Various Artists with Beth & Sofia

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. 

E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today!

 Frances spoke with Tim Bray, a Trustee of Performing Arts and Young People Aotearoa about the closure of the National Children’s Theatre. 

She also spoke to Johnson Manukau about ‘Rehab’, a dark comedy improv about addiction recovery opening at Basement theatre next week.

Liam had a chat with the poet Isla Huia about her tour of the motu she’ll be taking with Liam Jacobsen and Dominic Hoey.

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.

Don Binney: Flight Path is a richly illustrated account of the life and work of one of New Zealand’s most iconic artists.

Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist, Don Binney was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the nation’s art. 

Drawing extensively on Binney’s letters, journals and other writings, award-winning author and curator Gregory O’Brien takes us into the world of this gifted but paradoxical artist. Richly illustrated with Binney’s paintings, drawings and prints – alongside photographs and documentary materials – this is the first full-length monograph on one of New Zealand’s most important twentieth-century artists.

To hear about the book, Frances caught up with Greg for Various Artists this week.