Arts
52 films by women #13: Afternoon Delight
Before they created Transparent, writer-director Jill Soloway made an indie feature about an upper-middle class woman tiptoeing into a world of sexual transgression. Dan Slevin found it intriguing but… Video
PM expresses 'concern' over ballet reports
The Prime Minister and Arts Minister Jacinda Ardern says she's concerned about reports that the publicly funded national dance company, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, will not include any of this… Audio
Pop Up Globe pops up over summer
Women take centre stage for the Pop Up Globe’s third season, which starts on Thursday. Five plays – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar and Macbeth –… Audio
Ministry for Culture and Heritage on reported RNZB Crisis
Is the Royal New Zealand Ballet in crisis? CEO of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Paul James discusses reports into the state of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the number of New Zealanders… Audio
Art in the park
Dancing around tied with bungee cords doesn't sound like it has much to do with a park but it's exactly what a kiwi artist has dreamed up after spending weeks living at Long Bay regional park in… Audio
Symposium on the Future Imaginary
In Canada artists, activists and academics from around the world are debating what the future holds for indigenous people. It's the third Symposium on the Future Imaginary and the first time the… Audio
All Our Secrets
Jennifer Lane's novel All Our Secrets is set in a small rural community where a religious sect have moved in and divided the locals. Audio
Taking The High Ground
Taking the High Ground tells the stories of the first woman to scale Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1910 - Australian Freda du Faur, and of Kiwi Lydia Bradey who was the first woman to scale Mount Everest solo… Audio, Gallery
Sian and Makyla make art!
Sian's Dublin based company Super Paua creates theatre with a strong social focus for children and teenagers. For the residency though, she's writing a solo show inspired by her Irish and New Zealand… Audio
Le Moana at the Measina Festival
The fourth Measina Festival includes Le Moana's Watercress Tuna & the Children of Champion Street a multi-media show based on a children's story by Patricia Grace, and a series of dances based on the… Audio
Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin celebrate their theatre scenes
What do the award nominations tell us about what's hot and what's not in theatre. Are these three main centres producing very different work or is there a lot of crossover? Audio, Gallery
Mimedian Trygve Wakenshaw
This comic and mime artist is one of three New Zealand artists taking part in the Sydney Festival in January. Audio
Forum: a celebration of graffiti in Avondale
Bobby 'Berst' Hung and Ross 'Trust Me' Liew are two of the top NZ graffiti artists gathering to talk, teach and paint a mural at an event in Avondale this weekend. Audio, Gallery
Peter Gilderdale: 19th-century Kiwi Christmas cards
Researcher Peter Gilderdale says Christmas cards were a relatively late entry to our colonial Christmas tradition - that they only established themselves in the 1860s and didn't become really popular… Audio
Teaching little goddesses: Lucie McQuilkan
In 2006 Auckland fashion designer Lucie Boshier was 24 and the next big thing in Kiwi fashion. She was also controversial and two years later she closed her shop, and later disappeared like fairy dust… Audio
Kate Camp - Menton debrief
Kate Camp has published six collections of poetry - her latest, The Internet of Things, was released earlier this year, and was this week named as a poetry finalist on the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book… Audio
John Collins - In Hemingway's Words
John Collins founded the New York-based experimental theatre company Elevator Repair Service 26 years ago and next year the ensemble brings the show The Select to Aotearoa. The play is a dramatisation… Audio
Seacliff: The Demise of Ward 5
The dramatic true story of the 1942 fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital comes to Te Papa next week. The musical, Seacliff: Demise of Ward 5 was written by New Zealand’s Got Talent winner Renee Maurice… Audio
Poland asked to explain naked Nazi gas chamber video
Holocaust survivor groups are asking for an explanation about how artists were able to film a naked game of tag inside a Nazi gas chamber.
Lucy Lawless: 'I’m more of an activist than an artist'
Lucy Lawless is outspoken. She talks art, activism, sexual misconduct in Hollywood, the Hobbit Law and what she wants her legacy to be, with RNZ Concert's Zoe George.
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