In 1993 Brierley Investments purchased a collection 34 original oil on canvas portraits of kuia with moko, painted by artist Harry Sangl in the early 1970s. They were promised to be returned to Maori and made accessible to the New Zealand public. A year later the paintings were put in the care of the Kuia Moko Trust, but their present whereabouts are a mystery and Sangl and his daughter Michaela have been trying to find them. Many of the kuia were of Tuhoe descent and Sangl developed a close bond with each, some of whom were over 100-years-old when he painted them. Sangl turned 97 last week and Depot Artspace in Devonport, Auckland, in partnership with Sangl and Michaela, will be exhibiting prints on canvas of the original works. The exhibition opens on March 2.

Julie Bindel is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and researcher. She has been active in the global campaign to end violence towards women and children since 1979 and has written extensively on rape, domestic violence, sexually motivated murder, prostitution and trafficking, child sexual exploitation, stalking, and the rise of religious fundamentalism and its harm to women and girls. Bindel has authored over 30 book chapters and reports, she writes regularly for The Guardian, New Statesman, and the Sunday Telegraph among others, and appears regularly on the BBC and Sky News. She recently wrote an editorial in The Independent entitled Come on feminists, ditch the makeup bag. It's a far more radical statement than burning your bra.

Actor, writer and comedian Nick Offerman is known best in New Zealand for his role as Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation (2009), which earned him a Television Critics Association Award in the US for Individual Achievement in Comedy. His first major television role since the end of Parks and Recreation was Karl Weathers in the acclaimed series Fargo, for which he also received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Offerman has published four books, including one based on his second career as a carpenter, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop (2016). He will bring his new live show, All Rise, to New Zealand in June.

Ross McCormack, who started his working life as a builder, is one of New Zealand's leading choreographers and a 2017 NZ Arts Foundation Laureate. His career includes a decade performing with the acclaimed Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B. He has designed multiple works for companies in Aotearoa and Australia. In 2014, upon being commissioned to direct and choreograph AGE for the New Zealand Festival, McCormack co-founded Muscle Mouth. The company's latest production, As It Stands, inspired by the works of iconic American sculptor Richard Serra, will be performed as part of the Auckland Arts Festival starting March 8.

Nineteen years ago, journalist Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High in the wake of a shooting massacre. While writing his acclaimed account of the tragedy, he suffered two bouts of secondary PTSD. In March 2018, Cullen went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a similar event to profile the survivors who, using their grief as a catalyst for change, transformed tragedy into a compelling political movement. He tells the story in a new book, Parkland.

UK-based New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock is marking her recent 85th birthday with the publication of her Collected Poems. Adcock talks to Kim Hill about her career and reads some of her favourite poems from the collection.

Genesis Butler became a vegan when she was six. Now 12, Butler is leading the Million Dollar Vegan campaign to encourage people to eat less meat and dairy products in order to fight climate change. The campaign is backed by celebrities including Paul McCartney and is offering Pope Francis a million dollars for charity if he goes vegan for Lent. The Pope has been outspoken on environmental issues and in her message to him Butler seeks his support in tackling what she describes as "one of the largest underlying causes of the problems we face: animal agriculture".

Nigerian Chigozie Obioma is the author of The Fishermen, which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize 2015, and a winner of four other awards, including an NAACP Image award, the FT/Oppenheimer prize for fiction, and several nominations. The novel, which is being translated in 26 languages, is also being adapted into a stage play. Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Influential People of 2015. He is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His second novel, a 'mystical tragicomedy' called An Orchestra of Minorities, has just been published.

The demolition of state-built housing in the late 20th century was symptomatic of a more general abandonment of the values of that century, a Dutch architect says.

Nathan Joe is a NZ Broadcasting School graduate who has become an award-winning playwright and a theatre critic. He's staged Hippolytus Veiled and Like Sex at Auckland's Basement Theatre (winners of Playmarket's b425 award in 2015 and 2016), and contributed regularly to Auckland Fringe. Joe has been experimenting with unconventional theatre-making during the Basement's Salon (Penis Elegy) and One-on-One (For Your Eyes Only) performances. As a performer he has most recently been in Proudly Asian Theatre's reading of Singaporean play Pretty Butch and a featured poet as part of their spoken word event.