In 2016 Aotearoa lost architect and teacher Rewi Thompson too young. But as an innovative new book reveals -  Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere - Thompson’s legacy lives on not only in buildings and public projects but also his imaginative drawings and teaching.

Award winning drag queen Spankie Jackzon joins Maggie Tweedie for Culture 101’s regional wrap to spill the tea on what makes Palmy so bloody balmy.

Peter Porteous is a musician based in Dunedin who organises an experimental music festival called Lines of Flight. The idea was bred from a friendship he shared with mate and late collaborator Peter Stapleton for years. Maggie Tweedie asks Peter Porteous about some of the lesser known and more mesmerizing music coming from The South. While he selects the sounds that showcase the analgoue and abstract.

Samoan New Zealand dancer John Vaifale (Lalovaea and Solosolo) is packing his bags to head to Germany and represent Aotearoa at the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Finals on November 4.

From the opening scenes of the second series of Raised by Refugees - the comedy sitcom created by award winning comedian Pax Assadi - monocultural views of New Zealand society are challenged with humour.

An award-winning playwright, actor, musician and founder of the Maori Sidesteps, Jamie McCaskill’s latest play Two Guitars is a musical journey examining those of a  generation of Māori find themselves lost who have grown up without te reo and tikanga and find themselves lost.

In a 2023 election countdown special ‘Carcass’ brings you lively banter on where culture and politics is and isn’t meeting on the hustings.

Madison Emond from Rhode Island has been building pinhole cameras from clay in Wellington’s Kaiwharawhara stream. Her photographic work is a vessel for the natural environment, capturing life by and under water by wrapping film around glow worms and river stones.

Artist Taloi Havini began life in Bougainville but fled with her family to Australia aged 9 due to a civil war which claimed 15,000 lives.

Every week on Culture 101 we check the pulse of a different area of Aotearoa. This week, we’re off to Hastings, ahead of the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival 13-29 October.