Samuel Mataele: A personality of steel
“So many people tell me that I’m moving too fast for my age.” — Opera singer Samuel Mataele, 19, is the youngest winner of the Song Quest in its 70-year-history.
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Tag: Arts
One Day a Taniwha — an extract
“That was one of the hardest things about Wī entering our lives. I’d had Āniwa all to myself for years. My rock, my person. Now she was someone else’s.” — Tīhema Baker from his new book ‘One Day a Taniwha’.
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Stacey Leilua: Making art accessible for everyone
“What I love about this kaupapa is bridging that gap between our community members, especially our youth, and the professional setting of the opera.” — Stacey Leilua, creative producer of NZ Opera’s ‘The Monster in the Maze’.
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Win tickets to the Auckland Writers Festival
We have three double passes to give away to kaupapa Māori and Pasifika sessions at the Auckland Writers Festival this Friday and Saturday.
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The stolen people of Tokelau
“In Tokelau, in the 1860s, those responsible were Peruvian. Their slave ships came to our atolls and took most of our able-bodied men, as well as some women and children. Virtually half of our people were taken.” — Artist Moses Viliamu on blackbirding.
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Nigel Borell: Sovereignty is still the name of the game
“Sometimes we need to challenge the status quo and put forward our ideas so that we can shift the ground.” — Nigel Borell.
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Partnership and Privilege
“The distrust many Māori have for police comes from recent and very legitimate places of fear, and it’s rooted in historical racism.” — Irihapeti Edwards & Stephanie Muller-Pallares on what you need to know about the Covid-19 response law.
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The colonial problem
“The origins of the racism that is tearing the United States apart has deep parallels with New Zealand, and the origins are the same.” — Aaron Smale.
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Arms and Race
“I know, and work in, communities where the feeling is that we are much closer to the precipice than we care to admit.” – Tim McKinnel on why we need to resist militarised policing.
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‘Tell The Dead I’m Coming!’
“It’s a mix of carnage and self-mockery.” — Producer Tainui Stephens on The Dead Lands, a Māori take on a television genre that relies on “dollops of action and a lot of splatter”.
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How Beulah Koale got his big Hollywood break
When we first met Beulah Koale in 2014, he told us he was going to be the Samoan Cliff Curtis. The...
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Let’s talk about the book, not the writer
Six weeks ago, I did a poetry reading in Auckland. It was on National Poetry Day and I was in...
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Tusiata Avia: I go to my sister-artists and we talk
This piece by Tusiata Avia, a poet, performer and writer, began as a talk presented at Conchus...
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Kereama Taepa: Embracing innovation
Kereama Taepa grew up with a foot in two worlds. As a kid, he didn’t really notice there...
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Filipe Manu: ‘Dilworth gave me so much’
Filipe Manu, a 24-year-old tenor from Auckland, beat off four Aussie singers to win the Australian...
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Tusi Tamasese: Don’t pigeon-hole us as ‘indigenous filmmakers’
Tusi Tamasese made quite a splash with his groundbreaking debut film The Orator — O Le Tulafale:...
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Lemi Ponifasio: I’m on the stage because I want change in the world
Salā Lemi Ponifasio isn’t easily defined. He’s never had any formal training in dance or theatre....
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Courtney Sina Meredith: Why I push so hard
Courtney Sina Meredith is driven, ambitious, articulate — and on a mission. Last week, the...
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Maisey Rika: You carry on until there’s nothing there
It’s not hard to see why Maisey Rika has such a loyal and growing following, not only in Aotearoa...
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Dalvanius — no one-hit wonder
Back in the day, when “floor shows” were king, the pub crowds of South Auckland were ruthless. I...
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How to make a million dollar film, island-style.
Independent filmmaker Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa talks to Adrian Stevanon about his surprise...
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Jason Kerrison: I’ve got to fess up
Kia ora, Jason. You’re a well-known New Zealand figure through your music, especially because of...
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Māori music — and the red carpet
It’s that time of year again. The announcement is made, the red carpet hauled out of storage, TV...
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Just a normal girl with normal issues
Early this year I was looking for an actress to play Shalimar Seiuli — the young...
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Victor Rodger: Let’s get real about diversity
We’re streets ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to diversity on screen and stage,...
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Karlo Mila – jamming the good stuff into poems
I was “very good for a brown girl”
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Victor Rodger: We need to tell our own stories
For more than 20 years, Victor Rodger has been writing for the stage and television – and often...
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Fertile ground for our storytellers
Actors joke about how they can make it look like they can do anything. Perform open heart surgery....
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Whistling in the Dark
The 80s are a bit hazy. Not sure if it’s fading memory or simply a lack of sleep throughout that...
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In defence of John Campbell
Yes, I’m a disciple of JC. Call me old-fashioned but I’d rather watch a man with his heart...
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