Arts

They say good things come in small packages … and that’s what to expect at the Show Me Shorts film festival. Auckland filmmaker Roseanne Liang’s Do No Harm, which has been selected for the Manhattan… Audio

Choreographer Sarah Foster-Sproull is just a few months into the 2017 Creative New Zealand Choreographic fellowship which allows her to delve deeper into dance practices. One area she’s exploring is… Audio

Canadian photographer Chris Herwig's books, Soviet Bus Stops 1 & 2, reveal the stunning and unexpected architecture of the bus stops peppering the Soviet landscape from Latvia to Russia. A snap… Audio, Gallery

Auckland artist Pascal Atiga-Bridger blends elements of the Union Jack onto flags from pacific Island nations to create new flags that tell a 21st century story. He also manipulates the Union Jack… Audio, Gallery

Thomas Goss explores how the subject of romance is elevated to philosophical and artistic heights when merged with the identity of a great composer. Audio

November is National Novel Writing Month, where writers sign up to write 50,000 words over the 30 days in November, a goal reached by more than 34, 000 writers internationally last year (though… Audio

Actor Chelsie Preston Crayford is currently appearing in the play Red Speedo, which is kicking off Auckland Theatre Company's 25th anniversary season. Audio

Sixteen locally-made short films feature in this year's Top of the South Film Festival in Nelson. Lynn Freeman speaks with two film makers whose work is about to premiere there - Doug Brooks (Sons of… Audio

Children's book writer and illustrator Donovan Bixley has just been awarded the 2017 Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation, and $15,000 dollar gift that goes with… Audio

Te Papa's new art gallery, Toi Art, will open next March. Two floors of the national museum will be dedicated to four exhibitions that include fashion, jewellery and abstract art. The new gallery will… Audio, Gallery

Rawiri Paratene is a New Zealand acting taonga who's appeared in everything from Playschool to Whalerider, Hamlet to fully Te Reo spoken Purapura-whetu. Rawiri's again, stepping out starring in the… Audio

The NZ Festival first became part of Shelagh Magadza's life around 20 years ago. Her earlier jobs there involved administration and  ferrying artists around Wellington - but since 2014 she has been… Audio

Francis Pound, one of New Zealand's most influential art critics, died last weekend. He was an independent art curator and writer who taught for some years in the art history department of The… Audio

Fashion is often a signal of a change in the air, reflecting societal norms and values. On RNZ podcast My Heels Are Killing Me Sonia Sly meets designer Jason Lingard who says being gay and growing up… Audio

Prepare yourself for a massive magic show simply titled Magicians.

The spectacle is opening its North Island tour in Wellington before heading off to Palmerston North, New Plymouth, and Auckland.

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American magician Rob Zabrecky is on tour in New Zealand with a group of other performers for the New Zealand Magical Convention, which opens tonight in Wellington. Audio

Irish folk musician John Leo Carter has jumped off a plane, headed to the Upbeat studio, and is playing the Wellington Folk Festival over Labour Weekend. The Öland, Sweden-based musician’s latest… Audio

A cantata written to mark the 50th anniversary of a mining disaster in Wales, is about to have its New Zealand premiere.  Sir Karl Jenkins wrote Cantata Memoria - For the Children of Aberfan, to… Audio

High profile New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird has been named as a 2017 Arts Foundation New Generation Artist, receiving $25,000 along with it. Audio