The Arts on Sunday
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The Parkin Drawing Prize
Dr Warren Feeney from the Academy of Fine Arts and artist Kristen Hollis discuss the significance of The Prize.
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Kate Camp - Poet
Kate discusses her collection "Snow White's Coffin" written during a year long CNZ residency in Berlin.
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Some Time
The Corban Estate Arts Centre in Henderson is home to a new work by artist Gabby O'Connor that re-creates the Ross Ice Shelf. Called Some Time, this large-scale sculpture depicts the ice shelf at the point of collapse and is made from tissue paper and staples. Justin Gregory dropped in for a look-see.
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Auckland Festival of Photography
Justin Gregory wonders if photography is currently the most important art form of them all, as he looks ahead to the Auckland Festival of Photography.
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Actor and playwright Kirk Torrance
Star of Outrageous Fortune and Sione's 2 fame talks about his other career as a playwright, working on his new play GrandFatherSon and about the parallels between sport and art.
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Arts News
Curent trends in the arts world.
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Revolting! The Sound of protest in Aotearoa
A new exhibition at National Library is looking at New Zealand protest music, posters and album covers over the years. Punk aficionado Kerry Ann Lee and singer/songwriter and unionist Don Franks talk about the exhibition opening at National Library.
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Former Chef Tza Drake
Tza Drake channels his 15 years spent in restaurant kitchens into a murder mystery called My Kitchen Kills.
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Two Girls in a Boat
'Two Girls in a Boat' is the first collection of stories by Commonwealth Short Story Award winner Emma Martin.
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Music Managers - Andy Murnane
Andy Murnane started out in the music industry working with the chart topping OMC of 'How Bizarre' fame. The Frequency Media Group now manage a successful record label and acts including Aaradhna and Home Brew.
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Dance in Schools
Barbara Snook shares the results of her research into the way dance is taught in schools, what's working well and how it could be improved.
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Novelist Sarah Dunant
In her new novel Blood and Beauty, British novelist Sarah Dunant takes on one of the most powerful families in history, Italy's Borgias. How can she make us care about the most famous and ruthless of them all, Pope Alexander the 6th? And is her novel more accurate than the TV series about the Borgias?
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Venice Biennale
It costs around a million dollars for New Zealand to take part in the Venice Biennale, and while it can open up opportunities for the selected artists, we ask Deputy Commissioner Heather Galbraith - what's in it for us?
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Filmmakers Alyx Duncan and Annie Goldsen
In an era of dramatised documentaries and "based on real life" dramas, filmmakers Alyx Duncan and Annie Goldson discuss the pressures of getting it right. The Red House features Alyx Duncan's non-acting parents playing themselves in a drama presented as a documentary.
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Academic, writer and arts patron Dr Kay Flavell
Dr Kay Flavell set up an artists' residency in the Wairarapa more than 10 years ago, and she hopes Kiwis will keep the New Pacific Studio going now she's returning to America.
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Lorna Stavley Anker
Bernadette Hall reminds us of the work of New Zealand's first female war poet, Lorna Stavely Anker, by bringing together published and previously unseen works in The Judas Tree. It's published by Canterbury University Press.
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Poet Fleur Adcock - Glass Wings
Expat poet Fleur Adcock on her new collection Glass Wings, published by Victoria University Press.
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Rainer Hersch - Victor Borge
One for Victor Borge fans - we talk to Rainer Hersch who's created a show around the great Dane's comedy, life and times, which saw him become the most highly paid entertainer in his day.
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The Laugh Track
American comedian, actor, host, and travel writer Tom Rhodes, who's in New Zealand for the Comedy Festival.
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The Auckland Triennial
With more than thirty artists and art collectives, across nine different galleries spanning the length and breadth of Auckland, led by superstar curator Hou Hanru and lasting for three months, the Fifth Auckland Triennial is nothing if not expansive and ambitious. Linda Tyler from the Gus Fisher Gallery at Auckland University has seen all the previous Triennials come and go. Arts on Sunday reporter Justin Gregory asks her how this one stacks up.
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Smokefree Rock Quest turns 25
We mark the 25th anniversary of the Smokefree Rock Quest. The roll call of student musicians who've gone on to truly great things includes Kimbra, King Kapisi, Bic Runga and, one of our guests today, Bobby Kennedy from Opshop. We also chat to one of the event's founders Pete Rainey and Stephanie Lees from the New Zealand Music Commission.
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Costume designer Michele Clapton
Michele Clapton, one time fashion designer and musician stylist, has gone on to win Baftas and Emmy nominations for her costumes designs for the TV series Game of Thrones. She's currently in New Zealand so we take the chance to find out more about her creative designs for these and other top TV series.
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Object / Anti-Object
Artist Paul Cullen is hosting visitors to two meteoric art installations inspired by his time in Alabama. Object / Anti-Object is based on scientific speculation about a meteor crater in the USA.
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Artist Tanya Lock
Expat Kiwi artist Tanya Lock who's dominating the BBC Wildlife Artists Award nominations this year with 7 of her paintings of common and endangered species being selected by judges.
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Author Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Stevan Eldred-Grigg wrote one of New Zealand's most successful novels, 'Oracles and Miracles', drawing on his interest in social and family history. He's just released the fourth book in the series, Bangs, set in suburban Christchurch in the 1960s and '70s.
