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Standing Room Only - Arts stories for 06/11/2017



 
 
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Standing Room Only for 06/11/2017

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Pacific Dance Festival

The Pacific Dance Festival is now in its second year bringing workshops, conferences and community events - and showcasing some of New Zealand's most exciting contemporary Pacific dance choreographers. Andrew Robertson spoke to photographer and choreographer Pati Solomona Tyrell to find out more.
Jun 11, 2017 02:49 pm

Debut Novel from Eileen Merriman

Troubled teenager Rebecca is lonely after her family moves from Dunedin to Auckland...that's until she meets Corey. Writer Eileen Merriman's stories have been published in national and international journals and one of them formed the basis for her Young Adults novel, Pieces of You. An award winning short story writer and full time consultant haematoligist at North Shore Hospital, she talks to Lynn Freeman about her first novel.
Jun 11, 2017 02:40 pm

Last Minute Maestro

International conductors usually have only a few days to work with an orchestra before a performance - but in demand American conductor James Feddeck has a reputation for stepping onto the podium at the very last moment. When other conductors are indisposed, James steps in. The New Yorker prefers more notice though, and is heading our way soon to work with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to conduct its Schuman & Barber tour. Lynn Freeman finds out how he manages to earn an orchestra's trust so quickly.
Jun 11, 2017 02:25 pm

‘I am on the road to Tombuctoo’

Intrepid travel is a tourist slogan you hear a lot these days... but a new exhibition in Dunedin reminds us what 'intrepid' truly means. Intrepid Journeys: Traveling with the Hakluyt Society tells the stories of hundreds of adventurers, those who failed and who succeeded in their quests to venture into uncharted and dangerous territory over hundreds of years. The University of Otago's Special Collections Librarian, Dr. Donald Kerr tells Lynn Freeman more.
Jun 11, 2017 01:45 pm

Art Without Walls

Around the country hundreds of thousands of toanga are stored in vaults and warehouses. Our museums, art galleries and libraries simply don't have enough room to have every treasure on display at all times. Nelson artist Josephine Cachemaille has been fossicking through the storage area of the city's Suter Art Gallery, to create an exhibition featuring some of her favourite finds and work she's created to complement them. To Josephine, inanimate objects have a secret life. Lynn Freeman talks hidden treasures with her.
Jun 11, 2017 01:30 pm

Becoming Cary Grant

12:15 Piecing Together Past Lives No caption Photo: supplied For the past seven years archeologists have been sifting through two and a half tonnes of artefacts uncovered during the excavation of a site in Whanganui. And there's still more to learn. Otago University archeology PhD student Naomi Woods has been involved in the Whanganui project since 2013 and has pieced together the story of a family who lived on the site, which now hosts a shopping mall. Naomi's research extends beyond the bric-a-brac to searching out newspaper and stories and council documents to flesh out the stories of the people who lived here. Lynn Freeman finds out what attracted her to archeology. In the current age of Internet celebrity, when Full Disclosure seems to be the default position of everyone, it's interesting looking back to the early years of Hollywood. Part of the allure of stars like Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe, was that we seemed to know so little about them. And none were bigger than Hitchcock's favourite star, Cary Grant. Simon Morris picks up the story with Mark Kidel, director of the new documentary Becoming Cary Grant.
Jun 11, 2017 12:30 pm

Piecing Together Past Lives

For the past seven years archeologists have been sifting through two and a half tonnes of artefacts uncovered during the excavation of a site in Whanganui. And there's still more to learn. Otago University archeology PhD student Naomi Woods has been involved in the Whanganui project since 2013 and has pieced together the story of a family who lived on the site, which now hosts a shopping mall. Naomi's research extends beyond the bric-a-brac to searching out newspaper and stories and council documents to flesh out the stories of the people who lived here. Lynn Freeman finds out what attracted her to archeology.
Jun 11, 2017 12:15 pm


 

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