TV presenter Kanoa Lloyd is preparing to immerse herself in the world of yoga training.

Dunedin teacher, academic, director, producer, actor and author, Lisa Warrington reflects on her longstanding advocacy for Aotearoa New Zealand drama and what it means to receive a Kings Birthday honour.

Dame Fiona Kidman is borrowing the words of other writers to Raise the roof for Randell Cottage: Live Letters. While not associated with the British version, it has been inspired by the concept which has been running for more than a decade.

Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa and this week, we’re on the island of Waiheke.

Researchers at the University of Sydney are suggesting eyed needles were used to adorn clothing for social and cultural purposes, marking the shift from clothing being used as a necessity for protection to expressing identity.

Some say attention spans are not what they were. We scroll images and film and shuffle songs. Even cricket games can be over in 40 overs.  So, could flash fiction be the written storytelling form of our time? Or is it yet another passing fad.

Sisters, suitors and swooning - the Dashwood family is getting a raucous spin in this latest iteration of Sense and Sensibility at Circa Theatre.

A chemist and now a comedian (naturally), Dr Joel Rindelaub has been swapping the classroom for comedy clubs with his show Science Is No Joke. He first performed his one-hour set at the NZ International Comedy Festival in May before taking the show to his home state in Minnesota in the US.

Harry Ricketts joins RNZ’s Culture 101 to discuss First Things, a memoir of this much loved writer and teacher’s childhood and early adulthood. His first 29 years.

It’s not possible to consider modern textiles in Aotearoa New Zealand without encountering the advocacy, research, curation and art of weaver Margery Blackman. The same could also be said of the life of many of the cultural institutions of Ōtepoti Dunedin over the past 60 years.