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NZ Barok
What's behind the rebranding of an Auckland based baroque group as NZ Barok, the country's first and only national Baroque Orchestra?
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Music Manager of the Year nominee Teresa Patterson
Teresa Patterson is nominated for Music Manager of the Year. Her stable of acts includes Six60, I Am Giant and Iva Lamkum. She talks about the need for a strong online presence for bands and how CDs are still crucial.
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Satire in New Zealand
New Zealand has a proud tradition of satire and parody, and people in power have always been popular targets. We all remember fondly the Golden Years of McPhail and Gadsby, Fred Dagg and the many Country Calendar spoofs. On Radio New Zealand National, Down The List, has proven to be very popular. But the law that allows satire and parody to do their work is a little fuzzy, if not nonexistent.
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Art policy in Tauranga
Tauranga is now the only main centre that doesn't have a formal art policy. But isn't less bureaucracy and paperwork a good thing for artists? We hear the arguments for the local council to bring in an art policy, and sooner rather than later. Sonya Korohina is an arts manager and Penelope Jackson heads Tauranga's Public Art Gallery.
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Dick Frizzell's Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke
Dick Frizzell's landmark Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke painting comes up for sale - why is it still seen as one of this country's most significant images?
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The Paradise Project
Whanganui artist Sue Cooke is going to great lengths to recreate the experience of being in an Antarctic hut. She's installed a replica hut with wrap around visuals at Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery, trying to replicate what she experienced in Antarctica.
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Walking with a Fragile Heart
Two young refugees Noella Ishimwe Niyonzima and Giselle Promise Iradukunda whose stories are included in a new book of fiction written from the perspective of recent migrants. It's called Walking with a Fragile Heart.
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Temporary outdoor library
Think of Auckland's Waterfront and books aren't the first things that spring to mind. But a little shipping container on Te Wero Island has been turned into a temporary outdoor library, and passersby are pouring in and then poring over the tomes. Books still seem like an odd fit, though, in an area more associated with bars, restaurants and rugby world cup launches. Justin Gregory talks to project manager Marieke Numan and asks her why books, why here?
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Frost/Nixon
New Zealand premiere of the original play re-enacting one of the great moments in journalism: the David Frost interview of former US president Richard Nixon. Meet the actors from a new Auckland Theatre company taking on these titanic roles in Frost/Nixon. Karl Buckley plays Frost and Stephen Lunt takes on Nixon.
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Return To Sender
Postcards of beautiful dusky maidens helped fuel the tourist trades for the Pacific Islands, but they also cemented these kinds of colonial perspectives in the public imagination for a very long time. Curator Cora Allen-Wickliffe used a collection of these postcards to provoke a response from 9 Auckland-based Pacific artists.
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Music Manager - Scott Maclachlan
Scott is one of the finalists in the Music Managers Forum NZ Music Manager of the Year, for his work with artists like Mt Eden, Chaos in the CBD and Lorde.
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Land Girls
Dunedin artist Jai Hall's new work commemorates the women who worked as Land Girls during World War Two.
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David McLeod : jeweller
David McLeod started out in sculpture then started working on pieces that were much smaller and more intricate.
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Elizabeth Nannestad : poet
She's kept us waiting at least a decade between poetry collections, so what can we expect from her third one, Wild Like Me?
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Apocalypse Z
If Zombies attacked your town, what would you do? That's the question behind Apocalypse Z, a new immersive, interactive theatre experience in Auckland's Aotea Square.
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Ty King-Wall : ballet dancer
Ty King-Wall becomes the Australian Ballet Company's youngest Principal Artist at 26. He explains why he moved to Australia to train and why he'd like to play the bad guy in some of the classic ballets.
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Antoinette Halloran : soprano
Antoinette Halloran on helping to create a new interpretation of Madame Butterfly for New Zealand Opera, and on being just as happy singing cabaret and musical theatre.
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Samin Son : artist
Samin Son bases his art on his experiences in the South Korean army.
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Alison Maclean : director for the big and small screen
We follow Alison Maclean's career path from the landmark short film Kitchen Sink to directing episodes of Sex in the City and The Tudors.
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David Mamea : Samoan/Kiwi playwright
David Mamea has just won an Adam New Zealand Playwriting Award for Goodbye My Feleni, imagining what life might have been like for Pasifika soldiers sent to serve with the Maori Batallion.
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Canadian poet Karen Solie
Karen Solie writes a lot about the land, about her connection to it and the threats to rural landscapes from developers and mining industries. Since publishing her first collection 'Short Haul Engine' in 2001, Karen's won a stack of awards and represented Canada at the 'poetry Olympics' in London last year.
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British writer Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson talks about her new novel, 'Life After Life', about the TV series based on her detective Jackson Brodie, and how she manages to knit together such complicated multiple plots.
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Actor and PR specialist Brianne Kerr
Actor and theatrical PR specialist Brianne Kerr talks about helping companies attract attention and dealing with media who demand special treatment.
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Golden Carnie Circus Awards
New Zealand's circus performers are looking forward to their first awards ceremony. Clown, founder of Wellington's Fuse Circus and awards organiser Tom Beauchamp talks about the local circus scene and how people on the fringes of society are still drawn to the circus life.
