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Standing Room Only for 06/26/2016
Standing Room Only is literally radio with pictures... and arts, theatre, film, comedy, books, dance, entertainment and music – all the things, in other words, that make life worth living.
Full programme details are available on the Standing Room Only webpage
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Performer and academic Marianne Schultz looks at how Maori extravaganzas - both here and overseas - helped to shape New Zealand's identity in her new book, Performing Indigenous culture on stage and screen.
Jun 26, 2016 02:48 pm
Crime stories regularly dominate what the news media offer us, as well as TV , movies, and most of all, bookshelves full of crime stories. But writer Fiona Sussman takes a step back in her new novel, The last time we spoke, which examines the full stories and emotions of a family and the young man who destroys their lives.
Jun 26, 2016 02:40 pm
Irish writer-director John Carney sprang to fame in 2007 with the surprise hit movie Once, about two struggling musicians in Dublin. He hit again with the more star-studded Begin again. Now he's back to his indie roots with another not-quite musical called Sing Street.
Jun 26, 2016 02:30 pm
Creating a synthesiser with potatoes as the main ingredient is one of the recent challenges jazz composer, bass-player and sound designer Tom Dennison set himself.
Jun 26, 2016 01:50 pm
Twenty years ago Jason Te Kare was a nervous new actor making his debut in Hone Kouka's play, Waiora - Te-u-ko-pai. Also in the cast was the hugely experienced Rawiri Paratene. Fast forward to now and Waiora is being restaged in Christchurch, Jason's new script Glimmer is about to open and Rawiri will perform in both Te Reo Maori and English in the Briar Grace Smith play, Purapurawhetu. Justin Gregory got the two together to talk about the state of Maori theatre in 2016 and to take them back to Waiora.
Jun 26, 2016 01:35 pm
Twenty years ago Jason Te Kare was a nervous new actor making his debut in Hone Kouka's play, Waiora - Te-u-ko-pai. Also in the cast was the hugely experienced Rawiri Paratene. Fast forward to now and Waiora is being restaged in Christchurch, Jason's new script Glimmer is about to open and Rawiri will perform in both Te Reo Maori and English in the Briar Grace Smith play, Purapurawhetu. Justin Gregory got the two together to talk about the state of Maori theatre in 2016 and to take them back to Waiora. (topics) arts, te ao maori (regions) Auckland Region, Canterbury (tags) Maori theatre, Waiora -Te-u-ko-pai, Christchurch
Jun 26, 2016 01:30 pm
One of New Zealand's artistic family dynasties is about to showcase the work of three generations of painters, printmakers, sculptors, photographers, architects and jewellers. In all, 10 members of the Drawbridge, Ashken, Lindsay and Wild family tree are showing their work in a survey show....we have a big gallery of images for you to look at on our webpage. It co-incides with the publication of a book documenting more than half a century of Tanya's sculptures, silversmithing and jewellery. The Ashken//Drawbridge/Lindsay/Wild 3-Generation Family Survey show opens on Thursday the 7th of July at Parliament's Exhibition Space in Wellington.
Jun 26, 2016 12:50 pm
The whole point of technology and robots - you'd think - is to achieve tasks much faster than people. But Wellington artist James Gilbert-Maine is building a robot that's deliberately slowing down the ultra- fast process of inkjet printing. His first solo exhibition, Four Finger Fandango, opens on the first of July at Toi Poneke Gallery in Wellington.
Jun 26, 2016 12:40 pm
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