12:43 Being a circus performer is a demanding enough
artistic career for anyone who pursues it, but the Big A Award-winning artiste
Sarah Houbolt is also legally blind.
12:48 The top of the South Island hosts two exhibitions
designed to get people thinking, and talking... one's about whaling with mini
sculptures created by Graham Bennett, and the other is a community-based
project about drilling for oil off the New Zealand coast.
1:10 At The Movies: Two potentially creepy films - from
America Ted, about a teddy-bear come to life, and from New Zealand, How To Meet
Girls From A Distance, starring a would-be lovable stalker...
1:31 One of New Zealand's opera sensations - and that's
no exaggeration - tenor Simon O'Neill, who's been to Wagner boot camp in preparation
for a New Zealand production of The Valkyrie. Photograph by Fraser Harding.
1:43 Who is buying art and is art accessible for a new
generation of collectors? Melbourne-based collector Juan Garcia wanted to find
a way to make the process of buying art as transparent and simple as possible,
and he's set up a website called Art Fido. It works just like TradeMe or eBay
with the exception that its purely for selling and buying art online and
to-date there are already 50 New Zealand artists listed on the site. But is it
a safe way to buy art, what about the risks for artists, and will sites like
this take dealer galleries out of the picture? Sonia Sly speaks to Juan Garcia
, Gary Langsford of Gow Langsford Gallery and visual artist Bee Dougherty Pratt
to find out more.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Actor Sam Neill spins his favourite
comedy tracks and talks about his present and future projects, in New Zealand
and overseas.
2:26 The Music Director of Wellington's Orpheus Choir,
Mark Dorrell on rubbing shoulders with Stephen Sondheim, Dame Judie Dench and
Hugh Jackman, and one of his musical heroes...composer Leonard Bernstein. Mark
is behind the choir's upcoming production of Bernstein's comic opera, Candide.
2:34 The truly remarkable story of deer culler and bush
man Stag Spooner who created a detailed visual diary and illustrated envelopes
which he sent home during his war service. His story is told by Chris MacLean
in the Craig Potton published book Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush, and
the latest poetry collection from Janet Charman, At the White Coast published
by AUP.
2:53 Mother and daughter playwright and actress, Desiree
and Yael Geventsky who've brought their Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit play
Nuclear Family to New Zealand. It's based on their family story and Russian
Jewish immigrants living here when Chernobyl exploded.
3:00 The Drama Hour: Actress/writer Sophie Kendrick Goes
Solo, O le Samaria is an ingenious retelling of the Good Samaritan story, set
in Samoa, and this series of Joe Musaphia's The Gullibles comes to an end.
For more information and images visit the Arts on Sunday
webpage: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday
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