Airing time: Saturdays, 11am
A community arts radio show that challenges the belief that the arts are exclusive.
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Sugar Loafing Arts Cast showcases the diversity of arts in Taranaki and beyond. Host Mikaela Nyman interviews artists, creative makers, writers and curators, and delves into art ideas and mediums, discussing a wide range of themes, such as decolonisation in New Zealand and Pacific art and literature, how to find inspiration, and the beauty of collaboration with other creative souls across art disciplines.
The fundamental idea of this podcast is to showcase arts and creativity and to inspire. Do you have a creative passion or want to share your ideas? Feel free to contact Mikaela on [email protected]
Podcasts
To download the latest episode: Click on the kiwifruit to go to the Sugar Loafing Arts Cast show page on the accessmedia.nz site:
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Helen Lehndorf
Helen Lehndorf is a co-founder of the Manawatu Urban Foraging Group. Mikaela talked to Helen off the stage at WOMAD about her book A Forager’s Life which delves into the environment, food, motherhood and autism.
Duration: 00:45:26 | Date: 13 April, 2024
Korrena Kidd
Korrena Kidd’s vibrant art fills the ARTSpace in April. Listen to Korrena talk about her art and the supportive environment at ACE Adult Community Education Massey University Te Putahi a Toi in Palmerston North.
Duration: 00:51:11 | Date: 6 April, 2024
Laura Campbell & Morgan Paige Taitoko
The Emergence Art Awards for young Taranaki artists are back! Mikaela finds out all about them from Laura Campbell, Director of Percy Thomson Gallery, and the 2018 Emergence Award winner Morgan Paige Taitoko.
Duration: 00:53:06 | Date: 30 March, 2024
WOMAD Poetry Slam 2024
Taranaki poets Wilna Strydom and Helen Griffiths reveal how they prepared for the event. Poetry judge Karlo Mila tells us what moves her and reads a poem. And this year’s winner, Teirangi Klever, reveals why she chose to enter.
Duration: 00:53:14 | Date: 23 March, 2024
Rebecca Beyer - Word Festival
Rebecca Beyer is a children's librarian, printmaker and author of illustrated children’s books. She’s been busy organising Our Words - a festival of local writers and story-tellers happening in and around New Plymouth on 20-27 March.
Duration: 00:56:26 | Date: 16 March, 2024
Steampunk Taranaki
Steampunk Taranaki - The Mild Mild West has taken over the ARTSpace in March. Costumes and Tea Pot racers included! Hear Jo Fuller (Lady Watsonia Victorious! Ohms) and Lesley Butler (Lady Esmarelda Wainwright Hyphen Smythe) profess their love for steampunk.
Duration: 00:53:19 | Date: 9 March, 2024
Anna McLean
Anna McLean switched Taranaki’s art scene for a curatorial internship at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. What is it about curating that makes it an exciting career choice for creative young people?
Duration: 00:51:59 | Date: 2 March, 2024
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Smither is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and a former New Zealand Poet Laureate. Elizabeth reads part of a new short story and a poem.
Duration: 0:48:47 | Date: 24 February, 2024
Pastel Association
The ARTspace in the Top Town Mall is hosting a group exhibition by the New Plymouth Pastel Association throughout February. Pop in to have a look!
Duration: 00:47:37 | Date: 10 February, 2024
Kris Marlianti
Manaia artist Krismarlianti Donaldson won the 2022 Taranaki National Art Awards in the painting category. Krismarlianti is also a published poet in Indonesia.
Duration: 00:55:11 | Date: 3 February, 2024
Alastair Ross - Film Festival 2024
Alastair Ross talks about this year’s film festivals at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre Cinema. Coming up on 2-6 February is the KIRIATA MĀORI film festival that was taken out by Cyclone Gabrielle last year.
Duration: 00:55:04 | Date: 27 January, 2024
Jo Stallard - Fenton St Gallery
Fenton Street Arts Collective offers great coffee, gin, whisky and gallery space for exhibiting artists. Owner Jo Stallard talks about her portrait painting and the upcoming Shakespeare events in Stratford.
Duration: 00:58:11 | Date: 20 January, 2024
Roger Morris - Remo
The art of Roger Morris (a.k.a. Remo) is often political in nature, communicating what’s happening in the world. His dynamic woodcut prints are on a magnificent scale.
Duration: 00:48:49 | Date: 13 January, 2024
Gaye Atkinson
After 30 years, Gaye Atkinson returned to making pottery. Raku is her preferred firing method. View her award-winning artefacts in ’50 years of clay’ at Puke Ariki, celebrating 50 years of New Plymouth Potters.
Duration: 00:51:59 | Date: 6 January, 2024
Suzan Kostanich
Suzan Kostanich is a fibre artist with many talents in fashion design, stitching and felting. She talks about her intricate process of felting, or laminating, wool and paper together to make her lavish Madonnas embroidered with gold and glass beads.
Duration: 00:44:17 | Date: 29 December, 2023
Marianne Muggeridge
Marianne Muggeridge is a national treasure who has painted Nobel Prize winners and Reserve Bank governors. For Marianne, art is the point of life. Art has never failed to put her back on track.
Duration: 00:53:48 | Date: 23 December, 2023
Jeanette Verster
Jeanette Verster won the fibre art category in the Taranaki National Art Awards 2023. On Sugar Loafing Arts Cast this Saturday at 11am she talks about her meticulously folded paper, cotton, silk and acrylic work influenced by music, kirigami, origami, polyrhythms and the cross as a multi-layered signifier.
Duration: 00:40:16 | Date: 16 December, 2023
Veronica Tee
Colour and light are key elements in Veronica Tee’s art, and she spends hours in Pukekura Park. From early on she learnt that determination and practice pays off. Check out Veronica’s landscapes in pastel and oil in our ARTSpace until 8 January!
Duration: 00:47:48 | Date: 9 December, 2023
Mike Brown & Riki Osborne - Mokau Bone Carving
Mike Brown and Riki Osborne from Mokau Bone Carving talk about next year’s Mokau Bone Carving Symposium and a new community bone carving hub in New Plymouth.
Duration: 00:55:31 | Date: 2 December, 2023
Toni Hartill & Viv Davy
Toni Hartill is the resident artist at from out of the blue studio gallery in Opunake, where her first solo exhibition ‘Waymarkers’ is on show until 17 December. Viv Davy tells us about the kaupapa of her gallery and residencies.
Duration: 00:46:21 | Date: 25 November, 2023
Mike Bishop
Michael Bishop is an emerging creative non-fiction writer from Hawai'i, here on a Fulbright Fellowship to write about sacred ground and legal personhood in Taranaki. We talk about rock-climbing, astronomy and a mega telescope that sparked protests in Hawai’i. And Mike reads his ‘Surf lessons’.
Duration: 57:18 | Date: 18 November, 2023