Category: Arts & Culture
Lydia Zanetti provides a useful beginners guide to queer hip hop. RANDA Let’s start at home, eh… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYw3zSKn4_M ZEBRA KATZ Since Rick Jones used Ima Read for his Paris Fashion Week show in 2012, Zebra Katz has shot to near-instant fame. Which is ideal for us. http://youtu.be/8oUmG7Tu50E ANGEL HAZE If you’re not […]
Lydia Zanetti takes a look at JK Rowling’s recent comments on GLBT characters in the Harry Potter series. J K Rowling has recently confirmed via Twitter that she did intend characters in the infamous Harry Potter series to be part of the LGBTIQ community. Fans have come out of the woodwork wondering why she didn’t […]
express film reviewer Sam Te Kani sums up Australian feature film 52 Tuesdays in one word – ‘wow!’ What is it about Australian cinema that’s so much more varied and insightful than our own, more ready to take risks both in content and form? Yes New Zealand cinema has an edge, but considering the geographical […]
To make a dead woman alive again through her words is the gift Catherine Downes gave her full audience at Tiny Theatre in Westmere’s Garnet Station last week. Over her three decades in the business, Downes, a noted lesbian theatre director and actor, has frequently presented Katherine Mansfield’s work. Through her transforming acting power, Downes […]
Short fiction entries are rolling in for express magazine’s writing contest, Alternative Bindings. The competition welcomes both emerging and established writers to share their stories. Other than a set length of 750 words and a theme “Lost and Found” there are no restrictions on entry. Alternative Bindings founder Andrew Rumbles says entries are coming in […]
Reinvention in many forms is the thread that ties together ATC’s 2015 progamme. Revivals of classic works, a new Australian play about the master of reinvention, Rupert Murdoch, and an enlightened new adaptation of an Ibsen classic by award-winning New Zealand author Emily Perkins comprise just some of the diverse line up of new and existing […]
Christmas 2014 offers three quite different choices of gay autobiography. Which one will be unwrapped from under your rainbow Christmas tree? Witi Ihimaera takes you inside his childhood years living as an urbanised Maori in a European world, very aware of his ancestral connections and customs. Maori Boy: A Memoir is very personal and meanders […]
As a fundraiser for the Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust, local drag diva Tess Tickle and acclaimed photographer Jarrad Mapp have made a 2015 calendar starring some of NZ’s most talented queens with colourful results. “I loved the idea of shooting drag queens in their environment to highlight their personalities,” Tess aka Anthony tells express, “So […]