Culture 101
Perlina Lau and Mark Amery host a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.
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June 14, 2025 • 20 mins
Located in the centre of the Pacific, Tahiti's closest large land mass is Aotearoa New Zealand. It is where, from Raiatea, Maori migration canoes left in what is thought to be the late 13th Century or early 14th Century. Tahitian novelist Titaua Peu has for the last four months been French writer in residence at Randell Cottage in Poneke Wellington.
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June 14, 2025 • 20 mins
Multi-disciplinary artist Julia Holden is better known for her live performance art, clay work and animated paintings so when she started painting pets and animals, it wasn't a turn she saw coming.
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June 14, 2025 • 4 mins
A gateway to Tairawhiti East Cape from the north is the town of Ōpōtiki in the Bay of Plenty. As a creative hub local organisation Ōpōtiki Arts has a new leash of life with this year 95 members in their ranks, and since 1977 they've owned their own premises, a historic 1898 hall.
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June 14, 2025 • 22 mins
In the new feature film Koka an elder Maori woman, under the celestial guidance of Matariki, makes a long journey home in a car that's seen better days. For Koka's director, Kath Akuhata-Brown of Ngati Porou, this has also been a long journey - to make a film on her own terms.
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June 14, 2025 • 12 mins
Good Bitches are still baking across the country and the collective has just released its third cookbook Familiar Foods. But it's not the classics you may be imagining but rather family recipes; some of which have been in the family for generations.
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June 14, 2025 • 23 mins
Te Ahu a Turanga is a new $824 million 11.5-kilometre four-lane highway connecting the Lower North Island East to West. It opened this week. it is, in effect an enormous sculpture park you can drive through. Through art, design, pattern and planting it places a cloak across the land, including references in sculpture to instruments of weaving.
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June 14, 2025 • 13 mins
To celebrate Matariki, singer-songwriter, TV presenter and political candidate Ria Hall will be on stage with the Auckand Philharmonia to present a night of epic anthems. Her self-titled EP won Best Māori album at the music awards in 2012, blending hip hop beats with rich layers of Te Reo and English. She has since released two more albums; Rules of Engagement and Manawa Wera and has collaborated with many of Aotearoa's leadin...
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June 7, 2025 • 19 mins
Does an underground still exist? Or is it just one more consumer choice in an ever growing banquet of ticketed events? Testing this may be Tamaki Makarau's biennial Festival of Live Arts (FOLA), at the Basement Theatre from June 11 to 15.
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June 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of the country and we're going a bit more suburban this week to West Auckland - and the suburb of Titirangi. Close to the Waitakere Ranges and beaches nearby, the village is surrounded by lush greenery. With scenic reserves, the area became a tourist destination on the fringes of Tamaki Makaurau. Local and filmmaker Robin Kewell joins Culture 101.
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June 7, 2025 • 16 mins
Award-winning UK festival Focus Wales celebrates emerging talent and artists. The festival which has been running for 15 years saw more than 22 thousand attendees, showcased 250 artists across 20 stages in various venues around Wrexham. As part of a cultural exchange last month, bilingual musicians, Jordyn with a Why, Mā and Mohi travelled to Wales to represent Aotearoa. The reclamation of both the Welsh language Cymraeg, and ...
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June 7, 2025 • 23 mins
This month welcomes two contemporary indigenous performing arts festivals which have established themselves as cornerstones of the presentation of new work from Aotearoa and across the Pacific.
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June 7, 2025 • 15 mins
A new digital whodunnit comedy series puts the spotlight on the dangers and growing epidemic of image-based abuse and bullying. Inspired by millennial television shows like Gossip Girl, The Sender is based around a group of prefects who have a final night of debauchery at a bach before taking on their roles and responsibilities in their final year of school. But as the night unravels, anonymous messages hit their phones with s...
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June 7, 2025 • 11 mins
If cities can be lonely places no one told artist Sallie Culy. A familiar face on the streets of inner city Poneke Wellington, Sallie counts many people she has met a friend. Its an approach to life summed up in the title of a book of her drawings recently published: Hello to Everybody.
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June 7, 2025 • 12 mins
The shortlist for the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults was announced this week and, among the titles, is a story on the theme of Matariki by journalist and broadcaster Miriama Kamo.
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May 31, 2025 • 23 mins
This next fortnight sees the visit of indigenous performers to Aotearoa from across Te Moana Nui a kiwa -the Pacific Ocean. They are presenting works at two established contemporary festivals - Pacific Dance New Zealand in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, and Kia Mau in Poneke Wellington.
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May 31, 2025 • 7 mins
Every week in RNZ Culture 101's Regional Wrap we find out about the arts scene in a place beyond our city centres. This week it's a suburb that developed its own sense of identity before travel was made easier by a harbour bridge. It's Takapuna on the North Shore of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
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May 31, 2025 • 14 mins
A competition to see who's best at doing nothing will be one of the highlights at the Melbourne Rising Festival. The Space Out event will last 90 minutes and participants have to excel at doing nothing while treating it like a competitive sport. In a world that glorifies hustle culture and productivity, this is encouraging the opposite. First held in 2014, South Korean artist Woopsyang set up the exhibition when she herself wa...
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May 31, 2025 • 28 mins
In 1988 a choir founded in the '50s Soviet socialist era, the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir released the album Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares. It won them a Grammy, turned them into an unlikely global sensation and is said to have helped birth the genre World music. Kate Bush recorded with them that same year, and David Bowie and his wife Iman even chose one of their songs to replace 'Here Comes the Bride' at the...
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