Culture 101

The latest arts news from around the motu. Read more Audio

83-year-old poet and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has had something of a cultural Forrest Gump of a career, and 2024 has found him gaining new-found fame.

Acclaimed album Dance of Love, out on 4AD… Read more Audio

Culture 101 speaks to the artist from Berlin about his first solo show in New Zealand and is innovative approach to art. Read more Audio

Our Regional Wrap takes us to somewhere named after the Christmas city itself. Read more Audio

Since winning the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Anora has spent the past six months taking the movie world by storm. It finally arrives in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.  

Anora… Read more Audio

It’s a 2024 thriller concerned with race, podcast-making and the criminal justice system high on a fair few 2024 best-of lists.

17 Years Later is Melbourne-based bestselling New Zealand writer JP… Read more Audio

She joins Culture 101 to talk about her time in the South of France for the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, her new novel and her highlights of 2024. Read more Audio

The Pōhutukawa - our Christmas tree - once bountifully fringed the West Coast north of Taranaki, and the East Coast north of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. While now found even further south, these trees with… Read more Audio

Renowned Māori actor and filmmaker Cliff Curtis has been honoured with the prestigious International Federation of Film Producers Associations Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The event, held… Read more Audio

Dean Roberts, aka The Moth, was an experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist who lived in Auckland, New York, Bologna and Berlin. A student of the sound artist Phil Dadson, he went on to lecture… Read more Audio

A survey of recent film work by Jon Rafman Oh, the humanity! opens at Whangārei Art  Museum on December 20. It is, the gallery say “a harrowing meditation on the digital era’s fraught promises, and… Read more Video, Audio

For the regional wrap we head to Raglan Wharf to speak with Tony Sly of Tony Sly Pottery where the scenic views inspire his work.  Among his Raglan cultural highlights Tony Sly mentions artists Chris… Read more Audio