Arts on Sunday for Sunday 28 August 2011
12:40 Dawn Tratt assesses this year's biggest World of Wearable Arts Event yet
12.50 Arohanui promises to be one of New Zealand's most spectacular and ambitious stage spectaculars… we cross live to rehearsals
Arohanui. Image courtesy of Te Matatini Society Incorporated.
1:00 At The Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris looks back on the blockbuster season – the profitable Northern summer – and wonders if all those billions were worth it. He also looks at the rather more economic New Zealand film Love Story and the new Jim Carrey family movie, Mister Popper’s Penguins.
1:30 Q Theatre
It's a rare event for New Zealand architects, the chance to design a purpose built theatre… that was Pip Cheshire's brief for Auckland's long awaited Q Theatre, a project which has taken more than a decade to realise.
1:40 Bliss
Short story writer Katherine Mansfield gets a made for TV makeover by screenwriter Fiona Samuel.
Left: Fiona Samuel and right: Kate Elliot as Katherine Mansfield.
1:50 San Fransiscan-based artist Frank Kozik
Frank Kozik used to make his money from vinyl back in the day of records and music posters, but now he's turning vinyl into crazy limited edition toys.
Gallery: See images of Frank Kozik's work
Godzilla Rabbits by Frank Kozik.
2:00 The Laugh Track
Star of stage and TV, and former McLeod's Daughter, Lisa Chappell. Lisa's choices are Eric Idle - Always Look on the Bright Side; Rowan Atkinson & John Cleese - Bees; Excerpts from the movies Bridesmaids and Going The Distance.
2:20 Framing Poedua - part two of a series on the restoration of the Pacific Mona Lisa
Whilst the paintings conservators take a break, Sonia Sly catches up with framing conservator Matthew O’ Reilly to discuss the function of a frame fit for a Princess.
2:30 Chapter & Verse
Dr Alex Calder looks at how early settlers and later New Zealand writers have described their relationship with the land in his new book The Settler's Plot.
2:45 Chinese virtuoso guitarist, Xuefei Yang
The first Chinese music student to study an instrument which was banned during the Cultural Revolution.
Xuefei Yang. Photo by Neil Muir.
2:50 Dave Armstrong reviews the latest New Zealand interpretation of the operatic double bill, CAV and PAG
3:05 Knitting and crotchet artist, Jacquelyn Greenbank
How Jacquelyn Greenbank turns wool and lace into barbeques, royal carriages and now a 16th century sailing ship and jellyfish ufo.
Jacquelyn Greenbank's Lady Boras (detail), 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
3:10 Sunday Drama
Stuart Hoar's On the Road, Off the Record tells the story of a star-crossed string quartet.