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Regional Wrap: Ngāmotu New Plymouth’s Fin Rah Zel at WOMAD
1:25 PM.For a band from Taranaki, making the WOMAD lineup is a dream come true. For Ngāmotu New Plymouth indie group, Fin Rah Zel, this weekend is it.
Known for its outlier music and visual art scene, the… Read more Audio
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Ju Percussion: powerhouse ensemble performs in NZ for the first time
1:07 PM.Taiwan’s first professional percussion ensemble, Ju Percussion Group, was founded in 1986 by Tzong-Ching Ju who still leads the group today. Read more Audio
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Aiga: Lusi Faiva’s disability-led Pasifika show on her life in her own words
12:50 PM.In Samoan, aiga means family. Not just your immediate family but your wider circle. It could be through blood, marriage or even an adopted connection.
It’s also the name and central theme of Lusi… Read more Audio
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The 12-year-olds who meet a mountain in Rachel House's first feature
12:30 PM.There are four shining stars on screen in the new joyous and heartfelt Aotearoa New Zealand film The Mountain - the directorial debut of acclaimed actor Rachel House.
The first is the majestic… Read more Video, Audio
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Fast Favourites: Black Grace choreographer Neil Ieremia gives movement to Pacific anger
12:10 PM.Dance company Black Grace has just returned from a US tour where thousands of people watched their latest work, Paradise Rumour. The company performed in Portland, Laguna Beach and Chicago.
Black… Read more Audio
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Best of the Fest #4: Tim Minchin, The King’s Singers, Arooj Aftab, Bernie Dieter’s Kabarett, Lost Lear, Belle, and In the Name of the Son
12:00 PM.In episode four of Best of the Fest, Culture 101 co-hosts Perlina Lau and Mark Amery find Aotearoa in full festival swing.
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When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
2:00 PM.In 2018, Sandro Kopp was tasked by film director Wes Anderson with creating ten monumental paintings for the film The French Dispatch in less than three months.
Kopp’s works needed to look like the… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
1:25 PM.A well known arts critic, historian and commentator, Andrew Paul Wood in Timaru fills us in on ‘drama’ around the Timaru Theatre Royal redevelopment, which includes a new venue for South Canterbury… Read more Audio
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Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli
1:05 PM.What would a map that represents a more distinct lived human cultural perspective look like? That has been the very personal question for Icao Tiseli with her award-winning project Mapping the Wheke.
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Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
12:45 PM.It’s the 96th Academy Awards on Monday 11th March - the final ceremony of the awards season which started almost a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more Audio
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Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
12:30 PM.The true story behind theatre show Boy is both controversial and compelling. Appearing at the Auckland Arts Festival theatre and written by Dutch-born, Netherlands-based playwright Carly Wijs (Us/Them… Read more Audio
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Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
12:10 PM.Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Robert Scott is best known as a member of seminal New Zealand bands The Bats and The Clean, but more quietly he’s been painting for decades with work appearing in both exhibitions… Read more Audio
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Best of the Fest #3 - Māori cirque theatre, exploring fa’a Sāmoa, iconic waiata and Gravity & Grace
1:00 PM.Cue the drums - The Auckland Arts Festival kicks off this week!
This is the third episode of Best of the Fest; a brand new RNZ national five-week lively conversation series about a feast of… Read more Audio
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NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
2:00 PM.Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny’s work has long explored the culture of new technology and the dreams tech entrepreneurs sell us.
Back in 2016, Denny was one of the first artists to… Read more Audio
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Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
1:25 PM.Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for community groups, and a 'user pays' approach to… Read more Audio
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The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
1:07 PM.At the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Pōneke hangs an enormous New Zealand flag upon which artist Richard Lewer has painted the words: “To have a future I must reconcile with MY past.”
Lewer’s… Read more Audio
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How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
12:45 PM.British coming-of-age drama, How to Have Sex has found a new way to tackle the issue of sexual consent. It’s strangely both nostalgic and very uncomfortable - which is perhaps, exactly why you should… Read more Video, Audio
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Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
12:30 PM.Habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and flying bikes launched on waste heat thermals are just a few of the 100-plus bonkers ideas artist and industrial designer Steve… Read more Audio
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Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com
12:15 PM.Yoson An’s career (Mulan, The Luminaries, Dead Lucky, Creamerie) has been steadily on the rise and impressively, he’s played a wide range of characters. But until now he’s never been a rom-com lead.
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Best of the Fest #2: a morning rave, the Savage Coloniser, Witi’s Wahine, The National, Soweto Gospel and the mighty Waikato
12:00 PM.What is it with tall people up the front at gigs? Should morning raves replace gym sessions? Joining us this week on Best of the Fest are writers Emily Perkins and Arihia Latham, artist Suzanne Tamaki… Read more Audio
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Best of the Fest #1: taniwha time machine, aerial displays and a slightly isolated dog
3:30 PM.RNZ Culture 101 presents the first episode online and on-air of Best of the Fest - a brand new five-week 30 minute panel discussion series.
Hosts Perlina Lau and Mark Amery are joined by Aotearoa… Read more Audio
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‘Swiftonomics’ - the unparalleled influence of Taylor Swift
2:00 PM.Whether you’re a Swiftie or you’re rolling your eyes, you can’t deny the influence of Taylor Swift. She is inescapable and it feels as though she’s been on a mission of world domination this past… Read more Audio
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