Culture 101

The journey anthropologist and award-winning writer Dame Anne Salmond has made into Te Ao Māori as a Pākehā over 50 years - creating a bridge for others to connect with our histories, our environment… Read more Audio

To celebrate International Tango Day on Monday 11 December, Aotearoa’s quintet Aotango will be turning the Te Ao Mārama South Atrium at the Auckland Museum into a dance floor with a world music and… Read more Audio

Nine first time stage actors and playwrights in Te Whanganui a Tara, all in their ‘third age’ have co-created a play that explores their personal experiences of the only consistent thing in life… Read more Audio

Every week on Culture 101 we check the pulse of a different area of Aotearoa. This week, we’re in Motueka with Donna McLeod.  Read more Audio

In her major exhibition Coastal Cannibals at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, with a camera, Ngahuia Harrison offers different views on our landscape than we are used to seeing in a frame. She… Read more Audio

Just a glimpse of Guo Pei’s magnificent gowns reveal her vivid imagination.  Read more Audio

In former government minister Chris Finlayson’s 2022 book Yes Minister he wrote that “The primary responsibility of a National minister for arts, culture and heritage, is to keep the luvvies at bay… Read more Audio

Music on our show today  Read more

On the brink of collapse - that’s the stark portrayal of the state of the arts media in a new report New Mirrors, commissioned by Creative New Zealand. Read more Audio

In Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī  (The Freedom/ Emancipation of the Leitī), Tongan New Zealand artist Manuaha’apai Vaeatangitau (or Manu Vaea for short) deals in “radical honesty” about her experiences as… Read more Audio

In 2021 artist Isabella Loudon returned to her family home in the town of Marton Tutaenui in the lower North Island to recover from glandular fever. Loudon has since stayed on, making the most of a… Read more Audio

Raro Research Collective's passion for earth pigments Read more Audio