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1:48 PM.The country's cottage industry of small press publishers is bigger than you might imagine. And it's also thriving. The proof is in a new book on art publishing in Aotearoa called Dwelling in the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.It's long been the Holy Grail for this show - to get sculptures up on the radio! And finally we think we might have cracked it. Sculpture In Sound offers a series of words, sound effects and music… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:47 PM.Are the Arts Essential? For listeners to this programme, that seems a no-brainer, you'd think. But six people who make their living in creative fields are about to go head to head to debate the… Read more Audio

12:32 PM.Nina Mingya Powles' new book of poetry Magnolia , has been shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham Book Awards. It reflects on Nina's experiences as a Malaysian-Chinese-Pakeha woman who doesn't easily fit in… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.$4 million over two years to help an estimated 1000 Kiwis in the creative sector to upskill and find work instead of having to live off a benefit... Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.When he found an abandoned canvas and acrylic paints during last year's lockdown, it changed the focus of noted Wellington architect Roger Walker. Now he's turning his hand to painting… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:27 PM.From adorable dead mouse bowls to ridiculously tiny-handled and hyper-spiritual "zombie buddha mugs", Mt Maunganui-based ceramicist Laurie Steer has a lot of fun in his studio. At the moment he's… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:27 PM.Ending up in New Zealand when the lockdown hit, two members of a Uruguayan theatre company described their situation as "luckily stranded"! Now they're preparing to show Kiwis their physical theatre… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.It happens just once every two years - the chance to see Porirua's artists in action, in their workshops and studios. The Friends of Pataka organise the Porirua Arts Trail, and this year around sixty… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.Helping Asian musicians to get more recognition - and more gigs - is the aim of the new Wellington Asian Music Network. Co-founder is poet, singer and electronic music producer Nadia Freeman, who… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.A collection of tens of thousands of photographs by Kiwi photographer and photojournalist Olaf Petersen is one of five new additions to the New Zealand Memory of the World Register. Most of Olaf's… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Shocking, lacerating and wicked - that's how the judges of this year's Adam New Zealand Play Award describe the winning script & Sons by Dunedin writer Emily Duncan. She also took out the award for… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.A key figure in the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State and in Faith-based Care helps to make sense of the stories of pain and anger through his art. Executive Director Mervin… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.Filipino-Kiwi playwright Kiya Basabas hopes her upcoming show will encourage more from her community to write their stories for the stage. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:37 PM.Off The Ground is a new project that's given Dunedin events stymied by the pandemic the funding they need to proceed. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.It's a one-tonne scultpure made from macrocarpa veneer, and inspired by the fungi coral. And it's New Zealand sculptor Chris Booth's creation for Western Australia's Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.A central Wellington building site is being converted into a cross between a sports arena and a theatre, with live commentary on what's happening on site. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:44 PM.It's been a long held dream - something like 20 years - for novellist Patricia Grace to see her novel Cousins on the big screen. But that dream is about to be realised. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:31 PM.A film recording architect Mick Hesselin's emotional last tour of Invercargill's inner-city, heritage buildings slated for demolition, is about to premiere at the start of Southland Heritage Month. Read more Audio

12:16 PM.It was a famous scandal back in 1979 - the violent clash between He Taua Māori activists and a group of Auckland University engineering students. Read more Audio

2:48 PM.A frantic rewrite was required during the lockdown last year by novellist Janna Ruth, who'd set her novel Time to remember in Christchurch throughout 2020. The book's characters are mainly preoccupied… Read more Audio

2:38 PM.Imagine if you could disinvent things that really annoy you, things that also harm the planet. The central character in Susanna Gendall's debut novel The Disinvent Movement endeavours to do just that… Read more Audio

2:26 PM."I want to look at issues of extinction and infestation, cruelty and conflict. I want us to feel that we are being watched and that stock is being taken. I want us not to get away with it." Those are… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:47 PM.Sugar is treated as the enemy these days in terms of health, but in the hands of a skilled artist like Whanganui's Tracy Byatt, it can also be used to sculpt extraordinarily colourful and lifelike… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.Tauranga may be growing rapidly but its city council has only now established a specific role to support the region's creative sector. James Wilson is the city's first Manager of Arts and Culture… Read more Audio