Category Archives: Arts & Culture

Helen Kirlew Smith – your urban dream broker

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Please meet Helen Kirlew -Smith. She is your local urban dream broker from the . What is an urban dream broker I hear you muttering?

Well if you are anyone with ideas – artists, designers, community groups, social entrepreneurs or fledgling businesses – Helen will explain all and how she can help YOU, to interact with the city in exciting new ways.

Helen will also be telling us why she loves her crazy job and how she has seen first hand the positive changes this concept is having and can have on our city. Don’t be shy now, propose away. She really wants to hear from you.

Phillipa O’Brien – the gifted girl from Kingston

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Phillipa O’Brien, is a very busy lady right now with two photographic exhibitions about to go up in town. One kicks off this Friday the 27th of June at  where Phillipa has developed her own intriguing style of pictorial-scripts called Photofables.

The other is a major lifetime experience, photographing the scene of Danny Lemon’s 8500 collectors item records burnt in the storage fire in Wellington earlier this year. In this interview Phillipa talks about how she saw art in this devastation and made an exhibition of it, which is on now on at .

Phillipa also reveals some interesting stories about Danny Lemon in the South Island high Country,  the positive thing she saw in the community through Danny’s sad loss and the simple reason why she wanted to help him out.

For more information on Danny Lemon’s story you can go here ( and please buy a poster). http://dannylemon.com/

And for more of Phillipa O’ Briens work http://www.philippaobrien.com/
 and the exhibition : http://www.photospacegallery.com/2014—philippa-obrien.html

Sam Hunt – a national treasure

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We get a few special things happen to us in life and one of mine will most certainly be talking with Sam Hunt on the radio for this interview. There were no visuals, we were just connected at either ends of the line and the island with a task to complete. Of course the man has the most charming way with words… but to hear Sam chanting poem after after poem, stories of Kapiti, mystical experiences and jokes down the phone line will certainly go down as a very memorable experience for me.

He truly is gifted, he doesn’t talk poetry, he is poetry.
Hearing Sam is something you want all your fellow Kiwi’s to experience, so inspiring and the sound of his rising and falling raspy tones are carved into my own kiwi DNA.

Brian Morris – the host of Cuba St.

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For a few years now, Brian Morris has made an art of being “Doorman” for one of our most famous bars, the . For me Brian’s welcoming, sometimes cheeky manner has been part of the fun of my evening out experience, but most importantly, he has always made me and others feel safe.

Today I’ll be talking to Brian about how we can preserve the best of Welly’s nightlife, what he see’s on our streets at night, along with a few wise words from one of our few male mentors.

Sam Manzanza – African beats in Wellington

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The way Sam Manzanza has constantly contributed good energy through his music has been a real gift to Wellington. He is now also the chairman of the African Community Council bringing our growing African residents together with one voice.

It was a great treat for me to be able to talk to Sam about his life before and here in New Zealand and how we can all celebrate the 51st Africa Day.