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The Unbreakable Ellie Kemper
Writing a book is simply something a sitcom actress must do, according to actor and comedian Ellie Kemper. She is the star of the Netflix series, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and a fan favourite of the US version of The Office. She has written a memoir, My Squirrel Days which is a light-hearted look back at her… Video, Audio
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Second Len Lye sculpture proves too tempting for vandals
15 Oct 2018A trustee of the Len Lye Foundation says attacks on the artist's works are symptomatic of a wider disrespect for art and culture in New Zealand.
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Len Lye work irrestible to vandals
A Len Lye art work on Wellington's waterfront was damaged earlier this month, but the celebrated sculptor's work Waving Wands in New Plymouth has also been… Video, Audio
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Niuean language encouraged at celebrations
Members of New Zealand's Niuean community are celebrating Niue Language Week this week with a range of school speech competitions, dance workshops, arts… Audio
The Unbreakable Ellie Kemper
Writing a book is simply something a sitcom actress must do, according to actor and comedian Ellie Kemper. She is the star of the Netflix series, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and a fan favourite of… Video, Audio
Second Len Lye sculpture proves too tempting for vandals
A trustee of the Len Lye Foundation says attacks on the artist's works are symptomatic of a wider disrespect for art and culture in New Zealand.
Len Lye work irrestible to vandals
A Len Lye art work on Wellington's waterfront was damaged earlier this month, but the celebrated sculptor's work Waving Wands in New Plymouth has also been attacked four times since being installed 18… Video, Audio
Niuean language encouraged at celebrations
Members of New Zealand's Niuean community are celebrating Niue Language Week this week with a range of school speech competitions, dance workshops, arts exhibits, sports and church services. Audio
Johanna Mechen – being Mother and Artist
Lower Hutt based Photographer and filmmaker Johanna Mechen has been collaborating with her children for her new body of work - exploring the ways motherhood impacts on creativity. The works have been… Audio
Painter Imogen Taylor - In Fellowship
Auckland artist Imogen Taylor has won two major art fellowships in the same year. Imogen has been granted the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for 2019 and won the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award for… Audio
Composer Antonia Barnett-McIntosh – Making Sound Gestures
She studied composition in Wellington and has now returned home, after 12 years working extensively overseas in all kinds of settings, as 2018-19 Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards… Audio
Street art - the return of the artist Handbrake
He came here to make a documentary about New Zealand's street artists and was so impressed, now Perth street artist Handbrake is returning to stamp his own mark on a wall himself as part of the eighth… Audio, Gallery
Mark Stocker – A survey of Te Papa’s National Art Collection
New Zealand art history in 2018 - what's included and what's excluded? Photography is now in it seems, but ceramics not; Contemporary Maori art - in - but traditional Maori arts? Still out. That's at… Audio, Gallery
Texan filmmaker David Lowery
Texan filmmaker David Lowery, who filmed the updated Pete's Dragon in New Zealand a few years ago, has now directed Robert Redford in the 82-year-old actor's last starring role in a movie, The Old Man… Video, Audio
Pacific Female Tattoo – Lisa Taouma
Marks of Mana is the first feature film dedicated to the practice of female tattooing (tatau or ta moko) in the Pacific. From Samoa to Aotearoa, and on to Papua New Guinea and Tahiti we learn about… Audio, Gallery
Tamara Patten: day to celebrate Katherine Mansfield
Today marks 130 years since Katherine Mansfield was born and it's also 30 years since her birth place was opened to the public as a museum. There will be celebrations at 25 Tinakori Road in Thorndon… Audio
Philip Temple - The life of Maurice Shadbolt
New Zealand journalist and award-winning author Maurice Shadbolt believed New Zealanders should tell their own stories - and now his story is being told in Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice… Audio
Doireann Ní Ghríofa - Poems in Irish and English
Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. She works on cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing poetry with film, dance, music, and visual art. Born in Galway in 1981… Audio
Christchurch’s new $92m library opens to much fanfare
Christchurch’s new $92m central city library opened today – replacing the former library which was damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes. But as Logan Church discovers, with sewing suites, a TV wall… Video, Audio
Show Me Shorts Film Festival underway
the Show me Shorts NZ International Short Film Festival is underway. Director Gina Dellabarca gives us a sneak peak of the festival's creation and what to expect this year. Video, Audio
Older Aucklanders' & their feisty feet
The Feisty Feet Senior Dancers programme is a network of dancers aged 60 and up which has now welcomed over 1,120 class participants over three years and is fast gaining momentum in the Auckland… Audio
Podcast Critic - Katy Atkin
Katy reviews Grove Road from Newshub and The Dream by Little Everywhere and Stitcher Audio
Moa whakataukī, more knowledge: Learning from extinction
Moa went extinct about 500 years ago, but researchers think there’s plenty we can still learn from it and the whakataukī - proverbs or sayings - Māori had about them. Looking to better understand how… Audio
Get it to Te Papa and The 2000s
Tamar Munch reviews a new local show, Get it to Te Papa - The Spinoff's televised quest to get under-appreciated Kiwi treasures into the national museum. She''ll also preview The 2000s, a new series… Audio
