Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNZ’s role in the peace and culture of Bougainville
Artist Taloi Havini began life in Bougainville but fled with her family to Australia aged 9 due to a civil war which claimed 15,000 lives.
2 years, 7 months ago
Regional Wrap: in Hastings with Pitsch Leiser
Every week on Culture 101 we check the pulse of a different area of Aotearoa. This week, we’re off to Hastings, ahead of the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why Polynesia remains still there, still strong in inner city Tamaki Makaurau
In Still Here director Litia Tuiburelevu takes us inside the homes, centres and churches that carry forward the different island community's stories…
2 years, 7 months ago
Tokyo's Techno Kiwi: George Nelson
George Nelson is a New Zealander living in Japan with a passion for haiku, techno and fashion. The pages of, The Techno Kiwi reveal a delightful fusi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Taking cinema back to Dunedin’s ‘81 tour with Uproar
Uproar, a new movie inspired by the Springbok Tour of the 1980s comes with a star-studded cast - Julian Dennison, James Rolleston, Minnie Driver, Rhy…
2 years, 7 months ago
Fast favourites with vampire turned goth Jonny Brugh
Best known as a vampire, and lately, a goth, actor and comedian Johnny Brugh has been leaving us well amused since his time as one half of comedy duo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Briar Grace Smith’s stories of skin, screen and stage
Touring to five regional centres across the North Island from 6 to 25 October Upu sees performances by seven leading actors of almost 40 texts by Māo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Gordon Walters and our changing taste for abstraction
A new, sumptuous Auckland University Press book Gordon Walters reveals the diversity of the painter’s exploration of form beyond the koru, and the re…
2 years, 8 months ago
91-year-old indigenous Canadian filmmaker reflects on career
After a career spanning almost six decades, Alanis Obomsawin is still busy working on her 56th and 57th film aged 91.
2 years, 8 months ago
Regional Wrap: Waikato turns pink for Cherry Blossom festival
Every week on Culture 101 we check the pulse of a different area of Aotearoa. This week it's Waikato.
2 years, 8 months ago