A year after the tragic events in Christchurch how does the New Zealand Muslim community feel about living here?

When the Prime Minister made her announcement yesterday about the steps being made in the light of the coronovirus threat, it was clear that it was going to affect any large gatherings of people in New Zealand.

Selecting from more than 30 years of poetry to fit into one book was the challenge New Zealand's first Poet Laureate set herself. Michele Leggott's called the collection Mezzaluna. It starts with selections from her 1988 collection Like This? through to her latest one Vanishing Points in 2017. Michele Leggott tells Lynn Freeman she enjoyed reacquainting herself with her poems, especially the early ones, as she made her selections.

A young Belgian couple have become champions of New Zealand performance and visual artists, offering them a pop-up gallery or performance space around the country in their modified truck. They call it the Nomadic Art Gallery. Eugénie Coche and Arthur Buerms have recently been at the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival. They then travelled to Wellington for several events, including the upcoming Cubadupa Festival.

Auckland's Hobson Street Theatre Company, whose actors have all experienced homelessness, is representing New Zealand at an international Arts Festival held every three years in Rotterdam. The company's latest production Let Me Tell You About Auckland premiered this weekend and involved taking the audience on a guided walk around a city. The new work will be based on Let Me Tell You About Auckland that was written by Anders Falstie-Jensen. Lynn Freeman talks to Anders and cast member Joeli Thacker.

Anne Hamblett was married to Colin McCahon. But a new exhibition is a reminder that she was also an important artist in her own right, although she gave up painting to raise her family and to support her husband during the ups and downs of his career. Anne and Colin's daughter Victoria Carr is one of the people who've contributed early works by Anne for the show at Auckland's Michael Lett Gallery. Lynn Freeman talks with Victoria, and also with the curator of Early Works by Anne Hamblett, Associate Professor Linda Tyler.

A series of sonic portraits of three waahine Maaori make up the first show in the brand-new gallery of Auckland's Artspace Aotearoa.

It's a big step for a dancer who's always worked with choreographers, to decide to choreograph a work for themselves.

Set on an island resort, author Bronwyn Sell has given her cast of characters a set of tricky situations and no way out in her latest novel Lovestruck.

Since the 1970s film editor Annie Collins has been helping our directors to create, she even salvages their movies when a shoot hasn't gone entirely to plan.