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Meet our Lemi Ponifasio Laurie Anderson Bret McKenzie Guest Curators DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER MUSICIAN AND MULTIMEDIA ARTIST COMEDIAN, ACTOR AND COMPOSER

This year three Guest Curators have Lemi Ponifasio is a ground-breaking Grammy Award-winning New York artist Oscar-winning songwriter and half helped curate a week of shows international artist whose work exists Laurie Anderson performed at the very of Grammy Award-winning duo Flight of alongside the general programme. at the border between the political and first New Zealand Festival of the Arts the Conchords, Bret McKenzie is one of the mystical, the ancient and the avant- in 1986. She returns now, three decades ’s most successful artistic exports. You can choose from the Guest garde. Join Lemi as we explore who we later, this time with a “crazy array of With events for families, comedy lovers and Curators’ signature selections, the are and the future we want to create. things” to intrigue and inspire you. music buffs, Bret is bringing a buzz to his general programme or mix it up. hometown in the Festival’s final week.

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Follow me Follow me Follow me Week One | pages 10 - 22 Week Two | pages 34 - 42 Week Three | pages 58 - 69

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Week One Week Two Week Three Contents 10 Lemi Ponifasio 34 Laurie Anderson 58 Bret McKenzie C M T M C W Handy Information 12 Talanoa Mau - we need to talk 36 Here Comes the Ocean 60 The Brief and Frightening FF V I Reign of Phil 6 One Festival Many Ways In 13 Te Ata 38 To The Moon 62 The Late Night Gigs: Nadia Reid, 14 Chosen and Beloved M T 39 Lou Reed Drones M M 94 Access and Inclusion Information Shades of Shakti, Estére 16 Jerusalem T D 40 The Calling M 95 Booking Information 64 Släpstick T F C M O 18 Kopernikus 41 Close Listening: A Conversation W M 97 Wellington Map 66 Urban Hut Club V F I W D T with Laurie Anderson 98 2020 Festival Calendar 20 In Search of Dinozord Concert for Dogs M F I 22 MAU: House of Night and Day V D 42 69 Aldous Harding// M Opening/Closing Purple Pilgrims Festival Programme 9 Pōwhiri Festival Programme ÁM M D M 24 Glass/Richter/Järvi M 44 80 Remembrance M Festival Programme M 46 Netherlands Chamber Choir 25 Kate Tempest 70 Trois Grandes Fugues D 48 BLACK TIES T C M 72 Dimanche T 50 The New Pornographers M Writers 74 Strasbourg 1518 D T M 51 Rhiannon Giddens M Festival-long Events 28 : On Imagination/Kara Jackson: 75 Hōkioi me te Vwōhali D Bloodstone Cowboy 52 Eight Songs for a Mad King O 77 Secrets of Sea and Space M T C 22 MAU: House of Night and Day V D 29 Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift/Justin Paton: 53 Mr Red Light McCahon Country/: Native Son/ 26 Into the Open V Real Imaginary Lives: Tina Makereti, Namwali Writers 38 To The Moon V I Writers Serpell 78 Samer Nashef: The Angina Monologues/Lindy / 66 Urban Hut Club V F I W 30 Art in the Afterlife: Justin Paton, Dame Anne 54 Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies Damian Barr: West: The Witches are Coming/George Saunders: You Will Be Safe Here Salmond, Matariki Williams, Witi Ihimaera/ Live from New York/Kristen Ghodsee: Capitalism An Indigenous Future: Maria Bargh, Jade Kake, 55 Long Litt Woon: The Way Through the Woods/ vs Socialism/Kinley Salmon: My Future, My Robot?/ Cloud Pink F I V 82 Rebecca Kiddle/Chigozie Obioma: An Orchestra Andrea Lawlor: All About Paul/Lisa Feldman Dr Hannah Critchlow: The Science of Fate V FF 82 Fired Up: Festival of Ceramics of Minorities/Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl Barrett: How Emotions are Made/Coming to our 79 Scarlett Thomas: Oligarchy/Young Minds Take the / 83 A Short Run: A Selection of 31 An Evening with Kate Tempest/Tash Aw: We, Senses: Long Litt Woon, Bart Library/Alison Whittaker: Blakwork/What Does V : The Cut Out Girl New Zealand Lathe-Cut Records The Survivors/Chiké Frankie Edozien: The Lives van Es My Future Look Like? James Renwick, Dr Hannah / 83 Anthems of Belonging V of Great Men/Writing Survivors: Tash Aw, Tommy 56 An Evening with Joy Harjo Critchlow, Kinley Salmon Sex, Politics and Gender: / Kristen Ghodsee, Marilyn Waring, Ngahuia Te V Orange Tommy Orange: There, There 57 The Joy of Queer Lit Salon/Writing Women’s Lives: 83 Strands Awekotuku/Dear Me: Letters to Menton: Mandy 32 Jung Chang: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister/ Rijula Das, Jokha Alharthi/Paula Green’s Poetry Toi Art at Te Papa V Hager, Lloyd Jones, 84 Rajorshi Chakraborti: Shakti/Sophie Cunningham: Shelf Live/What Keeps Me Up at Night? Karlo 84 Photobook Festival 2020 V FF City of Trees/Lucy-Anne Holmes: Don’t Hold My Mila, Rose Lu, Bart van Es/The Author’s Table 80 Who Are We Now? Guled Mire, Alison Whittaker, Head Down Nyadol Nyuon, Anahera Gildea, Jack McDonald 33 Rebecca Priestley: Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica/Do We Deserve Earth? Sophie Cunningham, Rebecca Priestley/We Are Here: Access I Interactive An Atlas for Our Aotearoa: Chris McDowall, Nadine Artist Talk M Music Anne Hura, Veronika Meduna /Alan Duff: Conversations with My Country/Many Hearts: C Conference O Opera A Journey Through Love: Dame , D Dance T Theatre Linda Burgess, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Catherine F Family V Visual Arts Robertson/A Feminist Romance: Lucy-Anne Holmes, Nicky Pellegrino, Bronwyn Sell, FF Festival in the Festival W Writers Catherine Robertson Free Event

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Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini

In 2020 artists are taking over the New Zealand Festival Meet our Guest Curators and the many artists of the Arts, Te Taurima o Aotearoa, to make your who will join them, for a Festival of the Arts that experience more special, memorable and exhilarating. celebrates honesty, bravery and splendour. Our goal As the largest celebration of cutting-edge culture in is to create arts experiences that get people talking. Aotearoa, our job is to push the boundaries. To do that In times like these, talking matters. And great art we’re bringing more artistic voices into the conversation. inspires important conversations, helping us see the world in sharper focus, or in a whole new light. For each of the three weeks of the Festival, we’ve invited an internationally renowned artist to be Our Festival ends on 15 March, the one-year Guest Curator – selecting a signature series of arts anniversary of the terror attacks at the Linwood and Al Noor mosques in Christchurch. We welcome all experiences just for you. Our 2020 Guest Curators are to join the Muslim community, mana whenua and your Lemi Ponifasio, Laurie Anderson and Bret McKenzie, fellow citizens for a moment of remembrance and giving each week a distinct feel and identity. Our reflection as the Festival draws to a close (see page 80). Guest Curator selections will live alongside other extraordinary art works from Aotearoa and the world, Ngā mihi maioha to every single person who is programmed by our Creative Director Marnie Karmelita. connected with this Festival and stands alongside us and our artists. Your passion for art and Another exciting development for 2020 is the full community and your commitment to Wellington embrace of our ever popular Writers programme. and Aotearoa inspire us every day. We’re expanding it from one to three full weeks of events, creating a bespoke literary salon space in This is your Festival. Come with an open heart the Renouf Foyer of the Centre. and mind. Leave changed. Image: Jeff McEwan Kupe: Odyssey A Waka Pōwhiri

