Lynn Freeman

It's a brave choir that takes on the music of seminal musicians like David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac. You have to please people who know and love every note of the original version, yet put your own… Audio

Large banners with images of cabbage trees, daffodils and even weeks have been handmade for the SCAPE outdoor art biennial. Otakaro Plant Parade is a new artwork by Fiona Jack which has been developed… Audio

New York Choreographer Leslie Scott is collaborating with Christchurch dancers on a project about decaying and demolished buildings and rebullding. Christchurch offers many options in all three… Audio

Angela Potroz and her family lost millions of dollars over their loan swaps when they were forced to sell three farms because of payments to the bank costing up to 120 thousand dollars a month. Lynn… Audio

Just before Norwegian Anders Breivik killed and injured more than 280 people four years ago, he sent out a 15-hundred page manifesto. The rambling document contained racist propaganda, philosophical… Audio

In Australia Kathy Temin is best known for creating abstracted forests and for recording and sharing oral histories She's chosen Auckland to mount her most ambitious project yet, which combines the… Audio

Writer Albert Wendt has been thinking a lot recently about his childhood home in Samoa - a suburb of Apia.He's written a lot about Vaipe in his stories, poetry and novels over the years but in a new… Audio

NZ On Screen has compiled a top 40 list of New Zealand TV Series. Within a few days of it going on line, it's hearing from people asking why their personal favourites aren't on the list, series like… Audio

Creative campaign strategist Anna Dean helps people to spread the word on-line about their productions - whether they're feature films, ad campaigns or - why not? - web-series. Anna was the first New… Audio

A timely new play in Auckland is taking a hard look at a difficult subject. Officer 27, by award-winning playwright Aroha Awarau, is a fictional take on the accidental shooting in 2009 of Auckland man… Audio

There's a high flying new prize in this year's World of Wearable Art Awards Show. The 2015 Performance Art Costume Award will be presented to an entry that 'could dwell in the spectacular & magical… Audio

For almost two years 11 emerging New Zealand contemporary jewellers have been mentored by big international names in jewellery. Now the work of mentors and mentees is being shown side by side for the… Audio, Gallery

Since the mid 1980s Jonathan Galassi has been a legendary figure in the New York publishing scene. That's when he moved to long established publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux… Audio

Australian soprano Greta Bradman is a recitalist, concert and stage performer with many awards to her name - which might sound familiar. Greta's also the granddaughter of Australian cricketing legend… Audio

Now the Christchurch Town Hall rebuild is officially happening, a rare opportunity has come up to see the original plans from 1968.The Warren & Mahoney drawings are kept in the MacMillan Brown… Audio

This week the New Zealand web series High Road triumphed at the Berlin Web Fest, picking up the Grand Jury Prize, and confirming what its loyal followers already know - you can make great drama for… Audio

A New Zealand arts academic is pushing for a pan-Pacific pavilion at the prestigious Venice Biennale, where the region could pool resources to showcase its art. Audio

One of the first international events announced for the 2016 New Zealand Festival in Wellington is the return of the core artists involved in last year's nocturnal light and sound show at the Botanic… Audio, Gallery

The Travelling Squirrel is a play written by NZ playwright, the late Robert Lord, who's best known for his works Joyful and Triumphant and Well Hung. But this play, which he wrote while living in New… Audio

Shakespeare never imagined that his finest work would make for this season's hottest video game. Partly scripted, partly improvised and wholly unique, Hamlet: The Video Game (The Stage Show) is an… Audio