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Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.
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Sunday, 29 October 2023
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Regional wrap: Wairoa's Denise Eaglesome-Karekare
29 Oct 2023The 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
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Making visible the relationship between hard labour and the Pacific: John Vea and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
29 Oct 2023While 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
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Small, precious and shiny new: Kāpiti Coast regional gallery opens
29 Oct 2023Toi 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
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Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer remembered by young and old close to him
29 Oct 2023This 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
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Fast Favourites: Dr Mike Joy on the role of artists in preventing ecological collapse
29 Oct 2023Freshwater 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
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All Buttons Great and Small: Lucy Godoroja
29 Oct 2023Lucy 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
Sunday, 22 October 2023
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Rosie Dawson-Hewes' art table for others in Tauranga
22 Oct 2023Culture 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
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Bernie Harfleet and Turtle Sarten: art through acts of community kindness
22 Oct 2023Henderson 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.
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Cat Lovett’s weaving adventures in Mexico's colourful textile capital, Oaxaca
22 Oct 2023Cat 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
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Regional wrap: Waitati pirate queen turned councillor Mandy Mayhem
22 Oct 2023Self declared pirate queen Mandy Mayhem gives Maggie Tweedie a slice of life in Waitati. The celebrant, MC and Dunedin City Councillor gives the regional wrap into the cultural happenings of the… Read more Audio
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Tokomaru Bay’s Māori clay art pioneer Baye Riddell
22 Oct 2023It took until the 1970s for Toi Māori (Māori art) to develop a tradition in clay (uku). One that in part looks back to an ancestral Lapita pottery tradition across the Pacific.
Today, the… Read more Audio
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Jo Ann Firestone: the art of storytelling on a Nelson couch
22 Oct 2023Jo Ann Firestone is a teller of tales, a producer, host, and co-founder of Couch Stories. A sold out storytelling series that has taken the Nelson Arts fest by storm. Read more Audio
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