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Arts on Sunday for Sunday 25 September 2011

  • Old School-New School

    2:50 PM.Dish drawers, pop-up toasters and some of the latest high tech offerings from Weta Workshop feature in an exhibition marking the 125th anniversary of New Zealand's oldest design school - the… Read more Audio

  • National Youth Orchestra

    2:35 PM.Joy Tonks has written a comprehensive history of the National Youth Orchestra, which draws on the memories of hundreds of musicians who have played in it. Jane Freed also recounts her experiences as a… Read more Audio

  • DJ Connell

    2:28 PM.Expatriate Hamiltonian D J Connell is riding the kind of wave few New Zealand writers get to experience. With a film adaptation of her first novel in the works, her second book Sherry Cracker Gets… Read more Audio

  • Atamira -Te Houhi Review

    1:54 PM.Raewyn Whyte reviews the latest work from Auckland dance company Atamira; Te Houhi. Audio

  • Wellington Joystick Orchestra

    1:45 PM.Sonia Sly asks Nolwenn Hugain how video game joysticks can allow you to play music at the touch of a button. Audio

  • Ka Mate: The Haka, The legend

    1:35 PM.A new documentary on Maori Television tells the story of Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha, and the rise of the haka he created. Audio

  • The future of Wellington arts: a discussion

    12:50 PM.How can the capital reinvigorate its arts scene? The Wellington City Council is seeking submissions on its draft Arts and Culture strategy. Martin Rodgers from the City Council and Erica Duthie, one… Read more Audio

  • The Truth Game

    12:42 PM.Deputy Editor (News) of the Otago Daily Times, Simon Cunliffe is also a playwright. He writes about what he knows in his new work set in the newsroom of a daily paper. Audio

12:40 The Truth Game

Huge changes for newsrooms here and overseas are explored in a new Dunedin play written by the Otago Daily Times' Deputy Editor (News), Simon Cunliffe (below left).

Simon Cunliff and The Truth Game

12:50 Wellington's draft arts and culture policy

Wellington arts organisations are invited to have their say over the city's draft arts and culture policy. We'll find out if it's worth the effort of putting in a submission.

Martin Gibson and Erica Duthie
Centre: Manager of City Arts, Martin Rodgers. Right: Wellington street artist Erica Duthie, whose next work will be on the front face of Te Papa as part of the Festival of Carnival for the Rugby World Cup.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris

Simon Morris looks two quirky American comedies - Friends With Benefits starring Justin Timberlake, and Win Win, written by Tom McCarthy, who made The Station Agent. He also talks to New Zealand filmmaker Paul Campion about why The Devil's Rock was such a hit at the Cannes Film Festival.

1:30 Ka Mate The Haka The Legend

The true history of the haka is revealed in a new Maori TV documentary Ka Mate The Haka The Legend. Writer and director Wiremu Grace and producer, Maramena Roderick talk about getting the full story on film for the first time.

Gallery: still from Ka Mate The Haka The Legend.

THE HAUNTING MATAKITE
Still from the documentary: the haunting matakite.

1:40 Joystick Orchestra

Established in France through Puce Muse, New Orchestra Practices (NOP) are transforming the way audiences experience, and participate in live music. It's a an inter-arts collaboration where members of an orchestra control sound and visuals with joysticks. Sonia Sly chats to conductor Nolwenn Hugain-Lacire to find out more about the Joystick Orchestra.

Group image Nop orchestra Baptiste Verret
NOP orchestra. Photograph © Baptiste Verret.

1:50 Te Houhi - the people and the land are one

Raewyn White reviews Atamira's first full length dance production in three years which has premiered at Auckland's Q Theatre.

Gallery: photographs from the production which celebrates the tribal history of the Tuhoe people.

Te Houhi Maunga shot

2:00 The Laugh Track: comedian Jamie Bowen

Jamie's picks are: Steve Martin - Atheists have no songs; Peter Sellers sings George Gershwin; Victor Borge in concert; Dylan Moran - Americans; Eddie Izzard - In French.

Jamie Bowen Publicity copy
Jamie Bowen.

2:30 Chapter & Verse

A history of the New Zealand Youth Orchestra, the first 50 years encapsulated in one book by Joy Tonks, and expat Kiwi novelist D J Connell on her latest offering, Sherry Cracker Gets Normal, published by Harper Collins.

NYO and Sherry Cracker

2:50 OLD SCHOOL/NEW SCHOOL, an art and design history of New Zealand

An exhibition marks the 125th anniversary of this country's first design school, first called the Wellington Design School and now part of Massey University's College of Creative Arts. On show are students' designs from the humble but effectice dust pan to the high tech dishwasher drawer.

the Instrument Supplies drench gun designed by Peter Tasker
Instrument supplies drench gun designed by Peter Tasker.

3:00 The Sunday Drama

Every day, medical laboratories test hundreds of swabs sent to them by doctors as part of a precautionary regime designed to protect New Zealanders and our vital agriculture industry. Our short play 'Close Shave' today takes us to one such laboratory when a microscope reveals something the staff had seen previously only in Textbooks: A bacterium that looked just like Bacillus Anthracis... Anthrax.