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Adam NZ Play Award winner Philip Braithwaite
Meet the winner of this year's Adam NZ Play Award Philip Braithwaite and find out about the chances of his script making it onto the stage.
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An update on the Christchurch Art Gallery
It's two years since the quake and the reopening of the Christchurch Art Gallery has been pushed back to another two years as the list of repairs keeps growing. Even without the gallery, there will be a 10th birthday party next month, as Jenny Harper explains.
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Performance's director Yaron Zilberman
Performance's director Yaron Zilberman talks to Simon Morris.
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Fire at Maidment Theatre
The fire at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland saw a number of theatre companies plans go up in smoke. Two shows due to open that week had to be cancelled and a third, Midnight in Moscow by the Auckland Theatre Company, has been forced to look for another venue. With the theatre out of action for now, other shows including more Auckland Theatre Company productions, may be affected. But ATC's Artistic Director Colin McColl told arts reporter Justin Gregory that they have a plan.
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Writer and researcher : Sydney Kaplan
Sydney Kaplan has a lot more sympathy than most for Katherine Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murray.
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Writer : Carl Shuker
Our featured writer is recently returned expat Carl Shuker, whose latest novel is set in the Middle East during the Arab Spring. As part of his research he spent time there.
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Monet's gardens
Curator Sophie Matthiesson from the National Gallery of Victoria discusses an exhibition of Monet's garden paintings, coming to Australasia for the first time.
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Photographer : Fraser Munro
Fraser Munro had just released a new book of photographs called graf/AK, dedicated to the graffiti artists of Auckland. For three years Fraser trekked across the city by day and by night to capture the illegal and temporary works of these underground artists.
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The voice of the Daleks
We discover what it takes to be the voice of the Daleks and Cybermen with Nicholas Briggs. He's heading to New Zealand in the Tardis with several previous Dr Who's to make the series' 50th anniversary.
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Te Papa's art collection
We find out how Te Papa plans to deliver on its commitment to show off more of the nation's extensive art collection. CEO Mike Houlihan is leading the charge.
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Dr Richard Grant
We introduce you to the new head of Creative New Zealand - former diplomat Dr Richard Grant. He's only been on the board since last year, so what are his plans for the funding body as its Chair?
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Other Animals
First time published poet Therese Lloyd talks about her collection, 'Other Animals', which is published by VUP.
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A Mann for all seasons
Lynn Freeman talks to director, actor, playwright and novelist Phillip Mann about his long held love of reading and writing science fiction, with the publication of his latest novel, 'The Disestablishment of Paradise'.
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Art Lift
Temporary art installations are fun to explore when they're on site, but the really hard work is getting the works in... and out. Justin Gregory meets Terry Haines, otherwise known as Art Lift.
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Te Whai Ao
New Zealand On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission are offering documentary makers a slice of a new pie of funding, but will the criteria be too much for some? Bryan Bruce, documentary maker, and Dan Shanon from the New Zealand Documentaries Trust share their opinions.
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Taranaki's Photographic Memory
New Plymouth's Puke Ariki staff are six years into a decade long project to clean, catalogue and digitise more than 100,000 historical negatives from two substantial photographic studios. Some of the images are about to go on display in an exhibition that's bound to stir emotions. Ruth Harvey, the co-curator, talks about this all-consuming project.
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Boosted
Arts projects from an ANZAC opera to a contemporary Maori Quartet to a video game to a documentary about grass roots rugby are among the first to be picked for a new fundraising site. Boosted is the brainchild of the Arts Foundation which prides itself on picking winners. We'll hear the pitches of some of the selected few invited to launch the site during the week.
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Author Tanya Moir
In her new novel 'Anticipation' Tanya Moir asks why so many of us are obsessed with genealogy. Published by Vintage.
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Performance poet Ali Jacs
New Zealand's representative at the recent Women of the World Poetry Slam in the United States... in fact Ali Jacs was the only 'foreigner' taking part in this performance poetry event. She shares her impression of the Poetry Slam scene in North America and compares it to the much younger scene here in New Zealand.
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The Rosebank Project
Justin Gregory checks out The Rosebank Project, a site specific work created for the Auckland Arts Festival.
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Writer Margie Thomson
Journalist, book reviewer and ghostwriter Margie Thomson has now put her hand to writing novels - and won a new literary prize for her first manuscript. The Masters of Creative Writing graduate produced a sizable manuscript for a novel called The Rough Wind. While the $5,000 dollar Sir James Wallace Masters in Creative Writing Award doesn't guarantee publication, it will mean she can work on refining the novel.
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Mannequins
A story that will get you looking at mannequins in a whole new light. One of the main producers of high-end mannequins for the past 75 years, Purfex, has closed down its Avondale factory and moving to new digs. It's as good a reason as any to mark mannequins' contribution to fashion and art - and in Auckland over the next few weeks there will be, fittingly, window displays as well as a photographic exhibition at Lopdell Gallery. We chat to mannequin maker Glen Wilkin Holland and Doris de...
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Polynesian Laboratory
We meet the creatives behind a new hothouse for Pacifica theatre - Polynesian Laboratory or P Lab - just what are founders Shadon Meredith and Fasitua Amosa cooking up?
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A study of audience responses to The Hobbit
Waikato University is a stone's throw from Hobbiton, making it the natural home of an international online research project into what people really think about the first of Sir Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies. Dr Carolyn Michelle explains the three phase project and what it's uncovered so far.
