Join Nicholas Lindstrom and Beth Torrance-Hetherington for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!
This weekend, over at 74 Karangahape Road, is the SAMA-SAMA pop up market.
This’ll be the first event from SAMA-SAMA, showcasing six local Filipino creatives and makers from the third to the fifth of November.
Long term, SAMA-SAMA is aiming to form a full on community of Filipino creatives within Aotearoa. To learn more, I had a chat with founders Denise and Clarisse.
Poets Isla Huia, Liam Jacobsen, and Dominic Hoey will be going on a tour across the motu throughout late november and early December.
The trio will be heading to The Wine Cellar here in Tāmaki Makaurau on the eighth of december, as well as Golden Bay, Ōtepoti, Ōtautahi, and Te Whanganui-a-tara
This comes off of the back of each poet releasing their own poetry books throughout this year.
Liam had a chat to Isla about the tour, and how it came to fruition.
In recent arts news, the National Theatre for Children is closing after a glorious 25 years of enthralling tamariki and ākonga around Aotearoa. The work of the theatre has brought many children their first encounter with the magic of live performance. Those that made the decision say they celebrate its legacy of supporting the creation and delivery of high-quality live theatre designed for children. However, the programme has been heavily subsidised for many years to make theatre accessible, and this model is no longer sustainable in the post-pandemic environment. To hear about the closure and what it may mean for tamariki and theatre, Frances spoke with Tim Bray, Artistic Director of Tim Bray Theatre Company and Trustee of Performing Arts and Young People Aotearoa.
Rehab is a show coming to Basement Theatre in early November. Based on lived experience, this unscripted dark dramedy explores early recovery for an eclectic mix of addicts and alcoholics within a residential rehab. To hear about the show, Frances caught up with one of its cast members, Johnson Manukau.
Frances spoke to Gregory O’Brien about his new book ‘Flight Path’ celebrating the life and legacy of Aotearoa artist Don Binney.
She also spoke with Andrea Hotere about her first novel ‘The Vanishing Point’ about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women it connects across centuries.
Liam speaks to Lance Fepuleai, AKA Lucky Lance, about the FETU Creative Talks boosted campaign.
They also chatted to John Pule about Momheaga, his piece included in the Always Song In The Water Exhibition at the MZ Maritime Museum.
A boosted campaign has recently been launched for FETU Creative Talks.
The talks aim to provide a variety of workshops and creative talks for Māori and Pasifika rangatahi, working with a variety of artists and creatives from around Aotearoa.
The programme is the first of many from Launchpad, a creative organisation aiming to create a community of rangatahi artmakers across the motu.
Liam had a chat with Lance Fepuleai, AKA Lucky Lance, about the talks and the campaign to fund them.
A few weeks back we had a kōrero with the good people at the NZ maritime museum about the Always Song In The Water Exhibition.
Today, we’ll be having a chat with one of the artists who contributed to the exhibition, John Pule, a niue based artist who has provided the Momoheaga piece.
We had a chat about where it came from, what inspired it, and more.
Don Binney: Flight Path is a richly illustrated account of the life and work of one of New Zealand’s most iconic artists.
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist, Don Binney was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the nation’s art.
Drawing extensively on Binney’s letters, journals and other writings, award-winning author and curator Gregory O’Brien takes us into the world of this gifted but paradoxical artist. Richly illustrated with Binney’s paintings, drawings and prints – alongside photographs and documentary materials – this is the first full-length monograph on one of New Zealand’s most important twentieth-century artists.
To hear about the book, Frances caught up with Greg for Various Artists this week.
Andrea Hotere, daughter of renowned Aotearoa artist Ralph Hotere and acclaimed poet Cilla McQueen has released her first novel, The Vanishing Point. The book is a fast-paced contemporary historical novel set in the 1600s and 1990s that twists and turns to a banger of an ending. Andrea says she wants the book to encourage the reader’s sense of curiosity about art in a way that is fun and accessible, to show the benefit of challenging received wisdom from the establishment sometimes, and listening to the artist, first and foremost.
To hear more about the novel Frances caught up with Andrea for Various Artists this week.
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