national maori writers hui

http://www.maoriart.org.nz/noticeboard/register_mwnh_2008

heaps of events etc - 17/18/19 october

Events

Pukunui and his friend Moata Moa
Friday 17 October, 10.30pm – 11.15am
Marae, Level 4, Te Papa
FREE entry

Haramai ki te matakitaki i nga mahi whakaari a Pukunui raua Moata Moa. He mea whakaeemi o ratau toenga rawa, hei whakaatu ki te marea i nga ahuatanga o te taiao. He pai mo te 3-14 te tau, engari kei te to tuwhera ki te katoa. The play is also appropriate for second language learners and intermediate te reo speakers.

Maori Writers National Hui Premier
Friday 17 October, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
National Library Auditorium, Cnr Molesworth and Aitken Street, Thorndon

Registration 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Whakatau 5.45pm – 6.30pm
On the Bus performance 6.30pm – 7.15pm
Contemporary short film and writer presentation 7.30pm – 8.30pm

Distant voices – O nehera: Celebrating the works of Mahinarangi Tocker, Hone Tuwhare and Ripeka Evans
Saturday 18 October, 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Presentations - Saturday 18 October
A Novel Idea: James George
Saturday 18 October, 8.30am – 9.30am
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Te Matu o te Kupu: Katerina Mataira
Saturday 18 October, 9.45am – 10.45am
Ilott theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Lyrically speaking: Charlotte Yates
Saturday 18 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Ilott theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Publishers’ forum: Where to from here?
Saturday 18 October, 1.30pm–2.30pm
Ilott theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Presentations - Sunday 19 October

Indigenous guest speaker, Albert Wendt: Behind the Face of Paradise
Sunday 19 October, 10.00am – 11.00am
Ilott theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Panel Discussion: Can Maori Literary Nationalism be sustained in Aotearoa?
Sunday 19 October, 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Ilott theatre, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Workshops - Saturday 18 October
Saturday 18 October, 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Level 3, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Creative fiction
Children’s writing
Te reo
Saturday 18 October, 4.30pm – 5.30pm
Level 3, Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street

Creative fiction
Lyricists and song writing
Screen and Stage

Kanaky/ New Caledonia literature

Moving Behind and Beyond Lines in the Sand of Kanaky/ New Caledonia: A Reading of Claudine Jacques’s Le cri de l’acacia (2007)



The next School of Languages and Cultures Research Seminar will be given next Thursday by Dr Sarah Powell of the French Programme.



Taking the quotation prefacing Claudine Jacques’s most recent collection of short stories as its point of departure, this presentation will examine the ways in which the multifarious tales of Le cri de l’acacia reflect the epigraph applied to the work as a whole.



Special interest will be paid to the movement of different communities towards and away from each other in the narratives. The degree to which characters fight, flee or befriend members of other ethnic groups will be accordingly considered in the framework of the Noumea Accords (1998).





Sarah Powell is a Teaching Fellow in the French Programme in the School of Languages and Cultures. She has recently been awarded a PhD for her research into the literature of Kanaky/ New Caledonia, and has published several articles on this topic.





Date: Thursday 16 October
Time: 11-11.50 am

Venue: vZ 802, von Zedlitz Building, Kelburn Parade



All welcome.



For more information please contact:

Sally Hill (Italian Programme) sarah.hill@vuw.ac.nz (463 5298)

A gala evening of favourite Maori documentary film selections

Thursday 30 October

6pm to 9:30pm

Wellington High School Hall, Taranaki Street , Mt Cook



Framing Maori (2006), by Tere Harrison. Selected and introduced by Tariana Turia
Tuaiwa Hautai Rickard (1997), by Tama Poata. Selected and introduced by Rahui Katene
Guarding the Family Silver (2005), by Moana Maniapoto and Toby Mills. Selected and introduced by Moana Jackson


Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine or juice on arrival.

A light dinner will be served.



Gala evening includes an auction, raffles, and spot prizes.



Tickets $30
Door sales $35


Maori Party Te Tai Tonga Fundraiser





Tickets can be purchased from:
Helen Potter
helenpotter@xtra.co.nz
(021) 060-8910 or 803-3931

Heeni Collins
henimc@clear.net.nz
(027) 335.1535 or 938-8623

ROBIN VA'AULI - New Paintings

Progression of Works II Oct 4 - 22
LeSA Gallery 203 Jackson St / Petone / Lower Hutt / Wellington / New Zealand
www.lesagallery.com 04 589 6668

evening with albert wendt - UPDATED info

An Evening with Albert Wendt
Friday, October 17 @ 6 p.m.


Ramsey House Cafe (next to Pacific Studies),
8 Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington
Introducing
The Dusky Maidens
Guest Poets
Karlo Mila
Richard Langston
Dr Alice Te Punga Somerville
RSVP to Priscilla Rasmussen by 10 October:
duskymaiden@xtra.co.nz or call (021) 421 909

Proudly supported by:


Tagaloatele Dr Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Va’aomanu Pasifika Director
Victoria University of Wellington

writer's block: reading

Writers Block selected readings - City Gallery, Wellington. 3- 4pm Sunday Oct 5.