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Whales Tohora
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are expected to visit a touring exhibition about whales from Te Papa. The exhibition tour was only supposed to last for five years but is proving so popular in North America that the collection of whale skeletons, skulls and other artefacts might not make it back home until 2016 at the earliest. The latest stop is the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Gary Schofield
Gary Schofield has been painting for the US military for the past 20 years.
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Coffee with Mr Bach
James Tibbles' 'Coffee with Mr Bach' is on next Sunday at Auckland Town Hall's Concert Chamber as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.
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The Yellow Buoy
C K Stead has published his 15th poetry collection, and the first in five years.
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The Man Who Planted Trees
Richard Medrington's show 'The Man Who Planted Trees' will be performed in Wellington as part of the Capital E National Arts Festival for Children.
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Dominion Road
It's been called the street of a thousand stories, and next weekend Auckland's Dominion Road gets to tell some.
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Behind the Brush
After a lot of detective work, Maori TV tracked down the descendants of some of the many Maori who were painted in great detail but with some artistic license, by artist Gottfried Lindauer who started painting portraits of Maori in the 1870's.
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Scott Eady
Dunedin sculptor and lecturer Scott Eady is cutting it fine to make a series of sculptures for the Venice Biennale - he's only just got the news and it starts in June!
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Steven O'Meagher
Producer Steven O'Meagher talks about what a star like Sam Neill brings to a TV cop show.
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Remembering Ralph Hotere
We remember artist Ralph Hotere who now rests in his home marae in Northland, through the memories of one of his long time friends and artists Chris Booth.
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Tongan Morris Men
A new play by Auckland theatre group the Tongan Creatives Collective is causing a stir €" before it has even opened. Justin Gregory reports on the wonderfully unlikely idea of Tongan Morris Men.
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Poet John Newton
John Newton's latest collection is called 'Family Songbook', published by VUP.
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German-based New Zealand choreographer Lisa Densen
Lisa Densem, who is home at the moment creating a new work for the Footnote Dance Company. We find out what she's exploring in this new dance and get an update on the Berlin art scene, it's now home to many Kiwi artists.
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CEO of UK publishing house Little, Brown Ursula Mackenzie
Writers with the international pulling power of JK Rowling are few and far between, so UK publishing house Little, Brown had a lot to celebrate last year when it took over her contract. Helming the firm and the UK Publishing Association is Ursula Mackenzie, who's been named as one of the Top 100 Women in Britain. BBC's Woman's Hour have just compiled a list of the Top 100 Women in Britain which she features on.
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World Art Games
Meet two members of the New Zealand team who're in intense preparation for the first World Art Games where artists from more than 50 countries are competing for attention rather than medals. Two members of the New Zealand team, Carrie Burke and Jules Hunt, explain how it's going to work at this inaugural event in Croatia in June.
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Actor Jed Brophy at the Armageddon Expo
More than 10 years on the pulp culture festival circuit with long time Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit actor, Jed Brophy. How does he deal with fervent fans €" that's if they recognise him from The Hobbit where he's in heavy prosthetics as Nori the dwarf! Get an insight into how conventions work and how Kiwis make them a lot more interesting than just signing autographs.
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New Zealand Orchestral Sector Review
After months of speculation, the results of the much anticipated New Zealand Orchestral Sector Review is now out... there were some 1800 submissions, so what's changing? Many say, not nearly enough, and that includes funding for them. The Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Chris Finlayson and Dame Roseanne Meo from the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the first in the country to be given the title of Metropolitan Orchestra.
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Touring Australia
Australia is about to be invaded by touring New Zealand shows, handpicked by an Australian, Ian Scobie. It's a pilot programme that's got our artists hopes up, though there are no guarantees they'll find a producer willing to take them on. What did it take to make Ian's shortlist for the Touring Australia initiative? Taki Rua knows - the Maori theatre company won two of the eight slots.
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Basement Theatre renovation
Justin Gregory reports on the high hopes for the Basement Theatre€™s renovation plans.
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Otago University€™s 2013 Burns Fellow
Poet David Howard looks ahead to his year of uninterrupted writing.
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King Lear
For the 50 anniversary Auckland Outdoor Summer Shakespeare production of King Lear we bring together the star, Professor Michael Neill, and director, Lisa Harrow. They both have strong opinions €" which aren€™t always aligned.
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Community involvement in performances
Getting communities involved in helping to create performances they will actually want to see, be it sharing their stories or crowdfunding. This is just one of the issues discussed among artists and with the public at a performance art forum in Wellington. We hear from the two facilitators, expat Ryan Hartigan, and US theatre practitioner Christopher McElroen.
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Photography conservation
One of the world€™s top photography conservationists, Debra Norris, on the fishhooks in digital photography, and working with disaster victims trying to save their damaged photos.
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Asian video art
While forging closer economic ties with Asia, we know precious little about the art scene in this wildly diverse region. Curators Mark Williams and Aaron Lister have created an exhibition of Asian videos. They talk about some of the more outlandish artists and the ideas behind their pranks.
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How to survive losing a major sponsor
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust has managed to survive for five years, Bill Gosden explains how they€™ve managed to keep going, and gives tips to others who find themselves in the same situation.
