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Vai - Pasifika women direct
Vai is the name of a woman whose story is told through eight different stories filmed in eight different locations around the Pacific. → Read More
Unearthing early New Zealand
It's taken two years of work so far and there'll be more years ahead as archaeologists sort though almost 10,000 objects unearthed from a swamp at the Waitaki River mouth more than 50 years ago. Richard Walter and Chloe Searle from the North Otago Museum discuss why the Willetts collection is so remarkable. → Read More
The Fusebox - adding spark to your writing
Writers write about writing - a lot. And around 30 New Zealand novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets and short story writers reflect on their craft in a self-help book called The Fuse Box. Among the topics covered are writer's block... making the most of accidents... how to get started... and holding onto your mojo. Lynn Freeman talks to the book's co-editor Chris Price, and two of the… → Read More
Audio taonga comes to light 80 years on
The oldest recorded Maori broadcast - dating back to March 1938 at Turangawaewae marae, in Ngaruawahia - is one of the prize recordings in the first of four on-line exhibitions by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. The archive wants to highlight its Nga Taonga Korero collection of recordings of tupuna made between the 1930s and the 1980s. Lynn Freeman talks to Honiana Love and Lawrence Wharerau from Nga… → Read More
Actor Elisabeth Moss on her recent TV work
Elisabeth Moss has appeared in two of the most successful TV series of the past 15 years – West Wing and Mad Men. This year, she adds The Handmaid's Tale and the new series of Top of the Lake to the list. → Read More
Wikimuseums | Standing Room Only, 1:32 pm on 23 July 2017
It's an unusual title, but Susan Tolich can now call herself New Zealand's first official Wikimedian-in-Residence. She's doing a Master's of Museum and Heritage Studies at Victoria University but has spent the past few weeks hunkered down at Auckland Museum. → Read More
Rachel House: 'There's a change in the air'
Rachel House's face is familiar from her many acting roles, but she's also working behind the scenes on HUI – a film script based on the play of the same name which she will eventually direct. → Read More
New animals of the fashion industry
Gen X and Millenial fashion industry egos clash in the new novel by Pip Adam - The New Animals, published by Victoria University Press. → Read More
Pot Luck: Kiwi web series a global hit
So far Pot Luck has 2 million views and counting, but the creators say it's competing with many other quality Kiwi web series for the same tiny slice of funding pie. → Read More
Being Viola di Grado
Italian writer Viola di Grado is fascinated by language. A graduate from Turin in Chinese and Japanese, her first novel 30 percent wool, 70 percent acrylic won awards at home for "linguistic invention pushed to the visionary". Viola is here as part of the Auckland Writers Festival, and also appearing in Wellington on Tuesday, talking with Dr Claudia Bernardi, at Victoria University's Kelburn… → Read More
Petra Cortright, Digital Painter
LA artist Petra Cortright isn't crazy about two of the labels she's been given....a pioneer of both post-internet art and of the selfie. She prefers - digital painter. Petra finds and manipulates images from the net to create multi layered pictures and videos on her computer. Wellington City Gallery is hosting the first exhibition of her work in New Zealand. Lynn Freeman asks Petra Cortright… → Read More
Nicola Gardini on the art of translation
Nicola Gardini, Professof of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford was in Wellington this week to attend the Wai Te Ata press launch of the Italian translation of Best New Zealand Poems 2015. Himself a distinguished writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his recent novel Lost Worlds was awarded the prestigious Italian literary prize the Viareggio Prize. He's in the… → Read More