Lynn Freeman

This time of imposed home time is the perfect opportunity to dust off that unfinished painting, sculpture, music score, poem or book. But if taking on a big project is a bit much, how about trying… Audio

From Monday morning, Kiwi performers will be presenting original work to the nation via Silo Theatre's Instagram account. And they're getting paid for it.

Lynn talks to Sophie Roberts, artistic… Audio

At the NZ Arts Festival 2020, RNZ's Lynn Freeman talks to Rajorshi Chakraborti about his novel Shakti, a fantastical story which has insights into the real-life world of India today. Audio

Beethoven's masterpiece The Grande Fuge is interpreted by three contemporary choreographers with very different styles in one of the highlights of the final week of the New Zealand Festival of the… Audio

Selecting from more than 30 years of poetry to fit into one book was the challenge New Zealand's first Poet Laureate set herself. Michele Leggott's called the collection Mezzaluna. It starts with… Audio

Greek pop singer Marina Satti's track "Mantissa" became an anthem for young Greeks facing unemployment when it was first released in 2017, at the time of her country's debt crisis. Marina Satti's… Audio

A young Belgian couple have become champions of New Zealand performance and visual artists, offering them a pop-up gallery or performance space around the country in their modified truck. They call it… Audio

Auckland's Hobson Street Theatre Company, whose actors have all experienced homelessness, is representing New Zealand at an international Arts Festival held every three years in Rotterdam. The… Audio

Anne Hamblett was married to Colin McCahon. But a new exhibition is a reminder that she was also an important artist in her own right, although she gave up painting to raise her family and to support… Audio

Dimanche tells one story of a family battling extreme weather conditions and another of three filmmakers braving the Arctic to document species doomed to extinction: The show is coming to New Zealand… Audio

New Pornographers from Canada, Mad Kings, a Maori bride and Aboriginal groom's chaotic wedding and the late Lou Reed's drones await our New Zealand Festival of the Arts reviewer over the next few… Audio

Set on an island resort, author Bronwyn Sell has given her cast of characters a set of tricky situations and no way out in her latest novel Lovestruck. Audio

Since the 1970s film editor Annie Collins has been helping our directors to create, she even salvages their movies when a shoot hasn't gone entirely to plan. Audio

It's one of the Big Three European Film Festivals, along with the fiercely business-like Cannes Festival, and the more high-minded Venice one. Audio

Along the South Island's rugged West Coast live a community of people whose self-sufficent way of life is being captured on film before it passes into history. Audio

A political and deeply personal work from the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most emotional shows so far in the New Zealand Festival of the arts programme.

In Search of Dinozord is set… Audio

Kate Tempest, UK spoken word artist and rapper has been one of the most talked about artists in the opening days of the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington.

Audiences have also been taken… Audio