yet so magic. 

There's a lightness, a joy to this… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is bringing the epic scores of The Lion King and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to the stage alongside the films this year.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Palmerston North or ‘Palmy’ as it’s known brims with energy, culture and heritage. Overlooking the Manawatū river, the region boomed with a pastoral farming industry.  Read more Video, Audio

1:08 PM.Last year the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Manatu Taonga reported New Zealand's arts and creative sector contributed $16.3 billion to New Zealand's GDP, or 4.3% of the total economy, in the year… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.For three weeks in August every year, thousands of artists descend on Edinburgh for the largest performing arts festival in the world. Read more Audio