Culture 101

Dec 07 2024 476 ep. 15 mins 12
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Perlina Lau and Mark Amery host a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.

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Acushla-Tara Kupe: recording global hit drama podcasts from NZ

Dec 07 2024 20 mins  
RNZ’s Simon Morris was listening to one of the most popular series in the UK - Sherlock & Co - when he recognised the voice of Dr Watson’s girlfriend and later his good lady wife, Mary Morstan. It was the New Zealand accent that gave her away. The series is only second in popularity in the UK to the long-running Archers.

Our uneasy place in the animal kingdom with Jane Dodd

Dec 07 2024 30 mins  
White footed ants made from freshwater pearls, a scorpion's sting carved out of ebony, and an orangutan and a gibbon in yew wood and hollywood, respectively. What about a giant petrel beak in basswood? Or a pupu rangi (kauri snail) made out of kauri gum and silver? These are but a handful of the 44 diverse animals represented exquisitely and imaginatively in jewellery by Jane Dodd

Regional Wrap: Toi Māori and puppetry with Oriwa Morgan Ward in Putāruru

Dec 07 2024 5 mins  
Oriwa Morgan Ward joins Culture 101 to share her passion for promoting of Māori art and Te Reo Māori through creative activity.

The multi-talented Cadence Chung: Retracing the Footsteps of Early Chinese Immigrants

Dec 07 2024 21 mins  
If there’s an aspect of the arts Cadence Chung isn’t involved in, you sense it won’t be long before she tackles it. Encounter is a narrative-led audio walk in Pōneke that follows the stories of early Chinese immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. Premiering this month, it is presented by BATS Theatre as part of the Six Degrees Festival.

Producer Jason Taylor: empowering new storytellers in an unconventional journey into film

Dec 07 2024 12 mins  
The Te Tai Tokerau screen producer joins Culture 101 to talk about his SPADA Screen Industry Award and why he is passionate about empowering a new generation of storytellers.

Peter Dasent: The star-studded Underwatermelon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes

Dec 07 2024 12 mins  
It’s a roll call of turn-of-the-century Kiwi greats: John Clarke, Neil and Tim Finn, Bic and Boh Runga, Jenny Morris, Chris Knox, The Topp Twins, Che-Fu, Don McGlashan, King Kapisi and Dave Dobbyn. The only performer to turn down appearing on The Underwatermelon Man and other Unreasonable Rhymes was John Rowles.

A remarkable place to make films: actor and filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford

Dec 07 2024 15 mins  
2024 has been quite the year for screen actor and filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford. A week ago she finished filming her first feature film Caterpillar, a work she has directed and been writing for six years. Then there is her role in almost every peopled frame of the now streaming TVNZ crime drama A Remarkable Place to Die. Preston Crayford plays the show’s lead Detective Anai

Arts News

Nov 30 2024 2 mins  
Events from the NZ arts world over the past week.

Toi Te Mana: the bold and beautiful landmark book reframing Māori art

Nov 30 2024 29 mins  
A 600-page new book that took 12 years to create is set to reframe the history of Māori art. Toi Te Mana (Auckland University Press) brings together work from Māori artists and museums from around the globe, ranging from Polynesia voyaging waka to contemporary Māori art, from body adornment and carving to street art and moving image.

Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life.

Nov 30 2024 15 mins  
Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life. The Rope/Walk community art project is centred around the South Dunedin's Rope Walk Building where Morseth has so far woven 68 metres of harakeke rope by hand with the help of many volunteers.