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I/V w/ Tama Waipara on the Tairāwhiti Arts Festival: June 5, 2019

I/V w/ Tama Waipara on the Tairāwhiti Arts Festival: June 5, 2019

I/V w/ Tama Waipara on the Tairāwhiti Arts Festival: June 5, 2019 I/V w/ Tama Waipara on the Tairāwhiti Arts Festival: June 5, 2019, 9.75 MB
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Tama Waipara is the festival director of the inaugural Tairāwhiti Arts Festival. His background is in music, and he came to work at the Auckland Arts Festival as programme manager for Māori and Pacific programs and then eventually senior programmer. Now he wants to bring an Arts Festival to the East Coast. He grew up in Opotiki, so this opportunity is to build a festival from the ground up in a place he calls home. Lillian Hanly speaks to Tama about the festival and starts by talking about creating the kaupapa for the festival, which Tama said was the first step.