Join Te Ātiawa/Taranaki Whānui Iwi When: Where: Te Raukura Marnie Karmelita Meg Williams Geoff Dangerfield and the Festival team as we manāki Fri 21 Feb, 7.30am Creative Director Executive Director Chair of Trustees Te Wharewaka o Pōneke our local and international artists 2 Taranaki Street into Te Whanganui-a-Tara. FREE

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Jerusalem | page 16 page 14 Chosen and Beloved

Lemi Ponifasio DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER and Day | page 22 Dayand | page of Night MAU: House Guest Curator Lemi Ponifasio brings his radical approach to art to create a programme

featuring artists with a connected vision to rouse your passion, challenge you and inspire of Dinozord Search In Kopernikus | page 18 new ways of looking at things.

Lemi is a sought-after theatre, opera, dance and visual critically at what it means to be human in today’s world. artist, who has staged his ground-breaking works at Talanoa is the Sāmoan word meaning to talk openly prestigious arts festivals such as the Avignon Festival and it is an important methodology for resolving (2014, 2017), the Ruhr Triennale (2010, 2014) and the conflicts in many Pacific cultures. In this spirit, Mau Venice Biennale (2003, 2007, 2015). For the 2020 enacts a stance of openness in which truth can emerge.

Festival of the Arts he brings together a group of | page 20 seminal artists and collaborators, some of whom are A festival within the Festival, Te Ata will be held in long-time friends, including the legendary American Porirua – a city where nearly 45% of the population is director Peter Sellars, dancer and choreographer under 25 years old. Te Ata invites young people to take Faustin Linyekula (Democratic Republic of the the lead creatively, engaging in creative conversations Congo) and the soprano Racha Rizk (Syria). with local communities and international artists.

The Festival opens with Chosen and Beloved, a “Arts festivals can stimulate a nation’s culture,” says remarkable live orchestral experience performed Lemi. “Just as agriculture celebrates the planting and by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra joined by harvest, arts festivals enact the planting of new ideas Lemi’s company MAU, who also bring the world and traditions, which, if tended, will grow into the premiere of his new major work, Jerusalem. cultures of the future”.

Talanoa Mau is a two-day gathering where delegations Join Lemi and sow the seeds to cultivate new Talanoa Mau | page 12 of artists and culture-makers from around the world cultural forms of life, and through this encounter and Aotearoa will join you to give voice to new and with art take the chance to reimagine ourselves unheard ideas, to awaken passion, and to look and our place together in the world. Te Ata | page 13

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Talanoa Mau – Clockwise from top left: CONFERENCE J. Lemalu, TR. Mitchell we need to talk (Rawhitiroa Photography), Virtuoso Strings, K. Waetford, K. Jackson, N. Muyanga, A. Tapu Talanoa Mau is the historic coming together of artists, When: Where: policymakers, leaders, doers and thinkers from around Mon 24 – Tue 25 Feb, Soundings Theatre, / Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated the world and Aotearoa New Zealand to examine all day Te Papa and present their ideas and creative projects of global significance. Tickets: Partnered by: (Two days including We hear from artists Peter Sellars (US), Faustin lunch and refreshments) Linyekula (DRC), Neo Muyanga (SA), Chiké Frankie Early Bird $489 Edozien (NIG), Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal (NZ), $549 Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala (NZ), Coco Solid aka Jessica Hansell (NZ), Alistair Fraser (NZ), Kara Jackson (US) Buy 2+ and save and Chigozie Obioma (NIG); leaders and public For groups of 2-10, the first ticket is $549 thinkers His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Thanks to: Efi (SAM), Pania Newton (NZ), Golriz Ghahraman MP with subsequent (NZ), Tāmati Kruger (NZ), Patrick Snedden (NZ), Te tickets at $499 Kaurinui Parata (NZ), Hon. Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Advance bookings only. Laban (NZ), Dame Anne Salmond (NZ), Leali’ifano Arts scholarships available, Dr Albert L Refiti (NZ) and Jade Kake (NZ); and more. apply online. For further information and details on how to book please visit Make the pilgrimage to Pōneke, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, festival.nz/talanoa-mau. Proudly partnered and be part of an historic meeting that places art at the by Wellington Airport centre of urgent public decision making, carving a path to our future. Te Ata FESTIVAL IN THE FESTIVAL

Clockwise from left: G. Ghahraman, A. Fraser, T. Kruger, J. Kake, F. Linyekula, Te Ata, a festival within the Festival, brings Created with the community of Porirua and artists A. Salmond, P. Sellars together artists from Aotearoa and around the who include South African protest musician Neo

Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated world to exchange with young New Zealanders Muyanga, US Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson, Der who wish to take a bold, brave and active role in Faust prize-winner for dance Aloali’i Tapu, 2019 New shaping the culture of the place where they live. Zealand Arts Laureate Coco Solid aka Jessica Hansell, Grammy Award-winning opera singer Jonathan Two weeks of ground-breaking creative Lemalu, baritone Kawiti Waetford and the New development will culminate in a week of public Zealand Sinfonia for Hope Orchestra. More artists to performances and events hosted by Porirua City, be announced in January. which has one of the youngest populations in New Zealand. Visit festival.nz/teata for information on workshops, public performances and tickets.

When: Partnered by: Audio Visual Partner: Thanks to: Sat 22 - Sat 29 Feb

Where: Te Rauparaha Arena Porirua City Council Pātaka Art + Museum

12 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 Book fast at festival.nz | 13 | HOW DO WE New Zealand Festival of the Arts Week One Curated by Lemi Ponifasio COME TOGETHER MAU & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra AND REFLECT ON Aotearoa/New Zealand, Estonia, United States, Syria OURSELVES AS A Chosen COMMUNITY and Beloved Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

The 2020 Festival opens with an unforgettable live orchestral art experience. Henryk Górecki’s phenomenally popular Symphony No. 3 has special Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated reverence for Lemi Ponifasio – both as a piece of music that fuelled his early creation as a dancer and choreographer, and as a work that has taken on new meaning for him since 15 March 2019, when New Zealand changed forever.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Syrian soprano Racha Rizk are conducted by Kristjan Järvi and joined by the MAU company for this evening of transcendent music, welcome, reflection and celebration – where we, the living, greet and embrace those who have gone before us and prepare to welcome those who are about to join us.

