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2:30 PM.Collaboration with artists across many disciplines and styles has long marked out the work of Pōneke Wellington musician David Long. 

David Long is perhaps still best known as a key musical partner… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.When asked by the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi to describe the highlight of soon becoming a 2024 arts laureate, and winner of the Toi Kō Iriiri Queer Arts Award, playwright and producer Victor Rodger… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.It’s the ‘Gumboot Capital of the World’, and proudly lives up to that reputation. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.You could describe Iwen Yong as an accidental artist. Malaysian-born, he moved to New Zealand with his family at the age of six. First settling in Wellington, they moved to the Hutt Valley where he… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Two bananas duct taped to the wall find themselves unexpectedly in the spotlight. In a clown, fruit mash-up of physical theatre, How To Art is hitting the walls of Basement Theatre in Auckland. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.To say the artist duo Kemi Whitwell and Niko Leyden have an obsession with backcountry huts is no overstatement. 

It’s been the focus of their art and design for more than 12 years. The Waikato-based… Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.For more than two decades, award-winning journalist and presenter, Amanda Gillies has been gracing the screens in the living rooms of Kiwi homes.  Read more Audio

2:29 PM.Extraordinary photographs of youth in late 70’s early ‘80s Newcastle in the UK have in recent years started to come fully into the light, thanks to the photographer’s daughter. Work that offers an… Read more Video, Audio

2:15 PM.Tucked away in the armpit of Cuba Street is Buttercat Tattoo, a collective of six artists dedicated to elevating each other's work and exploring a broad range of tattoo designs and techniques.

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2:06 PM.This week poet Tusiata Avia once again found herself in the news.  Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.Young Maori artists are being invited to enter the 2025 Te Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture award. 

Launched in 2020, by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery - Te Pukenga Whakaata, it aims to inspire a new… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.The popular Kāpiti Arts Trail is on over the first two weekends of November, boasting over 300 artists opening up their studios and shared spaces, or exhibiting in 13 galleries from Ōtaki to… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.From the Cuba Street bucket fountain to the fake lake at Te Papa and the famous 1958 James Turkington mural at the Parnell Baths, artist duo Bena Jackson and Max Fleury have an interest in our… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Anyone who thinks controversy around cycle lanes is anything new, should pick up a copy of Michael Toohey’s just published account of the bicycle’s beginnings in Aotearoa New Zealand, The Cycling… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Matthew Sunderland is an Aotearoa New Zealand screen actor whose characters often turn up unexpectedly, in unexpected places. Ever since playing gunman David Gray - the man who killed 13 residents in… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.This weeks Fast Favourites guest is Wellington-based producer, writer, and director Vanessa Stacey is a jack of all creative trades. With more than two decades of experience, her extensive portfolio… Read more Video, Audio

3:05 PM.The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi revealed its eight Laureate Award recipients on Friday night.

Receiving a total of 280 thousand dollars - they're recognised for their outstanding practice as well as… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Theatre director Ben Crowder had never really watched Peter Pan. He’d seen a London production as a child, and admits he was mostly confused, and the 1991 film Hook which stars Robyn Williams and… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa and this week we’re in the town of Matamata. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.For six hours, artist and photographer Elisabeth Denis photographed a model in a durational performance piece. Instead of camera clicks or shutter sounds, these were replaced with the sound of bullets… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The year is 2005. Tom Cruise jumps on Oprah Winfrey’s couch, Mariah Carey has made a resurgence, skinny jeans and Thin Lizzy are all the rage and dial-up internet is in full swing. Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.The latest machine to arrive at arcade Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe in Pōneke Wellington is Pulp Fiction. It’s packed with the classic soundtrack and audio clips, together with table sculptures of your… Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.It’s one of the most popular shows of the 21st century and now, another iteration is taking place downunder. The Office is set in Australia with the first female boss - Hannah Howard, at a… Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.28-year-old Jacob Geller is an enormously popular Youtube video game essayist and art enthusiast. Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.Rakiura, with a population of just 450, is the furthest south we have ventured for RNZ Culture 101’s Regional Wrap. Read more Audio