Sonia Sly
The Arts Report - Gisborne Concert Bands
Whilst guitars and rock n' roll threaten the culture of the concert band, in Gisborne they're intent on keeping them alive. The region has three bands and a long standing history as Sonia Sly finds… Audio
Gisborne Concert Bands
Whilst guitars and rock n' roll threaten the culture of the concert band, in Gisborne they're intent on keeping them alive. The region has three bands and a long standing history as Sonia Sly finds… Audio
Visual Artist John Coley
John Coley emerged from a stimulating bohemian era, recalling 22 Armagh Street in the 1950s as a place where he and his young creative cohorts gathered together to write manifestos and challenge the… Audio
Book Feature - Ann Packer
Author and freelance journalist Ann Packer discusses her crafting memories and shares some top tips from her travels across the country on the release of her book: Crafty Girls Road Trip. Audio
A Second Life: developing NZ theatre
Discussing the issues of touring, infrastructure, audience and offshore markets are Cath Cardiff from Creative New Zealand; Hilary Beaton, CEO and Director of Downstage Theatre; and Mark Westerby… Audio
Listener Pick: Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard may well be one of the greatest films of all time. Mark Knowles offers his two cents. Audio
Clown Doctors
Trained actor and doctor Thomas Petschner combined his skills to form Clown Doctors. It's a programme providing comic relief to patients in hospital. The programme has been running in Auckland and… Audio
The Arts Report - Society Musical
What if life was a musical and it could help to relieve society from the doom and gloom of the global economic crisis? That's the question posed in a tongue-in-cheek musical created by Nelson-born… Audio
Society Slump Superstars
What if life was a musical and it could help to relieve society from the doom and gloom of the global economic crisis? That's the question posed in a tongue-in-cheek musical created by Nelson-born… Audio
Devised theatre
Sonia Sly meets with Christian Penny, director of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School; Tom McCrory, senior movement tutor (Toi Whakaari)and cofounder of Pacific Island theatre Company The Conch; and Bert… Audio
Spiritual Outlook for 18 March 2012
Sonia Sly speaks to author and spiritualist Suzanne Boult about numerology and other methods of divination to find out how we can unlock our potential, and how she came to discover her own. Audio
Spiritual Outlook for 11 March 2012
For Auckland-based life coach and artist Jo Hutchinson, a realisation that corporate life just wasn't enough was the trigger that changed her life around and led her down new paths. She needed to do… Audio
Productive Bodies
Productive Bodies is the name of a new performance art work by director Mark Harvey who's exploring the notion that unemployed bodies are just as productive as employed ones. Audio
The Arts Report
A krumper, a flipper, and a Samoan jazz/ballet dancer are just some of the members of Lima Dance in Auckland who hit the stage at Mangere Arts Centre last week. Sonia Sly was recently in Auckland and… Audio
Lima Dance
Contemporary dance is fairly foreign territory for those from the Pacific Island community, and remains largely outside of the vocabulary of PI youth. But with the help of Lima Dance in Auckland, and… Audio
The Arts Report
Sonia Sly meets quirky landscape painter Tony Bishop, part of the thriving creative community in Invercargill. Audio
Spin Cycle - WhyWho Shoes
Sonia speaks with Gisborne sisters Cate King and Sarah Busby and finds out what it's like to walk in their shoes, both figuratively and literally. Audio