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1:31 PM.Postcards... Instagram and other social media may have overtaken them as the favourite way to show people where you've been, but there's still something terribly evocative about the word. Auckland… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:43 PM.Dr Sandy Adsett is one of the most significant and respected Maori artists and art teachers of his generation. Now, finally, he's agreed to a retrospective exhibition embracing his six decades of… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Homegrown experts in Krumping, Waacking, Vogue and Hip Hop dance styles are about to be celebrated in a new dedicated event. THE NEST: Street Styles Solo Festival is the first of what the organisers… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.April this year saw a mass resignation of the board of Museums Aotearoa, reportedly over its governance and management. There were concerns it might not survive the upheaval, but there's now a new… Read more Audio

2:48 PM.Three quarters of a million dollars over the next three years is earmarked to boost Tauranga's arts, culture and heritage sectors as part of the city council's long-term plan. In fact, over 10% of the… Read more Video, Audio

2:35 PM.One of the bleakest stories by respected writer Owen Marshall, Coming Home in the Dark, is the basis for a new film of the same name. The story of a family tormented by strangers in Central Otago was… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, the Australian TV series set in the 1920s and starring Essie Davis as the amateur sleuth with the fab frocks, was so popular there's now a spin-off set in the 1960s… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.The comedy business is a competitive one - and in the end the final judge of whether a comedian is any good or not is the audience. But to get to that audience is the trick. And for many comics, you… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.A series called New Kid in Town - Tiktok-type videos shot around Nelson's tourism hotspots - is just one of the projects that video artist Christopher Ulutupu has roped in his extended family to… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:32 PM.Some male-dominated creative realms are proving harder for women to crack than others - like music production, particularly the DJ and electronic music scenes. So why is that? In an effort to turn it… Read more Audio

12:38 PM.A Christchurch art space has helped people who struggle with alcohol and drug addiction issues, with isolation, institutionalisation and homelessness for the past seven years. Now it will be able to… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Five years of painstaking work by Nga Taonga Sound and Vision film conservators has revealed previously obscured details in Merata Mita's landmark 1983 film PATU! The documentary focuses on the deeply… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.The intense bullying of a young boy by schoolmates over his love of My Little Pony motivated expat Kiwi Rob McDonald to write his award winning book The Nancys that took out last year's Ngaio Marsh… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A recording studio in Hokianga has successfully attracted enough funding on the website, Boosted, to get the process of setting up a new sound desk and studio well on the way. Eru Wano, Jo Barrett and… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.Brass Band to Follow is the name of Bryan Walpert's 4th poetry collection and in it, he's thinking about what it means move into middle age. The busy professor in creative writing at Massey University… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.A new plan to get Southlanders more excited about and involved in the arts is about to be unleashed on the region. That's after the Arts Murihiku Charitable Trust succeeded in its application for a… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.When she's not in her studio, Christchurch artist Melissa Macleod can be found foraging coastal flower seeds around New Brighton. She takes the seeds home and cultivates them in a greenhouse before… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Lucy "Takiora" Lord who worked alongside the militia in the Taranaki Land Wars, helped the government purchase Maori land in her own tribal area and was guide and interpreter for Major Gustavus Von… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:10 PM.Loneliness we know is a huge issue for many older people, as are losing self-confidence and mobility. Community drama classes for seniors being held in several Wellington suburbs are encouraging… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:50 PM.Remember their names....James Kereama Stent and Tui Tahere-Katene performed together recently on Maori Television's new talent show 5 Minutes of Fame. Not only did the Kapiti based friends who are… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.A New Zealand champion of flash fiction - ultra short stories - has just published what's described as a hybrid of small fictions and poetry called 'the other side of better'. Read more Audio

1:47 PM.An actor's voice is as important - if not more so - than their look when it comes to casting. Film makers have more options than stage - for example the voices of many of the Bond girls in the first… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.The ill-fated attempt by Nelson colonists to confront Te Rauparaha and a party of his warriors in 1843 - a fatal dispute now known as "The Wairau Affray" - is being portrayed in a new stage play… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Composer John Gibson has set himself a pretty big task - conveying the power and dominance of the Catholic Church in Renaissance Europe through sound and music. Rather than relying on existing sound… Read more Audio