Created by Conducted by Lemi Ponifasio Kristjan Järvi

When: Where: Fri 21 Feb, 7.30pm Michael Fowler Centre

Tickets: Duration: Early Bird P$93 1hr 30mins P$99 A$79 Partnered by: B$59 C$49

Thanks to: MUSIC THEATRE HOW DO WE COME TOGETHER Image : Lemi Ponifasio/MAU AND REFLECT ON OURSELVES AS A 14 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 Book fast at festival.nz | 15 COMMUNITY Week One Curated by Lemi Ponifasio | New Zealand Festival of the Arts

MAU | Aotearoa/New Zealand

“My faith in theatre has been restored” — THE GUARDIAN on Requiem Jerusalem

Created in turbulent and perplexing times, Jerusalem is Lemi Ponifasio’s major new work. Inspired by the epic Concerto Al Quds from the Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated great poet Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), it will premiere here before touring internationally.

Jerusalem is not a documentary about a city, nor is it a political or religious commentary. It is a meditation on the universal tensions between idealism and reality, life and death, beauty and malice, freedom and control, love and hatred. It is the creation of a space to come together, seek recovery and new beginnings.

Expect impeccable artistry from the performers of the MAU company and exquisite, stark design. If defined in traditional terms, this could be opera, theatre and dance. But it’s better framed as ceremony: an intense, unforgettable evening for you to question, reflect and dream.

When: Where: Sat 22 Feb, 8pm Opera House Sun 23 Feb, 5pm

Tickets: Duration: Early Bird $73 1hr 15mins $79

Artist Talk: Partnered by: Pre-show Sun 23 Feb, 4pm Opera House Foyer Thanks to: THEATRE DANCE Image : Lemi Ponifasio/MAU

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Visionary director Peter Sellars resurrects the rarely staged opera of the Québécois composer Claude Vivier, Kopernikus. Sellars, renowned for his radical Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated and creative productions, has described this intimate work as a “mind-blowing” mix of The Magic Flute, Tristan and Isolde and Alice in Wonderland.

Performed by the Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth ensemble and instrumentalists Ensemble L’Instant Donné, this “unimaginably beautiful” opera (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) takes audiences on a journey of reconciliation and transcendence following loss and death, guided by the genius of Mozart, Wagner and Lewis Carroll. Kopernikus seeks to reorient the audience’s relationship to the process of dying through a vivid imagining of the beauty and glory of the afterlife.

Composed by Directed by Claude Vivier Peter Sellars

When: Where: Sun 1 – Mon 2 Mar, Opera House 7pm

Tickets: Duration: Early Bird P$129 1hr 35mins P$139 A$119 Partnered by: B$89 C$59

Artist Talk: Pre-show Thanks to: Mon 2 Mar, 6pm Opera House Foyer Carolyn and Peter DO WE GO Diessl SOMEWHERE OPERA ELSE? Image: Vincent Pontet IS ANYONE 18 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 THERE? Book fast at festival.nz | 19 CAN OUR New Zealand Festival of the Arts | Week One Curated by Lemi Ponifasio DREAMS HELP US RESHAPE

Studios Kabako | Democratic Republic of the Congo A TERRIBLE In Search of Dinozord REALITY?

If you haven’t yet heard about Faustin Linyekula, political work, as it recounts how the troubled then “quite possibly the most important artist history of Linyekula’s country has dramatically

Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated working on the African continent today” (Frieze), impacted personal stories of his friends in Kisangani, “breathtaking political art” (LA Times) and “live-wire the city where he grew up. Central too is Kabako, intensity” (New York Times) give you a feel. a writer-friend who died of the plague, “a disease I thought only existed in books”. Jimi Hendrix’s From the Democratic Republic of the Congo, “Voodoo Chile” soundtracks an astonishing finale. Linyekula left his country during the political upheaval upon which Dinozord is based. Invited About as visceral an 80 minutes in the theatre by Peter Sellars to make a creation on the 250th as you are likely to get, escape your comfort anniversary of Mozart’s death, the composer's zone and experience what art can bring: truth, Requiem permeates this deeply personal and understanding, change.

Created by Faustin Linyekula Images: Steve Gunther @CalartsREDCAT

“Breathtaking political art” When: Where: Thu 27 – Sat 29 Feb, Soundings Theatre, — LA TIMES 7.30pm Te Papa

“Ground-shaking” Tickets: Duration: Early Bird $53 1hr 20mins — THE GUARDIAN $59

Artist Talk: DANCE Post-show Fri 28 Feb Soundings Theatre THEATRE

In French with English surtitles

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MAU | Aotearoa/New Zealand MAU: House of Night and Day

Te Papa’s Toi Art presents MAU: House of In this new installation, Lemi transforms Te Papa’s Night and Day, a major installation by renowned Toi Art gallery into an immersive live stage that WE BELIEVE ART MAKES LIFE BETTER director, choreographer and multidisciplinary acknowledges more than 30 years of MAU projects. Lemi Ponifasio Lemi by Curated artist Lemi Ponifasio. IT CAN BRIGHTEN OUR DAYS, BRING US TOGETHER AND CHANGE OUR LIVES. Central to MAU: House of Night and Day is a new As founder of MAU, the international theatre and ritual performance based on Lagimoana, which IF YOU BELIEVE THIS TOO, JOIN US! creative forum, Lemi creates large-scale productions Lemi created for the 56th International Venice Art and installations that have pioneered a radical Biennale 2015 curated by the late Okwui Enwezor. approach to art crossing boundaries of ceremony, philosophy, culture, activism and performance. The Culture Club is the New Zealand Festival of the Arts’ Join from just $5 a month and to say regular giving programme, counting hundreds of bold arts thanks for your support you’ll receive these When: Where: addicts among its ranks. We believe that art can brighten our great perks: 24 Feb – 7 Jun Toi Art, Level 4, Te Papa days and bring us together, and with your support we can make the Festival more accessible to more people. BEST SEATS AT THE BEST PRICE You’ll get access to tickets ahead of the crowd for any Tāwhiri-run events like these: VISUAL ARTS

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Aotearoa/New Zealand, Estonia, United States Glass/Richter/Järvi

Conductor Kristjan Järvi has earned a reputation Max Richter Philip Glass as “one of the canniest, and most innovative, Infra Águas da Amazônia programmers on the classical scene” (Reuters) and here he leads the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Conducted by for a one-night-only concert of works by two great contemporary composers. Kristjan Järvi with members of Absolute Ensemble The evening begins with Max Richter’s Infra, originally composed for the Royal Ballet’s 2008 production and described as “achingly gorgeous … an enveloping and When: Where: moving work” (Pitchfork). Written as a reaction to the Sun 23 Feb, 7.30pm Michael Fowler Centre 7/7 bombings in London, Infra resonates with Richter’s characteristic musical voice; minimalism combined Artist Talk: Duration: with sweeping melodies and harmonic complexity. Pre-show, 6.30pm 1hr 30mins Renouf Foyer The dynamic programme continues with Philip Glass’ love song to one of the world’s mightiest rivers, Águas da Amazônia. Originally composed for a small Tickets: Thanks to: ensemble, this new arrangement by Charles Coleman Early Bird P$93 plumbs the potency and grandeur of a full symphony P$99 United Kingdom orchestra, augmented with members of Järvi’s A$79 “This isn't a gig, it's a reckoning” B$59 — THE GUARDIAN Absolute Ensemble, to convey Glass’ exhilarating MUSIC pursuit of adventure and awe. C$49 Kate Tempest

