New Zealand's children's publishing industry and writers have been working this week to secure overseas deals at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy. Fledgeling New Zealand publisher OneTree House has been named Best Children's Publisher of the Year for the Oceania region there. Lynn Freeman speaks to co-founder of OneTree House and head of the NZ Society of Authors Jenny Nagle who has spent the week at the Fair. Held annually since 1963 The Bologna Children's Book Fair has been called the leading professional fair for children's books in the world. It brings together authors, artists, illustrators, publishers, printers and bookstore representatives for a trade show and a celebration of children's literature.

Musician Shayne P Carter is composing and performing the live the score for a new theatre production. An Iliad adapted from the Homer story is described as part play and part gig, giving audience members the feeling they're having a damn good night at the pub.

A new exhibition at Auckland's Botanic Gardens opens our eyes to what we stand to lose with much of our unique plant life at risk of extinction. More than 40 New Zealand botanical artists are among illustrators from 25 countries taking part worldwide in the first international Botanical Art exhibition organised by the American Society of Botanical Artists. The New Zealand component is Ngai Tipu Taketake - Indigenous Flora opening 30 March in Auckland, before touring to Wellington and Blenheim later this year. We speak to two of the botanical artists Sandra Morris and Lesley Alexander.

Recorded as part of the Aspiring Conversations programme at the 2017 Festival of Colour in Wanaka, Max Harris and Shen Narayanasamy discuss citizens making a difference in a world when Brexit and Trump have altered our perception that we're living in an open globalised environment, where there's a widespread lack of confidence in our political systems and some clear divisions in opinion between the young and the old.

Libraries are under the gun in some parts of the country where councils aren't convinced by the value of investing ratepayers' money into them.

Tape Artists Erica Duthie and Struan Ashby create entire murals from tape, working with passers-by on works which have a lot to say, but which are not designed to last beyond 24 hours.

Outrage and concern have followed the release of a proposed radical restructure of Auckland University's Department of Music, with five key teaching positions held by respected musicians under threat.

Antony Elworthy's latest stop-motion animation work is the acclaimed Wes Anderson film Isle of Dogs. He’s setting up base in Christchurch again after travelling the world to work.

Christchurch photographer and writer for Art New Zealand, Holly Best describes An imprecise organisation of forms as part family photo album, and part something else entirely.

Off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula is an island that's gradually revealing information about how early Maori lived, including cultivation, and trading in one of the most valuable resources of the time - stone.