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New Zealand Festival Student Ambassadors Announced
The New Zealand Festival has selected 12 motivated secondary school students throughout the greater Wellington region to become Student Ambassadors for the 2018 Festival season.
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Bless the Child: Behind the scenes
Eight lives and three worlds collide in this thought-provoking play written by Hone Kouka and directed by poet and writer Mīria George. Take a behind-the-scenes look at this new work through our video story with the creative team and cast.
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Five questions for Harry Giles
Guy Somerset returns to ARTicle for a chat with Writers & Readers–bound Scottish performer, poet and “general doer of things” about game-making, spoken word and the appeal of a Chill Out Corner away from the crowd.
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This reading life: Ursula Dubosarsky
Ursula will be a guest at 2018 Writers & Readers in Wellington, 8–11 March. Her sessions include a conversation about her writing with Lydia Wevers and a session on word fun for young readers with Nick Earls and Kate De Goldi.
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Your Festival survival guide
Seasoned New Zealand Festival goer and Culture Club supporter Mary Hancock has some great tips for making the most of your 2018 Festival experience.
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Taking poetry to new places: Selina Tusitala Marsh
New Zealand’s current Poet Laureate, Pasifika poet-scholar, runner, kick-boxer, Commonwealth Poet (2016) and mother of three Selina Tusitala Marsh is clearly an expert multi-tasker.
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The Lost Generation on stage: The Select
In this era of third wave feminism and #MeToo, Ernest Hemingway’s relentless brand of machismo might seem hopelessly antiquated. Or maybe not, argues David O'Donnell, ahead of the celebrated stage adaptation of The Sun Also Rises.
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He Tohu exhibition looks back to the future
He Tohu is a free, permanent exhibition at the National Library in Wellington which hosts three iconic constitutional documents that continue to shape New Zealand, including the Treaty of Waitangi and the Women’s Suffrage Petition.
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Future Playground comes to the Festival
We asked international artists Refik Anadol and Matt Parker what we should expect from the exciting interactive installations they're bringing to Future Playground, a digital wonderland set to delight the whole family this Festival.
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