Category: Events
Ballet teacher and former assistant to Candy Lane, Georgette Jackson, is wowed by the English National Ballet’s edgy new interpretation of a beloved classic. I was rather sour and disappointed, almost unimpressed when I heard that Giselle had been re-invented for our modern-day era. But as time went by, and more snippets were teased by […]
Legacy Project – now in its fifth year – is a theatre development programme created by producer Bruce Brown to support emerging theatre creators within our LGBT+ and queer community. David Butler and Ciarin Smith talk through their play Three and the complexities of polyamory. David’s take on Three: Three is a very personal story to us, […]
express talks with Mike Hadreas – the Seattle-based solo artist known as Perfume Genius – is a breath of fresh air. His deeply personal music is unapologetically queer and he’s never held back – the video for his early single Hood, features well known gay porn star Arpad Miklos sensually covering him in makeup. He […]
express talked to members of Wellington’s GAG Collective. Traditionally, drag has valued a performer’s ability to “pass” as either male or female and has focused on binary understandings of gender, reinforcing these social constructs rather than subverting them. It is a dynamic that some performers have been tirelessly challenging for years but only recently has […]
Oliver Hall runs through upcoming events and shows not already highlighted in express for this month. Always Loving Whitney Forget what you think you know about tribute acts! UK audiences recently voted Belinda Davids, star of The Greatest Love of All – The Whitney Houston Show (Bruce Mason Centre – 10 Feb) ‘Better Than the Real Thing’. […]
The Mercury Bay Art Escape is back again this year, held on the gorgeous Coromandel Peninsula, we chat to artist Chris Charteris who has been involved since the very beginning. Chris’ work is influenced by Māori and Pacific traditional carving, with a career spanning decades, in the mid 1980’s he was working at Te Rarawa […]
Fala Muncher: A derogatory term which refers to the act of a female of Pacific descent partaking in the licking and eating of another woman’s Fala. “Fala Muncher is a show for bringing [together] Pacific women’s stories, girls who are finding themselves, LGBT+ community and just showing them that it’s OK to be whoever you […]
On Saturday, January 20th, a Rainbow Pasefika stall was held as part of the Wellington Pasifika Festival. Led by DJ PANDA 44 Productions and supported by local community, the event was the first of its kind. Those who attended helped to create the ‘world’s longest rainbow lei’ which they presented on stage in front of […]