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Auckland Theatre Company production The Haka Party Incident. Photo: Supplied The festival chief executive and artistic director Tama Waipara, who first launched the festival in 2019, said the Gisborne region from Tūranganui-a-Kiwa to Ruatōria was immersed with artistry, talent and storytelling. The festival is one way to provide a platform, of creating an energy of activity and a focus around the artist, the art form, the stories, the narratives of our place and the people who bring those to life. It s about whakapapa, when we know our whakapapa and are centred in that sense of identity and place then it s very easy to welcome others and embrace and manaaki them, Waipara said. ....
Supplied/Stuff A three-minute-long brawl erupted and the university “Haka Party” was never performed again. “The incident, which is not well know, changed race relations in New Zealand forever,” Wolfe said. She discovered the event while reading Ranginui Walkerka s book Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou, which showcases New Zealand history through a Māori lense. “I was fascinated by it. “But you don t see it written about anywhere.” So Wolfe spent four years tracking down anyone she could find who was involved in the incident and interviewed them in order to bring the story to the stage. “It s the words of the people that were there and their recollections of it.” ....
Monday, 12 July 2021, 1:17 pm Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC) production of The Haka Party Incident, described as an “innovative, brilliant piece of theatre that all New Zealanders need to see” will tour to venues and festivals across the motu in October and November. Winner of Playmarket’s Best Play by a Māori Playwright and the inaugural Dean Parker Adaptation for Non-Fiction Award earlier this year, judges said the play was “powerful political theatre which rips the Band Aid off racism in Aotearoa.” The Haka Party Incident, written and directed by renowned film-maker and theatre director Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga), will return ....
Press Release – Auckland Theatre Company Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC) production of The Haka Party Incident, described as an “innovative, brilliant piece of theatre that all New Zealanders need to see” will tour to venues and festivals across the motu in October and November. Winner of Playmarket’s Best Play by a Māori Playwright and the inaugural Dean Parker Adaptation for Non-Fiction Award earlier this year, judges said the play was “powerful political theatre which rips the Band Aid off racism in Aotearoa.” The Haka Party Incident, written and directed by renowned film-maker and theatre director Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga), will return to ....
Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 3:31 pm Cian Parker performs Sorry For Your Loss. Photo Credit: Kelsey Scott This Matariki, two inspiring and very different solo performances come together for a double bill that showcases wāhine Māori artists from opposite ends of Aotearoa. Playwright Fran Kewene (Waikato/Tainui) and performer Julie Edwards (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Whare) are traveling up from Ōtepoti Dunedin to present their acclaimed verbatim play Barrier Ninja. Verbatim theatre, or documentary theatre, is a style which has been embraced by Auckland audiences with the recent sell-out season of Auckland Theatre Company’s The Haka Party Incident. For Barrier Ninja, Kewene ....