Arts

Melanie Bracewell just won the Billy T award - woohoo! That means she's been asked to do three extra performances of her stand-up show Melodrama - and they're kicking off tonight at Auckland's… Audio

Reviewer, Sarah McMullan has been watching a German film, In the Fade, documentary McQueen and New Zealand film Stray. And for Stephen King fans the ultimate show: Castle Rock set in a fictious town… Audio

Freelance photojournalist, writer and filmmaker, Lalage Snow has worked in some of the most war torn and damaged places on earth. Whilst working in Afghanistan she came across amazing people putting… Audio, Gallery

The four-day Manawatu Writers' Festival is the only free event of its type in New Zealand. Organiser Rachel Doré joins us to talk about making literature accessible and which authors she's most… Audio

15 years ago Jessie Casson found four local teenagers, photographed them, and asked them about their hopes and dreams. 15 years later, she's re-visited all her subjects for a new documentary, What… Video, Audio

Filmmaker Dustin Feneley speaks with Lynn Freeman about his critically acclaimed movie Stray. It's a film about loneliness, depression and trauma, set against stunning Mackenzie Country scenery… Video, Audio

An irreverent take on the lives of Pasifika youth has propelled a South Auckland playwright into residency as the inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer. Audio

Natasha Senior, 14, has taken out the top prize at the YMCAWalk The Line catwalk over the weekend, taking away a $2000 scholarship to pursue a career in fashion. Video, Audio

Palmerston North poet Paula Harris recently won an international poetry prize. She joins us to read part of her winning poem, you will dig me from the earth with your bare hands, in order to resurrect… Audio

Looking up at fireworks displays is magical. But imagine if you could fly through, over and around them. Footage taken from flying six drones through a fireworks display is allowing artist Steve Carr… Audio

The post Second World War art scene is the canvas for Wellington writer and arts commentator Thomasin Sleigh's new novel, Women in the Field, One and Two. It's set in the London and Wellington of the… Audio

There's a lot to celebrate, as well as frustrations to express and issues to discuss, during this month's Asian arts hui in Wellington. It's the third Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui since it was established… Audio

Claire Regnault is a senior curator at Te Papa, where she specialises in dress. She is researching and writing a history of women's fashionable dress in colonial Aotearoa New Zealand and is on the… Audio

Majorca-born fashion designer Sebastian Pons worked with Alexander McQueen at Givenchy before debuting his own collection in New York in 2003. Pons reveals why he took so long to decide to take part… Audio, Gallery

The story of brilliant cosmologist Beatrice Tinsley is relatively unknown. Tinsley was born Beatrice Hill in England but grew up in New Zealand attending New Plymouth Girls High School and later… Audio

The exhibition, Euan Macleod: Painter, has been touring Aotearoa for the past two years and opens at its last stop, Pataka, in Porirua, this weekend. It's the first major touring exhibition of… Audio

New Zealand's oldest dealer gallery is preparing to celebrate its first half century with a brand new exhibition.  Audio

It's NZ Fashion week, and this weekend some special guests will be gracing the catwalk - the volunteers, staff, doctors and nurses of Mercy Hospice, donning some of the hospice's second-hand store's… Audio