Press Release – Kia Mau Festival
Returning with a 16-day programme of inspiring and dynamic Mori, Pasifika & Global Indigenous live performance, the sixth ever Kia Mau Festival is proud to announce its full 2021 programme.
Kia Mau Festival
Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Maui (Wellington Region)
Returning with a 16-day programme of inspiring and dynamic Māori, Pasifika & Global Indigenous live performance, the sixth ever
Kia Mau Festival is proud to announce its full 2021 programme.
Packed with art forms that encompass the complexity of the live experience, Kia Mau champions the power of Indigenous artistry. From the experimental and genre bending, to a new wave of choreographers presenting new work, to the fierce theatre of an award-winning playwright and director, to an epic night of political-comic genius; local Wellington Artists, alongside guests from Tāmaki Makaurau celebrate their voices with more than 100 performances spread across 16 days.
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Deer Woman explores the love between two sisters and the lengths that they ll go for each other
Posted: Feb 13, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 13
Deer Woman is a single-performer play that was adapted to video as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells the story of a murdered Blackfoot woman through the eyes of her sister Lila, played by Blackfoot artist Cherish Violet Blood. (Prudence Upton/National Arts Centre)
Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment New Zealands creative and cultural events will be able to apply for a funding boost to help them grow when the Creative and Cultural Events Incubator Fund opens on 1 February, the Ministry of Business, Employment, and Innovation announced today. …
New Zealand’s creative and cultural events will be able to apply for a funding boost to help them grow when the Creative and Cultural Events Incubator Fund opens on 1 February, the Ministry of Business, Employment, and Innovation announced today.
Susan Sawbridge, MBIE Manager Major Events said, “the events industry has had a tough year as a result of the impacts of COVID-19, so I am pleased to announce that the incubator fund will soon reopen for another round to help support our creative and cultural events.
Courtney Rose Brown s “The First Time” was also staged at Circa Theatre.
Playwright Courtney Rose Brown looks at the struggle with having the right to share your work on a stage In my last year at university, a lecturer told us that we were in control of our production and our future, and promptly left the room. The rug was pulled out from under our Doc Martens. We looked around with wide eyes, mouths open, desperately seeking a leader. The Pākehā men in the room seemed to jump at this opportunity. The rest relaxed a little, but slowly grew frustrated about being put in this position in the first place. To make the work we wanted, we’d have to do it ourselves.