Beyond the stage: 2024 Festival impacts
The biennial Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts made its much-anticipated return to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington in early 2024.
Over seventy events, engaging more than five hundred artists and crew, showcased acclaimed international talent, world premieres, and iconic contemporary arts experiences. For 2024, the Festival extended into autumn with Light Cycles by Moment Factory at the Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā which was experienced by more than 31,000 people alone. In total, more than 68,000 tickets were issued with an overall attendance of 470,000 including to free events.
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Summer Reading List with Unity Books
If you're anything like me, you might have found yourself getting a little behind on your reading during the year (according to Goodreads, I'm 25 books behind my goal for 2024). But with the holidays ahead, it's the perfect time to catch up on all those fabulous reads you may have missed.
To help me figure out what I should be taking to the beach with me this summer, I reached out to our friends at Unity Books, one of the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts' longstanding partners, and asked them what they would recommend. Now I have to decide how many I might be able to fit into my suitcase! I'm away for 10 days, so that means I need... 11 books?
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2024 End of Year Wrap Up
As 2024 comes to a close, we've been reflecting on the year that's rapidly disappearing behind us. And what a year it has been!
We asked some of our staff to tell us about the year that's been, what's surprised them, what's inspired them and what they've loved most about 2024 at Tāwhiri. -
Interview with Folly editor, Emily Broadmore
Folly is an annual print only anthology of art, short stories, non-fiction and poetry produced in Wellington city. Unbound by academic affiliations, fiercely independent, and purposely not high brow, Folly is home to content which it describes as beautiful, sexy, funny, insightful and provocative.
Published in November each year, the 2024 issue has just been launched. I had a chat with Folly's editor, Emily Broadmore about why she chose to create a print journal in an increasingly digital world, how she selects the stories and what readers can expect.
