Various Artists with Sofia & Beth

Today on Various Artists!

Pl.at.fo.rm._ for Palestine is an online raffle fundraiser with local artists, designers, jewellers and tattoo artists in Tāmaki Makaurau, taking place on Saturday 26th October. Sofia chatted with he organisers of the initiative, Ningyi, Yuyi, and Sophia about the kaupapa.

Beth caught up with Deborah Coddington and editor Jemma Moreira about Bold Types, their new book cataloguing the indie bookstores of Aotearoa New Zealand. 

And for Stage Direction, Beth and Sofia had a kōrero with Katie Burson and Georgie Llewellyn about How To Art, a show that blends physical theatre and clowning to challenge the conventional notions of creativity and value in the art world.

Showing at Basement Theatre Studio from November 12-16th, tickets from basementtheatre.co.nz.

And, as always, your weekly Arts Guide detailing all the cool happenings around Tāmaki Makaurau.  

For Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton is in to chat with Donna Brookbanks about Green Fingered on at Basement Theatre next week. You can get tickets here!

The Secret Life of Plants is a new group exhibition at Melanie Roger Gallery. 

The exhibition borrows its title from the 1973 book, with the same name, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The book documents “controversial experiments that claim to reveal unusual phenomena associated with plants, such as plant sentience and the ability of plants to communicate with other creatures, including humans.”

Exhibiting the works of Rosa Allison, Georgia Arnold, Heidi Brickell (Te Hika o Papauma, Rangitāne, Ngāi Tara, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Apakura), Ruth Ige, Tessa Laird, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Star Gossage (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Ruanui), Ann Shelton and Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, the artists embrace “the secret life of plants” within their practises with works exploring ideas of mysticism, healing, growth and spirituality.  

Sofia had a kōrero with gallerist and curator, Melanie Roger, about the show, the artists, and its themes.

For Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton speaks to Moss Patterson about Tempo Dance Festival on at Q Theatre until the 20th October. More information here!