Readings of work from:

Moira Wairama
Maraea Rakuraku
Sopa Enari
Miria George
Whiti Hereaka
Alice Te Punga Somerville

to name a few

theatre, poetry, short fiction, short film

BOTTLE CREEK GALLERY (next to pataka in porirua)

Toi Rangatira
1 – 19 October 2008
Artworks by Whanau of Ngati Toa Rangatira.




Whitireia Polytech - Origins exhibition
29 - Nov – 14 Dec 2008







Hitaratara ana te kiri!
18 Dec 2008 – 11 Jan 2009

Te Wananga - O - Raukawa exhibition of student and tutors work.

pataka (porirua) - aboriginal photography

RICKY MAYNARD
Australian Aboriginal Photographer
4 October 2008 - 8 February 2009

Maynard, of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent, is a documentary photographer who lives on Flinders Island in Bass Strait between Tasmania and the southeast Australian mainland. This exhibition presents his latest developing body of work which he began in 2005, as well as a selection of earlier works from the 1980s and 1990s.

PAO PAO PAO 2008

Toi Maori brings together a fantastic line-up of top-performing Maori musicians for a one-off performance.


Venue: Wellington Town Hall
Date: Friday 31 October
Time: 7 - 9 pm

Buy tickets now: www.ticketek.co.nz

“It is impossible to fault entertainment that moves people and allows us all to enjoy an aspect of a culture that is important to our country...A great night.”

(Simon Sweetman, Dominion Post, review of PAO PAO PAO 2007)

This is your chance to celebrate a great year in contemporary Maori music.
This year’s line-up includes the winner of the APRA Maioha Award 2008, Ruia and the first Maori artist to have a waiata in te reo Maori selected as a Top 20 Finalist in the Silver Scroll Awards, Brannigan Kaa.

Puatatangi, the Maori Music Committee of Toi Maori Aotearoa has selected a line-up of Maori artists who have achieved industry recognition and have stood out in 2008.

The full line-up includes:
Whirimako Black
Pacific Curls
Brannigan Kaa
Ariana Tikao
Ruia
The two-hour show at the Wellington Town Hall on Friday 31 October 2008 includes stunning vocal performances and a range of musical genres including soul, jazz, reggae and funk all with Maori musical influences.

PAO PAO PAO is a great opportunity for everyone to experience ‘Te Ara Puoro – The World of Maori music’. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketek.

PAO PAO PAO is being organised by Puatatangi, the Maori Music Committee of Toi Maori Aotearoa. PAO PAO PAO receives major funding from Te Waka Toi, the Maori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand.

For more information, please contact:
Charlie Holland
Projects Administrator, PAO PAO PAO 2008
Email: charlie@maoriart.org.nz

BARE by Toa Fraser @ Downstage Theatre

BARE by Toa Fraser @ Downstage Theatre

By Toa Fraser
Directed by Oliver Driver

23 Sept – 4 Oct


Love, sex, family, friendship, youth and bad movies - listen to our people talk!


Toa Fraser's New Zealand comedy BARE is a hilarious matrix of urban poetry and streetwise lip. Two actors rap and riff on body image, films, takeaway food, graffiti, multiplexes and English literature.

Downstage is proud to present this short season (14 performances only!) of the Silo Theatre production of this NZ classic directed by Oliver Driver with actors Morgana O’Reilly (The Laramie Project) and Curtis Vowell (The Ensemble Project).


BARE HISTORY

Toa Fraser’s poetic vision of NZ is the much-loved and much-celebrated work that first catapulted Auckland’s Silo Theatre into the public eye.

Following its hit debut, BARE toured the country and then went on to international markets in Australia and the UK, including Edinburgh, Sydney and Adelaide. BARE won Best New Play and Best New Playwright at the 1998 Chapman Tripp Awards and launched the career of Toa Fraser, who received the coveted Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award in 1999.

The current production, which premiered at Silo in 2007, has the critics raving. .

"An energetic and fervent production." – Theatreview

"...this new season of Bare takes the cake... Vowell and O’Reilly are superb." - Metro

Downstage Theatre, 12 Cambridge Tce
Performance Times: Mon - Wed 6.30pm and Thurs - Sat 7.30pm
Matinees: Sat 27 Sep & 4 Oct, 3pm
Bookings: 04 801 6946 or www.downstage.co.nz
Cost: $39/30

writers block reading @ city gallery

Sunday Oct 5 -

3 - 4 pm @ City Gallery Wellington

writers block is a groups of welly-based (mainly maori) writers

the dusky maidens present - an evening with albert wendt

The Dusky Maidens Present ... An Evening with Albert Wendt

Friday,17 October 2008
Wellington

An evening of insight from the Pacific's best known author Albert Wendt who has recently returned from his Distinguished Writer in Residence in Hawai'i.

Hosted by The Dusky Maidens, the evening also features readings inspired by Albert Wendt, and guest poets Karlo Mila and Richard Langston. Albert is in Wellington for the Maori Writers Hui. Stay posted for details...


www.theduskymaidens.com