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3:06 PM.Arts News for 3 August 2025 Audio

2:00 PM.Films covered include: Prime Minister, It was just an accident, Grace, Toitu Visual Sovereignity, Workmates, Bati, One on One: John and Yoko, Maya, Give Me a Title, Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy, Not Only… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.This week we are heading to the south side of the Hokianga harbour, in Northland to the town of Rawene. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.As private funding organisation The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi celebrates 25 years of supporting artists, what's changed with arts patronage?  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Notes from a Fish is a surreal comedy crime caper set in the murky world of the exotic fish black market.  Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A new exhibition in Tamaki Makaurau hosted by the New Zealand Fashion Museum is set to showcase and celebrates the art of knitting and all yarn-based fashion creation.  Read more Audio

12:15 PM.30 years ago this last week organisation Arts Access Aotearoa was founded by Penny Eames to better drive access to the arts for people who can get excluded from cultural life.  Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News for 27 July 2025 Audio

2:35 PM.Musically interacting with plants and fungi - what does that sound like? That is, when we - humans - take the time to stop, listen and respond? Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Banksy's street art and graffiti is some of the most recognisable and iconic images of the modern art world. Although his work started in the 90s in Bristol, Banksy's identity remains a mystery. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.This week for our Regional Wrap on Culture 101 we visit the beautiful Waikanae River on the Kapiti Coast, and the settlements on its banks of Waikanae and Otaihanga. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Jim Hosking's third comedy feature Ebony and Ivory is one of the films opening Whanau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival in four centres soon. It is an unapologetically bonkers fictional… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Weaver, sculptor and academic, Maureen Lander, is currently exhibiting at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. But as the title suggests He Tukutuku Auahatanga: Maureen Lander with… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Can we control the weather? Or, do we need to get better again at reading it for ourselves, rather than relying on technology?  Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Madeleine Chapman will be stepping down from her role as editor of news and culture website The Spinoff later this year. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 20 July 2025. Audio

2:30 PM.Erena and Balamohan Shingade are partners in life and in a distinctive publishing enterprise. Based in Titirangi, they describe Spoor Books as a community-oriented platform.  Read more Audio

2:07 PM.It's one of the greatest and most famous love stories and we already know how it ends before it begins. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is now on stage with ATC, re-envisioned in a 60s thriller, high… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of the country for our regional wrap. Today Perlina heads to Greytown - which is celebrating it's Festival of Christmas and heading into… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Artist Jo Randerson calls them Secret Art Powers. Superpowers that everyone, individually and collectively, has access to.  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Porirua-based barbershop group, Pacific Connection is bathing in their history-making win at the International Barbershop Chorus Competition in the US. They took home bronze for their performance in… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Most people will recognise former All Blacks hooker Keven Mealamu for his sporting success but now, a decade after retiring he's gone from the All Blacks to the Arts Council; being appointed to the… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.If you've travelled along Transmission Gully, north of Poneke Wellington - you might have noticed through your side window giant objects starting to pop up on the western hills north of Pauatahanui… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Arts news for 13 July 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.As avid op shoppers will know, secondhand and antique stores still turn up treasures. Read more Audio