Known as a champion for well-being and social change Borni accepts the role as first Māori director of the Auckland Fringe. He talks to Emanuella de Ruiter about what he learned from his whānau.

Here are some of Dominic Hoey’s picks, including body positive workshops, zine exhibitions and art performances.

Annie Pokel takes us to a brave little enterprise well off the beaten track.

Mary de Ruyter talks to two artists and asks them how they made it to the point of an enviable creative life.

Mark Amery’s Lowdown is back for 2020, and chock-full with all the major arts stories from over the break, including fresh concerns about the dire state of creative sector incomes.