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Made to Move
The link between the late Radio New Zealand film critic Jonathon Denis, and a brand new work created for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company by choreographer Javier de Frutos. It€™s part of the Made to Move Season that€™s about to premiere.
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How has the worldwide recession affected public art?
A conversation about the impact of the worldwide recession on public art - there's less money to invest in it, but is the slowdown giving artists something to comment on? We hear from Jack Becker, an American champion of public art, and from Martin Basher who's a kiwi artist now based in New York.
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The Chain
James Robb's first novel 'The Chain' is about life in the meat works in Hawkes Bay back in the 1980s.
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Life Models
Justin Gregory talks to male life models about anonymity, holding a pose, getting their gear off and the perils of sleeping on the job.
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Pascal Ackerman
Swiss-Kiwi performance artist Pascal Ackerman, whose skills include playing saws, clowning, aerial work and violin making, explains what it's like to eat and breathe fire, ahead of his touring solo show 'The Lepidopterist'.
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New Katherine Mansfield discovery
The recent revelation that a new pieces of writing by Katherine Mansfield has been unearthed in New Zealand has got scholars in a spin - we talk to the woman who found the invaluable document at the National Library, Dr Gerri Kimber.
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125th anniversary of Auckland Art Gallery
Curator and provocateur Ron Brownson muses on the Auckland Art Gallery's history and contribution to the nation as it marks its 125th anniversary.
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Demise of the NZ TV Awards
We analyse what the demise of the NZ TV Awards will mean for the industry, especially with so many new homegrown shows on our screens at the moment and more to come. Jeff Latch from TVNZ explains why its pulled out and why it hopes the awards can be resurrected, while award winning writer James Griffin and producer Philly de Lacey, discuss the significance of getting a nod from their peers.
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African art in Whanganui
Desmond Bovey takes Paul Diamond on a tour of his extensive collection of African art, which is on show at Whanganui€™s Regional Museum.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Visiting Professor John Batchelor presents poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in a new light €" as a shrewd businessman and ingenious self-brander in his biography called Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find which is published by Random. John Batchelor is giving a talk about Tennyson at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery this Tuesday.
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Writer Donna Malane
Writer for screen and page Donna Malane on writing crime fiction, tackling the troublesome second novel, and her latest on-screen project, a drama about conscientious objector Archibald Baxter.
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Silo Park Summer of Sculpture
Auckland€™s Summer of Sculpture exhibition at Silo Park in the Wynyard Quarter is designed as a celebration of the best work of the city€™s best sculptors, the show gives old favourites a new home on the waterfront. Justin Gregory got in the way last week as the artists installed their works.
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Judy Darragh
Judy Darragh€™s art is sought after by many collectors €" at the same time she€™s an avid collector herself. She talks about how she got started, what kind of art objects catch her eye and what makes a sound investment.
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The Cuba Street Project
Fiona Gunter-Firth escorts us around Wellington€™s creative hub, Cuba Street, as part of a multi media art installation she€™s created about its past, present and future. The Cuba Street Project opens on Friday February 15 on the street itself and online as part of the Wellington Fringe Festival.
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Hamilton's council-owned theatre spaces
Hamiltonians are being asked if they want to keep subsidising three council owned theatre spaces. Hamilton Mayor Julie Hardaker explains the reasons behind the move and the implications for local theatre companies if any of the venues are closed down.
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The Physics Room reopens
A welcome return to Christchurch€™s CBD €" the contemporary art space The Physics Room reopens two years after the big shake. Director Melanie Oliver describes what€™s changed and what€™s stayed the same. The Physics Room reopens this Wednesday with Louise Menzies€™ exhibition 'World, Business, Lifestyle, Sport'.
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The New Zealand Guitar Quartet
We bring together three members of the New Zealand Guitar Quartet, which is among the homegrown acts performing at the Nelson Chamber Music Festival, to talk about chemistry, repertoire and why sometimes one guitar just isn't enough.
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The music of the Cook Islands
Amelia Nurse discovers that Cook Islands music is alive and well in New Zealand. Fairoa Aporo offers 'The beginners guide to€' and plays some tunes on his eight stringed ukulele.
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Actor, Presenter and writer Robert Llewellyn
He's the fastidious mechanoid Kryten to his fans, but there's much more to him than a chisled rubber face with a predilection for housework. Robert Llewellyn is coming to New Zealand for a Red Dwarf Convention in Auckland.
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Auckland arts advocates The Creative Coalition
Good arts policy should come out of accurate information and strong data. Who better to provide that than the sector itself? Auckland arts advocates the Creative Coalition have mapped what they call the creative ecology of our biggest city so as to inform central and local government's arts and culture planning. Elise Sterback led the project and tells Justin Gregory just what a "creative ecology" is.
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Amanimal - choreographer Malia Johnston
Lateral-thinking artists like choreographer Malia Johnston and theatre director Emma Willis are at the forefront of dismantling the old 'dyed in the wool' definitions of dance and drama. They're about to stage their third collaborative work, Amanimal, and Malia joins Lynn to talk about that show and how she fits everything into an incredibly busy schedule.
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Actress Antonia Prebble
Antonia was just 12 when she started her professional acting career in 1997. She managed both study and filming while still at school and has been in demand on stage and screen ever since. Best-known for her portrayal of Loretta West in the long running TV series 'Outrageous Fortune', she's now back in a very different role in a murder-mystery-comedy called 'The Blue Rose'.
