Category: Arts & Culture
Art History scholar Chance Wilson takes a sneak peak at the exciting new exhibition Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. What do you think of when you hear South America? According to travel ads on television, it’s all beautiful bodies on beautiful beaches; it’s a swooping […]
The Auckland Writers Festival 2016 is bringing some of the world’s best queer authors to New Zealand soil. Makyla Curtis explores the works of Jeanette Winterson, international highlight of this year’s Festival. This May, Auckland plays host to local and international writers for the renowned Writers Festival: Read the World! This year’s line-up includes an inspiring array […]
Debra Heather takes a look at Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Roger Hall’s You Can Always Hand Them Back. Roger Hall, one of New Zealand’s most adored playwrights, returns with British musical legend Peter Skellern (Love is the Sweetest Thing) to celebrate forty years of smash-hit success with a light-hearted journey through all of the […]
From Wellington based filmmaker Conan McKegg comes the newest GLBT web series, Two Naked Gay Guys! If the name alone isn’t enough to get you hooked, Two Naked Gay Guys (or 2NGG) is a comedy series focused on different types of relationships and the dynamics that surround them. McKegg tells express that “it started as […]
Andrew Rumbles attends the Perth International Arts Festival in search of a queer voice. When considering attending festival events, be it dance, theatre, writing or art, do you get frustrated at how difficult it is to identify the queer voices? Are we meant to be able to find this common point to start our journey […]
Emily Louise Kelly Robertson reviews The Offensive Nipple Show Directed by Bop Murdoch with Jess Holly Bates and Sarah Tuck ‘The Offensive Nipple Show’ at the Basement Theatre is a loud, bold and irreverent romp which plays around with issues of body sovereignty, gender and feminism in a fun way. The show is made up […]
Long awaited American born singer-songwriter John Grant is coming to the Auckland Arts Festival this Friday 18 March! He is also performing Friday 18 March through to 20 March at WOMAD, TSB Bowl Of Brooklands & Brooklands Park Taranaki. Currently residing in Iceland, this bearded balladeer is an openly gay man who announced in 2012 that he was HIV-positive. In […]
Words are boats which carry meaning and power. For at least four decades, our Queer community has deliberately acted to re-define words heteros have used as demeaning epithets for us – dyke, faggot, poofter, pussy-eater – imbuing them with our pride. Same same but different, the 2016 Pride Literary Festival showed how magnificently we […]