Arts

Listener feedback for 21 November 2020. Audio

Diane Stoppard is a photographer who is leading the $1 million Camera Obscura project in Whangarei. It's a giant walk-in pinhole camera clad in decorative steel. Audio

Recorded on 20 October 2020, at St Peter's on Willis, Wellington by RNZ Concert. Video, Audio

Julien Van Mellaerts shares the joy of singing with Kiwi artists in England for the Whānau: Voices of Aotearoa, far from home concert - an incredibly emotional selection of songs from Aotearoa and the… Audio

It's goodbye to Auckland's iconic giant Santa, who has been a fixture in the CBD for decades. Audio

Dan Slevin reviews Netflix’s hottest new mini-series. Video

Blair Latham and The Noveltones - Karla and the Divide, recorded at 2020 Wellington Jazz Festival. Video, Audio

Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova shares her unbelievable true story of meeting, painting, and helping the thief who stole two of her artworks. It turns out to be an unexpected tale of redemption for… Video, Audio

A waitress finds herself unable to speak up when put in a harmful situation by a customer in a position of power. Video

Mo Muse is a Somali-born hip hop artist from Auckland who tells his story through his music. He was brought up in Mt Roskill, and fell in love with rapping at university in Otago. Video

Huriana Kopeke - Te Aho is an activist and artist based in Auckland. They are passionate about social justice and making the world a fairer and more equitable place. Video

We like to think that art is a seamless connection between the mind or heart of the artists and their audience or public. But of course it's not. The writer has a pen or a keyboard, the actor has a… Audio, Gallery

Julia Parnell is the director of Six60: Till The Lights Go Out, a documentary that charts the band's meteoric rise. Six60 are the biggest local band ever - even if they're yet to crack it overseas… Audio

There's nothing quite like a Christmas pantomime - England's major contribution to the holiday season. But we seem to like it in New Zealand too, especially at Wellington's Circa Theatre. There's… Audio

Most people know Jack Buchanan from the viral videos he has produced this year. But he's also an accomplished stage actor who last night made his pantomime debut as Prince Charming in Cinderella at… Audio

Michelle Harris stumbled in to a career working with fireworks after a chance meeting several years ago. Audio

The centenary of one of our most influential design and advertising studios is being celebrated in a very beautiful new book from Te Papa. Railways Studios: How a Government Design Studio Helped Build… Audio, Gallery

Dr Erin Leitao, MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Auckland gives us her scientific take on The Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter. Audio