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1:25 PM.Every week Culture 101 speaks to a creative correspondent to gauge the cultural pulse of Aotearoa’s regions.

Speaking from Kirikiriroa as the Hamilton Arts Festival kicks off, theatre critic Louisa… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Acclaimed Irish singer songwriter Lisa O’Neill has been enjoying some wider attention lately for two reasons. Firstly, a spellbinding rendition of ‘Fairytale of New York’ sung alongside Glen Hansard… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The Savage Club started in London in 1857 and was a ‘gentleman’s club’ dedicated to the arts and literature. Eventually, it was established throughout the Commonwealth. Fast forward to 2010, and… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Cabaret Thoroughly Modern Māui stemmed from a conversation between musical theatre performer Rutene Spooner and actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand.  Read more Audio

12:10 PM.A group of acclaimed Maori artists have been selected to exhibit as part of the centrepiece international exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale in May. Brett Graham was one of those chosen. 

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2:45 PM.A theatre show at this year’s Hamilton Arts Festival was inspired by an incident and debate at Waitangi in 2021.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Poetry and music at their best share a trick: the ability to be both celestial and grounded; dealing with the particulars of our lives, yet moving into abstraction. They can be at once very personal… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Super Bowl 58 was held in Las Vegas this year with the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the San Francisco 49ers. The event has become a cultural phenomenon across the world, televised in more… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.Every week Culture 101 speaks to a creative correspondent to gauge the cultural pulse of Aotearoa’s regions.

This week, we’re in Kaikoura with writer, poet, researcher and museum curator, Te Awhina… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Kristen Ng aka electronic artist Kaishandao has been touring Aotearoa this summer in support of her beat-filled album Homeland. She describes it as an “atemporal exploration through the places, spaces… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.It’s one of the great cultural events of Aotearoa New Zealand – certainly one of the longest established: Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival. But now, RNZ film critic and… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.2023 Billy T winner Abby Howells is taking her award winning show La Soupco to the Hamilton Arts Festival.  Read more Audio

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2:30 PM.It was love at first sight, or sound rather, for tabla master Basant Madhur, and Irish guitarist and bouzouki player Jon Sanders. Read more Audio

2:06 PM.This weekend at Auckland Museum there is a rare overnight wananga to share matauranga Māori knowledge around an extraordinary object: Te Rā, the only customary Maori sail in existence. It has returned… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Every week Culture 101 heads to a creative correspondent out around the motu to gauge the cultural pulse of Aotearoa’s regions. 

This week: Māori know it as Murihiku, “the last joint of the tail”… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.In Aotearoa, families celebrate the Lunar New Year in a variety of ways, says paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang. For her own family, Chinese New Year's Eve is the occasion for a special… Read more Audio

12:54 PM.Our wrap-up of the week's arts and culture news. Read more Audio

12:42 PM.Comedian and writer Jess Karamjeet is hoping her love of Neighbours will be the Trojan horse for her new show Redundant. Read more Audio

12:05 PM."We're all trying to kind of find some sound that links us together," celebrated New Zealand musician Neil Finn tells Culture 101 in an upcoming interview. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Aotearoa’s central arts funding body, Creative New Zealand, is majorly overhauling its funding structure, with eight new funds to open between March and August. The change follows the arts council’s… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.What can chairs reveal to us about our history?

There are sure to be seats in the new Objectspace exhibition and book The Chair: A story of design and making in Aotearoa that’ll cause you warm bodily… Read more Audio

1:57 PM.Arts and culture news from RNZ's Culture 101. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.The activists who defaced an English version of Ti Tiriti o Waitangi at Te Papa last year planned their actions very carefully, says Cally O’Neill from the social justice action group Te Waka… Read more Audio