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Kerry Fox: âI still see myself as a teen: pot, joyriding and trying to have sexâ
Clockwise: Kerry Fox; Olivia Newton-John in Grease; a beach buggy; and John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Composite: Dave Bennett/WireImage/Alamy/Allstar
Clockwise: Kerry Fox; Olivia Newton-John in Grease; a beach buggy; and John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Composite: Dave Bennett/WireImage/Alamy/Allstar
The Shallow Grave and Intimacy actor on driving at 15 in New Zealand, her parentsâ disco dancing and starting an Abba fan club in her shed
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My brotherâs orange beach buggy
Photo: Tourism NZ
We d started outside the Te Wharewaka o Poneke (waka house) a vast building in the shape of a traditional cloak. Our vision is to return a strong Maori presence to the waterfront, says Taupuruariki Brightwell, one of our guides for the two-hour waka tour.
Maori culture is experiencing a revival, but nowhere is it more obvious than in the nation s capital. The new Te Tauihu te reo Maori policy - named after the ornately carved figurehead of a waka - aims to make Wellington a Maori language city by 2040, the 200th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Source:Â The Dowse Art Museum
Lollies exploding out of faces, candy-coloured corporate dystopia and disaster-inflected dessert commercials feature in the pick ân mix of artworks by contemporary international and Aotearoa-based artists in âCandy Coatedâ, opening at The Dowse Art Museum on 2 April 2021. Â
Curated by Dr Chelsea Nichols, Senior Curator at The Dowse, the ensemble of artists hitting the sweet spot in this exhibition are Rachel Maclean (Scotland), Jon Noorlander (Sweden), Alison Nguyen (USA), Patrick Smith (Puerto Rico) and Elisa Barczak (Germany/NZ) alongside Aotearoa-based artists, Laura Duffy, Sam Duckor-Jones, Emily Crooks, and Wayne Youle (NgÄpuhi, NgÄti Whakaeke, Ngati PÄkehÄ).