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Culture 101

RNZ•www.rnz.co.nz
Society & Culture
Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.
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Poppys: South Auckland family garage hottest new comedy club

For many stand-up comedians, performing in a garage could seem like a career low-point. But in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, comedian Heta Dawson has turned his garage in his South Auckland family home into one of the freshest and most exciting comedy venues in North Island.

Aug 25, 2024•11 min

From Colin in Accounts to Bollywood: Jacob Rajan’s Fast Favourites

Indian Ink Theatre Company has built up a remarkable reputation for developing and touring original work over 27 years. Founded by Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan, more than half a million people have seen their original delightful and often philosophical shows. They now tour them not just around this country, but to territories like Australia and North America. Quite a record for an independent theatre company. Principal performer and co-writer Jacob Rajan is beloved for his remarkable performance...

Aug 25, 2024•12 min

The internet is dead! Long live the book: Underground publishing house 5ever

This weekend in Ōtepoti Dunedin small presses and independent publishers from around Aotearoa gather to share and exchange at Small Press Fest. The festival reflects a move among younger creatives away from the internet towards community, focusing on the empowerment of making your own printed media. There’s also an eye on sustainability with presses more likely to be printing small numbers of books themselves and using recycled paper - rather than sending off PDFs to China for mass production sh...

Aug 18, 2024•29 min

Arts News for 18 August 2024

Arts News: Injury at the Museum of Ice Cream, a #1 Netflix hit for NZ, Artbeat closes & kids books winner Stacey Gregg

Aug 18, 2024•5 min

Regional Wrap: West Murihiku Southland with Pauline Vaeluaga Smith

30 kilometres west of Waihōpai Invercargill, is the town of Aparima or Riverton. It’s the gateway to spectacular and remote West Southland, an area sitting between the mountains of Fiordland and the Takitimu mountain range, with an infamous wild ocean out front. Riverton is one of the earliest European settlements in New Zealand and before that Aparima was a substantial Māori settlement, due to its proximity to the ocean and a river estuary. The area is said to be home to a surprising number of ...

Aug 18, 2024•6 min

Fake marble and landscapes: The remarkable painting of Walters Prize nominee Owen Connors

Artist Owen Connors is on a roll. They are one of four nominees for Aotearoa's most prestigious art prize, The Walters. Last year they won the $25,000 Rydal Art Prize, awarded biannually to a recent body of work considered by a jury to have made an important contribution to Aotearoa painting. They were also awarded one of the country’s most coveted residencies at McCahon House in the Waitakere.

Aug 18, 2024•14 min

‘The punk rock Len Lye’ - the legacy of confrontational artist Peter Roche

Dropping a sheep’s carcass from an aeroplane into the Waitemata harbour; sewing a sheep’s kidney onto your own back; yelling “get the f**k out” till the audience leaves, many razor cuts. The early, confrontational ‘70s performance work of the late Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland artist Peter Roche is the stuff of legend. Yet, as Night Piece, a new documentary by filmmaker Bridget Sutherland shows, Peter Roche’s artistic career also had many different lives.

Aug 11, 2024•24 min

There is no one art history: Kirsty Baker's Women and Art in Aotearoa

Public galleries have been demonstrating our view of art history has been changing radically for years. It just hasn’t been published for a wider public, until now. Art historian and curator Kirsty Baker’s smart and insightful new book Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa, published by Auckland University Press, is then a major publishing event.

Aug 11, 2024•26 min

‘Every day is a work of art’ - Queen of vintage, avant-garde style icon Chrissy O

Almost 40 years on, Hunters and Collectors in Pōneke remains. The first vintage clothing store in the Capital, it’s a truly iconic creative Cuba Street institution. Hunters and Collectors’ matriarch is Chrissy O. Just turned 70, known for her flame-coloured hair and parade of remarkable vintage ensembles and spectacles, Chrissy O is herself a true avant garde style icon.

Aug 11, 2024•14 min

Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Hurst: on stage alone together for the first time

Married couple Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand have theatre and film careers that span 40 years. Indeed, they met in the theatre - at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Theatre Corporate in 1983. While they’re both beloved individually for their many and varied contributions to the arts, they’ve also appeared in some 22 shows together. Yet it's never just been the two of them on stage together. Until now. In the two-hander play In other Words Hurst and Ward-Lealand play a married couple dealing ...

Aug 11, 2024•13 min

Can you stage Hamlet in the ultraviolent world of Grand Theft Auto?

In the genre-busting documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, two out-of-work UK actors in lockdown attempt the seemingly impossible. They seek to mount a full production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside the ultra violent world of Grand Theft Auto - the popular multiplayer online video game - with often hysterical, bloody and thoughtful results.

Aug 04, 2024•27 min

Lexus Song Quest crowns winner Katie Trigg

Mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg has been crowned the 2024 Lexus Song Quest winner. The prestigious opera singing competition took place on Saturday night at Michael Fowler Centre in Poneke Wellington. Five singers battled it out for the country’s biggest operatic honour.

Aug 04, 2024•16 min

Fast Favourites with Jess Hong

It’s difficult not to use the cliché description of ‘whirlwind’ but the past few years have been life changing for New Zealand Chinese actor Jess Hong.

Aug 04, 2024•12 min

Housing as a human right: artist and advocate Dieneke Jansen

We’re in a housing crisis, most people agree. With strong awareness of the inequalities that it brings. Yet, when it comes to talking about solutions to something so complex yet so personal, people struggle - reaching for phrases like ‘this housing thing’. This Housing Thing is the title of a moving image work by artist Dieneke Jansen, who has long dedicated her art and activism to housing. It’s currently screening at galleries The Physics Room in Ōtautahi Christchurch and Enjoy in Pōneke Wellin...

Jul 28, 2024•15 min

Christchurch goes post-punk: Jonathan Ogilvie's Head South

It’s 1979 in Ōtautahi Christchurch and an energetic underground punk scene is spewing up. It’s decades before the internet, with the very latest overseas sounds dribbling in slowly by import. Records shipped all the way from the UK. This is the fertile and nostalgic setting for Sydney-based director, Jonathan Ogilvie's excellent fourth feature film, Head South. It’s premiering in Aotearoa New Zealand at this year's Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival. He spoke to RNZ’s Culture ...

Jul 28, 2024•33 min
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