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Trolleys as dance partners - who'd have thought?
Dec 11, 2016 02:50
pm
From
impoverished wife of a good for nothing charmer in Warwickshire, to
respectable settler in New Zealand - the story of Martha Grimm is told
in a novel by her several times great grandaughter, Alexandra Tidswell.
Dec 11, 2016 02:40
pm
The late
children's writer Roald Dahl is still a phenomenon, with his dark,
often surreal fairy stories scaring and delighting readers, young and
old. 2016 is the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Dec 11, 2016 02:25
pm
Steven Loft's
Jewish mother escaped Nazi Germany as a young girl, and his Mohawk
father is from the Iroquois community of Six Nations in Ontario.
Dec 11, 2016 01:50
pm
Susan Holmes
is one of the most successful textile artists to compete in the World
of Wearable Arts competition since it started in 1988.
Dec 11, 2016 01:35
pm
The advent of
the digital e-book and on-line book-buying were once confidently given
as proof that the publishing industry was as dead as... well, as dead
as the old-fashioned book itself. Not so. A new report commissioned by
the New Zealand publishing industry shows there's been a big increase
in sales of both e-books and actual books.
Dec 11, 2016 12:48
pm
Author and
jazz composer Norman Meehan spoke to about 40 musos about the state of
jazz in contemporary New Zealand, whether there's a distinctive New
Zealand jazz sound - and what needs to happen if jazz is to have a
bright future?
Dec 11, 2016 12:31
pm
The history of Maori carving tools is
a rich one, ranging from the contemporary and the traditional back to
the mythical. Clive Fugill is Master Carver at the NZ Maori Arts &
Crafts Institute in Rotorua, where he learned his craft in the late
1960s.
Dec 11, 2016 12:20
pm
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