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2:48 PM.Jade Townsend disentangles weaves of beach mats which she then paints, using them to create colourful veils. They've usually been displayed on the walls of galleries, but now she's made a large… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:37 PM.Exploring how the mind can play tricks on us is what choreographer Rose Philpott is exploring in her first full length touring show, Dry Spell. She's created it for Footnote NZ Dance and it's about to… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.In Erik Kennedy's second poetry collection, Another Beautiful Day Indoors, he pinpoints both the weirdnesses of contemporary life but also many harsh realities we can't afford to ignore. The Otautahi… Read more Audio

1:45 PM."Matarau" refers to a multi-pronged spear used for fishing and eeling by early Maori. It's the name art curator Shannon te Ao has chosen for an exhibition of work by Maori artists who are exploring… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.They may look like a bunch of comfortable places to sit down and relax. But the lounge suites and other furniture that are about to pop up in shop windows along Dunedin's main street are in fact… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.Peter Cranson is from a family of clock repairers. Now based in Mt Maunganui where he trades as Peter Cranson Clock Repairs, he was brought up in Palmerston North. He and his dad did the maintenance… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.Playing a steely female spy in a man's world in a remake of the movie The Ipcress File was an opportunity British actress Lucy Boynton embraced. The thriller's set in 1963 when former army sergeant… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.As one door closes, in the form of yet another New Zealand International comedy festival this winter, a few small trapdoors seem to be opening up for our comedians. Over the past couple of years most… Read more Audio

2:35 AM.Seaweed is a talking point these days as a potential and as yet untapped source of biofuel and food - but less so as a subject for artists. The upcoming New Zealand Festival of Nature in Otepoti… Read more Audio

2:25 AM.There are more ways than ever to get published these days - including Twitter. Fantasy writer Nikky Lee won a Twitter competition that lead to the first in her Young Adult trilogy The Rarkyn's… Read more Audio

1:50 AM.Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra has captured on film some of the quintessential images of New Zealand life over her many decades behind the camera. She's remains deeply proud of her Dutch heritage… Read more Audio

1:33 AM.19th century Geologist and explorer Sir Julius von Haast's contribution to Aotearoa's scientific history has been quietly overlooked - but a symposium timed to coincide with his 200 birth year… Read more Audio

5:24 PM.Right now the movie industry is increasingly nervous, with all the big Hollywood studios saying the only way to make a profit is huge and very expensive blockbusters. But one company is going in the… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

2:39 PM.Family genealogy is irresistable for many of us, researching our whakapapa. There's another history though that's overlooked but often just as fascinating - the story of our homes. Christchurch-based… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:26 PM.With characters who include a pirate of low morals but high cheekbones and a witch who's also an excellent pick pocket and a keen bibliophile, you can tell you're in for a wild ride. India Holton's… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:46 PM.Author David Groves invites us to travel the Silk Road from fabled Asian capital Xanadu to Venice, with adventurer Marco Polo and the Emperor Kublai Khan as our guides, in his novel 7 Intelligible… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.In what she believes to be a first for Aotearoa, violinist Anne Loeser is about to play the entire cycle of Heinrich Biber's 17th century Rosary Sonatas for violin and continuo.. It's such a marathon… Read more Audio

12:31 PM.In the latest in our occasional series of interviews with repairers, we turn our attention to pottery. People are often encouraged to repair broken musical instruments, furniture or paintings. But… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Napier is about to host the largest collection of artwork by pioneering fine art printmaker Françoise Gilot ever exhibited in the Southern Hemisphere. Françoise is a spritely 100 years old - and for… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Young aspiring actors, directors, designers, writers, and theatre artists are being invited to apply for a new Youth Theatre company in Tamakai Makarau. It's for 16-25 year olds, and it's the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:36 PM.Stuffed animals used to be a fixture of Victorian houses and museums, though for modern eyes they elicit complicated responses. They're certainly striking - often magnificent - examples of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:26 PM.Violinist Rakuto Kurano has big ambitions for his time as the first Artist in Residence at a Wanaka retirement complex. He's just completing the first of three week-long stints at The Aspiring… Read more Video, Audio

1:45 PM.An exhibition to celebrate those who put pictures to words for one of our leading children's book publishers, is about to open in Whanganui. It's two years since the Lockett Gallery, an arm of Paige's… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.Every year it seems there are new regional film festivals, often hugely popular with Kiwi audiences. The big surprise about the latest one - the first Scandinavian Film Festival - is surely why has it… Read more Audio