Is Kate Tempest a rapper, a poet, a spoken word artist or a lit fuse? Whatever she is, she’s undeniably intent “Tempest rips your heart out, offers on delivering urgent messages that cut through an assessment, and then returns it apathy like a honed knife. with the tools to determine what Since starting out doing open mic gigs at 16, Tempest needs to be done with it” has released four , five poetry collections and — NPR MUSIC one novel, performing to cult-like crowds around the world. Her shows are a barrage of profundity and dazzling rhythms with phrasing that sounds both When: Shakespearean and straight-up. Where: Mon 24 Feb, 8pm Michael Fowler Tempest’s work is, in part, a call to action capturing Centre “the angry tension of being alive” in today’s precarious world (The Guardian). She wants us to learn from the Tickets: Partnered by: past in order to confront an uncertain future. Lose Early Bird $53 yourself in a gig that reminds you all is not yet lost. $59

Want more Tempest? Join Kate for an hour of MUSIC words on Sunday 23 February, 5pm (see page 31).

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New Zealand Festival of the Arts and Te Papa present Into the Open

After dark each night of the Festival, multiple sites along the Wellington waterfront will light up with an array of large-scale artworks.

Throughout history, public spaces have been the setting for both shared catharsis and collective imagination. Into the Open is a programme of moving-image artworks that will be projected along the waterfront throughout the Festival. Responding to the programmes curated by Lemi Ponifasio, Laurie Anderson and Bret McKenzie, this three-week series brings into the open artistic visions of what it means to be human, together.

Every Monday, the artworks will change to reflect the spirit of each Guest Curator’s vision, so come back each week to experience art in the open. Follow the pathway of artworks or linger with a moment painted large with light.

When: Where: Sat 22 Feb – Sat 14 Mar, Waterfront from dusk to midnight

Online Audio Descriptions available.

Suitable for Deaf audiences. See Image: Detail from Lift Off, 2018, Ahilapalapa Rands page 94 or festival.nz/access

Partnered by: Thanks to: Week One: Sat 22 Feb – Sun 1 Mar Week Two: Mon 2 – Sun 8 Mar Week Three: Mon 9 – Sat 14 Mar Movement, rhythm and stillness govern The second week features expressions of The final week brings together energetic the selection of artworks for the first week sentience and empathy. These artists test artworks that share in a sense of of the Festival. These artists understand our ability to connect across generations, whanaungatanga, artistic and otherwise. gesture as a way of connecting with species and with the non-human. Many For these artists, art and humour can memory, artistic tradition and emotions also explore the potential for imaging be found in everyday settings – and that have travelled across generations. technologies to capture and produce mauri. imagination and a lo-fi spirit are all you Audio Visual Partner: need to connect with the world at large. Yuki Kihara (Sāmoa, Aotearoa/New Zealand) Hye Rim Lee (South Korea, Aotearoa/New Zealand) Pilar Mata Dupont (Australia, Argentina) Nathan Pohio (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kai Tahu) VISUAL ARTS Mike Heynes (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Ahilapalapa Rands (Aotearoa/New Zealand) (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Christopher Ulutupu (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Shahzia Sikander (United States, Pakistan) Aliyah Winter (Aotearoa/New Zealand) UuDam Tran Nguyen (Vietnam) FREE Ana Iti (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Sasha Huber (Switzerland, Haiti, Finland) Elisabeth Pointon (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Denise Batchelor (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Steve Carr (Aotearoa/New Zealand)

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Aotearoa/New Zealand Zambia Writers Elizabeth Knox: On Imagination Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift Is there a more powerful tool than a single, human Beginning in a colonial settlement and ending with a imagination? New Zealand novelist Elizabeth Knox is in social-technological revolution in a Zambia of the near Writers are artists who create possession of a mind that has delivered angels to a French future, Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift weaves worlds with words drawn from their vineyard, turned libraries into portals to other worlds, and ideas and experiences of colonialism, the HIV crisis, the wracked small-town Aotearoa with a lethal mass hysteria. Zambian Space Programme and political revolution. experiences and imaginations. To begin the 2020 Writers programme, this extraordinary Following three generations of three families, her fierce author delivers an opening address on the very essence and beautiful writing is resonant of writers such as Gabriel They pull us through time and space, hold up of us all: the imagination. García Márquez. Namwali, who is a Professor of English at revealing mirrors, refigure the way we live and UC Berkley, speaks with Whiti Hereaka about the decade question the DNA of our every day. For 2020, of work behind her much-acclaimed novel. the Writers programme has been extended over three invigorating weeks to present even When: Where: Tickets: Duration: more extraordinary voices that will take us Sat 22 Feb, 1pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr on journeys to Zambia, Chernobyl, America, Antarctica and back to talk sex, science, gender politics and Aotearoa. We ride into love, hug trees, peer at the future, question Aotearoa/New Zealand Aotearoa/New Zealand who we are, confront inequality and discover Witi Ihimaera: Native Son Justin Paton: what keeps us awake at night. With three McCahon Country stimulating weeks to celebrate writers, take Witi Ihimaera speaks with novelist the time to listen, ask questions and connect What is the experience of really to stories and ideas from writers the world over. about Native Son, the sequel to his Ockham Award- winning memoir, Māori Boy. Beginning with the seeing a painting? Art writer Justin relief of passing his School C exams, Witi takes us to Paton guides us through the Renouf Foyer the family farm where he worked, to the myths that landscapes of Colin McCahon’s New inhabited his internal world, and to his discovery that Zealand. Justin’s skill is to urge the The Renouf Foyer is the official home for Image: Ebony Lamb none of the books in Wellington’s bookshops were by reader to truly see, and with writing the 2020 Writers events. We have pulled Māori writers. Join one of our greatest storytellers for so warm and absorbing, this book When: Where: Tickets: Duration: will move you to discover your own our long-time Festival space into a loving Sat 22 Feb, 10am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr the tale of how he picked up his pen and challenged embrace and have filled it with botanical the dominant literature of New Zealand and the world. Aotearoa anew. design, a bar and a variety of comfortable “Knox demonstrates an imagination that is both seating options. With Unity Books right there, vast and relentless in its pursuit of the truth.” When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: a drink in hand and conversation for your — THE GUARDIAN Sat 22 Feb, 4pm Renouf Foyer $29 1hr 15mins Sat 22 Feb, 2.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr mind, you’ll be in Festival heaven.

