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12:00 AM.Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator in Historical New Zealand Art has been rethinking Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial visual culture, and her current research focuses on nineteenth-century female botanical… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.There are many books about lighthouse keepers. And many iconic images of lighthouses on our coastline. Yet the lighthouse keeper was pretty much made extinct in the 1970s in New Zealand when… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Spooky, beautiful, yet funny, Greta Anderson’s photography transforms day into night, while invasive flora and domestic objects glow with spiritual electricity. 

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1:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region around the motu - for our regional wrap. 

This week we're in culture-rich Ōtepoti, Dunedin with Pip Laufiso. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.“Sharpen your pencils and limp your wrists, Queer Academy is upon us.” Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Records are made to be broken right?  Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Born and raised in Rēkohu, the largest of the Chatham Islands, musician and storyteller Ajay Peni is a young ambassador for the revitalisation of Moriori culture and its rongo, or music.

While now… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Every week on Culture 101 we invite a guest to share their love of culture and shout out to other artists. This week it's actor, director and producer Te Kohe Tuhaka (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou).  Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Three theatre institutions are celebrating 50th anniversaries this year. 

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3:30 PM.A pioneer artist across the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the most influential arts educators of his generation,  Jim Allen passed away just shy of turning 101 in June. 

Known for inspiring what has been… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.An ambitious new book - Pacific Arts Aotearoa - has been released, spanning six decades of multi-disciplinary contributions from Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Karin Bettley tells Culture 101 about how her love of creative life in the coastal town of Raglan.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.An annual Spooky Disco means Halloween proves the busiest day of the year for a community and arts centre established on the green and surrounding buildings of a former bowling club in the Eastern… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.In the handsome just released book Don Binney Flight Path Gregory O’Brien tracks the avian-like swoops in the career of the late Tāmaki Makaurau painter, teacher and ornithologist (1940–2012).     Read more Audio

12:10 PM.He’s best known for fronting rock band Shihad, but musician Jon Toogood says playing acoustic solo shows is now where he feels most “human”. Read more Audio

2:35 PM.American slime mould tours Aotearoa creating giant kinetic sculpture of rubbish Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The name of the northern Hawkes Bay river town of Wairoa has been translated as "the long water which bubbles, swirls and is uneven". That certainly became true earlier this year when Cyclone… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.While other kids went to kindergarten, when he was a small child Tongan New Zealand artist John Vea was on the factory floor where his father worked.

The experience has led Vea to make the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Toi Mahara gallery director Janet Bayly offers the whakatauki: ‘ahakoa he iti he pounamu’, when she speaks of the Kāpiti Coast’s regional Gallery in Waikanae. “The gift of something small but… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.This week saw the passing of a legend in the arts in Aotearoa. Sir Jon Trimmer, arguably New Zealand’s most beloved dancer has died aged 84. With him to the end in Paekākāriki alongside his wife Lady… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Freshwater ecologist, environmental science researcher and activist Dr Mike Joy is a well known outspoken voice in the need for our society to make radical changes to deal with our major environmental… Read more Audio

2:10 AM.Lucy Godoroja unfastens the miniature world of wonder and the surprising history of the button. In her book, All Buttons Great and Small.  Read more Audio

2:46 PM.Culture lover and curator Rosie Dawson-Hewes is passionate about accessibility in the arts. It led her to collaborate with a new Bay of Plenty art patron Fiona Menzies to create A Seat at the Table at… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Henderson artists Bernie Harfleet and Turtle Sarten make visible the things we often find uncomfortable to talk about. Urgent social issues all around us: like family harm, mental health and poverty.

1:33 PM.Cat Lovett is a New Zealand textile designer with a passion for the sustainable. Her interest in design has led her to live in Mexico's textile capital, Oaxaca. There she has been closely studying the… Read more Audio