Culture 101

Arts news for 20 April 2025 with Mark and Angie Audio

In the bringing together of art and mental health, Kim Morton is a champion. Following the Christchurch earthquakes, Kim founded Otautahi Creative Spaces, a busy creative community in inner city… Read more Audio

Well known interior designer Sonja Hawkins joined Culture 101 to talk about her passion for art, and to share some tips for displaying art in the home. Read more Audio

Ildica Boyd joins Culture 101 from the 9th biennial Easter Art exhibition hosted by Castle Hill Village Creative.  Read more Audio

Wellington based artist Michele Bryant joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

Mike Beer aka Ghostcat joins Culture 101 to discuss his The Ghosts on Every Corner exhibition. Read more Audio

Screening Sunday April 27 in Poneke Wellington is FW Murnau's classic 1922 spooky silent film Nosferatu: A symphony of Horror, with a few sensory twists. Not only will it be accompanied by a live… Read more Audio

On Saturday May 10 author, podcaster and self confessed Dracula tragic Noelle McCarthy will be giving a personal tour of the Victorian Gothic in the small Wairarapa town of Featherston.  Read more Audio

Arts News from across the country with Mark and Angie - for the second week of April 2025. Audio

"I am like the active verb to be and to do," wrote the determined trailblazing early New Zealand painter and writer Emily Cumming Harris. "I am," she added, "too necessary an appendage to be left… Read more Audio

Isabel Frey is singer and ethnomusicologist from Vienna, who is attempting to carry the musical tradition of the Jewish Labour Bund, the Yiddish-speaking socialist party in pre-World War II Eastern… Read more Audio

On the road between Christchurch and Queenstown, the town of Fairlie often gets called gateway to the Mackenzie Country.  Read more Video, Audio