Take Five Pass United States Aotearoa/New Zealand, Zambia Kara Jackson: Real Imaginary Lives Grab a Take Five Pass now and save 20% on all Bloodstone Cowboy $19 Writers sessions. That’s five hours of book The characters in the novels of Tina Makereti lovers’ bliss for just $76. Take Five Passes are Touching on ideas of intergenerational (The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke) and strictly limited and on sale now. Offer ends 21 communication, the ideal female, Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift) call to us, with Feb 2020. For more information see page 95. love of self and love of place, 2019 extraordinarily vivid voices, from histories of US National Youth Poet Laureate colonisation and British Imperialism. Their Kara Jackson speaks courageously University Partner: Thanks to: stories reflect the influence and impact of the about her life’s work to date with poet past upon our lives today and tomorrow. The Courtney Sina Meredith. Partnered by: authors talk to Gemma Browne about what it takes to craft fictional lives that show us the When: Where: very real and connected narratives of culture, Official Bookseller: Sat 22 Feb, 11.30am Renouf Foyer Thanks to: class and race. Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: $19 1hr Image: Andi Crown Sun 23 Feb, 9.30am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

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Aotearoa/New Zealand United Kingdom Malaysia An Indigenous Future An Evening Tash Aw: If an indigenous worldview was intrinsic to the with Kate Tempest We, The Survivors structures that govern the way we live, what Aotearoa/New Zealand might our lives be like? In the face of social and Kate Tempest’s innovative, award- In We, The Survivors the reader Art in the Afterlife environmental catastrophes such as the climate winning writing across music, plays, gathers a picture of society marred crisis, housing crisis and an ever-increasing divide novels and poetry is well-known by extreme poverty, corporate If you had to choose one piece of art to take to your room between rich and poor, how might a Te Ao Māori for giving voice to everyday life in greed and exploitation of migrants. in the afterlife, what would it be? Art writer and curator Justin framework provide solutions for us all? Join the a world harangued by capitalism, Described as one of the most Paton, historian Dame Anne Salmond, curator and writer discussion with Associate Professor Maria Bargh environmental crises, inequality, masterful novelists writing today, Matariki Williams and author Witi Ihimaera show us the (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa), architectural designer misogyny and celebrity culture. Tash Aw speaks with writer and works that would furnish their celestial homes and tell us why Jade Kake (Ngāti Hau/Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa, Te Join Kate for an hour of words to curator Emma Ng about his latest that work transcends the rest. Hosted by Elizabeth Knox. Whakatōhea) and Dr Rebecca Kiddle (Ngāti move, stir and surprise. novel and what it means to him. Porou and Ngāpuhi).

When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Sun 23 Feb, 11am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 23 Feb, 12.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 23 Feb, 5pm Renouf Foyer $29 1hr Thu 27 Feb, 6pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

Nigeria Ukraine, United States Nigeria United States Chigozie Obioma: An Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl Chiké Frankie Edozien: Tommy Orange: There, There Partnered by: The Lives of Great Men Orchestra of Minorities Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy argues, was a disaster waiting “They tore unborn babies out of bellies, took what we to happen. The tense hours in the lead up to the 1986 What does it mean to be gay in West were intended to be, our children before they were Africa? This question is at the heart Chigozie Obioma’s 2019 Booker Prize shortlisted novel catastrophe and the political fallout that occurred after it children, babies before they were babies.” An Orchestra of Minorities is an epic tale driven by love and are recounted in Serhii’s acclaimed history of the tragedy. of journalist Chiké Frankie Edozien’s compelling memoir The Lives of Great marred by hostility and racism. Nigerian chicken farmer Today the largest peacetime nuclear disaster is a magnet Men. Join Chiké for the story behind Tommy Orange’s beautiful, devastating debut novel Chinonso embarks on a Homerian journey to attain the for tourists and inspires TV dramatisations. Toby Manhire his astonishing call to live a great life. follows the lives of Indigenous Americans in the lead up respect of the family of the woman he wishes to marry. talks with the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winner to a powwow. The energy created through the cast of Entirely narrated by Chinonso’s Chi (or guardian spirit), about what the history of Chernobyl reveals to us about “One of the most triumphant and characters builds until the book explodes the question of Chigozie’s masterful storytelling asks us to relate to an the collapse of the Soviet Union. joy-inducing books of the year” how to tell the history of an entire people. There, There asks individual’s spiritual life against the pitiful hostility of human — HUFFINGTON POST one of the most complex questions of our time: what does prejudice. He speaks with writer Brannavan Gnanalingam. When: Where: Tickets: Duration: it mean to be indigenous? Tommy speaks about the impact Sun 23 Feb, 3.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr When: Where: Tickets: Duration: of his acclaimed first novel on himself and his community. When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Thu 27 Feb, 7.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 23 Feb, 2pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Fri 28 Feb, 6pm Renouf Foyer $29 1hr 15mins

Malaysia, United States Writing Survivors

Tash Aw (We, the Survivors) and Tommy Orange (There, There) are authors of widely acclaimed novels that describe the effects of Image: Tara Sosrowardoyo intergenerational inequality upon the lives of individuals and upon whole communities and histories of people. Tash and Tommy speak with Aotearoa writer about the

Image: Susan Wilson Susan Image: role of fiction in evoking empathy and on the challenge of creating characters who speak "A masterful account of how the USSR's truths for so many living today, in our past and bureaucratic dysfunction, censorship, and in our futures. impossible economic targets produced the disaster and hindered the response." Partnered by: When: Where: Tickets: Duration:

Image: Jason Keith — NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Sat 29 Feb, 10am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

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China Aotearoa/New Zealand Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand Jung Chang: Big Sister, Rebecca Priestley: Do We Deserve Earth? Fifteen Million Little Sister, Red Sister Years in Antarctica Australian writer Sophie Cunningham and Aotearoa writer Rebecca Priestley Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three When: Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica have both published books that explore Women at the Heart of Twentieth Century Fri 28 Feb, 8pm tells a personal and poignant story relationships between ourselves and our China is the new biography from the of time spent on Earth’s most environment. Why is it that we destroy internationally bestselling author of Wild Where: mysterious and precious frontier. the things we love? The places we rely on Swans. The Soong Sisters from Shanghai were Michael Fowler Author Rebecca Priestley discusses to keep us alive, inspired and safe? Sophie Ching-ling, Mao’s vice chair; May-ling, the first Centre a life influenced by the frozen white and Rebecca discuss the writing of this Partnered by: lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China; and continent with the Prime Minister’s conundrum. Image: Victoria Birkinshaw Ei-ling, one of China’s richest women. What Tickets: Chief Science Advisor, Juliet Gerrard. were their lives really like? Jung Chang speaks $29 about the personal stories that intertwined with global politics: intrigue, love affairs, war, Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: betrayal, glamour and despair. 1hr 15mins Sat 29 Feb, 2.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 1 Mar, 10am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

Aotearoa/New Zealand Australia Aotearoa/New Zealand Aotearoa/New Zealand Rajorshi Chakraborti: Sophie Cunningham: We Are Here: An Atlas Alan Duff: Shakti City of Trees for Our Aotearoa Conversations with My Country Rajorshi Chakraborti’s Shakti is a A powerful collection of travel and We Are Here is the extraordinary product of years of work that offers an in-depth view of Aotearoa story of standing up for what is right nature writing, memoir and research, The latest book by the author as a place and as a people. It asks you to step back in a world going very wrong. RNZ’s Sophie Cunningham’s City of Trees, of Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff, Lynn Freeman talks to Rajorshi is an exploration of how the lives of from your Google Maps and take a look at the Aotearoa around you: our people, our places, our is a reflective and honest story about writing fiction that challenges, trees mark the making and passing of whenua. Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon of hardship, success and taking a entertains and takes readers into our own lives. Sophie talks with Ingrid position on the essential issues facing

talks with creator Chris McDowall and contributors Image: Andy Reisinger places they might never think to go. Horrocks about the stories behind Nadine Anne Hura and Veronika Meduna about both Māori and Pākehā. Join the her moving and important book. this beautiful collision of data, design and heartfelt author for a frank conversation about analysis of what an atlas allows us to see. writing the truth as you see it.

