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1:07 PM.Artist Jo Randerson calls them Secret Art Powers. Superpowers that everyone, individually and collectively, has access to.  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Porirua-based barbershop group, Pacific Connection is bathing in their history-making win at the International Barbershop Chorus Competition in the US. They took home bronze for their performance in… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Most people will recognise former All Blacks hooker Keven Mealamu for his sporting success but now, a decade after retiring he's gone from the All Blacks to the Arts Council; being appointed to the… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.If you've travelled along Transmission Gully, north of Poneke Wellington - you might have noticed through your side window giant objects starting to pop up on the western hills north of Pauatahanui… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Arts news for 13 July 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.As avid op shoppers will know, secondhand and antique stores still turn up treasures. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.MOTAT's Te Puawānanga Exhibtion was recently named International Exhibition of the Year at the Museum and Heritage Awards in London.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.This week - we're heading south to Mosgiel - and more specifically to Taieri.

Matt Brennan is starring as Inspector Pratt in Taieri Dramatic Society's production of Peter Gordon's Death by Fatal… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.The Youth America Grand Prix - The YAGP is one of the world's largest competitions for ballet dancers hoping to land scholarships around the world.

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12:30 PM.Last month, the grand reopening of the Oceania Wing at the Metropolitan Musem of Art in New York saw Kiwis and locals gather to celebrate 500 years of art from 140 indigenous countries. Expats and art… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.From a farm in Waikato to the frontlines of the Ukraine war, former Newshub Europe correspondent Lisette Reymer never expected to be using her hostile environments training when taking on the job. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News for 6 July 2025 Audio

2:30 PM.Ranging from whale vomit to Victorian mourning jewellery, Una Cruickshank's often astonishing book of essays The Chthonic Cycle meditates on the wonders of the earth and our use and abuse of them. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Gabrielle Huria is Ngai Tuahuriri and Ngai Tahu and lives with her whanau at Tuahiwi in North Canterbury.  She is part of a major new exhibition created by Ngai Tahu with photographer Anne Noble at… Read more Audio

1:30 PM. Faye Saunders is the owner of The Little Gallery in Tairua and joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Keith Moon's drum kit, a child's rocking horse, a Vivienne Westwood gown, buddhas, a slice of a '70s housing estate, the David Bowie archive: it's no wonder the Victoria and Albert's brand new East… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Brydie Colquhoun speaks to Culture 101 about Rongo Whakapā​, Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Evan Mantyk the Society of Classical Poets joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Marc Feldman shares his cultural highlights. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 29 June 2025. Audio

2:30 PM.This week I put on a suit. No ordinary suit. A motion capture suit, in the studios of the Victoria University of Wellington Miramar Creative Centre. It's next door to the likes of Weta Digital and… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Following WWII, there was a strong push and a solid foundation to provide arts education to both teachers and children in schools. Art advisers supported and inspired teachers while many early-career… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.The Māniatoto plain, sits high inland in Central Otago bounded by ranges. It's known for its distinct beauty, and climate of extremes: from dry and hot in summer, to snow and temperatures well below… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.In Home we follow artist Teiti Nepia as over the summer of 2023 and 2024 for five months she reclaims her own sense of sovereignty by camping out on public land on Wellington's beautiful but rather… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Although written in 1923 about a story from the 15th century, the themes of Saint Joan continue to be pertinent in the 21st century. George Bernard Shaw's classic, written after the canonisation of… Read more Audio