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Film Reviews with Dan Slevin
Once again Dan Slevin takes centre-screen while Simon Morris enjoys the golden summer, Dan looks at new releases including Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty and The Impossible.
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Performance artist Dr Mark Harvey
Dr Mark Harvey is heading to the 55th Biennale in Venice later this year where he's been invited to perform in the first Maldives pavilion at the arts extravaganza. Mark's a senior lecturer in Dance at the University of Auckland and explains how he came to be invited by the Maldives.
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Christchurch-based photographer and music teacher David...
David Sutton talks about taking his precious 100 year old camera to Antarctica. The results of his trip will feature in the celebration of Scott's departure for the South Pole 100 years ago this month.
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Award-winning young composer Sarah Ballard
The world premiere of her work which offers the timpani player a rare starring role.
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What does the handwriting on old manuscripts tell us
A visiting expert in palaeography, Heather Wolfe, reveals all. She's here for the Rare Book Summer School at Otago University.
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Susy Pointon
Susy talks about her collection of stories based in the Hokianga, why she loves the area, and about how locals keep dropping by with ideas for her.
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Slow motion art film specialist Steve Carr
Ten years ago Steve Carr was the first artist invited to exhibit at the then brand new Michael Lett gallery in Auckland.
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Youth Theatre
Aaron Cortesi (left) heads one of the country's main youth theatre companies, Long White Cloud, which is part of Whitirea New Zealand. But what are the prospects for these keen young things in a small and competitive market?
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Nigel Gaynor - the new Musical Director for the Royal NZ...
A master multi-tasker, Nigel Gaynor has to keep one eye on the dancers and the other on his musicians.
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Headland - Sculpture on the Gulf
Waiheke Island€™s headland Sculpture on the Gulf outdoor exhibition is now ten years old. And they€™re celebrating by turning the whole thing upside down and putting the beginning where the end used to be. Justin Gregory talks reversal and reinvention with artistic director Nansi Thompson.
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Plans for a temporary Lyttelton public square
Christchurch City Council is putting up $70,000 for artists and others with big ideas for the heritage site. Trent Hiles from the Harbour Arts Collective explains why that money wouldn't be better spent on repairing houses and other infrastructure.
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In Isolation
Furniture designer Katy Wallace and her partner, visual artist Paulus McKinnon, moved from the hectic commercial art scene in Auckland to settle in Gisborne. Sonia Sly finds out if they're living the artist's dream.
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Writer Jack Perkins
When he's not producing Spectrum documentaries for Radio New Zealand, Jack Perkins is writing poetry. Contact Jack via email on jperkins@paradise.net.nz for copies of his book, Out of Time.
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Knock Out Studio
In an inner city Wellington studio a young woman brings her memories of childhood to life through anime art. Her work is definitively Manga €" elfish female warrior characters with huge eyes, athletic limbs and tiny waists. Graphic artist Nani Mahal isn't Japanese, but her work looks as authentic as anything one would pick up at a Japanese Train station. Sonia Sly meets Nani and her team at Knock Out Studios in Wellington.
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National Flash Fiction Day
Hear the three top entries from the inaugural National Flash Fiction Day - stories told in just 300 words.
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A proposed new TV mini series about Joan of Arc
A proposed new TV mini series about Joan of Arc from Richard Taylor's and Martin Baynton's company Pukeko Pictures.
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Quake City
An exhibition of damaged Christchurch icons is expected to draw in some 70,000 people a year when it opens in February at the Restart Mall on Cashel Street. Lynn talked to director Antony Wright.
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BATS Theatre
Join us on a walk and talk through Wellington's historic and much loved BATS theatre, which is about to undergo a lengthy multi-million dollar facelift.
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Cardboard artist Richard Maloy
Australia is hosting Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art region right now. New Zealand cardboard artist Richard Maloy is just back from the opening where he is one of the four main stars of the show.
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Chapter & Verse
Jo Randerson brings us Tales from the Netherworld€ and a name to remember, Kerry Donovan-Brown, who's won the 2012 Adam foundation Prize for Creative Writing.
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The Harmonica Guy
Christchurch-based musician David Thorpe (below) often tours as a multi-instrumentalist and one man band, but his greatest love affair has been with the humble harmonica.
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Street photographer Gabrielle McKone
Gabrielle McKone (right) has recorded what she's seen on her wanderings every day since August 2007 and put some of her favourites into a book she's called Catch My Eye.
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2013 Auckland Triennial
Hou Hanru, the San Francisco-based curator of the 2013 Auckland Triennial is so impressed with some of our artists that he's going to share them with the world.
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Dawn Sanders dedication to Shakespeare
One of Shakespeare's greatest champions here in New Zealand, Dawn Sanders, is honoured for her dedication to the Bard and his plays.
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Online sites devoted to critiquing the arts lose their...
Creative New Zealand explains why two well respected online sites devoted to critiquing the arts - theatreview and EyeContact have both lost their funding, while theatreview's founder John Smythe explains what's at stake.
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Gene Ballet Competition
David McAllistair (right), the head judge of the Gene Ballet Competition which has been held for the first time in New Zealand.
