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There's a very special guest this week! Plus Cool to Kōrero; a triple treat of jokes; and Fleabite, Lucy the Labrador, and the Fabulous Flea-mates continue their search for musicians to join the Fleabite band.

Due to a stormwater drain becoming blocked Te Tuhi art gallery and community centre has been closed to the public for nine months. Tukua went to the opening exhibition to take in the renovations and the artworks.

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The Weed Eaters is a Kiwi comedy-horror set in North Canterbury, following two couples on a New Year's camping trip who encounter a particular strain of weed with unexpected consequences. It debuted at the NZ International Film Festival, won Best Feature at SXSW Sydney, and is currently touring the country. Made for $19,000, the film stars writer Finnius Teppett and Alice May Connolly, known for Sweet Tooth, Wellington Paranormal and The Power of the Dog. Both join Culture 101 live.

Lisa Reihana has spent more than three decades using film, photography and installation to centre Maori and Pacific perspectives in history. She represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and her work sits in collections from Te Papa to the Brooklyn Museum. Right now her installation ANZAC, eight metres high and twenty metres long and made from 180,000 shimmering discs, runs along the Auckland waterfront as part of the Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail. She joins Culture 101 live to discuss the work, her shimmer-disc technique and thirty years of using the computer as her carving tool.

Dan Slevin is back