When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Sat 29 Feb, 11.30am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sat 29 Feb, 1pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 1 Mar, 11.30am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 1 Mar, 1pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

United Kingdom Aotearoa/New Zealand United Kingdom, Aotearoa/New Zealand Lucy-Anne Holmes: Many Hearts: A Journey A Feminist Romance

Through Love Image: Robert Cross Don’t Hold My Head Down Chick-Lit: Love the genre, hate the name? Four writers take us through the game of Romance writers Lucy-Anne Holmes (Just Lucy-Anne Holmes embarked on a personal When: love. What is it about the joy, the pain, the a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy), Nicky

Sat 29 Feb, Image: sexual revolution that began with disappointment downright agony that continues to fuel novels, Pellegrino (A Dream of Italy), Bronwyn Sell 4pm and ended with day-long orgasms and taking poetry and short stories? Learn how love has (Lovestruck) and Catherine Robertson (The on one of the biggest newspapers in the world. influenced our writers’ literary lives and what Not So Perfect Life of Mo Lawrence) are best- Where: Don’t Hold My Head Down is the story of finding stories from the heart have kept them going selling authors in the genre often described Renouf Foyer feminism through sex. Funny, frank and inspiring, through it all. With Dame Fiona Kidman, as chick-lit. They discuss books that focus on the activist and author talks with RNZ’s BANG! Tracey Slaughter and Freya Daly Sadgrove, women’s emotional and domestic lives and podcast creator, Melody Thomas. Tickets: why that’s a powerfully feminist occupation. $19 hosted by Catherine Robertson. “A memoir of female sexuality which is cheery and amazing and truthful” Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: — Caitlin Moran 1hr Sun 1 Mar, 2.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 1 Mar, 5.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

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Concert Dogs for page 41 page | page 36 page | Close Listening Listening Close Here Comes Ocean the page 38 page | page 39 page | To The Moon To Lou Reed Drones

Image: Ebru Yildiz MUSICIAN AND MULTIMEDIA ARTIST MUSICIAN MULTIMEDIA AND is Laurie’s new free-flying VR experience, which Known as a relentless innovator and experimenter, ToKnown and experimenter, as a relentless innovator The Moon on a lunar expedition where the adventurous the will take art, of frontiers technology and imagination intersect. The Concert joyous free, Dogs for seeks a new form communication,of communion, even our canine with companions. “Like every concert, every like music audience,” the with a collaborative thing it’s event, she says. “Doing species other things for fun.” is really Laurie sees every art live work of made as as a creation audience the much artist by as the play – so be to there role extraordinary in this your series most one with the of celebrated contemporary artists world in the today.

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pop-music philosopher-monologuist”, with collaboration also at the heart the her eclectic of at also collaboration with pop-music philosopher-monologuist”, / and boundary-pushing artistic practice. Laurie has created work with the likes of Kronos Kronos of likes the with work created has Laurie practice. artistic boundary-pushing and Reed. Lou late the art life, in and partner her famously most and Glass Philip Quartet, art Lou Reed installationin the Lou Drones The 21 years in which famous the pair tangled minds and hearts Ocean in evident Comes Here the are as “America’s premier conceptual- premier “America’s as Yorker Laurie Anderson New been has The described by a concert where Lou Reed's and Laurie Anderson’s an ensemble by andwords interpreted music are musicians.of Reed’s presence will also be apparent his guitars arranged a sonically into awesome loop. feedback Laurie has a poignant personal connection Aotearoa, to where her niece lost in her a traffic life accident after New Zealand to willrelocating mark here. Returning a kind reconnection, of and Laurie dedicates her improvisational and incantatory work The Calling Anderson. Thea to Laurie Anderson

21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 | Guest Curator

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United States, Canada, Albania, Pakistan, Aotearoa/New Zealand Here Comes the Ocean

Here comes the ocean and the waves Down by the sea Here comes the ocean and the waves Laurie Anderson Laurie by Curated Crashing in

– The Velvet Underground

Violinist Laurie Anderson and her string ensemble – bassist Greg Cohen, violist Eyvind Kang, cellist Rubin Kodheli and percussionist Shahzad Ismaily – present a concert featuring the songs and texts of Laurie and her late husband and collaborator Lou Reed.

Joining the international ensemble is taonga pūoro composer and musician Horomona Horo.

Backed by the drones – the majestic and strangely harmonic guitar feedback soundscape performed by Stewart Hurwood – let the music wash over you. Both Laurie and Lou wrote many songs about the ocean and these are interpreted, arranged and merged by the musicians into an entirely new symphonic work.

Experience Stewart Hurwood’s guitar feedback installation Lou Reed Drones up-close at the Lower Hutt Events Centre. See page 39.

When: Where: Fri 6 Mar, 8pm Michael Fowler Centre

Tickets: Partnered by: Early Bird $93 $99

Thanks to: MUSIC Image: Ebru Yildiz

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United States, Taiwan To The Moon

Fifty years after man first landed on the Moon, art Created by pioneer and icon Laurie Anderson is flying us all there Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson Laurie by Curated with captivating virtual reality artwork To The Moon. Developed with fellow artist Hsin-Chien Huang, this Hsin-Chien Huang immersive experience takes you on a cutting-edge voyage of sight, sound and imagination to our nearest cosmic neighbour. When: 15 Feb – 7 Jun, 10am – 5pm Escapism and future-forward art intersect as the Wed 4 & Thu 5 Mar open until 10pm sensation of flight intermingles with the delight of VR sessions are ticketed and have limited capacity, navigating a fantastic alternative lunar landscape as bookings recommended. envisaged by Laurie, who was the first artist-in-residence VR sessions start every 30 minutes. at NASA. Prepare for lift off with an accompanying Last session is 30 minutes before gallery closes. installation featuring film, images and music. Where: Tickets: Conceived as pure artwork, To The Moon takes us The Dowse Art Museum $10 closer to the lunar surface than many have ever gone Image: Da Ping Luo before – and the journey is just as important as the Thanks to: VR Duration: destination. “The moon has a very inspiring, dreamlike 20mins existence,” says Laurie. “Secretly, all I want to do is to let people fly.” United States To The Moon VR experience commissioned by The Louisiana Hutt City Council Lou Reed Drones Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; The National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan; and National Taiwan Normal University. To The Moon AV experience originally commissioned VISUAL ARTS INTERACTIVE by The Manchester International Festival. Expect to be mesmerised by this “visceral, emotional Created by and spiritual installation” (New York Live Arts) in a Stewart Hurwood

Laurie Anderson Laurie by Curated provocative sound experience featuring electric guitars belonging to the late guitarist and frontman of legendary The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed. When: Where: The sonic range produced by the feedback loop Wed 4 Mar, 8-10pm Lower Hutt installation has been described as both a “beautiful Thu 5 Mar, 6-10pm Events Centre siren-song and . ugly, as the guitars scream and growl” Drop-in (The Argus UK). Suitable for Deaf audiences. Presented by Reed’s partner and fellow artist Laurie See page 94 or festival.nz/access Anderson and performed by his guitar technician Stewart Hurwood, Lou Reed Drones is both a tribute to People attending this Thanks to: Reed’s exploratory genius and an invitation to audiences installation will be exposed to commune with the unique sounds in whatever way to loud noise and are advised that works best for them. Hurwood says: “Sit, lay, listen, to use ear protection. meditate, sleep, cry, dance, chant, perform Tai Chi – The Dowse Art Museum whatever they get emotionally from the sounds they MUSIC FREE can react to.” Hutt City Council

Lou Reed Drones will also feature as part of Laurie Anderson’s Here Comes the Ocean. See page 36.