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Photographer Greg Semu
The Asia Pacific Triennial in Queensland is one of the largest visual arts events in the region. It opened yesterday, and among the New Zealanders whose work can be seen there is photographer Greg Semu. His large-scale images often reimagine famous artworks, like Leonardo's Last Supper. Greg set his version in Polynesia, called it Last Cannibal Supper, and took it to the Triennial.
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Chapter & Verse
Rosemary Wildblood's novel Joybird and this hill, all it's about is lifting it to a higher level by Vaughan Gunson.
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Chapter & Verse
Rosemary Wildblood's novel Joybird
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Otago University's Hocken Library
Otago University's Hocken Library is already starting to outgrow the new site it moved to a few years ago. It's home to many thousands of historic, literary and artistic treasures, and the collection continues to grow through gifted items and auction purchases. Natalie Poland is the the Curator of Pictorial Collections.
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Boheme Gallery
Bronze sculptor Megan Ransom considers herself an outsider and insists on doing things her own way, so she's set up an art gallery in the seaside suburb of Island Bay. She aims to promote New Zealand fine artists, make art accessible and affordable, and nurture up and coming talent in an environment which is fast being over-run with mass produced art from the overseas market.
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Award-winning designer, Peter Haythorn-Thwaite
In a career spanning four decades, Peter Haythorn-Thwaite has produced successful and award winning designs and taught new generations of Kiwi designers. His design for a light operated mouse and keyboard to help people with disabilities to use computers using light sensor technology, won an international award.
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The rise of the comic book
The graphic novel is one of the phenomena of modern publishing. In America the field is dominated by superheroes and pulp fiction. In Europe is rather different. So where does New Zealand fit into the mix? Veteran comic-book writer and illustrator Dylan Horrocks has just returned from Europe where he attended the Frankfurt Book Fair and a comics convention in Italy. He says we're going through a Golden Age of New Zealand comics...
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The Moas
Ant Timpson was one of the organisers of the Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards.
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Whanganui's historic art gallery the Sarjeant
A fundraising appeal's been launched targeting people who love the gallery. Mayor Annette Main talks about what work needs to be done on the hundred year old gallery.
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Merry Isaac
Bay of Islands figurative painter and pioneering animation filmmaker, Merry Isaac, talks about her 50 years of artmaking.
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Poet Reihana Robinson
Reihana Robinson and her poetic love affair with Rona, the woman banished to the moon in Maori mythology.
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200 years of New Zealand Literature
Jane Stafford and Mark Williams have produced an anthology covering more than 200 years of New Zealand Literature. We look at who's in and who's out and the response so far to the publication which has taken three years to edit.
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UpStage Festival
This week UpStage launches a festival of online live performances which can be viewed in real time by anyone around the world. This style of performance known as 'cyberformance' is a medium with endless creative possibilities for performers who come from a range of artistic practices. Sonia Sly talked to festival curator Vicki Smith.
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Blue Oyster Gallery
A tour of Dunedin's experimental subterranean Blue Oyster Gallery which is searching for new digs. Director Jamie Hanton is our tour guide.
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British pianist Freddy Kempf
Freddy Kempf joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to take on Gershwin, a notoriously tricky composer.
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Street theatre
Street theatre advocate Sally Barnett on her efforts to get bigger audiences by encouraging performers out of venues and onto the streets. It's accessible and free but who picks up the tab?
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Toa Fraser
The writer of Bare and Number 2 branches out into ballet. Toa Fraser talks about his documentary on the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company production of Giselle, and about his hopes for making another feature film before too long.
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Toitu Otago Settlers Museum
On the eve of the reopening of the transformed Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, we talk to the director Linda Wigley about the $37 million price tag, what it's bought, and the public's expectations.
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Creative Mornings
Held in Auckland once a month, Creative Mornings provide the opportunity for an audience to watch presentations given by those involved in the Creative Industries; from street art to film, digital fx to web development. Sonia Sly speaks to Co-ordinator Jade Tang about the origins of Creative Mornings in the States and the benefit for New Zealand talent to be placed in a context alongside innovative and creative international talent.
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Novelist David McGill
Novelist David McGill (below) joins us live from the launch of his latest work, The Promised Land.
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Sculptor Terry Stringer
David Steemson joins sculptor Terry Stringer as he works on one of his most ambitious projects yet.
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Big band leader and trombone player Rodger Fox
Rodger Fox puts his case for government money to set up a national big band, along the lines of a tried and tested model.
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Why Are You Still Here?
Two young movers and shakers in the arts scene, songwriter Anthonie Tonnon who's with Tono and the Finance company and clothing designer Emily Miller-Sharma, explain what keeps them in New Zealand, for now at least, when so many other creatives are seeking fame and fortune overseas. This is ahead of a public forum they're involved in called Why Are You Still Here?
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Los Angeles lawyer Mark Litwak
What movie studios are in the market for these days and how the movie making scene has changed, from the move away from film to illegal downloading.
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The Basement theatre
Ambitious profit-share and renovation plans for one of Auckland's smaller theatres, The Basement, are explained by General Manager Charlie McDermott and Venue Manager Sam Snedden.
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The 100th issue of New Zealand Books
Why its editors, Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway, believe it's still important even with all the on line reviews being written these days. New Zealand Books
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Creative Media Collective
Creative Media Collective is the brain child of Auckland film maker Karl Sheridan, who wanted a way to collaborate with artists from different mediums. The collective thus far hosts about 30 artists from New Zealand to Russia and even Norway, and not only does it run its own online radio station but it also has a physical, self-funded space - Monster Valley Studio on Auckland's Dominion Road, which is open to the public as an art gallery. Sonia Sly talks to Karl and collaborator Robin Gee.
