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Travelling through Asian and Pasifika cultures in batik with Rozana Lee
2:00 PM.20 years ago, artist Rozana Lee lost her mother, relatives, childhood friends and her family home in Aceh, Indonesia in the Boxing Day Tsunami. More than 200,000 people died in Indonesia, her mother… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Blenheim with Tyler Redmond
1:25 PM.Tyler Redmond joins Mark Amery on Culture 101 to introduce Blenheim for this week’s Regional Wrap. Read more Audio
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12-year-olds in NZ highly engaged in arts and culture
1:05 PM.A new report highlights a high level of engagement with arts, culture and recreation among 12-year-olds across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Released by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the data is… Read more Audio
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Fashion designer Jimmy D and the fight against the dull and turgid hick town
12:45 PM.Jimmy D is welcome proof that fashion needn’t be all glitz and glam. It can relate as much to a grungier street reality as the cocktail party or old school business attire. Further it can at last be… Read more Audio
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An unlikely pairing? K-pop meets Pasifika
12:30 PM.At first glance it may seem like an unlikely combination - Korean pop music and Pasifika youth - but as a new documentary on The Spinoff demonstrates, there’s a synergy and understanding.
K-pop is a… Read more Video, Audio
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New Zealander of the Year: Fast Favourites with Dr Jim Salinger
12:15 PM.Dr Jim Salinger has been recognised this week as Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa for 2024.
Dr Salinger is recognised as one of the first scientists to address global… Read more Audio
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Making Mischief with West End and Broadway star Nancy Zamit
2:00 PM.West End and Broadway wasn’t the dream when UK theatremaker Nancy Zamit co-founded Mischief Theatre in 2008, but the idea of being paid to do improv was. For this group of drama school students and… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Francisca Griffin in Port Chalmers
1:25 PM.Port Chalmers in Ōtepoti Dunedin has long been a haven for artists as well as seafarers. It’s an active commercial port and these days the locals also welcome flocks of cruise ship visitors. While… Read more Video, Audio
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Travelling from North Yorkshire to Aotearoa via the sun: theatremaker Alexander Wright
1:07 PM.For North Yorkshire’s Alexander Wright theatre making is a way of bringing together the very local with the much larger universe he believes we need to feel connected to.
In his latest touring show… Read more Audio
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Arts News Sunday 24 March
12:55 PM.Weekly arts and culture news from Aotearoa New Zealand with Perlina Lau and Mark Amery Read more Audio
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Māoriland Film Festival Wrap
12:50 PM.The Māoriland Film Festival is being held in Ōtaki on the Kapiti Coast this week 20-24 March.
It's Aotearoa's annual International Indigenous film festival in a town where Māori culture thrives. Read more Audio
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Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
12:30 PM.Still Lives - Auckland is a live performance artwork combining what are sometimes considered opposite ends of the spectrum; rugby and art.
Following two weeks of rehearsal, the artwork will be at… Read more Audio
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The vital electricity of contemporary poetry: Fast Favourites with Tracey Slaughter
12:10 PM.Culture 101’s Mark Amery invited award-winning author of fiction, poetry and essays, the Kirikiriroa Hamilton based Tracey Slaughter, to play Fast Favourites. Tracey picks out some favourite poems… Read more Audio
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Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
12:45 PM.It may be the fifth and final episode of Best of the Fest but festivals across Aotearoa have not been slowing down.
Culture 101’s Perlina Lau in Tāmaki Makaurau is joined by playwright and… Read more Audio
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New report shows increased interest in Asian arts and culture among Kiwis
2:05 PM.A new report commissioned by Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono has found an increased interest and desire for Asian arts and cultural experiences in Aotearoa. Read more Audio
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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