Welcome to your new weekend listening! Broadcasting legend Karyn Hay is on your Saturday airwaves, bringing you three hours of tunes and chats. Castor is the student that becomes the teacher on Lecture Me, telling us about his recent lecture on primitive accumulation. Stella Huggins is in for an explanation of the environmental impacts of AI on Implausible Deniability. Finn Johansson is our resident empath, giving the listenership advice and validation on Dear Finn. Listen back to the first show of many.
Ōtepoti Dunedin folk singer Keira Wallace joins us in-studio to kōrero about their new single, Leap/Landing, and their show at The Wine Cellar on Saturday 6th July (tickets from Under the Radar). They also play us their song Underbelly. Whakarongo mai nei!
Aotearoa Contemporary is a new exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery offering a platform for new art and ideas in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Presented by Principal Partner Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the exhibition features 27 artists and 22 new compelling projects and is expected to run in conjunction with the Walters Prize every three years.
It aims to provide a platform for young, emerging, and lesser known artists to showcase what is new and current in Aotearoa New Zealand’s diverse cultural environment with its dynamic history of contemporary art.
Sofia spoke to senior curator of global contemporary art at Auckland Art Gallery, Natasha Conland, and acting curator of Pacific art, Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, about the show, its conception, and what to expect.
Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival opened last week in Te Whanganui-a-Tara on the 31st of July, before touring nine other centres across the country until the 4th September.
Held annually across Aotearoa, the festival line up this year will feature 86 films and 19 shorts.
The programme this year brings together diverse film screenings at 15 cinemas and venues nationwide, while also providing opportunities to enhance the film-going experience with Q&As, masterclasses, workshops, panel discussions and special events including costume parties and a gig.
Sofia spoke to the festival’s Artistic Director, Paolo Bertolin, about the programme this year and what he’s most excited for.
Beth caught up with author Tina Makereti about her new novel, The Mires.
Sofia spoke to senior curator of global contemporary art at Auckland Art Gallery, Natasha Conland, and acting curator of Pacific art, Cameron Ah-Loo Matamua, about new exhibition Aotearoa Contemporary.
Beth caught up with Australian comedian Frankie McNair about her show Intimate Evening With Tabitha Booth, currently showing at Q Theatre.
Sofia spoke to the director of Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival, Paolo Bertolin, about the programme this year.
And Ōtepoti folk singer Keira Wallace joined us in the studio to chat about their show at the Wine Cellar tomorrow night to celebrate the release of their single, Leap/Landing.
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