Culture
Re:hearsal Room: Swizl Jager
Swizl Jager is all about using as much te reo in his music as he can. He talks about "keeping it reo" and the joys of…
NZ's best new filmmaker of the year shares her top 5 films of all time
Matasila Freshwater, winner of the 2019 SPADA (Screen Production and Development Association) award for New Filmmaker of the Year, sat down with Re: to share her…
Re:hearsal Room: Raiza Biza
What's it like to move to NZ and feel the pressure to fulfill the classic immigrant's tale? That is: get educated, make lots of money and…
Stupid Robot Fighting
Stupid Robot Fighting is even more amazing than it sounds. There's no good explanation for it so you really just have to see this NZ invented…
NZ Music Awards: Breaking Down the Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Stylist to the stars Sammy Salsa takes us through a night at the Vodafone NZ Music Awards following the nominees for Breakthrough Artist of the Year…
Illustrator Ruby Jones on Going Viral and the Power of Drawing Kindness
After the Christchurch terror attacks, Ruby Jones illustrated two people hugging with the words, "This is your home and you should have been safe here." The…
New Zealand police show us their tattoos
We get tattoos for all sorts of reasons - to carry our loved ones with us, to symbolise our heritage and to express who we are.…
The writer of the book that inspired Jojo Rabbit
Christine Leunens is the author of Caging Skies, the book that was adapted into the movie Jojo Rabbit by director Taika Waititi. She tells us about…
The Manor
On October 6, a Dunedin house party ended in the death of second year university student Sophia Crestani. Natasha, a fellow university student at the party,…
Re:hearsal Room: Bobandii
Bobandii can only cry when he's making music - and he thinks maybe that's why he's a musician. He talks self-exploration, putting out music as a…
Reclamation: being brown, femme and proud
'Reclamation' is about unapologetically taking up space - physically, ideologically, spiritually. We went backstage at the show by FAF SWAG to talk to performers and crew…
World of WearableArt: Fashioning a friendship
Having gone from kindy to uni to flatting together, Renee and Kayla are besties for life. And, for the last 10 years, they've both been creating…
I cannot write a poem about China
Sherry Zhang reads her poem 'I cannot write a poem about China'.
Words from Sherry about her poem:
How do you navigate disagreement? I've been struggling with this…
Cosplay 101 with Cheshliddle
Cosplayer Lisa Bosman AKA Cheshliddle is a self-confessed "big nerd who loves to dress up." She shows us her workspace for bringing characters to life, and…
Re:hearsal Room: Lachie Hayes
Southland musician Lachie Hayes talks blues, cowboy movies, and how locals in the old days had to make their own entertainment... so they became musicians.
Re:hearsal Room: Nikita Tu-Bryant
Nikita Tu-Bryant talks us through her songwriting process and how she's moving on from writing songs about heartbreak, in our second installment of Re:hearsal Room.
Drinking in young adults
George Fowler AKA Hugo Grrrl shares his experiences with problem drinking, an issue that affects an estimated 780,000 New Zealand adults. After coming to terms with…
Re:hearsal Room: Bored Housewives Club
For our first ever episode of Re:hearsal Room, we get to know Bored Housewives Club, who describe themselves as "a pair of cute punks making guitar…
Miss June weigh in on post-punk and bubble tea
“Antevert my uterus and birth you all / Anarchy can only be about a girl,” sings Miss June vocalist and guitarist Annabel Liddell, who’s putting her medical…
Cosplaying in New Zealand
Kiwi cosplayers show us the intricacies of their craft - such as a bodice involving 100+ hours of hand embroidery. They also talk about a commonly…
Can we fix break ups?
Break ups are not fun. So how can we get better at them? We talk to two exes, a counsellor and people on the street about…
What happens when your girlfriend is 2D?
After a traumatic breakup, Jonty fell in love with an anime character called Rem. Before long, they were in a relationship. Jonty shares his story, which…
I'm a Squirter - Filthy, funny poetry with Kate Spencer
Kate Spencer shares through poetry an exciting revelation: she's a squirter.
Kiwi songwriter reflects on writing Genie in a Bottle
Pam Sheyne is a New Zealand songwriter who co-wrote Christina Aguilera's debut hit 'Genie in a Bottle' - a song about finding someone who can "unlock…
Period Piece - Filthy, funny poetry with Kate Spencer
Poet Kate Spencer proudly declares she is on her period.
I do it myself - Filthy, funny poetry with Kate Spencer
Poet Kate Spencer performs her ode to the joys of masturbation.
How is a vinyl record made?
There is just one vinyl record pressing plant left in New Zealand, and they show us the 30 second process it takes to produce a vinyl…
School of Beatbox
When she was in high school, Hope saw Ladi6 beatboxing and that was it for her; "that signed and sealed it." Hope knew she was going…
Evan Woodruffe - artist and collector
Artist and collector Evan Woodruffe thinks of art as an "anti-weapon". "There are weapons in this world," he says, "but art is the antithesis of that.…
NZ's first bilingual Kiwi-Filipino play
Filipinos are like an invisible minority within Aotearoa. They're a minority within a minority, says James Roque, the director of the first bilingual Kiwi-Filipino play, PINAY.…