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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Wellington print and paper artist Kate Coolahan talks about her work and about saying things to women across time, and when great change is taking place. only 30 minutes of the programme recorded.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. A large group of new designers have entered the field of furniture design in New Zealand recently. Auckland designer Carin Wilson has been a key figure in this and reports on the exhibitions he has attended and the furniture displayed. Carin's own work includes "The Royal Pain in the Arse" chair and he also talks about it's design. -- 2. Debate around the Wellington City Council "Arts bonus Scheme", and who benefits - the developer or the city?
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    Kaleidoscope - Prints and Printmakers Compilation

    Compilation from several previous programmes on prints and printmakers. 1. It covers the history of printing, and printing in New Zealand, including the early printmakers of the Quoin Club and the father of New Zealand art printing, E Mervyn Taylor. The different techniques used are demonstrated by John Drawbridge who talks about their origins and the work produced. Rodney Fumpston talks about the inspiration from his garden. -- 2. There are various reasons an artist decides to use a print to express an idea and painter Pat Hanley thinks the advantage of prints is both their graphic qualities and that a lot of people can have them. Printmaker Mervyn Williams can make the decision of whether to print or paint by convenience of getting an idea on paper. -- 3. The process of lithography is laborious and Katherine Shine demonstrates the steps involved. Brian James specialises in wood block printing. -- 4. Kate Coolahan makes her own paper and demonstrates the process. Stanley Palmer is one of the few printmakers who makes his own ink. Carol Shepherd makes what she calls 'assemblages', compositions based around an traditional etching. Paul Hartigan uses colour photocopy machines to create his works - but isn't that just reproduction? -- 5. The programme discusses how printmakers get around the problem of owning printing machines, and the specialist galleries, like Ginko Studios in Christchurch are being set up to help them, and market their work. Architect Ron Sang has designed a studio for printer Malcolm Waugh so his work and that of others can be produced, framed and displayed for sale. Portfolio Gallery in Auckland is also selling prints widely. But, machinery is not always needed and Harold Coop prints by hand, or feet.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Jazz, and Wellington group Six Volts, who play the music of the 1920's and 1930's, are recording at Crescendo Studios. Their recording will be released under the Braille Records label collective, all experimental. -- 2. After 25 Years of living in Britain poet Kevin Ireland has returned to New Zealand. His work is about New Zealand with his nine published volumes winning many awards. He talks about his work, the influence of places and people and reads several of his poems.
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    Kaleidoscope

    In the final programme for the year Kaleidoscope visits five performing arts schools to see students at the beginning of their careers and a potential life in the performing arts: NZ Drama School; NZ School of Dance; Schola Musica; Royal NZ Ballet School, and the Wellington Polytechnic. A group of 13 young artists are followed as they study for a career in the performing arts. It asks why they wanted to go ahead and try for an arts career. In five years time the programme hopes to talk to them all again to see what happened. Sam Konise - violinist; Anita Schwab - jazz pianist; Paul Craven - Theatre technician; Helen Winchester - Dancer; Anita Bryan - Dancer; Paul Whelan - Singer; Mia Van Den Eykel - Singer; Campbel Smith - Singer; Graeme Cosslett - Pianist; Sarah Preece - Actor; Martin Csokas - Actor; Brendan Meek - Dancer; Mecaela Baird - Dancer
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Christchurch architect Peter Bevan has been the inspiration for a generation of new architects. He has come back from an extended period overseas and goes around Wellington to look at, and comment on new architecture there. -- 2. A new dance work "Dead Ballerinas" has been choreographed by Paul Jenden and performed by him and his partner Loius Solino. It uses males as ballerinas, beginning as if it were a send up but turning into something really different. -- 3. The judge for the Fletcher Brownbuilt pottery awards this year is Maria Kuczynska and she talks about the works which have won awards.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. ANZART '85 is a 10 day festival of "off the wall" art and a trans-Tasman gathering of artists covering new art forms; performance, electronics and experimental. -- 2. Embroidering History in Masterton and the local history wall hanging made for the Masterton library. -- 3. Artist and printmaker Carol Shepheard has been given a six week residency with disabled young people getting them involved in art, and which benefited her work as well.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Auckland is having a building boom with a record number of sites having been cleared and now under construction. But there seems to be little control over the environmental of aesthetic qualities. This programme looks at the effects of demolition and new building, with the criticisms, and suggestions for what should be done. High Rise, or High Risk? Participants are: Peter Bromhead (Interior Designer); Vern Warren (Director of Planning, Auckland City Council); Harold Goodman (Chairman, Planning Committe, Auckland City Council); Colin Graham (Property Manager, AMP); Seph Glew (Property Manager, Chase Corporation); John Whitehead (Managing Director, Mainzeal); Jim Hart (Property Manager, NZI Investments); Ian Carter (Sociologist); Ollie Newland (Businessman); Ivan Mercep (Architect); Professor Bartlett (Architecture School); Mike Prichard (School of Town Planning). -- 2. Composer Andrew LLoyd Weber's "Requiem" album, released this month in New Zealand, has already made the charts the world over. The track "Pie Jesu' has a video to go with it. It was made as a tribute to the Sussex Rescue Service and their work at the time of the Brighton Hotel bombing. -- 3. New Zealand composer Jack Body's "Little Elegies" was commissioned by Television New Zealand for its 25th birthday.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Playwright Roger Hall is the most successful playwright New Zealand has produced, constantly breaking box office records. He talks about his plays and musicals, and the challenges of being popular.
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    Kaleidoscope

