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12:45 PM.Whether you like it or not, the age of AI is here. 

In his latest exhibition Legacy, photographer Jon Carapiet uses AI technology to reanimate current well known and powerful figures, creating the… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Artist Pia Hill was four when she held her first group exhibition as a curator, in her bedroom. The Bat Show raised hundreds of dollars towards these endangered species conservation. 

Now, aged… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.It’s the end of an era. A Snort era. What was supposed to be one month, became one decade. The weekly improv comedy show in Tamaki Makaurau which quickly became a cult hit and drew in the crowds to… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Dr Huhana Smith (Ngāti Tukorehe) was the first graduate from Toioho ki Apiti with a Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts in 1998. She now holds a PhD in Māori studies.  Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Living in the Kāpiti Coast town of Ōtaki, where he runs a gallery and shop with his wife Mia Brennan, Hohepa 'Hori' Thompson says his art and expressions are his way of “decolonising himself”, a… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Culture 101 Arts News: November 19 2023 Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Marcus McShane’s latest experiment is to employ his cargo bike as a mobile video projection unit, screening commissioned audiovisual animation onto the upper floors of Cuba Street buildings as he… Read more Video, Audio

12:10 PM.It is 50 years since The Rocky Horror Show premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London.  Read more Audio

1:14 AM.The NZSO will accompany an 80-strong choir this week in a celebration of Pasifika music, combining symphony with songs from the Pacific. Read more Audio

12:00 AM.Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator in Historical New Zealand Art has been rethinking Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial visual culture, and her current research focuses on nineteenth-century female botanical… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.There are many books about lighthouse keepers. And many iconic images of lighthouses on our coastline. Yet the lighthouse keeper was pretty much made extinct in the 1970s in New Zealand when… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Spooky, beautiful, yet funny, Greta Anderson’s photography transforms day into night, while invasive flora and domestic objects glow with spiritual electricity. 

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1:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region around the motu - for our regional wrap. 

This week we're in culture-rich Ōtepoti, Dunedin with Pip Laufiso. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.“Sharpen your pencils and limp your wrists, Queer Academy is upon us.” Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Records are made to be broken right?  Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Born and raised in Rēkohu, the largest of the Chatham Islands, musician and storyteller Ajay Peni is a young ambassador for the revitalisation of Moriori culture and its rongo, or music.

While now… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Every week on Culture 101 we invite a guest to share their love of culture and shout out to other artists. This week it's actor, director and producer Te Kohe Tuhaka (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou).  Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Three theatre institutions are celebrating 50th anniversaries this year. 

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3:30 PM.A pioneer artist across the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the most influential arts educators of his generation,  Jim Allen passed away just shy of turning 101 in June. 

Known for inspiring what has been… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.An ambitious new book - Pacific Arts Aotearoa - has been released, spanning six decades of multi-disciplinary contributions from Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Karin Bettley tells Culture 101 about how her love of creative life in the coastal town of Raglan.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.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… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.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).     Read more Audio

12:10 PM.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”. Read more Audio

2:35 PM.American slime mould tours Aotearoa creating giant kinetic sculpture of rubbish Read more Audio