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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 28 November 2010

  • ART Ventures

    12:44 PM.We find out about Auckland's ART Venture with two of the project's new intake, Alex Lee and Beth Kayes. Audio

  • The Auckland Arts Festival

    12:50 PM.The outgoing director of the 5th Auckland Arts Festival, David Malacari, talks about how it's evolved, and why ticket sales are not the right way to measure a festival's success or otherwise. Audio

  • Fantasy art

    1:30 PM.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… Read more Audio

  • Laura Kroetsch

    1:45 PM.Laura Kroetsch is one of the lynchpins of the New Zealand book industry and has a ridiculously large collection that extends to her larder. She is heading away to organise the Adelaide Writers and… Read more Audio

  • Jewels for Christmas

    2:27 PM.An upcoming exhibition in Wellington 'Jewels for Christmas' is the inspiration behind Sonia Yee's look into professional jewellery making in New Zealand. Audio

  • Landfall editor David Eggleton

    2:45 PM.New 'Landfall' editor David Eggleton has just released a book of poetry called 'Time of the Icebergs'. Audio

  • The Radio Room

    2:50 PM.Cilla McQueen is New Zealand's poet laureate and winner of this year's Prime Minister Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry. Her eleventh collection is called 'The Radio Room'. Audio

  • Artist Rangi Kipa

    3:06 PM.One of the Maori artists credited with the resurrection of taa moko - Rangi Kipa is a guest at the Tattoo and Art Festival in New Plymouth. Audio

Alex Lee and Beth Kayes12:40 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

David Malacari.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.
Valour by Sacha Lees.

Laura Kroetsch.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.
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.

Cilla McQueen and 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.

Corian Series - Ruataewhenga form.
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.