The Portage Ceramic Awards is an annual exhibition of contemporary ceramics in Aotearoa, showing at Te Uru Gallery. The award was established in 2001 and embraces the rich history of working with clay in West Auckland.
Portage 2024 includes 42 works by 40 artists. Finalist works range from intimate functional objects to large-scale ephemeral installations. The concerns of the exhibited works are also diverse, embodying the natural world and the origins of clay, the intimate connection between Māori and whenua, the freedom of working with clay, and the precise technicalities of sculpting, firing, and glazing.
Beth caught up with ceramicist Peter Derksen about his practice and the exhibition.
Delaney Davidson discussing his plans for 2025 - a new album, touring Aotearoa in Winter and the Year of the Snake - Shedding your old skin and making way for the new...Delaney also spoke of his current favourite podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
The Time Machine with John Baker - Aotearoa February 1965 - The Rolling Stones 'Big Beat Tour' (w/Roy Orbinson, The Newbeats, Ray Columbus and the Invaders) & The Kinks (w/Mannfred Man & The Honeycombs)
The lineup has been announced for the Auckland Writers Festival, which will welcome over 220 writers this year. Among them are writers Trent Dalton (Australia), Mariana Enriquez (Argentina), Yael van der Wouden (the Netherlands), Alan Hollinghurst (UK) and Jessica Townsend (Australia).
The festival will take place from the 13th to the 18th of May, with Streetside: Britomart – AWF’s annual fringe festival – taking place a week earlier, on Friday 9th of May.
Beth spoke with the Artistic Director for the festival, Lyndsey Fineran, about the lineup and the themes of Auckland Writers Festival this year, as well as highlights from the programme.
Clay Eaters is the latest poetry collection by Gregory Kan, out now via Auckland University Press.
Clay Eaters traverses a network of fault lines diverging and converging at unexpected angles: a mysterious jungle island, military reconnaissance training, the spirits in the trees and abandoned temples, old family homes, the echoes across rooms, the dining table set for the archetypal feast. The author asks what it means to write the self, and what it is the living must carry.
Beth caught up with Greg about Clay Eaters and the fragmentary nature of the collection. He also performed a couple of poems.
In the first rendition of our new segment The Birds, The Bees, and The Bugs - where we talk all things sexual health with the friendly nurses at Care HQ - Milly and Rosetta have a kōrero about UTIs with nurses Charlotte and Nickie. Whakarongo mai nei!
The queer Adelaide rock group, The Empty Threats, have recently released their sophomore album, happy birthday
Radio Mother co-host, Joel, spoke to Stu Patterson, the vocalist, saxophonist, and clarinettist of the group, about happy birthday, as they arrived in Sydney for their Australia tour, just prior to their EU and UK tour!
For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Wire host Caeden spoke to Shanan Halbert about the government replacing regional councils with Combined Territories Boards, Labour’s members' bill to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act, and yesterday’s OCR cut.
They spoke to marine microplastics researcher at the University of Auckland, Dr Samantha Ladewig, about the impact of car tyres on microplastic pollution in marine environments and what the potential solutions are.
And they spoke to University of Auckland Associate Professor Dr Kim Mellor about new research that shows gene therapy could reverse a type of heart failure that is associated with diabetes.
Producer Jasmine talked to Councillor Shane Henderson about the government shake-up of local council structures, summer bus routes and the suspicious fire at G.A.Y last weekend
She talked to musician and sound engineer Lora Thompson about the cancellation of One Love and what it means for Aotearoa’s current live music scene
Cam is back up in the studio, chatting with Milly about the latest new releases on the shelves at Southbound, plus a special listening party taking place next Thursday evening. Whakarongo mai nei!
Peaches - Not in Your Mouth None of Your Business
The Olympians - Strawberry Kiwi
Gorillaz - The God of Lying (Feat. IDLES)
You can head down to Southbound in person at 132 Symonds street, check out the website at www.southbound.co.nz or even call the store and get yourself a copy put aside.
elle spoke to Gabriella of The Femcels about their album released January this year I Have To Get Hotter, produced by Ike Clateman (Bassvictim). Gabriella talks her and Rowan’s first meeting, lying, how to get over a crash out, the hoax of them being stylists and Pitchfork.
The Femcels are an electronic duo based in London, comprised of Gabriella and Rowan (Worldpeace DMT). A raw, unflinching, controversial and playful first outing by the duo speaks to the ugliness and discomfort of the female experience. It’s awesome.
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