Arts

Nicholas Rowe explores the intricate story of how the dabke dance was politicised and misappropriated several times in the 20th century. Audio

Dunedin-based embroidery and textile artist Jay Hutchinson has been turning the trash into art. He takes photos, then spent hours on each embroidered copy for an exhibition he's called On the Way to… Video, Audio, Gallery

Where Memories Sleep is the incredibly hard to describe collaboration between musician Warren Maxwell and documentary maker Jason O'Hara. They blend visuals with sounds recorded on the ice and then… Video, Audio, Gallery

How to Take Off Your Clothes is a poetry collection by Hadassah Grace, a former stripper who's also written about sex work and acted for the Auckland Theatre Company. Video, Audio

Trouble-D is a play about the challenges, obstacles and enticements a recently released prisoner faces in the outside world, being performed at Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn and a first for… Audio

When the French Film Festival made its debut in New Zealand 17 years ago, it was just one of several regional film showcases. Since then it's grown a staggering 700 percent since 2012. Audio, Gallery

Canadian community activist, artist and filmmaker Michelle Derosier is in New Zealand talking about how films can encourage our estranged young Maori and Pacific population to connect with their… Audio

New Zealand animator Peter Monga and legendary animation company Aardman, of Wallace and Gromit fame, are joining forces on a TV pre-school series. Audio, Gallery

How are they planning to take on the world, how much will it cost? Simon Morris talked to the CEO's of New Zealand On Air and the Film Commission Jane Wrightson and Annabel Sheehan. Audio, Gallery

Pick and Mix with accordion flair from Greece, Mongolia, Acadia and the world via the Silk Road Ensemble   Video

Dan Reed is the director and producer of one of this year's most talked about documentary, Leaving Neverland. He tells Jim Mora he doesn't believe the film should stop Michael Jackson's music… Audio

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New… Audio

Have you ever wanted to knit but just don't know where to start? Tash Barneveld is a Wellington knitter and knitting blogger and she comes in to talk all things yarn Audio, Gallery

Researchers at Australia's Griffith University have carbon-dated an ancient Tongan tattooing kit, discovering it's at least 2,700 years old. Audio

Set hundreds of years in the future 'The Expanse' has got it all... politics, mystery , space mormons and a tough Martian Marine, played by Frankie Adams who speaks in her native New Zealand accent… Video, Audio

Dan Slevin says that The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a rare modern family movie that's actually about something. Video