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What a three year, $18 million makeover has achieved for the MTG Hawkes Bay - that's museum theatre gallery in Napier. Audio

Film New Zealand Chief executive Gisella Carr talks about coming up with new ways of attracting more filmmakers to Aotearoa. Audio

A chat to award-winning playwright and novelist Whiti Hereaka about her new play Rewena, her new novel Bugs, and hanging out with a pack of international writers in Iowa. Audio

After a busy summer, Christchurch's Pallet Pavilion has gone into winter hibernation. Being made entirely from wooden pallets, this outdoor performance venue needs watching over to deter vandals and… Audio

Chloe Lane talks about what persuaded her to set up her own publishing house to produce the art and literary journal Hue and Cry and why she's now moved into also publishing books. Audio

Kiwi Holly Matthieson has been shoulder-tapped by England's most famous woman conductor to help out with the BBC's Last Night of the Proms. Audio

The future is here already, according to Survive & Thrive, Auckland's annual arts forum and expo, and artists, innovators and entrepreneurs need to be ready for what it offers. Interactive digital… Audio

With the closure of its publisher, the state owned enterprise Learning Media, we discuss how the School Journal started, its importance to writers, how it's changed and what this means for present day… Audio

Manukau has been chosen to host a proposed new $40 million museum, exhibition space and education centre that would host collections from Te Papa, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and the Auckland… Audio

The fight to save the council-owned Meteor Theatre in Hamilton intensifies with the City Council elections looming. Lynn talks to Alec Forbes from The One Victoria Street Trust, and Creative Waikato's… Audio

East meets Westie in a new exhibition of paintings in Auckland by Chinese New Zealand artist Weilun Ha. Traditional Chinese ink landscape techniques capture the flora and fauna of the western… Audio

Professor Charlotte Macdonald is researching a remarkable double wedding ceremony in Auckland in 1850. Bishop Selwyn married a Maori couple and a Pakeha couple. It was supposed to be a symbol of faith… Audio

We speak to the big winner at the New Zealand Post Book Awards, Kirsty Gunn, Best Fiction and Book of the Year award winner. Her novel The Big Music references classical highland bagpipe compositions.

Blue Oyster Art Gallery re-opens in its new digs on Dowling Street - its fourth shift in 14 years. The contemporary gallery's new patch is in the heart of what's become an artist's precinct. Audio

John Psathas has composed music for the Olympic Games ceremonies but even that doesn't compare to what he's created for the six person percussion ensemble Strike. He describes Between Zero and One… Audio

The details are revealed of two big projects to mark New Zealand's commemoration of the centenary of the First World War. We talk to two people closely involved in making WW1 documents available… Audio

Most people under 30 hardly watch TV at all, they're simply going on-line - and so are many smart production companies. We are talking about shows like Woodville - snappy 5-minute "webisodes" of a… Audio

A new NZ film 'The Weight of Elephants' is the first co-production to tap into the very successful Danish film industry. Audio

Poetica is a series of large-scale paintings of 20 different poems in twenty different languages, paying tribute to the different nationalities lost in the Christchurch earthquake. Audio

Composer and biographer Philip Norman is part way through a Writer's Fellowship, and finalising preparations for the premiere of a musical he's co-created with Stuart Hoar. Audio

Erroll Shand stars in 'After Miss Julie' at Auckland's Basement Theatre, starting this Tuesday. Audio

Joe Bleakley's current assignment is creating a set for the dancers and brass band who star in the New Zealand Dance Company's spectacular new show 'Rotunda'. Audio