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‘It’s our New Year’: A Matariki Panel featuring three innovative Toi Māori stars
23 Jun 2024As Aotearoa prepares itself to celebrate the official Matariki holiday RNZ’s Culture 101 takes a tour across the country to check in on how three leading figures in Toi Māori’s are celebrating. Read more Audio
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Fast Favourites for Matariki with Professor Rangi Mātāmua
23 Jun 2024Leading advocate for Matariki, Astronomy Professor Rangi Mātāmua (Tūhoe) has recently returned from a trip to Tahiti. The trip was at the invitation of the government there, where there is interest in… Read more Audio
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Arts news: 114,000 Singaporean shimmer discs, NZ at the film fest and our new governors
16 Jun 2024Arts news for 16 June 2024 Read more Audio
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Was the vinyl record the most significant artwork of the 20th century?
16 Jun 2024The Dead C guitarist Bruce Russell along with graphic designer and pedal steel guitar player, Luke Wood, has released a rich book of essays called A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as… Read more Audio
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Emele Ugavule: Storytelling and the vitality of contemporary Melanesian culture
Melanesia is a rich cultural region. It holds the largest Indigenous population in the Pacific, and has more languages than all of Europe. Vanuatu has 110 dialects and languages alone. Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Kawatiri Westport with The Nomad
16 Jun 2024For Daimon Schwalger aka artist and celebrated electronic artist The Nomad, moving to Kawatiri Westport on Te Wai Pounamu South Island’s West Coast was a deliberate ploy to enjoy more isolation. Yet… Read more Audio
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Compelling documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents in US
16 Jun 2024The Doc Edge Festival is kicking off in Aotearoa from 19 June starting in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It’ll make its way to Auckland and Wellington before going online nationwide. With 66 local and… Read more Audio
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Arts study in Australian farming town leads to lower depression rates and blood pressure
16 Jun 2024A small farming town in South Australia has been on a mission to show art can improve health and well-being. Read more Audio
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Pianette Automatique: Minipiano given new life in Wellington winter garden
16 Jun 2024Back in the early 1930s, the pianette was briefly an Art Deco home sensation. Now a band of enthusiasts have revived the instrument by converting it into a Pianette Automatique. Read more Audio
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Fast Favourites: Comedian Courtney Dawson’s rise to the top
16 Jun 2024Courtney Dawson (Ngāti Kurī/ Ngāti Amaru) broke into the comedy world just five years ago but has steadily been working her way to the top. Read more Audio
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Arts news: A double whammy, Kings arts honours and Pito One
9 Jun 2024Arts news for Sunday 9 June. Read more Audio
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Legendary advocate for Māori art Elizabeth Ellis
9 Jun 2024The late art historian Jonathan Mane Wheoki has referred to Te Tai Tokerau in the North as the crucible of Māori art. Such were the number of groundbreaking modern Māori artists to come from this… Read more Audio
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