Join Beth Torrance-Hetherington and Sofia Roger Williams for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!
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.
Nicholas spoke to Vira Paky a recipient of Amnesty International’s Gary Ware Legacy award about a new one-day applied theatre workshop that she is running for young refugees and migrants.
He also spoke to Music therapist Rachel Foxell about the upcoming music therapy week, that is happening from the 10th-15th of April.
And Beth catches up with artistic and academic Yolunda Hickman about My Creative Rights, a programme subsidised by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, that provides artists free 15-minute consultations with a legal advisor.
My Creative Rights has been developed by a non-profit org Copyright Licensing NZ (CLNZ) to demystify dense legal language around copyright and help writers and artists protect their intellectual property. Free 15-minute consultations with a legal advisor are available which are subsidised by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage for a limited time.
Artistic and academic Yolunda Hickman works with CLNZ as a visual arts advisor. Beth spoke with her about My Creative Rights and the importance of knowing your rights as an artist in Aotearoa.
Vira Paky is award winning poet, playwright, writer and a community activist.
In 2021 Vira was awarded Amnesty International’s Gary Ware Legacy award.
With funding from the award and in conjunction with Black Creatives Aotearoa and Auckland Theatre Company, Vira will be hosting a a one-day applied theatre workshop for young refugees
The workshop is intended to provide a space for young refugees and migrants to explore positive mental health and well-being through applied theatre.
Nicholas spoke to Vira about the workshop, he began by asking about her experience with theatre.
Stage Direction is with Nisha Madhan and Julia Croft (producers), talking about Still Lives, the internationally acclaimed series working with eight female-identifying rugby players to create a living sculpture of an interlocking scrum.
That’s so last century: What we wore 1950s – 1990s is an exhibition that explores New Zealand’s fashion history.
The exhibition contains photographs, magazines, LPs, trade catalogues, manuscripts, clothing patterns, and books held in Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections that give insight to our fashion habits from the middle to the end of the 20th century.
Nicholas spoke to one of the exhibition's curators, Zoë Colling, about the curation process.
Nicholas speaks to Zoë Colling, one of the curators of That’s so last century, a new exhibition at the Auckland City library that explores New Zealand fashion from the 1950s-1990s.
Beth speaks to world-renowned illustrator and author of children’s books and the political cartoonist for the Observer, Chris Riddell, about his new volume of poems, I Can’t Remember What We Talked About.
To end the show, Nicholas speaks to Louise Menzies an artist featured in Eight thousand layers of moments, an exhibition hosted at Gus Fisher Gallery.
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