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Simon Wilson: The amazing return of the Auckland Arts Festival
25 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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OPINION:
What an astonishing thing, that we are about to welcome the return of the Auckland Arts Festival. Covid struck right in the middle of the 2020 festival, cancelling shows, stranding performers, forcing audiences home. Most famously, American singer Amanda Palmer had to cancel, and then holed up for the duration in Hawke s Bay with her daughter and her husband, writer Neil Gaiman. Until Gaiman couldn t cope any longer and found a way to flee to Scotland.
It was dramatic, in its own way, but it wasn t the same as having an actual arts festival.
Philip Merry
Toi Whakaari third year actors Tara Erenskjold, Isabella Austin, Ashleigh Williams, Jane Wills, and Jessica Hong in the 2018 production of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and directed by Stella Reid.
Tumuaki/Director of Toi Whakaari New Zealand’s drama school Tanea Heke on what drama students can achieve. In the late 1990s, I arrived at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School as a reasonably impressionable but mature acting student, with two kids and a student loan. The curriculum, at that time, was broad with an emphasis on the participatory and experiential rather than theory-based tertiary learning from my university days. Straightforward, except for the infamous “nude classes”.
Cultural appropriation: What it means and why it matters
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Joanna Wane on navigating the social minefield of cultural ownership . The theme of the Queenstown party was Inappropriate , and the woman who contacted costume hire company First Scene had already come up with a few ideas of her own.
Maybe, she suggested, her husband could go as the Christchurch mosque shooter and she could be a Muslim? Or what about American slave and master costumes?
Owner Jo Pilkington has had a few clients she s politely declined to work with (and yes, this was one of them) but not all have set out to deliberately cause offence. When an English fashion designer wanted some korowai for a photoshoot, Pilkington gave her a call to ask what she had in mind.