Category: Arts & Culture
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 […]
A revolutionary, intimate, cosmic sex parody; these are just five words that describe The Glitta Supernova Experience – Let’s Get Metaphysical, coming to Wellington, Dunedin and Auckland as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2016. It all started with a longing to develop art culture outside of the queer underground. Self confessed queer and […]
Stage veteran and transwoman Lexie Matheson talks returning to the stage in director Grae Burton’s vision of an all-female production of Henry V at the Pop-up Globe, Pah Homestead and Pumphouse Amphitheatre. “Men of few words are the best men”, or in the case of director Grae Burton’s version of an all-female production of Shakespeare’s […]
The second Auckland run of Chris Parker’s solo show No Dancing in the Good Room winds up at Q Theatre tonight. Originally debuting in Wellington and then causing a stir in Auckland last year as one of the best-reviewed shows in the 2015 NZ International Comedy Festival, it was no surprise these limited Pride Festival […]
From the corners of social media pseudo-stardom comes Glenfield based selfie artist Vinay Hira in the outrageously sassy new production, Heteroperformative. An unashamedly brash and refreshingly modern take on navigating identity, Heteroperformative is everything the Instagram Generation has been longing for. Witness Hira’s vast back catalogue of digital art work move from online to on-stage in […]
Amy Jane Bedwell interviews first-time Samoan-Filipino Hawaiian playwright Kiki about her upcoming play, Puzzy as part of the 2016 Auckland Pride Festival. Co-writer Victor Rodger, most notable for his pacific coming-out story Black Faggot also talks Puzzy and it’s importance to theatre in New Zealand. Puzzy. The name will strike you before anything else. One-the-nose and to-the-point, […]
After a sell-out 2015 performance, Night of the Queer is back at TAPAC (The Auckland Performing Arts Centre) for Auckland Pride 2016. The night is a showcase of local GLBT talent with creative collaboration of TAPAC Artistic Director Margaret-Mary Hollins and OKAREKA Tai Royal & Taane Mete, promising “thrilling and fearless performances” from a wide […]