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2:30 PM.The large wall hung quilts of takatāpui fabric artist and storyteller Maungaronga Te Kawa (Ngāti Porou) leap and sparkle as joyous dance. They are blankets of aroha for a world that needs it. 

Yet… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.New Zealand’s local production and screen industry is in crisis. But how did it get to this point? 

“It’s been years of international streaming companies operating in New Zealand without any… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa and this week it’s Taupō with artist, musician, composer, puppeteer and stone carver, Jeffrey Addison.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Sir Roger Hall remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most popular playwright. Since 1976 his plays have often been box office gold. 

Now 85, and continuing to write plays through retirement, he recently… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.This week King Loser, an independent Aotearoa New Zealand documentary won the Taite Music Prize for music journalism. Directors Cushla Dillon and Andrew Moore’s real life tragicomic chronicle of King… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.It’s the 10th season of Loading Docs - an initiative to showcase Aotearoa’s documentary  filmmakers. For a decade, it’s helped mentor emerging talent who’ve gone on to pursue successful careers in the… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.It’s rare for an Aotearoa New Zealand writer to appear at book festivals about a novel, months out from its release. But then the sequel to a book as beloved and devastating as 2019’s Auē by Becky… Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Arts news for Sunday 21 April 2024 Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Pōneke based poet and journalist Abdul Samad Haidari became a refugee at the age of 10. For Haidari poetry has been a way to cope with the trauma and to turn it into empowerment. His second book of… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Intimacy coordination is a relatively new concept both in Aotearoa and across the world. Borne from the #MeToo movement, it’s a way to keep actors and crew safe on film and television sets and in… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.It’s known as ‘mural town’, it's Aotearoa New Zealand’s avocado capital and this week it’s the focus of Culture 101’s regional wrap.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.The Aotearoa Art Fair is the apex of the art market food chain. This weekend on the Tāmaki Makaurau waterfront, the public, 32 dealers and many curators from around Aotearoa come happily together at… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Oscar-nominated US filmmaker Ava Duvernay’s new thought-provoking film Origin is based on the New York Times bestselling book Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.This year marks 20 years of Whakaata Māori - Māori Television. Something to celebrate particularly in this climate of broadcasting cuts and redundancies.

A founding member of Māori TV, veteran… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Aotearoa New Zealand has won one of the world’s most prestigious art prizes. 

Mataaho collective have been awarded the Golden Lion by a jury at the 60th Venice Biennale for their large scale work in… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for Sunday 14 April from RNZ Read more Audio

2:30 PM.A "lack of joined-up thinking" in Wellington's gallery sector has led to two major art spaces closing at the same time, an art historian and former gallery director says. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Say the name Anurag Kashyap in South Asian circles and you’ll likely find some star struck fans. 

The prominent Indian filmmaker will be in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland this week for an intimate… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Baylys Beach is a settlement of a few hundred on a wild section on the west coast of Northland, just outside Takiwira Dargaville. 

It’s home to painter Sean McDonnell who works and sells his art in… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.If you’ve ever opened a magazine in Aotearoa New Zealand, chances are, you’ve almost certainly seen Jae Frew’s work.  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Today we are all publishers, sharing fresh content online to please our followers. So when does taking a photograph of an interesting artwork constitute a breach of copyright? And what about the… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Two playwrights have won this year’s Adam NZ Play Award: Dan Bain from Christchurch for The Odyssey and Sam Brooks from Tāmaki Makaurau for This Is My Story of Us. Read more Audio

12:10 PM.When a comedian approaches Comedy Festival season, you expect the trial of a new show, and all the challenges  that represents. But this year beloved Aotearoa comedian and journalist Te Radar isn't… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Arts and culture news for Sunday 7 April.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.What does it take to be an effective cultural translator? Yang Fan will tell you that the language is just the beginning.  Read more Audio