Friends, Romans, and local theatre-makers, listen in to Alice's community notice board of some super cool opportunities about town! Submissions for Basement Theatre's Ideas in Residence and Ahurei Mōwaho ō Tāmaki Makaurau(the Auckland Fringe Festival) close TOMORROW (Wednesday 20 April). Also, if you're a budding playwright or just have some ideas steeping in your brain juice, check out what Playmarket has to offer! Phew! Lots of stuff, cheers Alice!
Blind Mango Chutney remembers Michael Henderson's significant contribution to jazz from Miles Davis's On the Corner album, a tribute to trailblazing saxophonist Barbara Thompson, plus an interview with drummer extraordinaire Chris O'Connor from Trioglodyte, who have their monthly residency at the Wine Cellar coming up this week.
Setlist:
Miles Davis – On The Corner/New York Girl/Thinkin' One Thing Doing Another/Vote For Miles
Niel Ardley feat. Barbara Thompson – Upstarts All
Mary Halvorsom – Night Shift
Interview with Chris O'Connor
Triosence – Taurus Line
Gerri Allen Trio – Drummers Song
Shelly Manne/ Bill Evans – The Washington Twist
Jimmy Giuffre 3 – Swamp People
The Tony Williams Lifetime – Emergency
Gogo Penguin – Allres
Szun Waves – Constellation
Hamps New Blues – Mingus 3
This month, Auckland Council's Governing Body is considering whether to accept a report that recommends delaying planning for a new Central Library because the project does not have sufficient cost/benefit at this time. Instead it recommends continuing with the current much-loved library for the short to medium term. Satisfaction levels from users sit at around 95% and feedback from Waitemata residents in the Annual Budget consultation put maintaining library services and hours at the top of their priorities along with community and arts and cultural facilities and programmes. Dr Alex Bonham spoke to Associate Professor Linda Tyler, the convenor of Museums and Cultural Heritage of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland about the evolving role of libraries and cultural institutions.
We zoom through the SRN portal to catch up with Maggie on the Radio Active Breakfast Show for a Breakfast Buffet. Dr Kirsten Zemke explores magical songs on Travelling Tunes. Mim Jensen dials in from Ōtautahi to chat about her EP Emotional Affair, released today. After a bMovies takeover, TV chat is back- and we're pleased to say that Litia Tuiburelevu is our new resident Viewmaster. Whakarongo mai nei!
We zip through the SRN portal to have a Breakfast Buffet with Dave Borrie down at Ōtepoti's Radio One. Dr Kirsten Zemke talks to us about beatboxing on Travelling Tunes. D.C. Maxwell is in the studio for a kōrero about his debut album Lone Rider, which is out today. Litia Tuiburelevu, resident Viewmaster, reviews Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo. Whakarongo mai nei!
Liam will be chatting to Josiah Morgan about his new poetry collection I’m Still Growing,
As well as Splore performing arts director Emma Vickers about what to expect for the upcoming festival’s theatrical programme.
Frances speaks to Hana Pera Aoake, the recent recipient of the 2024 curatorial residency with Delfina Foundation and Metroland Cultures in London.
She also speaks with Irene Gardiner, President of SPADA Screen Producers NZ, about their call for streaming platform regulation and intellectual property protections.
Jimmy Robert is Artspace’s current artist in residence. He is interested in the body’s discipline into the following categories: acceptably invisible, or acceptably visible.
His exhibition Joie noire will be at Artspace on Karangahape Road from 20 April – 13 July 2024. It is the third reinterpretation of a performance by Jimmy of the same title which debuted in Berlin in 2019.
Beth spoke to Jimmy about Joie noire and the conditions of the body in the public sphere.
Welcome to your new weekend listening! Broadcasting legend Karyn Hay is on your Saturday airwaves, bringing you three hours of tunes and chats. Castor is the student that becomes the teacher on Lecture Me, telling us about his recent lecture on primitive accumulation. Stella Huggins is in for an explanation of the environmental impacts of AI on Implausible Deniability. Finn Johansson is our resident empath, giving the listenership advice and validation on Dear Finn. Listen back to the first show of many.
Learn all about the Seoul Residency campaign Big Fan are running in partnership with Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono and CJ Cultural Foundation! Applications close this Friday so get in quick if you and your band want the chance to win a trip to Korea to record and perform at CJ Azit. Find all the info here!
On a very special edition of Spaced Out, Rosetta and Nick share their experience at The Silk Collective's listening party of Sanoi's unreleased album - which took place at The Stardome last week! The immersive experience allowed fans a unique opportunity to listen to the entire new album in The Stardome's planiterium. Nick and Rosetta share some interviews with the Silk Collective organisers, and some of the crowd who were there on the night. Our resident space-enthusiast and expert Josh also phones in to chat about the latest space news - including a newly discovered dwarf planet, and some amazing footage of Jupiter's aurora!
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