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Dried Figs
Octogenarian poet Helen Jacobs whose sixth collection, Dried Figs, reflects on the frustrations and plusses of aging.
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The Waihi gold strike of 1912
Historian Mark Derby and documentary painter Bob Kerr collaborate to remember the 1912 Waihi miners' strike in words and images in a book called Waiheathens.
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Zeal
Peter Allely, the young man entrusted with setting up a new youth arts and gig centre in Hamilton for the Zeal project.
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The New Zealand Fashion industry
Paul Blomfield from Fashion Industry New Zealand (FINZ) offers an overview of the industry, as another established label bites the dust.
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Craig Parker
Lord of the Rings and Spartacus star Craig Parker talks about fantasy, nudity and fox-fur.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Why are so many Kiwi artists, like singer songwriter Don McGlashan and Maori performer Mika, so hot under the collar about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?
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Fantasy doll maker Tanya Marriott
Doll makers are trying to find a new word to describe what they do which can be a million miles away from miniature perfect people. We find out more with fantasy doll maker - or should that be figurative artist? - Tanya Marriott.
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Chapter & Verse
Poet Ashleigh Young whose collection is called Magnificent Moon... and novelist John Sinclair who sets his story about a violin prodigy in 20th century China in The Phoenix Song. Both are Victoria University Press publications.
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South African theatre company Isango
The Isango Ensemble has captured world attention for giving western theatre classics an African twist. But while they are in demand at festivals and concert halls around the world, they're struggling to get an audience at home or any government funding. Frank Kronenberg explains why they'd love to come to New Zealand.
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Giselle review
Ann Hunt reviews the Royal New Zealand Ballet's new-look Giselle, which is touring the country.
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Artist Fatu Feu'u
A conversation with one of this country's most influential early Pacific Island Painters, Fatu Feu'u, who came to New Zealand from Samoa in the 1960s. He was taken under the wing of artists like Tony Fomison who helped him forge his career as a paint, sculptor and medallion maker. Fatu has told his life story to his friend Shona Jennings for a new book published by Little Island.
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More public art in Christchurch
It's a monumental weekend in Christchurch with the unveiling of Joanna Langford's giant airborne city sculpture and the start of the Art Beat Initiative of live performances at the popular Restart Mall in the CBD. We hear all about it from Deborah McCormick and Lucy Matthews.
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The renovated National Library
A behind the scenes tour of the renovated National Library - a previously leaky home to New Zealand's precious documents. Taxpayers have put in around 65-million dollars for the refit… what do we get for our investment. Lynn gets a guided tour of the refurbished 1980s building ahead of its grand reopening, with National Librarian Bill McNaught.
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Into The Uncanny Valley
Shaun D Wilson continues his quest to find out what it takes to get Into The Uncanny Valley onto the stage,as the new high-tech play tries to communicate the story of physics to the theatre-going public.
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Fran Maguire : potter and sculptor
Blenheim based potter and sculptor Fran Maguire has just won a merit award in the country's top ceramics competition.
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Review : Tigers of Wrath
Uther Dean reviews Dean Parker's latest play, Tigers of Wrath.
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Prima Ballerina : Gillian Murphy
American prima ballerina Gillian Murphy returns to the Royal New Zealand Ballet to dance her first time as Giselle, she chats to Lynn about, among other things, how demands on ballet dancers are changing.
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The Actors Program
The actors behind the country's newest drama school, Auckland based The Actors Program, say they know what the industry needs and they can prove it.
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Publishing Merger
Lynn finds out what the merger of Penguin Books and Random House could mean for staff, authors and other New Zealand publishers.
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Video game art
Sonia Sly visits an exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum which poses the question as to whether video games are in fact art.
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Urbanlife
A new exhibition at Auckland Museum which matches young people with artistic mentors to explore issues that are important to them.
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Potted Potter
A conversation with two actors who're putting the Harry Potter epic on stage, in just one hour. It's called Potted Potter.
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Into The Uncanny Valley
Shaun D Wilson sits in on a production meeting for the new play Into The Uncanny Valley, which blends music and physics. It opens at Wellington's Bats Theatre on Saturday 3 November.
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Three Days in a Wishing Well
It's taken almost 40 years but Christchurch poet Kerrin Sharpe has realised her dream and published her debut poetry collection, Three Days in a Wishing Well.
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Campbell Kneale
Whether it's his music or visual art, Campbell Kneale views his creative process as a means to document moments in time. He's combining two practices in an exhibition entitled 201012 at City Gallery in Wellington.
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Jacques Brel tribute
Director Michael Hurst and singer/songwriter Tama Waipara, who're involved in a tribute to Jacques Brel explain why the highly theatrical and tortured soul that was is one of the most covered songwriters in history.
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The future of temporary public art in New Zealand
Organisers of three of the most creative art events in the country join together to discuss the future of temporary public art in New Zealand. Sophie Jerram is from Letting Space, Sam Trubridge created the Performance Arcade where art takes place inside containers, and Ryan Reynolds co-founded Christchurch's GapFiller project.
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