From handbags to plastic bags to watch bags, who knew bags carried so much history and culture in Aotearoa? Grace Lai did! And lucky for us, Penelope brings Grace in to talk about the upcoming exhibition in Auckland War Memorial Museum’s new special exhibition hall, Carried Away: Bags Unpacked. Grace chats to Rachel about all the interesting findings from inside the bags, ooooh.
Amelia is joined by Che aka bb gurl aka Mallshopper for a conclusive list of the best of the best anime of all time PERIOD. But none of that Shonen nonsense - the good stuff.
Multi-hyphenate arts icon Coco Solid spoke with Rachel about Wheke Fortress, a new community and artist run space she is setting up in Onehunga with Big Fat Raro. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about the kaupapa and supoort the Boosted campaign here!
Max Richter is a well known German born British composer. He composes and records his own music, and writes for stage, opera, ballet and screen. In the upcoming Auckland Arts Festival, Richter is performing an eight-hour long concert designed to be heard overnight, with the audience lying down. Richter has created a mix of classical and electronic musi, made up of 31 uninterrupted pieces, to be experienced while in and out of consciousness and lucid dream states.
Richter has two shows at the Festival, both in March. Lillian Hanly spoke with him about his work.
Junior doctors will be striking for the second time this month in response to ongoing disputes regarding the existing employment contract between most junior doctors and District Health Boards. Liv Holdsworth spoke to David Munro from the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association and Earle Savage from a new breakaway union, the Specialty Trainees of New Zealand regarding their views on what's going on.
Neutral corner for this week looks at the ongoing protests in Bolivia following the resignation of longtime President Evo Morales in circumstances that his supporters describe as a military coup but which detractors frame as a healthy transition of power.
Heidi talks to Tokerau Wilson about his show Wheke Fortress at Audio Foundation. The show featured sonic workshops such as "Demystifying Musical Equipment" and a comics/storytelling one, "Outside the Frame".
Tom talked to Clare Gemima about her forays into the Brooklyn's the "Other Art Fair", and living in New York as an artist.
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