Lynn Freeman

Hamilton's library is one of several public buildings getting a mural make-over this weekend as part of the annual Boon Street Art Festival. Audio

After a national trauma, creative arts offer us a "bridge towards possibility" both individually and collectively, says Auckland University professor Peter O'Connor, who teaches theatre in schools… Video, Audio

A former senior producer for RNZ, Brandy Scott is now hosting her own show on Dubai's only talk radio station. She's also just published her first novel, Not Bad People, which follows a friendship… Audio

Over the past 90 years our TV and film makers keep returning to the New Zealand Wars - sometimes triumphantly, sometimes with mixed success.. Now Otago University Associate Professor Annabel Cooper… Audio

Images of Central Otago's high country, from remnants of its gold mining era to small settlements nestled into the distinctive landscape, are captured in paintings by Graham Young. The Auckland-based… Audio

Last year, Dunedin's Fortune Theatre was shut down so suddenly that many productions were left scrambling to find alternative venues. This weekend the city's theatre practitioners are being asked what… Audio

An experiment to see if the cast of a play can make friends with their audience in just an hour is the latest project by the country's only theatre company involving people who are - or have been -… Video, Audio

A hundred years separate the portraits of Pacific communities taken by George Robson Crummer and Edith Amituanai. Their work now hangs side by side at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, offering us the… Audio, Gallery

Over a supermarket loudspeaker, at a train station and under bridges - these are some of the locations where Turner Art Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz has performed and recorded sound for her art… Audio

This week Kaikoura is hosting an arts festival that brings together artists from New Zealand, the wider Pacific and Japan - all places that have been hit by earthquakes and other natural disasters… Audio

This weekend Otaki 's skies are filled with works of art - kites that have taken their creators many hours to build and decorate. They include flying canvases by one of Australasia's most famous kite… Audio

For the first time, New Zealand and Australia's glass societies are holding a combined conference - and Whanganui, this country's glass art hub, is hosting it. The CoLab (short for Collaboration)… Audio

The latest TV series created by veteran New Zealand writers Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan looks at what they call the underbelly of modern motherhood - with a murder thrown in for good measure! Bad… Audio

Some 15 years after Merata Mita's plan for a movie based on the Patricia Grace novel Cousins languished, her dream's about to be realised. Briar-Grace Smith is writing a new script - based on the book… Audio

New Zealanders are being asked to rid themselves of data, from student loan invoices and divorce papers to unwanted photos, to help a mini satellite fly higher. The TWOi 2.0 measures just 2cm x 2cm… Audio

Two New Zealand tours by the famous Ballets Russes company in the late 1930s, had a profound influence on this country's ballet history. And beyond including on artists like Rita Angus. That's the… Audio, Gallery

New Zealand poet and Landfall editor Charles Brasch and the Kapiti Expressway, there is a connection for Kapiti Coast poet Lynn Jenner in the new poetry and essay collection she's working on called… Audio

The world's longest running photography exhibition this year features the work of Auckland based photographer Wara Bullôt - one of 54 invited international photographers in the Royal Photographic… Audio, Gallery

A cast of beautiful young people with time on their hands, on a Marlborough vineyard what could happen? It's the premise of New Zealand's latest independent feature film Hang Time inspired by Ernest… Video, Audio, Gallery

Exploring issues around protests and riots, Germany based New Zealand painter Lisa Chandler's latest canvases portray anonymous people photographing slumped bodies, and others in gas masks.She's spent… Audio, Gallery