Culture 101

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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