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It's not news
that arts coverage is having a hard time holding its place in the
mainstream media but there's plenty of room online. Websites The
Spinoff and The Pantograph Punch are two local examples with very
different takes on how to talk about art. Justin Gregory invited the
Spinoff's Duncan Grieve and Janet McAllister from the Pantograph Punch
in to chat.
Jun 04, 2017 02:40
pm
What on earth
can you do when you're young, brilliant, ambitious - and female - in
medieval France? That's the dilemma facing the heroine of Mandy Hager's
new Novel, Heloise. Based on new research into the life of Heloise
d'Argenteuil, famed lover of 12th century French philosopher Peter
Abelard, this is a new take on a well-known story with very modern
questions at it heart.
Jun 04, 2017 02:25
pm
If you were
out and about during New Zealand music month, you might have seen some
familiar faces on billboards. Musicians of Aotearoa is a series of
portraits made into posters of some of our best but maybe not best
known musicians. Photographer Hayley Theyers went to the homes and
studios of musicians like Bill Direen, Peter Gutteridge, George
Henderson and Chris Knox to shoot them for the posters. She's a massive
music fan and we thought we'd invite her in to talk about the portraits
and listen to some of her favourite songs.
Jun 04, 2017 01:40
pm
Recognition of
Matariki is on the rise and along with it, a new appreciation of Maori
astronomical knowledge. Te Kokau Himiona Te Pikikotuku of Ruatahuna
began to compile a 400-page manuscript on Maori Astronomy with his son
Rawiri in 1898 which Rawiri Te Kokau completed in 1933. On his
deathbed, Rawiri Te Kokau handed this book to his grandson Timi Rawiri,
and in 1995 this book was then gifted to Timi's grandson Waikato
University lecturer Dr. Rangi Matamua. After years of studying this
manuscript and research into Maori astronomy, Dr Rangi Matamua has
brought this manuscript to life in his new book Matariki - the star of
the year. But major misunderstandings of what - and when - Matariki is
are still common. Dr Rangi Matamua talks to Justin Gregory to try and
clear some of these up.
Jun 04, 2017 01:10
pm
Dancers Kelly
Nash and Nancy Wijohn have worked for some of our best choreographers
but now they've taken the leap and made their own show. Lick My Past
opens this week at the Kia Mau Festival in Wellington. It celebrates
relationships between women and reflects the couple's need to not take
themselves too seriously. Especially given that, in their words, their
careers are now 'a matter of choice." Justin Gregory asks them if
this meant they are retiring. Kelly puts him right. The Standing Room
Only team done the hard work for you and picked some of the highlights
of the Kai Mau Festival.
Jun 04, 2017 12:50
pm
Right now the
Auckland Art Gallery is promising an encounter with "the human
form in all its complexity". The Body Laid Bare is a major
exhibition of nude masterpieces from the collection of the Tate Gallery
in London. It's on in Auckland until the middle of next month and is a
stupendous collection. But all complexities? No. So the gallery and the
British Council have commissioned five Pasifika artists to create video
responses to the collection. The first video, by artist Rosanna
Raymond, is online and has already been viewed more than 30,000 times.
Justin Gregory asks Rosanna, who is in New York on a Fellowship, if she
was expecting such a big reaction.
Jun 04, 2017 12:40
pm
Auckland's Red Leap Theatre have built
a formidable reputation for excellent physical theatre - and for
devising their stories in the rehearsal room. Their new show,
Kororareka - the Ballad of Maggie Flynn, promises to be just as
physical. But to tell this tale of adventure and danger in 19th century
Northland, they've added a new element - a script, written by Paolo
Rotondo: Justin Gregory went to Red Leap's rehearsal space in West
Auckland to ask director Julie Nolan why the change to the written
word.
Jun 04, 2017 12:25
pm
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