Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPacific Arts Aotearoa recorded: Lana Lopesi in conversation with Susana Lei'ataua
An ambitious new book - Pacific Arts Aotearoa - has been released, spanning six decades of multi-disciplinary contributions from Pacific artists to N…
2 years, 7 months ago
Regional Wrap: Raglan’s Karin Bettley
Karin Bettley tells Culture 101 about how her love of creative life in the coastal town of Raglan.
2 years, 7 months ago
Former Vogelmorn Bowling Club now a trailblazing community cultural centre
An annual Spooky Disco means Halloween proves the busiest day of the year for a community and arts centre established on the green and surrounding bu…
2 years, 7 months ago
Our birds and landscapes defined: the complex cultural legacy of painter Don Binney
In the handsome just released book Don Binney Flight Path Gregory O’Brien tracks the avian-like swoops in the career of the late Tāmaki Makaurau pain…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jon Toogood: 'In a solo show, I can actually talk to people in the room'
He’s best known for fronting rock band Shihad, but musician Jon Toogood says playing acoustic solo shows is now where he feels most “human”.
2 years, 7 months ago
American slime mould tours Aotearoa
American slime mould tours Aotearoa creating giant kinetic sculpture of rubbish
2 years, 7 months ago
Regional wrap: Wairoa's Denise Eaglesome-Karekare
The name of the northern Hawkes Bay river town of Wairoa has been translated as "the long water which bubbles, swirls and is uneven". That certainly …
2 years, 7 months ago
Making visible the relationship between hard labour and the Pacific: John Vea and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
While other kids went to kindergarten, when he was a small child Tongan New Zealand artist John Vea was on the factory floor where his father worked.…
2 years, 7 months ago
Small, precious and shiny new: Kāpiti Coast regional gallery opens
Toi Mahara gallery director Janet Bayly offers the whakatauki: ‘ahakoa he iti he pounamu’, when she speaks of the Kāpiti Coast’s regional Gallery in …
2 years, 7 months ago
Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer remembered by young and old close to him
This week saw the passing of a legend in the arts in Aotearoa. Sir Jon Trimmer, arguably New Zealand’s most beloved dancer has died aged 84. With him…
2 years, 7 months ago