Various Artists with Beth & Sofia

FromThePit is Aotearoa’s longest running music photo exhibition, now in its sixth consecutive year. This year has seen a particularly large pool of photographers, having grown over the years.

The exhibition highlights the vibrant essence of New Zealand’s music scene. It will feature images snapped by photographers across the motu over the past year.

Beth had a kōrero with Brad Miller about FromThePit.

Creative New Zealand has launched resources to support arts and creative practitioners make sustainable careers and businesses from their work, and to provide them with the skills and tools to do so.

The resources aim to support practitioners and arts organisations to implement Creative New Zealand’s Remuneration Policy, which sets out principles and practice guidelines aimed at supporting fair remuneration for artists and arts practitioners (from Creative NZ). Introductory workshops will be hosted in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin across May and June, as well as an online one for those who missed out. 

Beth had a kōrero with the producer of Creative New Zealand’s Sustainable Careers, Adrianne Roberts, about new resources to support arts and creative practitioners to make sustainable careers.

This week on Various Artists!

Beth catches up with Senior Curator of Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Nathan Pōhio, about Taimoana: Coastlines in Art in Aotearoa, a new exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki that explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand in relation to the coast.

And Nicholas catches up with co-curators of Buttercup and Lavender, a new exhibition showing at the Arts House Trust. Inspired by the Pirongia home of artist Peter Shaw, the exhibition plays with themes of hospitality and natural forms.

Great art, great tunes and your weekly Art Guide for Tāmaki Makaurau, only on bFM.

Tom Sainsbury and Johanna Cosgrove are on Stage Direction talking about their respective Comedy Festival shows.