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Five Questions for Sonja Williams - Kāpiti Coast Art Trail
Running over two weekends 5-6 and 12-13 November, this is the Trail's 21st year. With 120 individual artists and 12 exhibition spaces, this is one of the few art events that allows you to visit artists in their studios and invites you to watch their creative processes. We asked Sonja Williams to share her top picks and tell us more about the trail.
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Meet the Makers: Seth Boy, Sally Gates and Olivier Holland
Sunday Mixtape is a programme of brand new music commissioned specifically for the 2022 Wellington Jazz Festival. We talked to the three musicians whose works will premiere this Sunday 23 October about what we can expect and what inspired their compositions.
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Four Questions for Louis Baker
Louis Baker is the Friday night Headliner for the 2022 Wellington Jazz Festival (19-23 October), performing his new work, Duality and the Elements, commissioned for this one-night-only show. He took time out from rehearsals to speak to us about the piece and what to expect at the performance on 21 October.
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Q & A with Brynley Stent
Brynley Stent is a comedian who has recently been seen on TV screens in Celebrity Treasure Island, Taskmaster and Golden Boy, not to mention as a regular on 7 Days and Have You Been Paying Attention. On 30 September she'll be in Wellington, joining some of New Zealand's best-loved comics for the Best Foods Comedy Gala.
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Meet the Makers: Ella Gilbert
Ella Gilbert is the writer/director of Mary Mary, one of this year's six short films made with the support of Outlook for Someday's Someday Stories initiative. Ella tells us about her experiences making the film and telling a deeply personal family story on screen.
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Meet the Makers: Mere Boynton
Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara (The Māori Language Festival of Wellington) opens in September to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition to Parliament and coincides with Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori celebrations. Mere Boynton, Director Ngā Toi Māori for Tāwhiri (producers of the Festival), tells us more about this exciting new addition to Wellington's festival calendar.
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Meet the Maker: Leo Gene Peters
A Slightly Isolated Dog is back with The Trojan War, their latest rambunctious work. We chatted to director Leo Gene Peters about the new work being a wild dress-up party with explosive wit to create an entertaining romp.
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This reading life: Rosetta Allan
Rosetta Allan, author of Purgatory, Crazy Love and The Unreliable People, is a celebrated New Zealand writer of prose with a background in poetry and performing.
In the This Reading Life questionnaire, Rosetta takes us through childhood literary icons such as Pippy Longstocking to poems that still capture her heart and mind today. -
Meet the Makers: Hone Kouka
Celebrated playwright and director Hone Kouka (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Raukawa) delves into his brand new production ‘Ngā Rorirori’, set to premiere June 18 - 25. What goes into a production that combines three forms that he loves most as an artist: Dance. Theatre. Farce?
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