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NZ Festival of the Arts this year is offering a programme of touch tours, audio described performances and events for deaf and hard of hearing audiences in a push to make the Arts more accessible for… Video

Aotea Square will be filled with song when the Auckland Arts Festival opens tomorrow evening with the free event Tira. It is a gathering of choirs from around the city, singer Hollie Smith and Hatea… Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival opens this week.

RNZ reviewer Justin Gregory won't be elsewhere, he'll definitely be there.

He speaks to Corin Dann. Audio

A young Belgian couple have become champions of New Zealand performance and visual artists, offering them a pop-up gallery or performance space around the country in their modified truck. They call it… Audio

Estère is a Wellington based artist who has recorded her latest album with Massive Attack producer Stew Jackson. Ahead of the album release, Arts Festival audiences in Wellington and Auckland have the… Audio

Mark Amery looks at Wellington and Auckland's arts festival seasons. This week he checked out the artist, performance poet and musicians live and installation works at New Zealand Festival in Lower… Audio

Pacific performing artists showcase the richness of Maori and Pacific poetry through theatre for this year's Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Lou Reed had the same guitar tech for the last ten years of his life, a man called Stewart Hurwood. This week Stewart is in New Zealand performing Lou Reed Drones, a loud, engulfing soundscape created… Audio

Thirty years ago this month, two thieves impersonating police officers got into Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 81 minutes later they left with 13 paintings worth US$500 million. Audio

New Pornographers from Canada, Mad Kings, a Maori bride and Aboriginal groom's chaotic wedding and the late Lou Reed's drones await our New Zealand Festival of the Arts reviewer over the next few… Audio

Sky Snakes are coming to New Plymouth.

No, it's not a bad omen - it's a new Len Lye sculpture that will make its world premiere at celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Govett-Brewster Art… Audio

A political and deeply personal work from the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most emotional shows so far in the New Zealand Festival of the arts programme.

In Search of Dinozord is set… Audio

The coronavirus has forced the cancellation of the much anticipated French aerial shown Place des Anges. The festival's chief executive, David Inns, explains the decision to Karyn. Audio

A network of gun emplacements used to keep out a Japanese invasion during World War II have been given a new lease on life.

The concrete bunkers and underground ammunition rooms at the entry to… Video, Audio

Kate Tempest, UK spoken word artist and rapper has been one of the most talked about artists in the opening days of the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington.

Audiences have also been taken… Audio

Gorecki's haunting Symphony No. 3 is the soundscape for one of the first events in the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts Programme, and it's one the curator Lemi Ponifasio says has taken on new… Audio

Creative New Zealand chair Michael Moynahan joins the discussion on what arts contribute to the economy as politically there's less and less being given to the sector. Audio

The Kapiti Coast arts community has something to celebrate - a new performing arts centre, based at Kapiti College, is opening this month. Already the bookings are rolling in, with the Royal New… Audio

Most people would probably agree that being among trees and nature is good for the soul. But can meditating in a forest actually aid your health? Forest bathing is the latest wellbeing therapy to… Audio

A Hawke's Bay school is believed to be the first in the country to join a global campaign to discourage bullying and improve the mental health of its students by doing up its loos.

They were once… Audio

A theatre director is hoping to spark conversations about taboo subjects like mental health and suicide in New Zealand's Pacific community. Audio

Congratulations to Scilla Askew, whose work in arts administration was recognised in the 2020 New Year Honours. Audio

"Teachers hope to end "near death" of arts in school" ran the Newsroom headline in an article by Professor of Education at the University of Auckland Peter O'Connor this week. The week at Te Papa in… Audio