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12:50 PM.The Māoriland Film Festival is being held in Ōtaki on the Kapiti Coast this week 20-24 March. 

It's Aotearoa's annual International Indigenous film festival in a town where Māori culture thrives. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Still Lives - Auckland is a live performance artwork combining what are sometimes considered opposite ends of the spectrum; rugby and art. 

Following two weeks of rehearsal, the artwork will be at… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Culture 101’s Mark Amery invited award-winning author of fiction, poetry and essays, the Kirikiriroa Hamilton based Tracey Slaughter, to play Fast Favourites. Tracey picks out some favourite poems… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.It may be the fifth and final episode of Best of the Fest but festivals across Aotearoa have not been slowing down. 

Culture 101’s Perlina Lau in Tāmaki Makaurau is joined by playwright and… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.News for the week with Culture 101. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.A new report commissioned by Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono has found an increased interest and desire for Asian arts and cultural experiences in Aotearoa.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.For a band from Taranaki, making the WOMAD lineup is a dream come true. For Ngāmotu New Plymouth indie group, Fin Rah Zel, this weekend is it. 

Known for its outlier music and visual art scene, the… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Taiwan’s first professional percussion ensemble, Ju Percussion Group, was founded in 1986 by Tzong-Ching Ju who still leads the group today. Read more Audio

12:50 PM.In Samoan, aiga means family. Not just your immediate family but your wider circle. It could be through blood, marriage or even an adopted connection. 

It’s also the name and central theme of Lusi… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.There are four shining stars on screen in the new joyous and heartfelt Aotearoa New Zealand film The Mountain - the directorial debut of acclaimed actor Rachel House. 

The first is the majestic… Read more Video, Audio

12:10 PM.Dance company Black Grace has just returned from a US tour where thousands of people watched their latest work, Paradise Rumour. The company performed in Portland, Laguna Beach and Chicago. 

Black… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.In episode four of Best of the Fest, Culture 101 co-hosts Perlina Lau and Mark Amery find Aotearoa in full festival swing. 

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3:00 PM.The arts and culture news on Culture 101  Read more Audio

2:00 PM.In 2018, Sandro Kopp was tasked by film director Wes Anderson with creating ten monumental paintings for the film The French Dispatch in less than three months. 

Kopp’s works needed to look like the… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.A well known arts critic, historian and commentator, Andrew Paul Wood in Timaru fills us in on ‘drama’ around the Timaru Theatre Royal redevelopment, which includes a new venue for South Canterbury… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.What would a map that represents a more distinct lived human cultural perspective look like? That has been the very personal question for Icao Tiseli with her award-winning project Mapping the Wheke.

12:45 PM.It’s the 96th Academy Awards on Monday 11th March - the final ceremony of the awards season which started almost a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The true story behind theatre show Boy is both controversial and compelling. Appearing at the Auckland Arts Festival theatre and written by Dutch-born, Netherlands-based playwright Carly Wijs (Us/Them… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Robert Scott is best known as a member of seminal New Zealand bands The Bats and The Clean, but more quietly he’s been painting for decades with work appearing in both exhibitions… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Cue the drums - The Auckland Arts Festival kicks off this week! 

This is the third episode of Best of the Fest; a brand new RNZ national five-week lively conversation series  about a feast of… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.News from Aotearoa and abroad Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny’s work has long explored the culture of new technology and the dreams tech entrepreneurs sell us.   

Back in 2016, Denny was one of the first artists to… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for community groups, and a 'user pays' approach to… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.At the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Pōneke hangs an enormous New Zealand flag upon which artist Richard Lewer has painted the words: “To have a future I must reconcile with MY past.” 

Lewer’s… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.British coming-of-age drama, How to Have Sex has found a new way to tackle the issue of sexual consent. It’s strangely both nostalgic and very uncomfortable - which is perhaps, exactly why you should… Read more Video, Audio