Belonging: Stories of Contemporary New Zealand Asian Artists is a new group exhibition at Bergman Gallery. 

Uniting 10 artists - Andrea Bolima, Louie Bretaña, Gavin Chai, Luise Fong, Wei Lun Ha, Rozana Lee, Rhea Maheshwari, Tanja McMillan, Bev Moon and Llenyd Price - curator Benny Chan describes the exhibition as a celebration of colour, diversity, and love.  

As an ongoing series at Bergman, Sofia spoke to Benny about this show and his plans for future exhibitions. 

She started the interview asking him what the key themes of the exhibition were.

Cuillin and Harlo from Big Fan's Ignite programme chat with Milly from Drive, speaking about their unique opportunity for young people to enter the New Zealand music landscape.

💚 A gentle beginning before we ramp things up and  jog around the genre-mill.

Obtuse Tune of the Week: azifm - lost

playlist is also available here for streaming on spotify. (But if you listen and like, please consider supporting on bandcamp / otherwise <3)

See you all next week! 💚

Wable, a social media networking app inspired by the television series ‘Love on the Spectrum,’ which has been designed specifically for neurodiverse individuals, is set to release in New Zealand in the coming days.

Joel spoke with CEO and Co-Founder of the app, Holly Fowler, and Love on the Spectrum star and ambassador for Wable, Michael Theo, about what sets this social media platform apart from others, and the importance of designing applications in mind for people who are neurodiverse.

Jonny speaks to David Slack about governments cuts to the health care system under the guise of efficiencies.

Sofia is stepping down from the Mothership! Listen in to Sofia's final show, as we play some nifty new numbers from Molly Payton, Peter Cat Recording Co, and Euan Blackman! Whakarongo mai!

Milly takes the helm this Thursday, starting with a loving tribute to Martin Phillipps, one of New Zealand's musical icons, following through to Marijuana Media with Chris Fowlie, and a special interview regarding the Ignite programme with Cuillin & Harlo. A very wholesome drive right here. 

This week, Milly and Chris chat all things green, including the Olympics, Thailand's new regulations, roadside testing, and incredible true stories of medicinal cannabis helping kiwis in need. All here on this weeks Marijuana Media. 

The health system in Aotearoa has experienced issues of overcrowding and underfunding since before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. While the current government campaigned last year on increasing funding to the health sector, most of this funding went to Pharmac and providing new cancer drugs.

Despite staff shortages in the health sector, the government has continually criticised what they claim is an overspend and poor budgeting. The new health commissioner, Lester Levy, went as far to describe the system as ‘bloated’, with similar criticisms from Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in his descriptions of ‘fourteen layers of bureaucracy.’ 

Tuesday Wire host Castor spoke to the executive director of the association of salaried medical specialists, Sarah Dalton, about staffing issues in the health sector and how the government can address them.

Do you like when people play piano, percussion, and wind instruments in Canada? Then this playlist is for you!

Leland Whitty - Awake / Glass Moon / Windows

Guido Basso - A Lazy Afternoon / My Foolish Heart

Jonah Yano - the speed of sound! / always / so sweet

BADBADNOTGOOD - White Light / Love Proceeding

Matthew Tavares - worldo 100bpm / like the beatles 129 / something about birds