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3:10 PM.Arts news for 8th June 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.Does an underground still exist? Or is it just one more consumer choice in an ever growing banquet of ticketed events? Testing this may be Tamaki Makarau's biennial Festival of Live Arts (FOLA), at… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of the country and we're going a bit more suburban this week to West Auckland - and the suburb of Titirangi. Close to the Waitakere Ranges… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.Award-winning UK festival Focus Wales celebrates emerging talent and artists. The festival which has been running for 15 years saw more than 22 thousand attendees, showcased 250 artists across 20… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.This month welcomes two contemporary indigenous performing arts festivals which have established themselves as cornerstones of the presentation of new work from Aotearoa and across the Pacific.  Read more Audio

12:43 PM.A new digital whodunnit comedy series puts the spotlight on the dangers and growing epidemic of image-based abuse and bullying. Inspired by millennial television shows like Gossip Girl, The Sender is… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.If cities can be lonely places no one told artist Sallie Culy. A familiar face on the streets of inner city Poneke Wellington, Sallie counts many people she has met a friend. Its an approach to life… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The shortlist for the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults was announced this week and, among the titles, is a story on the theme of Matariki by journalist and broadcaster… Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Arts news for 1 June 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.This next fortnight sees the visit of indigenous performers to Aotearoa from across Te Moana Nui a kiwa -the Pacific Ocean. They are presenting works at two established contemporary festivals -… Read more Audio

2:17 PM.130 years on, Puccini's La Bohème remains an enduring classic and beloved opera. Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Every week in RNZ Culture 101's Regional Wrap we find out about the arts scene in a place beyond our city centres. This week it's a suburb that developed its own sense of identity before travel was… Read more Audio

1:12 PM.A competition to see who's best at doing nothing will be one of the highlights at the Melbourne Rising Festival. The Space Out event will last 90 minutes and participants have to excel at doing… Read more Audio

12:32 PM.In 1988 a choir founded in the '50s Soviet socialist era, the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir released the album Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares. It won them a Grammy, turned them into an… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.Angella Dravid is this year's Fred Award winner for best show at the International Comedy Festival, taking home the iconic gumboot and a prize of 5000 dollars. She's only the third woman to ever win… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.A much anticipated release of New Zealand Music Month has just been released and it's both an album and a book. It's from Tamaki Makaurau Auckland trio Grecco Romank. Both formats feature a slew of… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our Regional Wrap. This week Culture 101 heads 45-minutes north of Auckland to Warkworth. It's located at the head of the… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.There's a dark side to motherhood that can still be too taboo to talk about. It's the hidden part which can be lonely, filled with rage and the reality can be monstrous. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.From Castlecliff to Thames, half court to full court, around Aotearoa artists are increasingly being commissioned to create eye-popping colourful designs for public basketball courts. These courts… Read more Audio

12:29 PM.For most people, the concept of getting up on stage for improvisation is the stuff of nightmares, let alone doing it at work with your colleagues. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.'Post High Slide' from Ohinehou Lyttleton based singer songwriter Mel Parsons is one of several new songs released ahead of a tour of Aotearoa and Australia that kicks off Sunday March 25 in Poneke… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 18th May 2025 Audio

2:30 PM.With his teaching and his own independent game studio Zach Dodson aims to push the boundaries of narrative-driven games.  Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.It's been 10 years of the Italian Film Festival in Aotearoa and what started out as a way for Paolo Rotondo to showcase and preserve his culture here - is now a 9-month celebration across the country… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Today we head to to Otautahi Christchurch and the seaside suburb of New Brighton east of the city. Joining us is a Kai Tahu, Ngati Maniapoto practitioner in rongoa and raranga (weaving) with the Kahu… Read more Audio