Tiana Metuarau during the Southern Steel s win over the Tactix on Monday.
Photo: Photosport
After moving from England to Aotearoa when she was just three years old, she was immersed in Māoritanga. But when she was nine, she was introduced into an entirely new world, Te Ao Pākehā. I think the turning point, or one of the most memorable points of my childhood, was when I went to a mainstream school and I had never been to a class where we weren t starting the morning off with a karakia, or where people would speak English. I didn t know how to speak, read or write in English and I wasn t really confident with my English until maybe Year 12 or 13.. and there were parts where I kind of felt like I was almost losing touch with my Māori side.
Dominic Hoey is back with the premiere of his new show.
45 Cents an Hour tackles classism and gate keeping in our arts institutions, tracking Dominic’s journey from rapper and performance poet, to theatre maker and novelist. It also features dogs, songs and crying.tickets bats.co.nz
Poetry Book Launch: ‘How to Live With Mammals’ by Ash Davida Jane
Unity Books, 6-7:30pm, free Celebrate the launch of Ash Davida Jane’s new poetry collection,
How to Live With Mammals
. All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things?