Mark Amery
Ngaio Marsh's 1943 production of Hamlet
A 1943 modern-dressed wartime production of Shakespeare's Hamlet was Dame Ngaio Marsh's first of many productions for the Canterbury University Drama Society. The director and crime writer's script… Audio, Gallery
Where are the women philosophers - poet Helen Rickerby
Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell us how to live? These are three questions on the back cover of poet and publisher Helen Rickerby's fourth book of poems How to… Audio
Nightsong - Making innovative theatre
Ben Crowder and Carl Bland are the duo behind one of New Zealand's most innovative theatre companies, Nightsong. Carl writes and then helps Ben direct, supported by leading designers and actors. This… Audio, Gallery
50th anniversary of Aratoi: the Wairarapa museum of art and history
This weekend marks the beginning of celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Aratoi, the Wairarapa's Museum for Art and History in Masterton. Dame Robin White, Aratoi's patron calls the museum it the… Audio, Gallery
The Antifashion Revolution
Antifashion is a term that's been used to describe design that is explicitly contrary to the fashion of the day. It's Alternative. And it's inherently political. Grunge fashion reacted against punk… Audio, Gallery
Long term investment in the arts – the winners and the losers
60% of the money arts development agency Creative New Zealand puts into the arts goes to long term funding for the running of arts organisations. Audio
Anti-fashion: this week on Standing Room Only
This week on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm Sunday: discussion about long term funding investment in arts organisations in the wake of big recent Creative New Zealand funding news with CNZ's Cath…
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Kakahu - Maori cloaks
Among the most beautiful and distinctive aspects of New Zealand culture are kakahu, Maori cloaks. They're created not only to adorn people, but to provide shelter and warmth, and to acknowledge their… Audio, Gallery
Craig Cliff talks levitation
Craig Cliff is our writer and the inspiration for our musical theme - levitation. In Nailing Down the Saint, he asks, can people fly? His protagonist, kiwi film-maker Duncan Blake, is following the… Audio
Aboard the Colin McCahon bus tour
If he was alive today Colin McCahon would be 100. We get on the McCahon bus - literally. As well as discussing the many events and exhibitions which form part of the McCahon100 celebrations and the… Audio, Gallery
Gafa Arts Collective
An opera about rugby sounds about as probable as, a Samoan performance group based in London. But they both together are true. R'Otello is part of London's new Opera in the City Festival and the work… Audio, Gallery
Chris Parkin on giving to the arts
Arts patron, philanthropist and entrepeneur Chris Parkin, the man behind the $20,000 Parkin Drawing Prize (just announced) and a fabulous hotel art collection, who has just donated $1 million towards… Audio
Problematic, controversial, racist? Discussing the art of Theo Schoon
Problematic. Controversial. Difficult. Racist. Words even the curators of the first substantial exhibition in decades of the late artist Theo Schoon use to describe his character. So why, in the face… Audio, Gallery
Kākahu, levitation, Schoon, McCahon and Parkin: Standing Room Only on Sunday
This Sunday's art, culture and heritage radio show 12.30-4pm RNZ National
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Reinterpreting a Classic Depiction of Polynesian Migration - Greg Semu
Auckland Art Gallery have dubbed it "probably the best-known history painting ever produced in New Zealand". And in the hands of Samoan New Zealand photographer Greg Semu it has had a bold… Audio, Gallery
Museum admission charges, winners and solo shows: Standing Room Only Sunday 4 August
This week on your arts and culture radio show, 12.30pm to 4pm winners and going solo. We speak to the winner of the National Contemporary Art Award, have Billy T winner Kura Forrester on the Laugh…
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The return of the audio cassette in Christchurch
Roger Shepherd with Flying Nun, Rob Mayes with Failsafe Records and now Brian Feary with Melted Ice Cream - small independent music labels have long been a mainstay of the Christchurch indie music… Audio
This Sunday 30 June your NZ arts and culture fix Standing Room Only
This Sunday for your arts and culture fix on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm.
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Gallery co-directors' Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh
Perhaps it shouldn't be unusual but it's certainly rare for a major arts organisation in New Zealand to be run by a couple - let alone two parents with a very young child. Meet Aileen Burns and Johan… Audio, Gallery
Poet Chloe Honum captures the things unsaid
Like music, poetry can be a conduit between our feelings and the world. It's an active in-between space, a space within which to let words dance between our internal world and the world outside. This… Audio