This week's
stories
Peruvian master weaver Máximo Laura is one of his
country's living treasures and his giant works have been shown
throughout the world. Using five thousand year old weaving techniques,
his designs blend the contemporary with the traditional. Maximo is
currently in New Zealand, showing some of his large intensely coloured
works and taking workshops to share his skills and philosophy of
weaving, as a guest of Creative Fibre NZ. His exhibition Eternal Vision
is on at Pataka in Porirua.
Jul 23, 2017
02:50 pm
 
Philip Temple and Emma Neale have edited Manifesto after
receiving around 500 poems from established through to emerging poets.
The collection is in four parts: Politics, Rights, Environment and
Conflict and the book is published by Otago University Press. They talk
to Lynn Freeman about the rich history of political poetry in New
Zealand.
Jul 23, 2017
02:40 pm
The country's only gallery committed to craft, design
and architecture has a new home, an Auckland warehouse redesigned and
kitted out in a 630-thousand dollar makeover. All will be revealed
later this week when the new Objectspace gallery on Rose Street in
Ponosonby opens its doors. The new not-for-profit gallery's much bigger
- all the better to show the work of designers and architects. Lynn
Freeman speaks to Objectspace Director Kim Paton, and Chairperson Ben
Corban and Managing Director of Design Studio Alt Group.
Jul 23, 2017
02:27 pm
We're in the middle of a new season of locally-made
Sunday Theatres on TVNZ One - all, as they say, plucked from the
nation's headlines. Why Does Love told the story of pop band the Dance
Exponents, this week sees Resolve, about Chris Crean who bravely fought
the Taranaki gangs (pictured), and next week more crime - the story of
the infamous Black Widow.
Jul 23, 2017
01:48 pm
It's an unusual title, but Susan Tolich can now call
herself New Zealand's first official Wikimedian-in-Residence. She's
doing a Master's of Museum and Heritage Studies at Victoria University
but has spent the past few weeks hunkered down at Auckland Museum.
Jul 23, 2017
01:32 pm
The extraordinary life of Elizabeth Pinfold, awarded the
Queen Elizabeth Medal for her work helping Belgian refugees during the
First World War, has been remembered at a ceremony at Kaori Cemetary by
members of her family.
Jul 23, 2017
12:47 pm
We make good documentaries in New Zealand, and nowhere
is that more obvious than at the International Film Festival.
This year is a gala one, with over a dozen top Kiwi documentary
features on show. But what's the first step in a
documentary? Simon Morris wanted to find out, and talked to three
of our best practitioners - Gaylene Preston (My year with Helen), Annie
Goldson (Kim Dotcom - Caught in the web) and Florian Habicht
(Spookers).
Jul 23, 2017
12:17 pm
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