Arts

The Cultural Sustainability International Symposium is on Victoria University this week, attracting critical thinkers from around the world. Australian Ellen van Neerven is a talented, award winning… Audio

What does silence sound like? For deaf people, life isn’t silent. In fact noise and sound is part of their life. Audiences will have an opportunity to experience what it’s like to be deaf in a new… Video, Audio

Veteran New Zealand International Film Festival film maker Robin Greenberg’s new film follows the life of New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee. Team Tibet is about the extraordinary life of Thuten… Audio

Howie Morrison Jr has a famous whanau saying – 'Have piupiu, will travel'. For 40 years, kapahaka took around the world and this year he released his first solo album. Te Ahi Kaa visits Howie at his… Audio

Turning a novel into a script is tricky -there have been some spectacular failures on screen and on stage. But the team behind a stage version of Christine Leunans' Second World War novel Caging Skies… Audio

Photo-journalist Guy Frederick had an unusual request make of scientists and staff at Scott Base; if you could write a postcard to Antarctica, what would you say? Their thoughts are included in an… Audio

Author Fiona Farrell encapsulates our nation's contemporary history into her novel Decline and Fall on Savage Street - and within that novel, a street and a house. If that's not clever enough, the… Audio

One person can make a difference. Hutt Valley High School Music teacher Gary Wilby is a case in point. He's been inspiring students in the Hutt Valley since 1977. And today that dedication to his… Audio

We're bombarded with images of handguns - in news reports and in cop shows and films. But what about walking into an art gallery and seeing large format, high definition photographs of guns. Expat… Audio, Gallery

Bert Berns is one of the greatest songwriters you’ve never heard of. Video, Audio

A film by two Auckland Unitec students has won the best short film at the NZ International Film Festival awards. "Waiting" was written by Samuel Kamu and directed by Amberley-Jo Aumua. The Inspiration… Audio

Kate Adie started with the BBC in 1968 as a studio technician in local radio, joining BBC TV News in London in 1979. Her coverage of the 1980 siege of the Iranian embassy changed the trajectory of her… Audio

Composer Gareth Farr is In The Wars. He’s writing the music for a new show written by acclaimed Paris-based kiwi Juliet O’Brien. The show is premiering at BATS theatre next week and tells different… Audio

Kathryn Ryan meets world leading maze designer, Adrian Fisher, who has designed more than 700 mazes in 35 countries over the past 40 years - including hedge mazes, panel mazes, paving mazes, mirror… Audio