Commonwealth writers have no chance of beating US 'big hitters', claims 2011 Booker winner Julian Barnes.

"Essentially you breathe life into something that is dead material" Puppeteer Norbert Hausberg exhibits his lifelong passion. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Briefs is perfect pre-Christmas cabaret for grown-ups.

Acclaimed author and illustrator Donovan Bixley shares tales of the books that inspired him.

The ukulele is bigger than you might think, especially with kiwi kids.

Ballet's former bad boy has turned his life around. Sergei Polunin talks to Helen Barlow

Johnny Marr: I'm not going to have my life story sullied by some bullshit agenda. I'll tell it really how it was.

See this street ballet and you'll never look at a supermarket shopping trolley the same way again.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes faces his fears - and writes about them, anyway.

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra prepares to farewell a difficult 2016.

First-time author Jonothan Cullinane puts the 1951 Waterfront Strike front and centre of his critically acclaimed crime novel

Comedy troupe the Improv Bandits celebrate 19 years.

Joe Goldberg's your average, cantankerous New York rare books seller. He's also an accomplished serial killer. When we meet him

Musician Tigilau Ness won this year's Vodafone NZ Music Awards roots reggae award. The 61-year-old father of singer Che Fu is a political activist.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's final town hall concert was a grand occasion with a near capacity audience warmly applauded by CEO

This successful, uber-stylish nightclub musical from Wellington's Tawata Productions feels like a dreamy album-length live music video.

There is an eerie prescience in the decision to stage Vernon God Little just as America succumbs to the belief that the frontman for

The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.

One Psalm inspires fascinating and individual responses from three composers.

NZ composer Jenny McLeod celebrates her 75th birthday with her biggest achievement to date.

Outstanding sculpture show raises money from Women's Refuge.

Aucklanders invited to see "raw art".

Former All Black Keven Mealamu continues to draw on art skills.

Celebrated New Zealand writer Sir James McNeish has died aged 85.

They say a stitch in time saves nine - that's the hope for a group of Auckland prisoners.

An arts initiative designed to channel marginalised youth into a more creative future

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

Reviewing NZTrio's Flare concert, it's difficult to resist an easy pun, as this pairing of top-class ensemble with celebrated Kiwi heldentenor showed commendable flair.

Fine wine, fine art, fine gardens and fine homes - all accompanied by fine weather meant plenty of fine smiles for the organisers

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