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Hugo Grrrl s Crosswalk Theatre brings theatre to street crossings in What if the City was a Theatre?, on until March 28.
Mark Amery suggests some answers need addressing in the Wellington performance scene. The question is on billboards all over Wellington: what if the city was a theatre? Answers out there I ve seen include the Eastbourne ferry serenaded by musicians; dancers on the cable car and, like bright flocks of birds on e-scooters; taniwha dancing in the Carter Fountain; theatre on pedestrian crossings and drag queens running a compliments booth in Midland Park. Commuters have constantly had to keep looking up from their phones.
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Artists Miriama Grace-Smith, Xoe Hall and Gina Kiel will be working onThe Taniwha Stage.
An expanded public art programme will be used to tell “diverse stories” during the 2021 Cubadupa street festival on March 27-28. Public art curator Mark Amery has brought together a programme that focuses on innovative ways to dig deeper into local stories of diverse ethnic and migrant communities. These would range from a giant stage set for karaoke and poetry to live embroidery, involving New Zealanders of Māori, Asian, Columbian, and Congolese descent. The programme also includes Curators of Cuba – a free roving live discussion series with the mavericks behind galleries in the Cuba St area and their artists, highlighting a line-up of exhibitions and performances during the weekend.
Friday, 5 February 2021, 6:30 am
The ongoing rise in popularity of the vinyl
record is reflected in the community success of
Paekākāriki’s Village Vinyl Fair and Village Dance,
returning Saturday 13 February
When
the country and the little village of Paekākāriki went
into lockdown last year, memories were still fresh of
throngs of people rifling through boxes of vinyl records and
dancing together fit to bust at the village’s first vinyl
fair and Village Dance at the Paekākāriki Bowling Club.
With people coming from far and wide to a village becoming
an increasingly popular destination, the organisers decided