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This week's stories

A Fringe Festival challenge: create an album in 12 hours

How to Write an Album in 12 Hours is a New Zealand Fringe Festival show, and Play Shop's musicians, improvisers and writers start work at midday on Sunday in front of a live audience. Producer Sam Irwin cames into the studio to update Lynn Freeman on the project's progress and maybe share the first of the album's tracks.
Mar 11, 2018 02:49 pm

Poet Vincent O'Sullivan's new novel All This By Chance

Writer and editor Vincent O'Sullivan published his first novel Let the River Stand in 1993, his second Believers to the Bright Coast in 1998. He's kept us waiting for another two decades for his third novel, All This By Chance.
Mar 11, 2018 02:37 pm

The digital magic of Ed Hawkins

Visual effects man Ed Hawkins has his name attached to around 50 movies, his name might be new to you. Ed was a digital compositor on The BFG, and he's worked on digital effects for Harry Potter, The Jungle Book and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Mar 11, 2018 02:24 pm

An art gallery in Gisborne is going great guns

Nine years ago Matthew Nache established a small dealer gallery in the heart of Gisborne. From the start the art lover had an eye on the national and international markets for artists with a point of difference.
Mar 11, 2018 01:48 pm

The life and fashion of Bruce Papas

Lynn Freeman spoke to the Fashion Museum's director Doris De Pont and to Jane Groufsky who's Collection Manager, Human History at Auckland War Memorial Museum about Bruce Papas and his 50 years in the fashion industry.
Mar 11, 2018 01:32 pm

Reviving Stage Challenge

A new performing arts competition called Art In Motion is rising from the ashes, created by two Whangarei teenagers. Jayden Rudolph and Teale Vint are both 19, work in Northland as dance instructors and choreographers and say being part of Stage Challenges changed their lives.
Mar 11, 2018 12:47 pm

Australian living legend Reg Livermore is back on the boards

Candide stars one of Australia's real living legends, Reg Livermore. A star there for more than 60 years, is best known as one of the first Frank N Furters in The Rocky Horror Show.
Mar 11, 2018 12:34 pm

Australian living legend Reg Livermore is back on the boards

Candide stars one of Australia's real living legends, Reg Livermore. A star there for more than 60 years, is best known as one of the first Frank N Furters in The Rocky Horror Show.
Mar 11, 2018 12:34 pm

Casey Zilbert - a woman to watch

Simon Morris caught up with the very busy Casey taking an hour off from post-production on her first film as a director.
Mar 11, 2018 12:16 pm

Casey Zilbert - a woman to watch

Simon Morris caught up with the very busy Casey taking an hour off from post-production on her first film as a director.
Mar 11, 2018 12:16 pm

Older stories

Irene Gardiner's Screen Gems - food on the screen
Elizabeth Thomson's Cellular Memory
Following in the footsteps of painter Gottfried Lindauer
Julianne Schultz
John Parker's love of puppets - and chickens!
Jem Southam's abiding love with the English landscape
Confessions of a female bar pianist
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