Arts on Sunday for Sunday 28 November 2010

12:40 ART Ventures

We find out about Auckland's ART Venture with two of the project's new intake, Alex Lee and Beth Kayes.
Right: Alex Lee and Beth Kayes

12:50 The Auckland Arts Festival

The outgoing director of the 5th Auckland Arts Festival, David Malacari (left), talks about how it's evolved, and why ticket sales are not the right way to measure a festival's success or otherwise.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

Simon looks at one of the year's biggest films - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One - and one of the cheapest - the astonishingly low-budget sci-fi film Monsters.

1:30 Fantasy art

We explore the realm of fantasy art which has struggled to get the recognition it deserves, with the publication of White Cloud Worlds, an anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy artwork from New Zealand. Paul Tobin is the editor and an artist and we also talk to Christian Pearce who specialises in designing robots.

See images from White Cloud Worlds.

Valour by Sacha Lees.

1:45 Laura Kroetsch

Laura Kroetsch (right) is one of the lynchpins of the New Zealand book industry. She is heading away to organise the Adelaide Writers and Readers Festival. Photograph by Robert Catto.

2:00 The Laugh Track

Improv bandit Wade Jackson.

2:30 Sonia Yee looks into making a living making jewellery in New Zealand

Necklace and jewellery box by Vaune Mason. Image courtesy of Workspace Studios.

2:45 Chapter & Verse

Our featured poets this week both come from the south - Cilla McQueen and the newly appointed editor of Landfall, David Eggleton.

3:00 Artist Rangi Kipa

One of the Maori artists credited with the resurrection of taa moko - Rangi Kipa who's a guest at this weekend's Tattoo and Art Festival in New Plymouth.

See images of Rangi Kipa's work.

Hei tiki in Ruataewhenga form by Rangi Kipa.

3:10 The Sunday Drama

Toll Calls, a bittersweet story of reconciliation between a mother and her estranged daughter by Moira Wairama.