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3:05 PM.Arts News from across the country for the week of September 14, 2025 Audio

2:35 PM.Job stability and sustainability within a creative industry can be a constant battle for artists. Read more Audio

2:07 PM.Cultural group Puku Rangi Tea from Rapa Nui Easter Island are providing a rare opportuntiy to experience their culture with performances in Blenheim, Wellington and Tauranga this coming week. They… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.The untamed and wild Hokitika is better known these days as the "Cool Little Town." Located on the West Coast of the South Island, it's about 40 minutes from Greytown. It's home to the largestiwi in… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Art in the Park returns to the iconic Eden Park next weekend from the 18th to the 21st of September. A curated art show in a stadium setting, it'll bring together artists and collectors with artist… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.Actor and writer Stephen Papps has a remarkable ability onstage to inhabit a multitude of characters. In his latest solo work Social Animal, written with Damon Andrews, he plays 13 characters… Read more Audio

12:32 PM.It's a new era at American Vogue with a new editor announced to take over from Dame Anna Wintour. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.In 2019 preeminent and popular New Zealand classical pianist Michael Houston announced ihis retirement. Yet, with the disruption of Covid, things didn't turn out that way. At all. Six years on he… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News for September 7 2025 Audio

2:30 PM.This year New Zealand Dance company Footnote is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Footnote bill their story as the story of contemporary dance in Aotearoa. A bold claim but they have some good reason… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.Across Tamaki Makaurau, there are 56 community libraries but there are also mobile libraries reaching those who can't access the public ones. These areas can be aged-care facilities, social housing or… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Enroute to the Hawkes Bay, Woodville was 100 years ago the home of one of our most famous portrait painters Gottfried Lindear and is home today to celebrated contemporary artist Maungarongo Te Kawa. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.If you visit 24 Tawariki Street in Ponsonby, Auckland - which you are being invited to do this month - you'll find a stream reemerging in the front garden of a vacant house badly damaged during the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A new performing arts festival will be taking over several venues in Auckland for two weeks this month. We The Young in Tamaki Makaurau is celebrating art and imagination with 19 performances… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.This week a group opposing the Wellington City Council's decision to demolish the capital's city to sea bridge, The Wellington Civic Trust, lost a Judicial Review. The group say they don't have the… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.With the Billy T showcase around the corner, ahead of next year's festival and competition, this year's winner is still revelling in his victory. Read more Audio

3:42 PM.I went down something of an Instagram rabbithole this week. For some people it's watching cooking or pots being made. For me it's been bookbinding. So meditative, many craft elements are combined. Read more Audio

3:18 PM.Nearly a thousand choir singers converged on Ōtepoti Dunedin over the last few days as the Big Sing competition finished.  Read more Audio

3:06 PM.The Arts news for 31 August. Audio

2:07 PM.If there's any country that understands and appreciates what film or television can do for tourism, it's us, here in New Zealand. Over the past decade, Scotland has been experiencing something… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.St Heliers is celebrating its first Art Festival which started this weekend and will run until the 14th of September. Audio

1:07 PM.UK television game shows like The Chase and Tipping Point still see many New Zealanders gripped to their screens to watch contestants from all walks of life try out their knowledge against chasers and… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.Jennifer Ludlum is on stage again and this time, as a ferocious, complicated and dramatic matriarch in Silo's Mother Play. Written by American Pulitzer-winning playwright, Paula Vogel, it first… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The government has released a creative and culture strategy to boost the industry by 2030. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku is an art historian, curator and writer who has been a trailblazer in the public representation of culture in Aotearoa New Zealand over seven decades.  Read more Audio