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Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.
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Josiah Morgan's plans at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage (opens the original)
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Josiah Morgan is a Christchurch-based poet, theatre practitioner and editor heading to Dunedin this week as Young Writer in Residence at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage, as part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival. He is working on a poem of around 100 pages in which a person attempts to surgically transform their body into that of a moa, and expects to have the first quarter of a draft and a structural spine by the time he emerges on 4 October. His first publication was a 60-page single p
Sefton Rani: losing his home in Cyclone Gabrielle and the show that came from it (opens the original)
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Sefton Rani lived in Piha and lost his home and studio in Cyclone Gabrielle. His first institutional solo exhibition, Clear My Throat, is now showing at Pah Homestead in Tamaki Makaurau until 15 November. The show uses industrial and hard materials across large sculptures and installations, and curator Dina Jezdic has placed it in dialogue with the colonial history of the homestead itself. Perlina visited the gallery to speak with Sefton and Dina about what the show holds and what it cost to mak
Nomi Cohen on playing Sally Bowles as Cabaret turns 60 (opens the original)
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Cabaret turns 60 this year and is closing out Auckland Theatre Company's season at the ASB Waterfront Theatre, running 22 September to 25 October. Nomi Cohen plays Sally Bowles, the role made famous by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film. Cohen has a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Musical Theatre, trained at the Actor's Programme. She joins Culture 101 to talk about inhabiting a character so embedded in pop culture and what it means to set your own version of Sally free.
The Big Screen with Kate Rodger (opens the original)
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Kate Rodger joins Culture 101 with the latest from the big screen.
Peter Salmon on directing Good Bones and After the Party (opens the original)
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Peter Salmon directed all six episodes of After the Party and came out the other side burnt out, so his next move was a comedy. Good Bones is a horror-comedy on ThreeNow and Neon starring Josh Thomson as a procrastinating husband whose marriage hinges on his ability to renovate a murder house. Salmon describes finding tone as the hardest and most instinctive part of directing, something he often doesn't identify until a few days into the shoot.
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