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8:12 Jamie Joseph

Jamie Joseph is a writer and environmental activist who grew up between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and moved to New Zealand in 2009. She is currently reporting from the frontline of Africa's poaching crisis at savingthewild.com, and in January published a story about Dumisani Gwala, allegedly one of the biggest kingpins identified in the rhino wars, and the allegedly corrupt magistrate linked to his syndicate. Jamie is in Auckland for an intimate dinner fundraiser on 28 February, before returning to South Africa for Gwala's trial.

Jamie Joseph, environmental activist and writer of Saving the Wild

Rhino with a former poacher turned armed guard, Thula Thula Game Reserve, Zululand

One of the very few survivors of the poaching crisis

Jamie Joseph photographs the rescue of Jetta, a teenage elephant speared in the back by poachers, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Jetta, a teenage elephant speared in the back by poachers, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Images from Saving The Wild by environmental activist and writer Jamie Joseph

 

Lee Tamahori and Temuera Morrison on the set of Mahana

Lee Tamahori (right) and Temuera Morrison on the set of Mahana Photo: supplied

 

9:05 Lee Tamahori

Lee Tamahori is a filmmaker (Once Were Warriors, Die Another Day), whose first New Zealand movie in 20 years, Mahana, tells the story of two Maori sheep-shearing families on the East Coast in the 1960s. Adapted from the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, Mahana opens in cinemas nationwide on 3 March. (From Monday 29 February to Friday 18 March, the RNZ Reading at 9:45 on Nine to Noon, is Bulibasha, read by George Henare.)

 

 

9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: the Christchurch Art Gallery

Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She will discuss the recently reopened Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

Martin Creed, Work no 2314, 2015. Neon. 146.8 x 4600 cm. Commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation, gift of Neil Graham.

Bill Culbert, Bebop, 2013. Furniture, fluorescent tubes, electrical components, wire, sheet glass, purchased with assistance from Gabrielle Tasman and the Christchurch Art Gallery Trust, 2014.

Rita Angus, A Goddess of Mercy, 1945-1947. Oil on canvas, purchased 1956. Reproduced courtesy of the estate of Rita Angus. From the exhibition, In the Vast Emptiness (8 January to 4 June).

Doris Lusk, Canterbury Plains from Cashmere Hills 1952. Oil on canvas board, purchased 1974. From the exhibition, In the Vast Emptiness (8 January to 4 June).

Lonnie Hutchinson, Sista7, 2003. Black building paper, purchased 2003. From the exhibition, Ata Wairere (18 December 2015 to 4 June 2016)

Francis Upritchard, Wife, 2006, and Husband, 2006. Rabbit fur, tanned goat skin, modelling materials, purchased 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry. From the exhibition, Beasts (18 December 2015 to 30 October 2016)

Stills taken from Connie Samaras, Untitled (Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica), 2005. DVD, looped running time 4:30, purchased 2014.

John Buckland Wright, Diana and Endymion, 1944. Wood engraving, purchased 2002. From the exhibition, The Golden Age (18 December 2015 to 1 May 2016).

Gertrude Hermes, More People, 1935. Wood engraving, presented by Rex Nan Kivell, 1953. From the exhibition, The Golden Age (18 December 2015 to 1 May 2016).

Installation view of Petrus van der Velden, The Dutch funeral, 1875. Oil on canvas, gifted by Henry Charles Drury van Asch, 1932 AND Colin McCahon, Blind V. Synthetic polymer paint on unstretched canvas, purchased 1975. Reproduced courtesy of Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust. From the exhibition, McCahon / Van der Velden (18 December 2015 to 29 February 2016).

Detail of Petrus van der Velden, The Dutch Funeral, 1875. From the exhibition, McCahon / Van der Velden (18 December 2015 to 29 February 2016).

Zina Swanson, Some People's Plants Never Flower…, 2007. Mixed media - glass, wood, organic material, purchased with the support of Coffey Projects. From the exhibition, A Room of One’s Own (18 December 2015 to 8 May 2016).

Images from exhibitions at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

 

10:05 Michela Magas and Andrew Dubber

Andrew Dubber and Michela Magas

Andrew Dubber and Michela Magas Photo: supplied

Michela Magas works across the intersections of science and art, design and technology, and academic research and industry. She consults on innovation and the Internet of Things to the European Commission, incubates new technology startups through her #MusicBricks project and is the founder of Stromatolite and spinoff companies Sonaris  and T-Jay. Andrew Dubber is the founder of digital music consultancy group New Music Strategies, a former UK professor of Music Industry Innovation, and an advisor to Stromatolite, Sonaris, and Bandcamp. They live near Umeå in Sweden, and are in New Zealand in advance of the creative technology and music festival that they run together: Music Tech Fest, which has its tenth event in four years coming up in Berlin (27-30 May 2016).

Rebecca Priestley in Antarctica

Rebecca Priestley in Antarctica Photo: supplied

10:35 Rebecca Priestley

Dr Rebecca Priestley is a Senior Lecturer in the Science in Society Group, Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of a number of books, including The Awa Book of New Zealand Science, for which she won the 2009 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize. She is the editor of Dispatches from Continent Seven: an Anthology of Antarctic Science (Awa Press), a new collection of writings by Antarctic explorers and scientists that includes her own experiences on the ice.

 

Sandra Coney

Sandra Coney Photo: supplied

 

 

11:05 Sandra Coney

Sandra Coney is a journalist, feminist, and chair of the Waitākere Ranges Local Board. She is the driving force behind the inaugural open day (28 February) at New Zealand’s largest cemetery, Waikumete Cemetery, the first event of its kind in New Zealand.

 

 

Angel headstone, Waikumete Cemetery

Wildflowers in the heritage area of Waikumete Cemetery.

Wildflowers in the heritage area of Waikumete Cemetery.

Administration Building and Chapel 1, completed in 1953.

The Chapel of Faith in The Oaks, completed in 1886.

Military graves at Waikumete Cemetery, the largest military cemetery in New Zealand.

Photos of Waikumete Cemetery

11:30 Eb & Sparrow

Wellington band Eb & Sparrow – singer/songwriter Ebony Lamb, Bryn Heveldt (lapsteel, guitar, vocals), Nick Brown (drums, vocals), Jason Johnson (bass, guitar, vocals), Chris Winter (brass, bass, guitar, vocals) – released their second full-length album, Sun/Son, last year to wide acclaim. The band are touring New Zealand in March and April in association with Arts on Tour, playing at Golden Bay (2 March), Amberley (4 March), Ashburton (5 March), Lincoln (7 March), Hokitika (8 March), Okarito (9 March), Cromwell (10 March), Gore (11 March), Invercargill (12 March), Stewart Island (14 March), Dunedin (16 March), Twizel 17 March), Fairlie (18 March), Christchurch (19 March), Hamilton 23 March), Kauaeranga (24 March), Coromandel (26 March, Onewhero (31 March) Opotiki (1 April), and Rangiwahia (2 April).

Eb & Sparrow

Eb & Sparrow Photo: Kate McPherson

This Saturday’s team:

Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Dominic Godfrey
Music engineer: William Saunders
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Infofind

Music played in this show

Artist: Toya Delazy (featuring Cassper Nyoves)
Song:  My City
Album: Ascension
Label: SME, 2014
Broadcast: 8:12

Artist: Toumani Diabaté with Ballaké Sissoko
Song: Bi Lambam
Album: New Ancient Strings
Label: Hannibal, 1999
Broadcast: 10:05