Every week on Culture 101 we invite a guest to share their love of culture and shout out to other artists. This week it's actor, director and producer Te Kohe Tuhaka (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou).

Three theatre institutions are celebrating 50th anniversaries this year.

A pioneer artist across the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the most influential arts educators of his generation,  Jim Allen passed away just shy of turning 101 in June. 

Known for inspiring what has been termed ‘post-object art’ in New Zealand, Allen was still working as a performance artist in his 90s. And he had a formative influence on another legend of experimentalism and education, artist Phil Dadson.

An ambitious new book - Pacific Arts Aotearoa - has been released, spanning six decades of multi-disciplinary contributions from Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world.

Karin Bettley tells Culture 101 about how her love of creative life in the coastal town of Raglan.

An annual Spooky Disco means Halloween proves the busiest day of the year for a community and arts centre established on the green and surrounding buildings of a former bowling club in the Eastern Hills of Wellington.

In the handsome just released book Don Binney Flight Path Gregory O’Brien tracks the avian-like swoops in the career of the late Tāmaki Makaurau painter, teacher and ornithologist (1940–2012).

He’s best known for fronting rock band Shihad, but musician Jon Toogood says playing acoustic solo shows is now where he feels most “human”.

American slime mould tours Aotearoa creating giant kinetic sculpture of rubbish

The name of the northern Hawkes Bay river town of Wairoa has been translated as "the long water which bubbles, swirls and is uneven". That certainly became true earlier this year when Cyclone Gabrielle swallowed the town, leaving a flooded trail of destruction in its path. But what of life beyond that catastrophic event? What makes Wairoa special? Wairoa's Deputy Mayor Denise Eaglesome-Karekare fills Maggie Tweedie in on what sees the rural town thrive culturally. From Osler's Bakery award winning pies on Marine Parade, the local lighthouse, to Mahia Peninsula and kapa haka. There's more than one could expect when driving through on a summer roadie.