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HAKO In front of Victoria University’s Library, Te Herenga Waka, Monday to Friday, 9am-8pm, free Visual artist Dr William Franco in collaboration with BARTKRESA studio in Los Angeles is presenting HAKO, a global projection arts festival, a dynamic and playful experience of sight and sound. Sing To Me, Taki Rua Te Whaea Theatre, until Saturday, 7.30pm, $35-$45 Two worlds collide when mild-mannered optometrist Ata and fierce sea maiden Whetū fall in love. Set against the backdrop of a climate in crisis, Sing to Me is a powerful reimagining of pūrākau, stories of old, in the 21st century...

SUPPLIED Company Kamupene is a satirical solo show set during the New Zealand land wars. This development season is part of NZ Fringe 2021. What if the city was a theatre? Will on Cue Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ (SGCNZ) is presenting Will on Cue - a series of interactive free performances, around Wellington city. Alumni and SGCNZ friends will introduce 10 edited plays then hand out cue-scripts to passers-by to brush up their Bardish skills and join the show. For locations, dates, times city.theatre.co.nz SUPPLIED The animated light projection, Inner Wilds,i...

Meet the residents: Huia Books publisher Eboni Waitere Lucy Revill’s The Residents is a blog about daily life in Wellington that has morphed into a stylish, low-key coffee-table book featuring interviews and photographic portraits of 38 Wellingtonians. In this extract, Revill profiles Eboni Waitere, owner and executive director of Huia Publishers. The Residents features names like Monique Fiso and Jacinda Ardern, a bunch of artists and musos, a cobbler, a professor, a parliamentary services co-ordinator, and a Unity Books legend (Tilly Lloyd). Lucy Revill has been running the blog for five...

The second incident, roughly four years later, was Ocean's Eleven by contrast. The year was 1988, around Christmas, and the target was Unity Books in Wellington. After weeks of rustling up the courage, I finally marched up Willis Street, made a confident circuit of the shelves, slid the prize into my backpack, made a couple of minor purchases to deflect suspicion, and strode out into the southerly. The book was Waikato Times The copy of E.M. Forster’s Maurice was always hidden from view on the shelf. (It has occurred to me when reflecting on my criminal career that, while Graham Greene ...

Opinion – Gregor Thompson 11 years after her Oscar short-listed 2009 film This Way of Life , Tree of Strangers is Barbara Sumners first literary work. Her newly published autobiography is consistent with her previous work in the sense that it is exceptional. Review of Barbara Sumner’s book: Tree of Strangers By Gregor Thompson I bumped into a childhood friend recently in a bar in Auckland. Ordinarily, I live in Wellington but I was on my way to Paris to start a new life. The recent surge in Covid-19 cases in continental Europe has necessarily put that plan on the backburner. Lily told me ...