Rachael talked to Bianca Rocca and Toya Webb about their show 'Working Title', on at the George Fraser Gallery. Theo was in studio and played some Korean experimental music from the Bulgasari community. He also played some commentry from John Waters, the director of Multiple Maniacs.
Music can be a pretty unifying force, especially for the geographically isolated. Kiran talks to Mikey about music critic David Keenan's first novel, This Is Memorial Device, which evokes this idea while portraying a fictional post-punk band in '70s-'80s small town Scotland.
Alex picks a show Mike's had on the brain for ages - the '70s crime drama Quarry. With an antihero whose story spans the Mekong to the Mississippi, Alex gets in behind to make some bold claims of quality.
Risk is a new exhibition by Tim Wagg. It’s centred on the Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Warkworth Project.
Through a series of printed aluminium panels, Wagg depicts the physical infrastructure of the road alongside the corporate structure underlying the asset’.
Beth had a kōrero with Tim about Risk and the creative thinking behind the project.
This week Bronwyn spoke to Tracey about the party’s opposition to the $100 million Southland Recovery Package, especially in the context fo the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter. We also talked abut a number of issues that are topical in Parliament at the moment, such as paid mandatory managed isolation and code of conduct for MPs. Lastly, we spoke about the government's $20 million in regional funding to tackle methamphetamine use and what that means for families and children.
Framing Hope is a photography exhibition featuring the works of seven photographers, raising funds for the surf lifesaving clubs in Piha, Te Henga/Bethells Beach, Muriwai, and KareKare that were affected by cyclone gabrielle. Josh McCormack is one of the photographers and organisers of the exhibition. Simon began by asking Josh to share what Framing Hope is.
Cat Fooks is a Tāmaki based, material led painter who immerses herself within the world of her studio. In which Cat no longer views it as just a physical space but rather its own dimension built up of paint and clutter that is crucial to the making of the works.
Her current exhibition Didymus Mountain presents a series of vibrant and playful paintings. Little worlds of abstract colour and texture that seem to rebel against the typical convention of the frame. Engulfing the frame itself in a multitude of rich layers of paint, rejecting this ‘framing’ and instead bringing it into the world of the painting itself. Eliminating this space between the painting and the space of the world.
Maya had a chat with Cat about her overall practice and the show.
Miss Dom digs on some holiday freedoms and gets into the Summer of Soul doco, plus more tracks from the MPS label 2021 Reissue Series, and guest selector Johnny & The Dambusters joins for part 2 with a Ska-Jazz Special.
Miss Dom's tracklist:
MC 900 Ft Jesus - Tip Top Through the Inferno
The Jive Kiwis - Bubble & Squeak
Samara Joy - Everything Happens to Me
Summer Of Soul Featurette
Nina Simone - Revolution
Harlem Underground Band - Cheeba Cheeba
Myele Manzanza
Etta James - Sunshine of your love
Freddie Hubbard - Blues for Daune
The Three-handed Beat Bandits - Cold Duck Time (after the stream)
Johnny & The Dambusters' tracklist:
King Tubby - Take Five
Laurel Aitken - Mi vida sin tu amor
The Skatalites - Swing Easy
The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble - Grooving Steady
Jazz Bo - In Walked Bud
North East Jazz Orchestra - Good Rockin Daddy
Tommy McCook - Caution
Phylis Dillion with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - Perfidia
The Jazz Jamaica All Stars - Vitamin A
Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation - St James Infirmary
St Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review - All my Loving
Sly & Robbie featuring Ernest Ranglin & Monty Alexandra - Lively Up Yourself
1 year on from the awful Grenfell Tower fire in London, the Auckland Council have declared that the highly combustible aluminium polyethylene filled cladding is safe for use in Aucklands buildings.
The council have produced a list naming all the buildings with the cladding which include 7 Auckland hospital buildings and Auckland universities OGGB building.
Lucy Austin spoke with RNZ reporter Phil Pennington to find out more.
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