Art in the Park returns to the iconic Eden Park next weekend from the 18th to the 21st of September. A curated art show in a stadium setting, it'll bring together artists and collectors with artist talks and workshops over the weekend.
Actor and writer Stephen Papps has a remarkable ability onstage to inhabit a multitude of characters. In his latest solo work Social Animal, written with Damon Andrews, he plays 13 characters, including three dogs.
It's a new era at American Vogue with a new editor announced to take over from Dame Anna Wintour.
This year New Zealand Dance company Footnote is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Footnote bill their story as the story of contemporary dance in Aotearoa. A bold claim but they have some good reason. Footnote is our oldest contemporary dance group. They were founded by Deidre Tarrant in Poneke Wellington during formative times for dance in Aotearoa in the mid 1980s.
Across Tamaki Makaurau, there are 56 community libraries but there are also mobile libraries reaching those who can't access the public ones. These areas can be aged-care facilities, social housing or prison.
Enroute to the Hawkes Bay, Woodville was 100 years ago the home of one of our most famous portrait painters Gottfried Lindear and is home today to celebrated contemporary artist Maungarongo Te Kawa.
If you visit 24 Tawariki Street in Ponsonby, Auckland - which you are being invited to do this month - you'll find a stream reemerging in the front garden of a vacant house badly damaged during the 2023 Auckland Anniversary floods That house is currently populated by strange comic figures.
A new performing arts festival will be taking over several venues in Auckland for two weeks this month. We The Young in Tamaki Makaurau is celebrating art and imagination with 19 performances, workshops and interactive art experiences targeted at children and teenagers.
This week a group opposing the Wellington City Council's decision to demolish the capital's city to sea bridge, The Wellington Civic Trust, lost a Judicial Review. The group say they don't have the money to appeal but are pledging to fight on. They are not ruling out civil disobedience. The Wellington City Council decision has been made in the face of the high cost of seismic restrengthening, and this week council spokesman Richard MacLean said demolition work was at least three weeks off. The b...
With the Billy T showcase around the corner, ahead of next year's festival and competition, this year's winner is still revelling in his victory.
I went down something of an Instagram rabbithole this week. For some people it's watching cooking or pots being made. For me it's been bookbinding. So meditative, many craft elements are combined.
Nearly a thousand choir singers converged on Ōtepoti Dunedin over the last few days as the Big Sing competition finished.
The Arts news for 31 August.
If there's any country that understands and appreciates what film or television can do for tourism, it's us, here in New Zealand. Over the past decade, Scotland has been experiencing something similar.
St Heliers is celebrating its first Art Festival which started this weekend and will run until the 14th of September.
Jennifer Ludlum is on stage again and this time, as a ferocious, complicated and dramatic matriarch in Silo's Mother Play. Written by American Pulitzer-winning playwright, Paula Vogel, it first debuted on Broadway in 2024 and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. It follows a mother - and her two children over four decades across five evictions and Jennifer who plays the role of the mother - Phyllis - has a complex relationship to her two children Carl and Martha. The show is set against...
The government has released a creative and culture strategy to boost the industry by 2030.
If you've watched any of the leading television shows in the past 25 years, it's likely Lesli Linka Glatter had a hand in directing them. Mad Men, Homeland, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls and The Walking Dead are just a few on a long and impressive list.
In South Canterbury, Geraldine is home to a unique vinyl and coffee outlet called The Record Keeper. It's entirely powered by solar power and a bit of a stage for up and coming musicians Next week Geraldine's theatre, cinema and town hall celebrates its centenary.
Following a notorious night of debauchery, English novelist Mary Shelley becomes the mother of horror. Set in Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, ATC's new thriller, Mary: The Birth of Frankenstein reimagines the evening 18-year-old Mary Shelley alongside family, lovers and artistic contemporaries, is challenged by poet Lord Byron to write a ghost story. The events of the infamous gathering are recreated by playwright Jess Sayer and what follows is seduction, rivalry and madness with Mary walking out...
Writer, academic and plus-size model, Kaarina Parker will be walking in this year's Fashion Week. It coincides with RNZ's new documentary series, Cutting The Curve, which looks at the new era of diet drugs and where that leaves curve and plus-size women. Parker studied history and film at the Unviersity of Melbourne and has a masters in creative writing. Earlier this year, she released her debut novel Fulvia based on a woman in Rome who carved out a place for herself during one of the most scand...
Culture 101's Mark Amery had to borrow a car this week and, while he was driving, pressed a button on the display console and a female voice startled him, speaking to him in Japanese. Mark doesn't speak Japanese.
For his latest blending of documentary and fiction, filmmaker Igor Bezinovic has turned the camera on a stranger-than-fiction story from the history of his own port city on the Adriatic coast, Rijeka . For Fiume o Morte! which appears in the Whanau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival in Poneke Wellington this week, Bezinovic enlisted 100s of members of his city's own community to reenact their occupation by a fascist poet for 16 months after the first world war.
Interactive Comedian George Fenn joins Culture 101 to talk about his acclaimed show, Sexy Ghost Boy
Simon Lewis Wards plays with the idea of nostalgia through familiar, quotidian objects.
This week we are heading to the North Canterbury inland town of Oxford or Tawera as it's known to Māori. Celia Wilson is an Oxford based painter, and printmaker and joined Culture 101.
The 'hot mess' that's menopause and midlife with Petra Bagust and some of her cultural highlights.
A round-up of news surrounding the arts across New Zealand.
Artist and landscape architect Bridget Allen wouldn't have known how appropriate the name of her gardening business was to be when she set it up, out of Ilam art school and working at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. The name Regenerative Gardening Maintenance was prophetic given her city and its landscape was about to start regenerating. The 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes saw not only buildings turned to rubble, large tracts of land, including an area around Ōtākaro Avon River the size of tw...
Hikurangi, 20 minutes north of Whangarei, is an old dairy and mining town known for some of the most specular limestone formations in the region. It's a "one coffee one pub" kind of town, says Craig Cooper, who with his partner runs a surprising retail and culture enterprise in the town called Hiku. As the t-shirts they've produced says, they specialise in "Art music and cool shit."