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United States, Canada, Albania, Pakistan, Aotearoa/New Zealand The Calling

Improvisational and incantatory, this immersive When: Where: performance will feature Laurie Anderson and her Wed 4 Mar, 6.30pm Lower Hutt

Laurie Anderson Laurie by Curated string ensemble, Greg Cohen, Eyvind Kang and Events Centre Rubin Kodheli, and percussionist Shahzad Ismaily, alongside New Zealand musicians, including Tickets: Thanks to: Horomona Horo. Early Bird $53 $59 As well as Laurie’s own writing, The Calling takes text from Rebel in the Soul: An Ancient Egyptian Dialogue Between a Man and His Destiny – a MUSIC translation of a 4000-year-old discourse between a person and their soul, which speaks to us with intriguing relevance for today.

The Calling is dedicated to the spirit of Laurie’s niece Thea Anderson, who taught dance in New Zealand and lost her life here in a car accident on her 25th birthday. Image: Thilo Image:

United States, Pakistan, Aotearoa/New Zealand Close Listening: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

For artist Laurie Anderson, listening is an art. The When: Where: pioneering musician’s extraordinary career, renowned Thu 5 Mar, 7pm Opera House

Laurie Anderson Laurie by Curated for a groundbreaking collaborative approach to process and performance, can be seen as an expedition into the Tickets: Duration: complexities of sound and the ways that a conscious $39 1hr mind can both create and experience it. Laurie’s signature programme for the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts is an invitation to close listening. Laurie joins WRITERS MUSIC musicians Shahzad Ismaily and Horomona Horo to discuss the nature of music and mind. Hear it for yourself. Image: Jan Schulz

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Finally, a concert where the dogs will have their All dogs are welcome, as long as they’re on a leash day. Bring your whole whānau along to hear Laurie and play well with others. Barking and wagging tails

Laurie Anderson Laurie by Curated Anderson perform a series of melodies, frequencies encouraged! and riffs at this outdoor concert crafted especially for our canine friends. Concert for Dogs celebrates the The performance will be followed by a screening fact that dogs have way better hearing than the rest of of Laurie’s documentary Heart of a Dog, her us, so you can bet there will also be a few high-pitched remembrances of her late beloved piano-playing electronic sounds that are undetectable to our human and finger-painting dog, Lolabelle. ears. You’ll just have to take our word for it.

When: MUSIC FILM Sat 7 Mar, 12.30pm

Where: FAMILY Odlins Plaza INTERACTIVE Duration: Concert: 20mins FREE Film: 1hr 15mins AD

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Teac Damsa | Ireland MÁM

Mám 1: Mountain pass. Mám 2: Yoke. Faoi mhám Michael has a strong connection with this Festival, an pheaca, under the yoke of sin. 2. Lit: Obligation, starting in 2008 with his productions of Giselle, duty, function. Mám 3: Handful. ~ mhilseán, of sweets. Rian (2014) and Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (2018). Scaipeann sé ina mhámanna é, he throws it away In 2019 he got closer, with a six-week residency, Made in handfuls. in Wellington (see page 90), where Michael and his artistic collaborators began the creation of MÁM. Surrender yourself to “90 minutes of ritualised ecstasy” (The Irish Times) as Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teac There was not a single seat left unsold at the recent Damsa return to the Festival with a stunning new work. World Premiere season at Dublin Theatre Festival, so get your tickets quick for this strictly limited run. “Alternately playful and provocative, funny and frightening, MÁM is a stirring, sensuous showcase of Co-produced by Teac Daṁmsa, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Dublin Theatre Festival and Sadler’s Wells London with support the emotional power of the physical form” (The Irish from NOMAD and NASC touring network. This production is funded Times). Bringing together virtuoso Irish traditional by an Arts Council Open Call Award. concertina player Cormac Begley, the European classical, contemporary collective, s t a r g a z e and 12 international dancers from the Teac Damsa company, Directed and Images: Ros Kavanagh Ros Images: MÁM “overflows with depth and soul . a heavenly, choreographed by glorious, wildly whirling dervish” (The Arts Review). Michael Keegan-Dolan “With such imagination, such thrilling, thunderous “A choreographer at the top physicality, such beauty and evocative power, what of his game" more could anyone want?” — THE ARTS REVIEW — IRISH EXAMINER

Partnered by: When: Where: DANCE Thu 5 – Sat 7 Mar, 6.30pm TSB Arena Sun 8 Mar, 4pm MUSIC Duration: Tickets: 1hr 25mins Early Bird P$119 P$129 Artist Talk: Thanks to: A$99 Post-show, B$79 Sat 7 Mar C$49 TSB Arena

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“Poignantly beautiful” Netherlands — BACHTRACK Chief Conductor Chamber Choir Peter Dijkstra

With 80 years of exploring the wondrous possibilities of choral music, the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Nederlands Kamerkoor) is among the best in the world. Founded to perform Bach cantatas, the choir has built its reputation on its innovative approach to the canon, commissioning new works and embracing adventurous collaborations. Performing for the very first time in New Zealand, the Netherlands Chamber Choir demonstrates the sublime heights of the collective voice with two very different programmes.

Programme 1: Bach, Brahms, Programme 2: Best of 150 Psalms Poulenc and Martin In 2017, the Netherlands Chamber Traverse the centuries from Bach and Choir initiated the 150 Psalms project, Brahms to Poulenc and Martin and with four choirs performing 150 psalms experience the Netherlands Chamber from the Old Testament written by 150 Choir’s “fearless” (The Times) skill in composers. Now, specially chosen for conveying the poignancy and beauty the 2020 Festival, the choir presents of choral music, led by chief conductor a selection of these psalms. They sing Peter Dijkstra, one of the world’s most of justice, humanity, compassion, sought-after choral conductors. consolation and liberation.

