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Due to start on Wednesday, the festival would lose a third of its scheduled acts. Losing the garden venue was a “big gut punch”, Forbes said, but after crew and artists had been accounted for, there were limited seats left for an audience. It was not viable to build an elaborate set and stage for the possibility that the country moved back to alert level 1. Forbes said artists were intending to travel from Auckland, and it was still unknown if they would be able to make it.
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The Regent Theatre Trust Board chairman David Lea next to the barriers that will split the audience in four.
Fepulea i and Nokise have met many locals from the Samoan community, which makes up just over 5 per cent of Palmerston North s population, to find the stories that show what it is to be Samoan in Manawatū. But with only a few days to prepare a set based off of local content, the show will be “raw”, Nokise said. “This is a big ask in a small timescale, so there s going to be a raw energy to it. We won t be practising. We re listening, we re learning, we ll do a big rehearsal then, bang, we re on stage. “Hopefully we will get quite a general audience, and we ll be able to share those stories with them as well.
Papaioea Festival of the Arts artistic director Kane Forbes has launched the festival. “When I was walking around, working out how to deal with this, I thought we have accidentally built a mini Edinburgh. Seven minutes from The Square is the biggest distance to any venue.” People could have dinner at a food truck in Te Marae o Hine-The Square and stroll down the road to the next event. “I wanted to make a festival that would be decent in any city in the world. I have been lucky and been to some incredible festivals across the world, so I wanted it to be as good as their offering. I am really really happy. We have definitely achieved that.”
DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN A
NEW FESTIVAL EMERGED
COMING TO THE MANAWATŪ IN
FEBRUARY 2021
PAPAIOEA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS PROGRAM
ANNOUNCED
Announcing the full program of events for
the inaugural Papaioea Festival of the Arts; the Manawatū
region’s celebration of performance, music, writing, ideas
and art. The Festival has been made possible by funding from
key partner, the Palmerston North City Council. Taking place
over four beautifully crafted days from Wednesday 17 -
Saturday 20 February 2021, the Festival will feature more
than 40 exciting performances and projects, including 15 new
and evolving works, and over 160 artists and
creatives.
The Festival has developed an exceptional