Category: Arts & Culture
NAU MAI, HAERE MAI, Welcome to your Festival – express checks out AAF’s programme designed to unify, uplift, and inspire through an annual world-class collection of events and performances. Despite a Covid curve-ball, organisers of AAF 2022 have put together a massive 24 shows/events taking place both outdoors and online. The theme and curatorial lens […]
In early 2018 express ran a story on the gay reality TV pilot that was being pitched as a gay-male version of the Real Housewives of Auckland. Four years on express sits down with creator Lewis Rowe to find out what went wrong for ‘The Princes of Auckland’? It felt like car dealership owner Lewis […]
Brady Peeti is shaking up the ‘cis-tem’, playing groundbreaking roles on NZ stages, while acting as an agent, to help other trans talent to come through! She to talks to express about Covid cancellations, Kaupapa and wanting the best for her community! It’s Pride month! What does Pride mean to you? Pride for me is […]
Debuting on Rialto Channel as part of their Celebrate Pride season, Are You Proud? is a documentary that examines what Pride month really means and the conflicting opinions on how we should be celebrating it. express spoke exclusively to director of Are You Proud?, Ashley Joiner. Activist Ashley Joiner was motivated to create a documentary about the UK’s […]
A new gay indie film titled “Mysterious Ways” telling the story of a vicar who decides to have a forbidden Anglican wedding with his Samoan boyfriend is set to be filmed in Auckland this May. Mysterious Ways is a timely exploration of issues around faith for gay people both here in New Zealand and around […]
What’s with the name? A tribute to a fashion icon. express spoke to Famine of Beauty founder Kevin Barratt to find out what’s really behind the name? Introduce yourself, what do you do? Kia ora, I’m Kevin Barratt, ‘One Man Brand’ and founder of a glorious little 2020 lockdown start-up, Famine of Beauty. We offer a fabulous […]
The United Kingdom is set to open its first-ever national LGBTQ+ museum in Kings Cross, London, later in 2022. The museum, which will be called Queer Britain, will explore stories, people and places that have been vital and central to the UK rainbow community. Organisers who have been working on the project since 2018 promise […]
This February, Rialto Channel is celebrating Pride with NZ television premiers of some of the most acclaimed and anticipated titles in recent queer cinema. Here are express’ top five picks of their Pride month premiers. WELCOME TO CHECHNYA | FRIDAY 4 FEBRUARY, 8.30PM In Chechnya there are no homosexuals. That is what the tyrannical leader Ramzan Kadyrov […]