    William (Bill) Southgate is one of the best known musicians and conductors in New Zealand and has introduced classical music to a wide audience. He has just conducted his own symphony with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He talks about his life, and music.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope Bruce Mason

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Film director Geoff Steven takes a Kaleidoscope crew out on the town to give and impression of the changes in arts and entertainment in Auckland at night. -- 2. Stress can build up and affect the body. Dancer and teacher Raewyn Schwalbe uses a method called the 'releasing technique' to help relieve the physical and mental symptoms. The University of Auckland School of Music uses her techniques with the musicians. -- 3. Peter Webb and Denis Cohn give advice on how and where to buy paintings. Pictures jerky in parts from restored original tape.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Mirage Films production 'Came a Hot Friday' is on the way to becoming New Zealand's largest film moneymaker. Producer Larry Parr is becoming New Zealand's "money man of the movies". He talks about his start in film making and making "Came a hot Friday". -- 2. Venice Beach in California has an unusual sense of history. It is an eclectic mix of Italian Renaissance and the American Dream and Kerry Fowler explores what makes it so unusual. -- 3. Peter Webb starts a series on Investing in Art. -- 4. Announcement that the production of Kaleidoscope will move to Wellington in 1986
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Roger Donaldson, has played an important part in the renaissance of film in New Zealand. He has moved to the USA and gives his views of the Hollywood film industry. -- 2.'Art for All' "20 Years ago Today" and how that record summed up a whole generation and introduced 'pop culture'. This was a new explosion of the arts, and it requires marketing to make the them successful. -- 3. Elephants, of corrugated iron, and other animals have found their way to Albert Park in Auckland. Creator Geoff Thompson, who made his name with quirky letterboxes, talks about creating the extraordinary out of the very ordinary.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Broadcast of the 14th Mobil Song Quest from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington. The introduction includes references to previous winners since the quest began in 1956 as a radio contest Including Patricia Price (1961), Malvina Major (1963), Kiri Te Kanawa (1965) and Christopher Doig (1971). The programme presents the six finalists - recalled form the original 20 - in the final round: Andrea Gerring, Stewart Cameron, Kenneth Cornish, Robyn Lynch, David Griffiths, Shelly Alexander, Lindsay Fergusson Managing Director Mobile Oil, Robert Muldoon Prime Minister. Special Prize: Dame Joan. Hammond Scholarship: Robyn Lynch. Prizewinners are: 3rd Stewart Cameron: 2nd Robyn Lynch: 1st David Griffiths. Judges: Grant Dickson and Ian McKay
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. The Dance and the Child International (DACI) conference recently held in Auckland recognises that every child regardless of age, race, creed or disability should be able to join into dance. Around the country there are dance classes where some of the tutors are only three or four years older than the children they teach. -- 2 A Vancouver children's theatre company, the Green Thumb Theatre, has been in New Zealand as part of a Pacific tour, producing plays and taking workshops that educationalists and actors thought were rather special. 3. Buying Contemporary Art, getting started as an artist and group collecting. The art collective 'The Future Group' just bought an avant guarde Billy Apple painting. Lawyer Warwick Brown is part of The Prospect Collection and the Forsyth Collection, both started to assist people to start collecting with a lower risk.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Edwina Thorn is a trumpeter and leader of the all female band "Pink Terrace". She is interviewed on her background. Her professional career started a 12 with Max Cryer and the Kids and later she joined Roger Fox and his Big Band and moved into jazz.
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    Kaleidoscope

    New Zealand feminist artist Vivian Lynn is installing a major work - Lamella Asherim- in Studio 8 at the Avalon Television Centre ready for a recording tonight, and a showing in the morning. It involves setting up almost invisible nylon threads and 15 columns all of which need meticulous adjustment. Vivian talks about her work in between working on setting up the installation and working around the studio lighting director, Howard Anderson, trying to light it for television. Vivian also needs to assess what the installation will look like on television, rather than in an exhibition hall. Composer Sue Alexander needs to compose and record a short piece to be played at the recording
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    Kaleidoscope

