Northland Artists Conversation

Send us Fan Mail It's officially the shortest day of the year and winter has arrived in all its cold, raining glory. So what better way to cheer yourselves up than with a cracker of a podcast from well respected and local DJ, Hemi Ruka so please welcome him to the Northland Artists Conversation. Hemi is one of those artists who found his creative expression quite early on in life and has been...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the chilly side of winter fans and supporters of the podcast. This podcast is guaranteed to provide a few laughs and some incredible insight into one of our amazing artists who works behind the scenes progressing Northland's cultural profile. Please join me in welcoming to the podcast, Helen Whittaker Always willing to answer any question, Helen was a person that w...

Send us Fan Mail  Greetings one and all. It's fantastic to see you back supporting our podcast, we really appreciate it so much. This week's podcast was another amazing one, so please join us in welcoming Steam Punk participator, arts enthusiast and current Mayor of Whangarei, The Honourable Vince Cocurullo Never shying away from a question, Vince talks openly, honestly and with a great...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome everyone to the Northland Artists Conversation, thanks for stopping by. If this is your first time, thanks for joining us and if you have been here before, awesome to see you again. Sitting down for the podcast this week, is writer Geoff Bartlett Hailing from across the ditch, Geoff was a guest that was both well-spoken and a laugh a minute. Quick with a joke and such a ge...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to world of the Northland Artists Conversation. If this is your first time, thanks for stopping by and if you have been here before we appreciate you coming back and enjoying our little slice of the internet. Please join us in welcoming, the wonderfully effervescent, Rachel Diamond! Rachel went from being a full on music head to model to singer then actor and back to singe...

Send us Fan Mail She's a firestarter, twisted firestarter (Prodigy reference). This week's podcast is super awesome and was a lot of fun. Northland Artists Conversation welcomes Jess Hesse to the podcast. Jess was such a wicked cool guest and was a lot of laughs. She has her legendary nickname and her incredible passion that she did before finding the "burning"scene. She talks...

Send us Fan Mail  Well hello there friends and supports of Northland Artists Conversation. This week's guest is super cool singer and fellow former east coastie, Ryan Karaka. Join me in welcoming him to the conversation. As someone who had a very unique experience growing up in rural NZ, Ryan's perspective is incredibly insightful as he talks about growing up and how moving to Northland...

Send us Fan Mail  Welcome friends and followers of the Northland Artists Conversation podcast, are you adequately prepared to rock? Let's get Punk in Drublic with local muso and all round good guy, Matt Shepherd! Matt is a local icon amongst the music scene in Whangarei and Northland as he is not only a muso in a lot of bands but he also runs the Rockshop in Whangarei, so it's fair to sa...

Send us Fan Mail Come one, come all and welcome to the Northland Artists Conversation. Where we have a bit of a laugh and really get to know our amazing guests, so please join us in welcoming this week's brilliant guest, Cosplay queen Kealy Murphy. Kealy was a guest we had wanted to have on for a while and it's the first time we have had close friends and collaborators on the podcast as...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello amazing friends and followers of the podcast, it's another amazing conversation that is coming your way! This one is a bit special, so please join us in welcoming to the conversation, ceramicist Gabriela Weber-Oswald. When you get to sit down with someone who was born and raised outside of NZ, they bring a fresh and unique perspective as to the world that we live in. S...

Send us Fan Mail Hey, hey, you know what day it is! It's Thursday and it's time for another amazing podcast and this week's one is wicked. Please welcome to the studio, a man who is widely respected as one of the top blade smiths in NZ; Manu King.    Sitting down and having the opportunity to talk with people who come from all creative walks of life is the whole reason we started th...

Send us Fan Mail  Well hello there Northland Artists Conversation friends and supporters. This week's podcast is one of those podcasts where you're always finding out fascinating things about our guest. Please welcome Rod Cunliffe to the Conversation. Rod is someone we had wanted to get on for a little while as we have had his wife on the podcast before and she spoke so highly of him and...

