This year's Arts Laureates have been announced with eight new artists being honoured and recognised for their exceptional work and their contribution to Aotearoa's cultural landscape and communities.
Every week on our Regional Wrap we travel to a different place around the country and, today, nestled in the Waikato below the Kaimai Ranges it's the historic town of Te Aroha.
Landscape astro photographer, Tom Rae, has won the Royal Museums Greenwich Skyscapes Astronomy Photographer of the Year for a second time.
From the news headlines to carving, from poetry and film to waiata and whakatauki the taniwha is a pervasive yet mysterious figure in our culture.
Teaspoons, teapots, trophies, vases, trays and napkin rings. Silver objects have long been prized as a way of celebrating and commemorating.
Children's and young-adult author, Kiri Lightfoot, has long had a love of picture books. As a teenager she would only taking babysitting jobs if there was a generous library on offer and even reading picture books well into her twenties.
Show Me Shorts Film Festival turns 20 this year. It's become Aotearoa's leading international short film festival and this month there will be more than 80 films, 100 screenings across 40 venues this month.
In 1953 Queen Salote of Tonga visited England for Queen Elizabeth the Second's Coronation. At which, she is said to have won "the affection of the British people" by riding to the ceremony in the rain. It's a visit remembered in a large black tapa work or ngatu ta'uli - which is a royal Tongan specialty - by Otautahi Christchurch based artist Kulimoe'anga Stone Maka.
Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa. Occasionally we go into the suburbs and this week we're going inner-west in Tamaki Makaurau.
Shortly opening in Wellington, Tauranga and Nelson are touring works by two of this country's most well-travelled, and most acclaimed contemporary theatre producers. And boy do they get about. They are Trick of the Light - led by Ralph McCubbin Howell and Hannah Smith - and EBKM, led by theatremakers Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken.
Author Becky Manawatu has won The Sargeson Prize, the country's biggest short story competition, taking home $15,000 for her work, The Vase.
Next Friday and Saturday, the Kupu Maori Writers Festival brings together authors from across the motu to significant locations across Rotorua.
Did you ever have a dream house as a child? One you told your parents you wanted to be yours one day? Perhaps, like Tracey Scott's, it even had a turret!
The biennial Colville Creators & Makers Festival finishes tomorrow after six days of exhibits and creative workshops. Held in Colville Hall, 30 minutes drive northward from Coromandel Town, organisers have brought together a range of artists to display their pottery, painting, weaving, walking staffs, and more. In another ajoining space, visitors can get involved with workshops and experiment in different mediums including acrylic, oils, pastels, lino cuts, jewellery, mask making, mobile mak...
Hawke's Bay Arts Festival kicks off next week and it's marking its 10th anniversary.
The late painter blazed a brilliant, dazzling trail across the Aotearoa New Zealand art scene of the 1970s.
Culture 101 speaks to three Victoria University researchers and lecturers who look at the intersection of video games, and culture.
Artery of the Wild is on now at the Leftbank Gallery in Greymouth.
Director and producer June Renwick joins Culture 101 to talk about her lifelong love of drama and why she set up the Selwyn Community Arts Theatre.
Facilitator and curator Dayna Raroa joins Culture 101.
She joins Perlina Lau to share some of her cultural picks
A theatre show of the beloved Sir Terry Pratchett is currently on stage at Dunedin's Globe Theatre. Lords and Ladies has one of the Globe's largest casts of this year, giving ample opportunities to local actors and creatives to get involved.
Kaukapapa is a 40-minute drive North-West of Tamaki Makaurau, and a gateway to the Kaipara.
No documentary this year will likely come under as much scrutiny and discussion. Directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz and on general release in New Zealand from September 25, Prime Minister follows Jacinda Ardern from taking up the leadership of the Labour Party, shortly before the 2017 election, to writing her memoir at Harvard in 2024.
They are some of the largest and most prominent buildings in our cities and towns. Places we are all are likely to spend significant time, as family and patients, weak or upset,. So why are hospitals so often considered ugly and unfriendly?
There has been shock and concern amongst the arts and education world following the axing of Art History from the school curriculum.
Nicola Kāwana has been a familiar face to Kiwi audiences for decades. A graduate of Toi Whakaari, Nicola's acting career spans film, television and theatre.
Job stability and sustainability within a creative industry can be a constant battle for artists.
Cultural group Puku Rangi Tea from Rapa Nui Easter Island are providing a rare opportuntiy to experience their culture with performances in Blenheim, Wellington and Tauranga this coming week. They have traveled from one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world.
The untamed and wild Hokitika is better known these days as the "Cool Little Town." Located on the West Coast of the South Island, it's about 40 minutes from Greytown. It's home to the largestiwi in South Island, Ngai Tahu or Kai Tahu and was also the centre of the West Coast gold rush in the 19th century. It's a place where nature and culture collides; with a dramatic beachs, nature walks, lakes, rivers and mountain views. There's also the dramatic turquoise blue Hokitika Gorge and the Arahura ...
