12:40 Paula Morris
Expatriate author Paula Morris has just won two very flash
artist residencies, one on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, the other at
Bertolt Brecht’s old house in Denmark. But she’s most excited about returning
home at the end of the year to teach creative writing at Auckland University.
Justin Gregory asked her if location makes a difference to the kind of book she
writes.
12:50 Creative New Zealand’s New Touring Initiative
Creative New Zealand has just announced a new national
touring initiative. Nearly two million dollars will be allocated to an agency
to develop and manage medium-sized tours of theatre, dance and music
productions. Creative New Zealand’s Cath Cardiff says the initiative is
designed to fill a hole in existing schemes. Justin Gregory asked her if
touring is still essential to sustain a company.
1:10 At The Movies with Simon Morris
The new Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow, the
American smash-hit teen drama, The Fault In Our Stars and Switzerland's take on
the Cold War of the 1950s – Manipulation.
1:31 Karl Sheridan's Monster Valley
Karl Sheridan, film maker and director of arts agency
Monster Valley, doesn’t believe in star signs but he’s courteous enough to
advise me that he reads them just for fun. ‘You’ll be figuring out where you
fit best in a situation,’ is recent advice gleaned from a local rag. Not
that he needs it, because Karl seems to have perfected that art of ‘fitting in’
and being adaptable to whatever situation has been thrown at him. He does have
an eye for edgy, underground arts though, and making films like his New Zealand
street art documentary Dregs a couple of years ago, helps to further his
interest in the local arts scene and expand his growing list of collaborators,
many of whom have worked on his most recent event The Monster Valley Experiment
which was a cross collaboration of artists from different creative fields,
running over the course of a week at The Basement Theatre.
1:40 Rachelle Pike
Two years ago we caught up with emerging opera singer
Rachelle Pike as she completed her studies at the Manhattan School of Music in
New York. She’s back home and about to sing the role of Flora in New Zealand
Opera’s production of La Traviata which opens in Auckland this coming week.
She’s also planning her return to live and work in the States. Rachelle says
the transition from student to fully fledged singer is daunting.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Nisha Madhan
Nisha Madhan’s career spans acting, directing and producing
for theatre and television. She trained as an actress at Unitec’s School
of Performing and Screen Arts under the guidance of Murray Hutchinson from 2001
to 2003. In 2006 she created the company Phundmi Productions and their first
production Shakespeare Unbar'd: The Food of Love played to sell-out audiences
in 2006 and 2007. Coming up she will be performing in a new theatre work by Indian
Ink theatre company called Kiss the Fish as well as directing her next original
work, LIES – Theatre of Competition.
2:26 Wellesley Street Studios
Arts patron Katrina Todd has just made a very large gift to
the dance community of Auckland. Using her own money, she’s fitted-out and
opened Wellesley Studios, three custom-built state of the art dance studios in
the central city which also double as a home to the New Zealand Dance Company.
Katrina says she built the studios so that the dance community could feel that
their work has value. Justin Gregory asked her to take him on a tour.
2:40 Books
ShameJoy by Julie Hill.
2:51 Young artists in Whanganui
Whanganui is known as a great place for artists to live and
work and two relatively new arrivals wholeheartedly agree. Former Palmerston
North girl Sarah Williams runs her own gallery and Aucklander Richard Orjis is
artist in residence at the town’s historic Tylee Cottage. I asked Richard what
drew him to the River City.
3:05 The Drama Hour
The Train Set By Joe Musaphia.
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