Send us Fan Mail  Ok, Northland Artists Conversation supporters, this podcast is absolutely minta! This week on the podcast we have the one, the only, the former actor of a Waka Kotahi ad (and occasional rapper), Andrew MacKenzie! Andrew is one of the founding members of local hip hop collective OBC and has extensive experience in video production. Andrew also co-created the podcast so it was real...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello friends and fans of Northland Artists Conversation podcast. This week's guest is the wonderful and charming (and super creative) Anna Terwiel. It was so cool to sit down with someone who has experience both in front of and behind the camera. Anna talks about her journey starting off behind the camera through to being a celebrated cosplay artist through to becoming an a...

Send us Fan Mail Hey, hey it's Thursday and we all know what that means! Only 1 day to go until the weekend AND the new Northland Artists Conversation podcast goes live. Our guest this week is the very cool and super awesome Leonard McDougall! It was great to be able to sit down with Leonard and hear his story. It's fascinating to hear him talk about how he started drawing then going int...

Send us Fan Mail Ok, Northland Artists Conversation supporters, this podcast is a cracker! Well travelled and touring musician Maggie Cocco joins us for a truly lively podcast this week.   Maggie was so super cool to talk with. She talked about her early life growing up just outside of Detroit before beginning her journey into becoming a musician. She shares some hilarious stories of her time in t...

Send us Fan Mail  Fans and followers of the Northland Artists Conversation, we are incredibly lucky to secure a brilliant author who was so kind and blessed us with her time. Welcome to the podcast, Janine Williams    Janine has lived a fascinating life after having being born on Fiji and having lived in England before her family moved back home to NZ.  With her heart belonging to Aotearoa, she be...

Send us Fan Mail  The Northland Artists Conversation guest on the podcast this week is a  multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur with a passion for portals. Please welcome Dr Maggie Buxton!    Maggie has over 30 years working with people, places and organisations who want to expand and explore the realm of possibility of creativity. Inspiring those around her, she challenges the creative standa...

Send us Fan Mail The Northland Artists Conversation guest this week is the very cool, hugely talented and Thespian extraordinaire Debi Walters-Brown! Debi shares with us her journey into the world of acting as well as her passion for teaching and singing and how she blends both of those key aspects into what she does. Moving to the winterless North with her parents from England, Debi shares with u...

Send us Fan Mail  On the Northland Artists Conversation this week, we get the pleasure of sitting down with the amazing landscape and commercial photographer Alan Squires. Alan is always looking for an opportunity to explore new areas and capture the beautiful location of Tai Tokerau. While his passion is landscape photography, many other areas interest him - of note is  how people live, work and...

Send us Fan Mail  Friends and fans of the Northland Artists Conversation podcast, please welcome Piet Nieuwland to the studio as he sits down and talks about his career as a poet, flash fiction writer, artist, performer and occasional book reviewer. Piet's story is absolute fascinating. Piet has such a depth of knowledge and shares so much with us on the podcast. The journey he takes is one f...

Send us Fan Mail Alright, alright, alright! Northern Artists Conversation fans, it's time to get crazy, wild and mildly inappropriate with our next guest. In what is sure to be a colourful podcast in places, let's meet Tim Bell. Tim was one of those amazing guests who was never short of a story and always quick with a joke. Sharing personal stories from his time growing up all the way th...

Send us Fan Mail 2023 has started off the year in a fascinating way. Bad weather, storm warnings, flash flooding, so what better way to take your mind off things than with a fascinating and informative podcast. Join us as we sit down with the wonderfully creative Cecilia De Donatis From growing up in Turin, north-west of Italy through to doing anthropological researches in Cuba and in the north of...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY 2023!!!!!!  Hope everyone had a fantastic Xmas and New Years surrounded by amazing people. Boy o boy, have we got a wicked podcast for the 1st one of 2023. Northland Artists Conversation sits down with international Soprano extraordinaire Sophie Sparrow Even though Sophie now resides in the stunningly beautiful city of Florence, Italy, she hasn't forgotten her roots and...

Send us Fan Mail Supporters of Northland Artists Conversation!!! As we draw a close to the year, we wish to thank every single one of you that has supported us. Whether it is through watching our videos or listening to our podcasts or being an artists who has shared their time with us and been on the show. We appreciate you all. 2023 holds some wonderful things for Northland Artists Conversation a...