Culture 101

Marcus McShane’s latest experiment is to employ his cargo bike as a mobile video projection unit, screening commissioned audiovisual animation onto the upper floors of Cuba Street buildings as he… Read more Video, Audio

It is 50 years since The Rocky Horror Show premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London.  Read more Audio

The NZSO will accompany an 80-strong choir this week in a celebration of Pasifika music, combining symphony with songs from the Pacific. Read more Audio

Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator in Historical New Zealand Art has been rethinking Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial visual culture, and her current research focuses on nineteenth-century female botanical… Read more Audio

There are many books about lighthouse keepers. And many iconic images of lighthouses on our coastline. Yet the lighthouse keeper was pretty much made extinct in the 1970s in New Zealand when… Read more Audio

Spooky, beautiful, yet funny, Greta Anderson’s photography transforms day into night, while invasive flora and domestic objects glow with spiritual electricity. 

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Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region around the motu - for our regional wrap. 

This week we're in culture-rich Ōtepoti, Dunedin with Pip Laufiso. Read more Audio

“Sharpen your pencils and limp your wrists, Queer Academy is upon us.” Read more Audio

Records are made to be broken right?  Read more Audio

Born and raised in Rēkohu, the largest of the Chatham Islands, musician and storyteller Ajay Peni is a young ambassador for the revitalisation of Moriori culture and its rongo, or music.

While now… Read more Audio

Every week on Culture 101 we invite a guest to share their love of culture and shout out to other artists. This week it's actor, director and producer Te Kohe Tuhaka (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou).  Read more Video, Audio

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