A topical and provocative weekly arts series investigating the issues facing local arts and culture, from emerging talent to cultural icons, including all the regions and national institutions. Studio interviews, reports from the field, and a late deadline ensure each week's show is as topical as possible. (Adapted from TVNZ publicity)
“New Zealand has a long tradition of welcoming theatre, dance and kapa haka groups into our schools.
While some theatre in education - or T-I-E - groups offer messages about safe sex and saving whales, others exist purely to give young audiences a taste of what may well be their one and only experience of performance. But companies that have long enjoyed support from Creative New Zealand now say the buck’s been passed on to the Ministry of Education; while the Ministry only funds trips to see performance outside school. Julie Hill reports on where that leaves students with no local theatres in their vicinity, and performance groups who want to focus on more than just getting a “message” across to “the Kids”? [Interview: Sue Haldane, Richard Green, Peter O’Connor, Elizabeth Kerr, Deirdre Tarrant.]
Oliver Driver talks to American economist Tyler Cowen who has written about the price of fame and the economics of the arts. He was in New Zealand to reassure business leaders that global trade is good for local cultures, and that the arts can survive on private donations. Filmed at the Adam Art Gallery’s Antarctic exhibition, Breaking Ice. [Interview: Roger Kerr, Ray Ahipene-Mercer, Sir Ron Trotter.
A look at the realist landscape art movement in NZ based in mainly in Central Otago. [Interview: Ivan Clarke, Graham Brinsley, Darren Roberts]
According to some, the art of portraiture has all but fallen off the radar, and to amend matters, Auckland's Exit Gallery at the Studio of Contemporary Art invited a dozen or so artists to create portraits based on the themes in Oscar Wilde's novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. The show includes work from newly-appointed army painter Matt Gauldie, James Robinson, Donna Dementay and . [Interview: Ana Ivanovic-Tongue, Donna Dementay, Barry Ross Smith]
Part 2 from the opening moments of the 2005 Screen Awards, where the host of the awards, Oliver Driver finds himself stuck in the Shortland Street hospital.” Frontseat; http://www.frontseat.co.nz/database; 20/12/2005