Culture 101

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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