Join this acclaimed motley crew on the last plane hurtling out of Earth. Who will survive this wild ride (and its unruly passengers)?
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Manners St, Wellington, New Zealand 6142
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A bold and beautiful night of cabaret-style performance, where poetry meets music, dance, and song. Curated by poet, composer & classical singer Cadence Chung.
When Nan returns for her last days with her mokos before te rerenga wairua, the girls are thrilled and decide to throw her a fun-eral. As dawn approaches, the girls must come to terms with their loss.
Written and performed by a powerful ensemble of fa’afafine and queer Pacific voices, this is an insight into the life of a fa’afafine and trans woman who competed in the Miss Teine Samoa pageant.
A powerful performance embodying ancestral dreams, memories, creating new worlds through movement, sound, and storytelling. Honouring past and future generations.
Shifting Centre return to Kia Mau with a new work exploring themes of support, celebration and what true liberation can look like for oneself and as a collective.
A choral performance work that threads together the beauty of Samoan communal life with the weight of diaspora, displacement, and the danger of silence.
Tensions rise as Nafanua, Goddess of War and Jesus, son of God, descend upon Earth and uproot the lives of an already fractured family in Wellington, Aotearoa.
He aha te tikanga o te ingoa? Join us in this musical ritual of identity as we baptise ourselves beneath the petals of the rōhi and excavate the essence of ‘what’s in a name’ from emerging artist Raureti Ormond.
The new work Waenga from emerging mana whenua artists Hariata and Tamati Moriarty (Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngā Puhi Hokianga ki te Raki).