The country’s largest outdoor art event – NZ Sculpture OnShore – opened on 4 November offering visitors a record number of more than 130 spectacular works held at the stunning clifftop park of Operetu Fort Takapuna in Devonport, Auckland.
Returning after a five-year hiatus, the biennial exhibition is Women’s Refuge NZs biggest fundraising event.
To hear about the exhibition, Frances caught up with Chairperson Sally Dewar.
Happening at the end of this month is the 2023 NZ National Poetry Slam, where the top poets in the country will travel here to Tāmaki Makaurau for the opportunity to be crowned the 2023 National Champion.
To hear about the Slam, Frances has a chat in-studio with Abby Irwin-Jones and Auckland Regional Champ, Ngaio Simmons.
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.
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.
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