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'I've kept it quiet until today': Prominent Kiwi film director reveals Parkinson's diagnosis

'I've kept it quiet until today': Prominent Kiwi film director reveals Parkinson's diagnosis
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New Zealand director and playwright Toa Fraser has revealed he is battling Young Onset Parkinson's, five years after his diagnosis.
The director, who rose to prominence with the film
No. 2 in 2006, disclosed his disease in a candid string of posts to Twitter on Friday afternoon.
Fraser, who attended Auckland's Sacred Heart College and the University of Auckland, says he kept his diagnosis quiet for years.
"Mine is one of the many of faces of Young Onset Parkinson's, an (as yet) incurable brain disease. I was diagnosed five years ago. I've kept it quiet until today," he writes.

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Covid forces a rush of re-scheduling at Auckland Arts Festival

Everyone realises they're at the mercy of the pandemic and are doing their best to ensure they get to perform, said Papa, but not knowing whether Auckland will return to Level 1 until Friday, the festival is planning for both scenarios.
"You know, we've got shows like Tigilau Ness in the Aotea Square garden just prior to Che Fu and the Krates in the town hall. So, if we don't drop to Level 1 then we have to re-schedule which means a last minute re-scheduling and moving things and, yeah!" said Papa.
"We've had to basically re-schedule a whole festival in a week, that has taken us the better part of a year... moved shows to different venues which means different configurations and different lots of people to talk to. It's quite the challenge."

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State house theatre secures MSD funding, green light from Kāinga Ora

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The stage is erected outside 3 Roseman Ave in advance of the Auckland Arts Festival.
Company member Tafadzwa Chikomba said it was “very refreshing” to be funded for a creative project.
Fellow actor Maia Ratana agreed, saying with the push of support from MSD it felt like the project was being taken seriously.
The show,
Love to Say Goodbye, will tell the stories of a community displaced by Kāinga Ora redevelopments. The two state houses being used for the production were slated for demolition, like so many others in the neighbourhood.
Even as the company started devising the show in January, they weren't sure how much of the properties they would be able to use.

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Iconic state house saved from demolition, transformed into theatre

Mount Roskill residents fight to keep an iconic state house from demolition.
The bulldozers were outside 3 Roseman Ave when John Leach realised what he needed to do to save the old state house.
He was on the phone to Kāinga Ora immediately: “I had to say to them – I’ve had the idea, it’s actually really good and you’ll have to take away the bulldozers.”
Like so many others in the Auckland neighbourhood, the Mt Roskill state house was slated for demolition.
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Sitting at the base of Mt Roskill, the twin state houses are some of the last few standing.

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