Podcast Episodes
Back to Search‘I’m writing you a poem about art’ - A poem by Tusiata Avia
This week poet Tusiata Avia once again found herself in the news.
1 year, 7 months ago
Regional Wrap: On the Kāpiti Arts Trail with mayor Janet Holborow
The popular Kāpiti Arts Trail is on over the first two weekends of November, boasting over 300 artists opening up their studios and shared spaces, or…
1 year, 7 months ago
Public fountains and pools: A thing of our modern past?
From the Cuba Street bucket fountain to the fake lake at Te Papa and the famous 1958 James Turkington mural at the Parnell Baths, artist duo Bena Jac…
1 year, 7 months ago
Colonial controversy around bike lanes: Aotearoa’s bicycle pioneers
Anyone who thinks controversy around cycle lanes is anything new, should pick up a copy of Michael Toohey’s just published account of the bicycle’s b…
1 year, 7 months ago
Matthew Sunderland: The NZ screen actor who plays life's strays
Matthew Sunderland is an Aotearoa New Zealand screen actor whose characters often turn up unexpectedly, in unexpected places. Ever since playing gunm…
1 year, 7 months ago
Fast Favourites: Fringe Festival Director, Musician and Actress Vanessa Stacey
This weeks Fast Favourites guest is Wellington-based producer, writer, and director Vanessa Stacey is a jack of all creative trades. With more than t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Theatre director Ben Crowder: From Isle of Wight island life to boarding school in Christchurch
Theatre director Ben Crowder had never really watched Peter Pan. He’d seen a London production as a child, and admits he was mostly confused, and the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Regional Wrap: Matamata with Mia Smith
Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa and this week we’re in the town of Matamata.
1 year, 7 months ago
6-hour interactive photoshoot replaces camera shutter with bullet sounds
For six hours, artist and photographer Elisabeth Denis photographed a model in a durational performance piece. Instead of camera clicks or shutter so…
1 year, 7 months ago
Laguna Beach, skinny jeans and dial-up internet: Teen comedy n00b a love letter to the early noughties
The year is 2005. Tom Cruise jumps on Oprah Winfrey’s couch, Mariah Carey has made a resurgence, skinny jeans and Thin Lizzy are all the rage and dia…
1 year, 7 months ago