    A profile of actor Ian Mune and his many contributions to theatre and the entertainment business. He talks about his career, and the films and plays he has been part of.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Wellington composer Jenny Mcleod sees herself as part of the community but it took some time to find this identity. -- 2. Lion New Zealand is involved in state of the art Yacht Design and every four years these designs come together for the Whitbread Round the World race. New Zealander Ron Holland has designed Lion's latest yacht. Peter Blake talks about what has to be considered for this type of racing. -- 3. The exhibition "Anxious Images" from New Zealand artists looks at our public and private anxieties. -- 4. The craft of instrument making was celebrated in an exhibition for National Music Week Duplicate of VL_90141_02 Date correct. Date on the box of this recording this is wrong - not 04/04/1986
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    Kaleidoscope Three Sculptors, Three Choreographers

    1; Sculptors Daniel Clasby, Malcolm Ford, and Peter Sauerbier talk about the very different scales they work on and the very different materials they work with. Daniel Clasby's work is tiny using precious metals, Malcolm Ford's sculptures use wooden twigs and Peter Sauerbier creates his large pieces out of scrap metal -- 2. Contemporary dance in New Zealand has struggled for the last 10 years and three choreographers; Mary-Jane O'Reilly, Susan Jordan, and Jamie Bull present some of their work talk about the challenges they face. date to be checked as this is the second to last programme of the year so box is wrong. check ?/11/1988
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    Kaleidoscope

    original TX date may be 2/10/1987 To be confirmed. 1.The boundaries of painting and the challenge to conventional ideas on what can be called a painting. and a profile of artist Heather Busch. -- 2. Jack Forrest, and Robert Mcleod are two Wellington based painters who also challenge the image of painting.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. A profile of artist Evelyn Page. An exhibition of her work 'The Seven Decades' is a present touring the country. -- 2. The story of the band 'Front Lawn' with performance duo Don McGlashen and Harry Sinclair. They are about to leave for Sydney to perform at the Belvoir St theatre.
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    Kaleidoscope Art for All: Culture Gap

    Tape damage at the start; playback has jitter, but usable and sound okay. 1. The programme introduces a new part of the show "Art for all?", subtitled 'Culture Gap" which discusses the 'culture gap' between generations. -- 2. A profile of carver Paki Harrison who talks about each of the carvings and their significance at theTe Waiariki at Whaiora marae, ÅŒtara, Pictures unstable from original tape. Usable.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. The group 'From Scratch' and musicians / comedians Phil Dadson, John Laird and Don McGlashan have a unique mixture of music, sculpture and performance. A film "From Scratch in Action" has just been released. -- 2. 'The British Show' which has just opened in Wellington is the first major exhibition of contemporary art in New Zealand since the 1970's. The emphasis is on sculpture but there are also paintings, video works and performance installations. -- 3. Art for All: Beyond Culture. This final part looks at the things about art that might join us and the technology being applied to graphics and artworks and the influence of television. Jitter on the tape but usable.
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    Kaleidoscope - The World of James Joyce

    Episode 2
    James Joyce was born in Dublin 100 years ago. At the age of 20 he left for Paris to begin a self-imposed exile that was to last most of his life. Dublin, however, remained the inspiration for his writing. This film, complete with many previously unseen interviews, shows the obstacles that lay in the path of Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, the books that were to make Joyce one of the most famous and influential writers of this century.
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    Kaleidoscope From Rodin to Disco

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. What the Public thinks about art - Wellington City recently approved a $900K Henry Moore sculpture and there has been a very mixed reaction. A show called "When Art hits the Headlines" is questioning whether art galleries are addressing the public or care what they think. -- 2. New York Artist Barbara Kruger puts words over her painting to communicate with the public. She, and some of her works have been in Wellington for the International Festival of the Arts
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Duplicate of VL_90008_01 Paul Gnatt, Director of the New Zealand Ballet Company has just received a Queen's Service medal for services to Ballet. Music education in today's world.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Duplicate of VL_90008_03 1. Dunedin has the Burns, the Mozart and the Frances Hodgkins Fellowships, for writing music and art. The three holders of the 1983 fellowships talk about their work and the significance of their year with the award. Chris Cree-Brown holds the Mozart, Joanna Paul, the Hodgkins, and Rawiri Paratene the Burns. -- 2. Photographers have different styles and two photographers are contrasted here. Des Williams concentrates on high fashion and Lesley Walker, with husband Colin, owns advertising photography studio, Pace Studios. -- 3. Robert Jesson who's commissioned sculpture for the Remuera Library caused a storm in Auckland is currently Artist in Focus at the Auckland City Art Gallery.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).