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Our Ocean of Islands has just opened at the New Zealand Maritime Museum and is unlike most exhibitions in that it is contributor-led rather than curator-led: each of the 24 participating island nations was invited to decide for itself what it wanted to share, guided only by a broad focus on the inseparability of peoples, environments and indigenous knowledge. All 17 Pacific nations with diaspora communities in Aotearoa are represented, alongside Tangata Whenua and nations as far as Taiwan. Barbara Makuati-Afitu and Kolokesa Uafa Mahina-Tuai, founders of Pacific consultancy Lagi-Maama, join Culture 101 to talk about what it means to give communities the power to tell their own stories.

Therese Eberhard is an American-born scenic artist, props and set painter who came to New Zealand to work on King Kong and never left. She has worked on Avatar, The Hobbit, Rings of Power, What We Do in the Shadows and more, and spent the past decade accumulating interviews and photographs from more than 50 contributors for The Reel Deal, a scrapbook-style love letter to the below-the-line film crew. A leukemia diagnosis that kept her off set for an extended period gave her the time and focus to finally finish it. She joins Culture 101 to talk about why it took a security guard to give her her favourite interview in the book.

Dan Slevin reviews three new releases: One Night Only, a comedy set in a United States where pre-marital sex has been legally outlawed by biometric implant, except for one night a year when unmarried adults can let off steam - starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner; & Sons, in which Bill Nighy plays a reclusive novelist making one last attempt to reconcile with his two estranged adult sons and have them accept their teenage stepbrother, also starring Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn, George Mackay and Noah Jupe; and De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, the first of a two-part epic biography of the French statesman, following his wartime leadership of the resistance in exile, starring Simon Abkarian and Simon Russell Beale.

Dan Slevin reviews three new releases: One Night Only, a comedy set in a United States where pre-marital sex has been legally outlawed by biometric implant, except for one night a year when unmarried adults can let off steam - starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner; & Sons, in which Bill Nighy plays a reclusive novelist making one last attempt to reconcile with his two estranged adult sons and have them accept their teenage stepbrother, also starring Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn, George Mackay and Noah Jupe; and De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, the first of a two-part epic biography of the French statesman, following his wartime leadership of the resistance in exile, starring Simon Abkarian and Simon Russell Beale.

Resilience psychologist Dr Lucy Hone has spent 15 years researching how people navigate loss. Her TEDx talk, The Three Secrets of Resilient People, has been viewed more than nine million times and translated into 23 languages. Her new book, How Will I Ever Get Through This, grew out of readers of her earlier work Resilient Grieving asking whether the same tools applied to losses that don't involve a funeral - job loss, divorce, an empty nest, a diagnosis. She calls these living losses and the things that cause them, in her family's private shorthand, BFTs. She joins Culture 101 ahead of her appearance at WORD Christchurch on 6 September.

Nairn Street Cottage has stood since around 1858 and has been a house museum since 1980, with each room dressed to reflect a different decade of the Wallace family's occupation. A new exhibition, Unsettling Nairn Street, has placed seven contemporary artists in those rooms to respond to the layers of history embedded in the building and the whenua it stands on. Writer and co-curator Emma Ng joins Culture 101 to talk about beeswax installations in the hallway, bronze crackers in the 1970s kitchen, and what you hear playing through the phonograph in the front parlor. The exhibition runs until 31 October, entry free.

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