New music from Pixies, (Sandy) Alex G, Kate Tempest, plus some amazing cover tunes from Chelsea Wolfe and Japanese Breakfast. And for the Long Player, Danielle speaks to Lontalius about his EP, Surrender.
Zoë shares with us her favourite (virtual) theatre picks for the weekend and it's looking pretty Shakespear heavy (no surprises there). King Lear is playing through the Stratford Festival, Twelfth Night is play on the National Theatre at Home, and Silo Theatre's Instagram Artist in residence is always good to check out, this week is Hamish Parkinson.
Welcome to the first episode of bLine, 95bFM’s new news podcast. bLine aims to bridge the gap between young people and decision makers, through youth-centred interviews focused on youth issues. The upcoming episodes will feature a range of topics affecting young people in our everyday lives, starting off with public transport.
As one of the largest public transport user groups, it’s important that young people are represented in decision making around the future of public transport developments in the city. One source of feedback that’s popped up recently is the explosion of activity around public transport on social media. In the first episode of bLine we spoke to @lethimdrive, @ifuckinghatethe394, the University of Auckland's Mohsen Mohammadzadeh, and Auckland Transport's Stacey van der Putten.
This episode of bLine looks at the importance of representation in the arts. As an audience member, I’m constantly searching for people like me in all the art I consume. There's something really special about identifying with a character in a movie or hearing someone sing about experiences that you’ve had. For those from marginalised and minority backgrounds, however, representation can be hard to come by.
Amidst the global student protests campaigning against the involvement of Academic Institutions in Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, many universities in Aotearoa have organised similar protests, calling on their universities to disclose their investments and divest from the State of Israel.
Following a recent protest at Massey University in solidarity with Palestine, students found out that the University had invested more than $7,000 in Israeli government bonds within the past three months.
For this week’s Get Action! Oto spoke to a student at Massey and member of Students for Justice in Palestine, who organised a petition calling for the university to disclose its investments and to divest from the State of Israel.
If you’d like to sign this petition, you can find it here:
You can also keep track of Students for Justice in Palestine at Massey on @massey.sjp on Instagram.
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