Elam School of Fine Arts Honours student Rachel Ashby joins Hannah to talk about her current collaborative soundscape project Manifesto for the Fractured Now. Thanks to the University of Auckland.
Written by the author of the Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, Emotional Creature is a play that explores the stories of women from around the world and gives validity to emotional experiences. Joel Thomas speaks to theater director Forrest Denize about the play, which is on now at Samoa House until this Saturday.
This week Sam takes a special look at Prince's 1987 double album "Sign o' the Times", one year after his death. This album is now considered to be one of Prince's most ambitious projects and one of the best albums from the 1980's.
On Sunday, Tom talked to Caitee Clarke, Maia Abraham and Hamish Peterson - the crew behind the new artist run space Ōtautahi Kōrerotia. They are about to launch an exciting programme with “Pūtahi; tributaries feeding tributaries” by artists Phoebe Hinchliff, Mikaela Marshall and Liv Worsnop.
Then we were back in Auckland, hearing from Vivienne Worn, who’s show ‘Re-reading Laurencin’ is on now at Window Gallery. Nadine and Vivienne caught up, and discussed the influence of Marie Laurencin, the French painter of the early 20th century, on Worn’s abstractions.
Privacy law expert Gehan Gunasekara joins Sarah in studio to discuss information gathering and our privacy, now that we live in a world where 'our phones know more about us than our partners'. Sheesh.
The Auckland Vogue Scene has been alive and thriving in the CBD for years now but it’s truly come into the limelight with a short documentary Vice produced this year, showcasing the young LGBTQ Maori and Pasifika community that makes it shine. Jogai caught up with New Zealand Samoan artist Jaycee Tanuvasa about the incredible journey of Voguing, and how it aims to uplift and empower some of the most vulnerable in our society.
Our second annual NZ music special, featuring a selection of music exploring taonga pūoro put together by Rob Thorne. Rob's brilliant collaborative album with Fis is entitled 'Clear Stones', and is out now on Subtext Recordings. FP DJ Harmony rounds out the show.
Dom Hoey (a.k.a. poet and spoken word maestro Tourettes) talks to Mike on launch day of his debut novel, Iceland. Written over the course of the last five years, Iceland tells the story of a love pulled through the increasing gentrification and class stratification of Grey Lynn. Available now from all choice bookstores.
This week on the Green Desk, Lilly speaks with Titrangi Residents and Ratepayers Association chair, Dr. Mels Barton, about the controversy over the previously proposed WaterCare Oratia site, which will now be built in Titirangi.
The television landscape in New Zealand is changing faster and faster every year. For more than 40 years journalists have written about convergence of our media, and it seems we have reached peak, with internet and television becoming one. With the Sky and Vodafone merger appeal being withdrawn from the high court, it seems an impending monopoly of television in New Zealand has been put on hold. For now. Harry talks with news and technology writer Bill Bennett about whether this is the case, and about the state of New Zealand television in 2017.