Friday, May 14, 2010

Arts on Sunday 16 May 2010 - Radio NZ National - with Lyn Freeman

12:40 pm
We cross to Australia to find out from arts reviewer Josie McNaught about two major art exhibitions involving Kiwis in Australia** the 17th Sydney Biennale and the Unnerved exhibition of New Zealand art on show in Brisbane.

12:50
The country’s Pacific Arts Capital, Manukau, is in the midst of celebrating what’s been achieved so far in the arts produced there, and looking ahead to the future. We hold a precursor to a forum on curating Pacific Art.

1:00 At the Movies with Simon Morris - Sandra Bullock crowns an interesting year with an Oscar for her performance in The Blind Side.

1:30 Fat Freddys Drop is about to drop in to a theatre near you with a 3D extravaganza - and we find out how the band has built up its international following.

1:40 We meet the new head of Contemporary Dance at the New Zealand School of Dance, Paula Steeds-Huston, who’s CV includes working as a choreographer and performer on Lord of the Rings, The Lost World and music videos.

1:50
A chat with two visiting Canadian artists who make sure people don’t forget what life is really like on Indian reserves.

2:00
The Laugh Track: Actress Lyndee-Jane Rutherford entertains people for a living. She tells us what makes her laugh.

2:25
Dave Armstrong drops in to review Opera New Zealand’s latest version of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

2.30
Lucy Orbell discovers a futuristic vision of a world where beauty is everything - and women rule. Andrea du Chatenier’s sculpture exhibition, Goldenage, sets a scene of feminine desire and excess.

2:40
Simon looks at the often thorny issue of turning a successful and much loved novel into a successful and much loved movie.

2:50
Pear Shaped is a new play set in and performed smack in the middle of Auckland’s North Shore

3:00
Our Sunday Drama is The Blackening by Paul Rothwell, in which three brothers find they are doomed to do what has been done to them.

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