What is the secret to designing a great kitchen? Many of us may think we have the answers, but reality can throw up plenty of challenges.

550 migrants or their advocates laid complaints last month. It comes as less than 2000 overseas workers arrive. Meanwhile Immigration New Zealand reports they have revoked the accreditation of 500 employers.

For 200 years this has been a land of immigrants, welcoming successive waves of peoples and their cultures. 

We, the Outsiders is a documentary theatre piece created and inspired by migrant workers' experiences. After seasons in Ōtepoti Dunedin and Pōneke Wellington earlier this year, it’s heading this month to Auckland and Whāngarei Fringe Festivals before heading to the Melbourne Fringe.

A new show by dance group Company B is giving emerging choreographers a creative platform, and mentoring and training 10 young dancers.

Maori-Samoan RnB artist Jordyn Rapana - also known as Jordyn with a Why is on a roll.

You may have heard the phrase ‘triple threat’ in the arts, but Petmal Petelo is perhaps a quadruple threat. A dancer, actor, stage manager and assistant director she’s been steadily rising in the theatre world.

The Ōtepoti arts scene has long had a gloriously independent fertile, multi-generational, cross art form approach. But is that culture - once famously dubbed the Dunedin Sound - under threat? 

Many creatives are concerned. They came of age in the city from the 1980s through to the 2010s, and cite factors like increased rents and noise control provisions as practical threats to space for the city’s arts community.

Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa. This week, we’re in Feilding in Manawatū as the town celebrates 150 years.

Kōanga Festival in Tāmaki Makaurau is celebrating 10 years with a packed three-and-a-half week programme and more than 12 events.

The paintings that Whanganui painter Edith Collier created in England 100 years ago remain to this day, utterly fresh. At that time, there was no one in Aotearoa New Zealand painting with such modernist verve. 

“I am certain your fate will bring you back to England as mine did,” wrote our most celebrated artist of the period, Frances Hogkins to Collier, after she had returned home in 1921.

Yet, that was not to be. Which may help explain why it’s only in recent decades we have begun recognising Collier as one of the finest of our painters of the first half of the 20th century.

It’s a striking and brutal name for an art collective. The Killing is made up of six friends and former Elam School of Fine Arts students in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. At the time, they say, the choice of the name reflected their mindset - angsty, angry at the institution and full of what they describe as a lot of ‘young adult feelings’.