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Travelling Tunes takes us to whichever musical motherland our resident ethnomusicologist, Dr Kirsten Zemke, sets course for. This week's topic is Yé-yé!

Cam's selects tracks From The Crate to inspire you sonically! This week's From The Crate couldn't be more relevant with International Record Day just around the corner. Thanks to our friends at Southbound Records.

Featuring an interview with Peter Hobbs, Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke discussing Yé-yé, Viewmaster with Litia and the Record Store Day special with Cam on From The Crate, thanks to our mates at Southbound Records.

Donna Kerridge (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Mahuta) is a Kaumatua with more than twenty years of experience sharing matauranga and wisdom on rongoā Māori. 

She holds a strong belief in the importance of building connections and learning from our environment as essential to maintaining and restoring our own health.

As part of EcoFest 2025, Donna will be facilitating an introductory workshop to Māori medicine, inviting participants to explore health through an Indigenous lens and learn more about the relationship between our taiao and the whenua. 

Green Desk Producer Sara spoke with Donna this week to talk more about the workshop, and how rongoā Māori can benefit health outcomes in Aotearoa. Here is that interview.

Thanks EcoFest!

On Various Artists i tēnei wiki, 

Sofia had a kōrero with Aotearoa Art Fair director, Sue Waymouth, about the kaupapa of the fair and this year’s programme, ahead of its opening on 1st May. 

Beth had a kōrero with Pōneke poet Cadence Chung about their latest collection of poetry, Mad Diva, out now via Otago University Press.

Sofia had a kōrero with dress historian Jane Malthus and photographer Derek Henderson about Central Otago Couture: the Eden Hore Collection. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Jo Randerson phoned in to chat with Alice Canton about Speed is Emotional, on at Q Theatre from 16th April

The Aotearoa Art Fair is coming up at the beginning of next month from 1-4 May. As one of the most significant art events in New Zealand’s cultural calendar, the Fair welcomes thousands of local and international visitors each year.

The Fair spotlights the breadth and diversity of contemporary art in Aotearoa and beyond, bringing together leading galleries from New Zealand and Australia to showcase a range of works by emerging and established artists. Whether you’re a seasoned collector, occasional buyer, or just curious about art, the fair is an opportunity to browse and buy from a range of galleries and practitioners. 

Ahead of the fair, Sofia had a kōrero with Fair Director, Sue Waymouth, about the programme for 2025 and overall kaupapa.

Cadence Chung is a poet from Pōneke. Her poetry has been featured in Aotearoa publications such as Bad Apple, Landfall, Starling and The Spinoff. Her chapbook, anomalia, was published in 2022.

Mad Diva is their latest collection of poetry, published by Otago University Press on April 8th. It is rich in imagery of divas in opera houses, art galleries, dive bars, bedrooms; in the purple light of Farmers at dusk and in Wakefield Street at midnight.

Beth had a kōrero with Cadence about Mad Diva, and how opera and poetry informed the other in her creative process