Lynn Freeman
Ballet bullying
A recent survey in the United states revealed that nearly 95% of male ballet dancers faced physical or verbal attacks because they dance. Danseur, a film documenting the toll this takes on the… Audio
Te Manawa reopens
Palmerston North's newly rennovated art gallery has just reopened, about seven months earlier than expected. Te Manawa houses an outstanding New Zealand art collection and when it closed in June… Audio
Still Looking: Peter McLeavey and the Last Photograph
An exhibition co-inciding with the 50th anniversary of Wellington's McLeavey Gallery opening, offers us an insight gallerist Peter McLeavey's extensive and significant private collection of… Audio
Aotearoa Audio Arts
Music...sound...noise... They all intersect in a new festival of experimental performances, live electronic music, audio-visual works and sound installations. Aotearoa Audio Arts is being hosted by… Audio
Dr Anita Heiss
An Australian advocate for improving children's literacy and champion of indigenous literature is heading to New Zealand to talk to our writers about these and other issues at the 2018 National… Audio
Mary Wing To returns to the World Of Wearable Art
World of Wearable Art is 30 this year - three decades of putting on stage thousands of jaw-dropping, labour-intensive and madly creative garments. 4,878 of them to be exact. What started as a small… Audio
Vera Mey's answer to global uncertainty - traditional arts and crafts
An unexpected silver lining from global uncertainty is emerging for traditional arts and crafts as people seek comfort in nostalgia. That's the view of expat Curator Vera Mey, who gives the example of… Audio
Penny Howard's four muses
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One posed nude with her guitar, a second is running with a tokotoko, while another sits surrounded by owls. West Auckland artist Penny Howard has captured women who inspire her on… Audio
Isaac Te Reina hopes - to give hope
A Maori filmmaker and actor has written a play he hopes will give hope to young people who're struggling with mental health issues. Audio
TVNZ's on-line competition New Blood
Last week we looked at the TV3 initiative to get new, exciting, scripted New Zealand comedy on our screens. The Comedy Pilot Week was essentially "New Zealand's Got Sitcom Talent" - five first… Audio
Rose Kirkup's love letter to caregivers
Rose Kirkup describes her new play Unflattering Smock as a love-letter to underappreciated New Zealand caregivers. Rose worked in rest homes for eight years and her characters are based on women she… Audio
Mickey Smith and the Carnegie Libraries
Only a handful of them remain, but over a hundred years ago New Zealand was home to 18 of two and a half thousand libraries around the world, established by American industrialist and philanthropist… Audio
Playwright Acacia O'Connor and a few things she learned
Seven years ago the O'Connor family band LAVA had everything going for it. But when Amanda O'Connor died suddenly on November 2011 her daughter Acacia's life went into a tailspin. Acacia reflects on… Audio
Parihaka - the time for apologies is over
A new book charts the nine times between 1991 and 2018 that apologies have been made for the atrocities that happened at Parihaka, and argues that it's time to stop. In Ko Taranaki Te Maunga… Audio
Object affection - reflecting the history of Chinese People in New Zealand
Since 2012, photographer Dr King Tong Ho has been photographing Chinese New Zealanders with ancestral objects that hold great meaning for them. KT, who's a senior lecturer at AUT, calls his project… Audio
Comedy Pilot Season - ask the audience
How often do you watch a new comedy show on TV and wonder "Who picked that?" Well shortly the answer might be "You did"... TV3 is about to offer 5 possible new shows, and invite the audience to pick… Audio
A new, R-rated cabaret is proudly Unsupervised
A new R16 comedy-cabaret, Unsupervised, takes what's described as a "raucus look at adulthood and mental health". Performer, puppeteer and singer-songwriter Rebekah Head walks a fine line between… Audio
Tina Makereti's new novel The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke
A young Māori traveller becoming a living exhibit in 1840s London is at the heart of The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke - a new novel by Kapiti writer Tina Makereti. Tina Makereti tells Lynn Freeman… Audio
Justin Eade and the film-makers Top of the South
The Top of the South Film Festival, as the name implies, is a celebration of the film-makers of Nelson, Marlborough and their neighbours. One of the premieres this year is by hard-working Nelson… Audio
SeniorsDANCE shatter more than one Glass ceilings
Women who were active in the 1970's feminist movement - now in their 70s and 80s - are about to take to the stage in a dance piece exploring the suffrage movement. Glass Ceilings is the latest work by… Audio
