12:43 There's a shake up coming for the country's
orchestras. Tight funding and falling audiences has led the Ministry for
Culture and Heritage to put out a discussion document with four options for
change for orchestral music. We focus on two of the five orchestras included in
the review, Dunedin's Southern Sinfonia and the Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra.
12:50 Paora Joseph, the director of a documentary about
Parihaka... this time a group of children discover what happened to Maori
captured and moved around the country by British soldiers. Tatarakihi: the
Children of Parihaka is screening as part of the Film Festival.
1:10 At the Movies: The Dark Knight rises, and the film
awards fall.
1:31 Star of stage and, thanks to The Secret Lives of
Dancers, screen too... dancer Lucy Green takes on her first lead role as
Cinderella. The reality for her now is a punishing rehearsal schedule and
practicing to wear a tutu studded with 90,000 crystals.
1:41 An exhibition here in New Zealand of rarely seen
work and ephemera of the influential 20th century artist Marcel Du Champ, most
famous perhaps for his inverted urinal called The Fountain. The Adam Art
Gallery show also features work by New Zealand artists influenced by Du Champ's
'ready made' approach to art.
See images from the exhibition: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/galleries/duchamp
1:51 After 11 years and 14 operas, Dunedin's Really
Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan season comes to an end.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Weta Workshop's weapons specialist,
Greg Broadmore, who's just back from Comic Con in San Diego.
2:26 Ann Hunt reviews Waka, a work dance company Black
Grace is performing for the first time in New Zealand after taking it overseas.
2:31 This week some of our local Kiwi talent will be
making it onto the international stage as part of The Edinburgh Fringe
Festival. Writer and actor Ralph McCubbin Howell has written a twisted
children's fairy tale set in a Central Otago Gold mining town. The Road That
Wasn't There brings to life 53 characters, a paper town and one of Wellington's
iconic figures Ben Hana, otherwise known as Blanket Man, a member of
Wellington's homeless community who passed away last year. Sonia Sly speaks to
Ralph and Director Hannah Smith to find out more.
2:42 A tribute to author extraordinaire Margaret Mahy, in
her own words We play an extract from an interview Margaret Mahy (left) gave us in
2005 about writing New Zealand stories for Kiwi kids.
Listen to more interviews, documentaries and forums
featuring Margaret Mahy: http://www.radionz.co.nz/collections/margaretmahy
2:45 The recipient of this year's Kathleen Grattan Poetry
Award, Emma Neale (right), on her winning collection, The Truth Garden.
2:53 Walters Art Prize nominee Alicia Frankovich who
blends visual arts and live performance in her show Floor Resistance.
3:05 The Drama Hour: A special event - a three-part
global catastrophe/political thriller written and directed by John Dryden. It's
called Pandemic.
For more information and images visit the Arts on Sunday
webpage: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday
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