Chinese New Year - dancers, dragons and football!
Football celebrates the eve of Chinese New Year when Wellington Phoenix play against rivals Perth Glory with a spectacular collaborative performance of Chinese Dance and Dragons. Lynda Chanwai-Earle...
View ArticleTotal dedication - the life of young Chinese acrobats
They start learning acrobatics at the age of five and will have chalked up to 8000 hours practice by the age of 10. Showing absolute commitment to their craft, child acrobats of Zirka Circus are...
View ArticleChildren discover Chinese dance
They've performed over 40 times around the world but now an international folk dance troupe from Xiamen are giving schools across Wellington workshops in Chinese Folk Dance as part of a new educational...
View ArticleIncredible alchemy: renowned ceramicist Liu Jianhua
Audience members are sometimes disturbed or brought to tears by his objects. Depicting remnants of airline disasters; 1500 individually cast and life-size ceramic objects like teddy bears and baby...
View Article"I could've had a brother" - legacy of China's one child policy
China very recently changed its one-child policy. Now families can choose to have another child. When the one-child policy ends in 2016, most couples will be restricted to two children. But with the...
View ArticleYoung, Muslim, Black and Representing NZ!
Chosen from among 4588 applicants across the globe, Fatumata Bah is young, Muslim and black - and she's representing New Zealand at the 33Sixty Commonwealth Young Leaders Programme in Scotland this...
View ArticleStop domestic violence - help the men
Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets the team behind Gandhi Nivas - a ground-breaking early intervention initiative first created within Auckland's Indian community that might just revolutionise the way domestic...
View ArticleNew Zealand's Chinese Anzacs - A buried history
It's been a buried history that has finally come to light. Chinese New Zealanders who fought in places like Gallipoli during the First World War were recognised earlier this year during a special...
View ArticleBest NZ Poems go bilingual
A tea ceremony, calligraphy painting and readings are launching the first ever bilingual publication of 25 of New Zealand’s best poets and poetry translated into Chinese. It’s an ambitious project...
View ArticleFrom Slavery to Steelpan – NZ's Freedom Music
Trinidad and Tobago are the birthplace of the steelpan with origins in the drumming traditions from Africa - originally developed to help tolerate the inhumane practices of slavery in the 1700s. NZ's...
View ArticleI AM – not your stereotypical African!
Some migrant and former refugee Africans in New Zealand say they are tired of being painted in the media as symbols of perversion, poverty, crime and shame. The 'I AM' project aims to turn this around.
View ArticleThingyan! Burmese celebrate their New Year
It's Thingyan time. Auckland's Burmese community are celebrating their New Year Festival or Thingyan, showcasing the 7 ethnic nationalities with their cultural and traditional performances, traditional...
View ArticleA Most Diverse Beat - Constable Rob Stanton
Ethiopian coffee, radio shows, and rappers are part of the daily grind for Constable Rob Stanton. Dubbed an honorary African he’s a crucial outlet for the community to voice their concerns even if they...
View ArticleHeart of the Tiger - NZ's first female Indian police officer
Leaving behind an abusive arranged marriage as a teenage bride in North India Constable Mandeep Kaur struggled as a single mother in a foreign country to become New Zealand's first Indian female police...
View ArticleAfrican Youth Speak Out
A report on encounters between African youth and police in Auckland sought to highlight bias in the justice system. But negative backlash from the public in social media after its release has shocked...
View ArticleSweet Rewards: Indians celebrate 125 years in New Zealand
Vaisakhi Mela the harvest festival for the Punjab region of India is as important as New Year. Around 20,000 Sikhs live in New Zealand. One of the first to settle arrived around 1890, his legacy is...
View ArticleLucky Eight! Hawke's Bay's Multicultural Association Celebrate
For the Chinese, eight is a lucky number! From just a few stalls and tiny public gatherings to an International Cultures Day in the iconic Cornwall Park attracting hundreds, Lynda Chanwai-Earle is...
View ArticleThe Real Iran - Elham's Story
Get to know the real Iran - Elham's story: Elham Salari grew up in Iran's capital Tehran and the war dominated her childhood memories. She moved to Hawkes Bay with her husband five years ago....
View ArticleRhythm for the Blues
India has one of the highest rates of depression in the world and for men within the age of 15 to 29 the suicide rate is very high. The Indian community in New Zealand is also deeply affected but an...
View ArticleIndia's big issues - a student speaks out
Lynda Chanwai-Earle brings us a story from RNZ's Lynn Freeman who is in rural Kanha, central India. Lynn meets a young Indian student to hear about the big issues in India….sexism, women's safety, the...
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