J. Brahms – Warum ist das Licht gegeben When: Artist Talk: dem Mühseligen? Sun 8 Mar, 6pm Pre-show, 5.10pm J. Brahms – Drei Gesänge für Harbourview sechsstimmigen Chor J.S. Bach – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lounge, Michael Lied (BWV 225) Fowler Centre F.J.M. Poulenc – Un soir de neige F. Martin – Mass for double choir

When: Sat 7 Mar, 7.30pm

Tickets: Duration: Where: Partnered by: (per programme) (per programme) Michael Fowler Early Bird P$99 1hr 30mins Centre P$109 (incl. interval) A$89 B$59 C$49 MUSIC Image: Foppe Schut

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Te Rēhia Theatre Company | Aotearoa/New Zealand ILBIJERRI Theatre Company | Australia BLACK TIES

When Māori corporate hotshot Hera and Aboriginal Written by Directed by consultancy entrepreneur Kane locked eyes at a John Harvey Rachael Maza Cultural Awareness session, it was love at first sight. Ambitious and career focused, Kane and Hera now Tainui Tukiwaho Tainui Tukiwaho have their perfect future all mapped out. But there is one thing they can’t control … their families!

As the biggest mob of Aunties, Uncles and cousins from When: Where: both sides of the ditch get worked up for the biggest, Wed 4 - Sat 7 Mar, 8pm Shed 6 brownest wedding ever, reality is sinking in. Fast. Will Sat 7 Mar, 1.30pm this international love story bring two strong cultures together? Or will it blow Hera and Kane’s world apart? Tickets: Duration: Created by a bold and brilliant team of Māori, Aboriginal Early Bird $53 2hrs 30mins and Torres Strait Islander artists, BLACK TIES is a hilarious $59 (incl. interval) and heart-warming immersive theatre experience where you’re the guest of honour on the big day. Partnered by: Artist Talk: Pre-show, With a live band pumping out all your party favourites Thu 5 Mar, 7pm and wedding classics, you’ll leave sure that the Shed 6 power of love can unite all people – for better or Thanks to: worse. Nau mai, piki mai, grab your bow tie! THEATRE

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BLACK TIES was commissioned by AsiaTOPA, a joint initiative “Feel good fun with a great message” of the Sidney Myer Fund and Arts Centre Melbourne; and has — BROADWAY WORLD on Te Rēhia Theatre’s Astroman been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc., Sydney Festival, Perth Festival, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Auckland “A warmly affirming window on Festival, AsiaTOPA Festival and Brisbane Festival. BLACK Indigenous family life” TIES is also supported by Creative New Zealand. ILBIJERRI Theatre Company is assisted by the Australian Government — SYDNEY MORNING HERALD on ILBIJERRI through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory Theatre Company’s WHICH WAY HOME body, and by Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne.

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Aotearoa/New Zealand New Zealand Opera presents Eight Songs for a Mad King

Get outside the box of opera as you know it with this over five octaves, with New Zealander Robert Tucker innovative indoor/outdoor staging of Sir Peter Maxwell fit for the challenge. Partnering with the ground- Davies’ “astonishing work” (Classical Source) Eight breaking contemporary music ensemble Stroma, Songs for a Mad King. this modern take on opera promises to be a bold and immersive experience. This new production by New Zealand Opera sees Funded by Creative New Zealand, Auckland Council, Wellington the ‘mad’ King George III transformed into a modern City Council and Christchurch City Council. Supported by corporate everyman, as a disarming device to explore our New Zealand Festival of the Arts and Auckland Arts Festival. complicated relationship with mental health and power. As an added twist, you can experience the action up Composed by close, and at a creepy surveillance-like distance, through the window. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Directed by Image: Andi Crown Photography Maxwell Davies’ iconic score derives from the songs Thomas de Mallet Burgess King George III played on his mechanical organ and attempted to train his bullfinches to sing. The music Designed by Nightsong | Aotearoa/New Zealand requires a baritone of extraordinary technique to sing Robin Rawstorne Mr Red Light When: Mon 2, Wed 4, Thu 5, Mr Red Light is a man who attracts bad luck. So naturally, Sat 7 Mar, 8.30pm “A joyride of non-stop, tragicomic thrills” when he tries to rob a bank he fails miserably and ends — NEW ZEALAND HERALD up in a pie shop dealing with three very uncooperative Where: hostages and the world’s worst police negotiator. RNZB Dance Centre As time ticks by, Mr Red Light and his captives play a Tickets: game of getting to know you. And mysteriously, Mr Red Early Bird $73 Light seems to know more about his hostages’ lives When: Where: $79 than is possible. Wed 4 – Sat 7 Mar, 7pm Circa Theatre Sat 7 Mar, 1pm Sun 8 Mar, 2pm Duration: Created by the award-winning Nightsong team (Te Pō, 1hr 15mins 360) who “make the impossible work” (Stuff). Joyfully inventive, absurdly funny and full of surprises, Mr Red Tickets: Duration: Early Bird $53 1hr 30mins Thanks to: Light could be a fool or a prophet. Either way, he will remind you how wonderful life can be. $59

Commissioned by New Zealand Festival of the Arts and developed Thanks to: with the support of Auckland Live. Artist Talk: Post-show, Thu 5 Mar, OPERA Circa Theatre Written by Directed by Carl Bland Ben Crowder Carl Bland THEATRE COMEDY

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Norway United States Long Litt Woon: Andrea Lawlor: Oman The Way Through All About Paul the Woods Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies Set against the backdrop of 90s How did mushrooming help a San Francisco, Andrea Lawlor’s Paul grieving woman rebuild her identity Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a after immense loss? Author Long shapeshifting ode to pleasure and Booker International Prize winner 2019, Jokha Litt Woon (The Way Through the freedom. Andrea sits down with Pip Alharthi is the first Omani woman to have had her Woods) talks to rongoā practitioner Adam to unpack the gender-shifting work translated into English. Celestial Bodies gives and writer Arihia Latham on the world of Paul. a richly woven insight into Oman’s history through encounters that kept her going Image: Ramin Talaie, The Guardian the story of three sisters growing up at a pivotal time and the hobby that healed. of change. Jokha sits down with Noelle McCarthy to talk about her literary world and what winning the When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Booker has meant for Arabic literature and for the Fri 6 Mar, 5pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Fri 6 Mar, 6.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr author herself.

The chair of judges for the prize, historian Bettany Hughes, said: “Through the different tentacles of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Norway people’s lives and loves and losses we come to learn Coming to Our Senses about this society – all its degrees, from the very poorest of the slave families working there to those

In Laurence Fearnley’s novel Scented, the Image: Dave Fearnley making money through the advent of a new wealth protagonist rebuilds her sense of self through in Oman and Muscat. It starts in a room and ends the art of perfumery. Long Litt Woon’s memoir in a world.” The Way Through the Woods is a journey through the vastly tactile and sensory world of mushrooming. Both stories explore ways to When: Where: “We felt we were getting access to ideas and thoughts navigate loss through actions of care, curiosity Sat 7 Mar, 11.30am Renouf Foyer and experiences you aren’t normally given in English. and pleasure made possible through an It avoids every stereotype you might expect in its analysis intimate relationship with the environments and Tickets: Duration: of gender and race and social distinction and slavery. ecosystems around us. The authors discuss how $19 1hr There are surprises throughout. We fell in love with it.” we come to our senses with Jessie Bray-Sharpin. — Booker International judges chair Bettany Hughes Canada When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Lisa Feldman Barrett: Sat 7 Mar, 10am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr How Emotions are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett is one of the world’s most United Kingdom Netherlands, United Kingdom respected scientists in the field of human emotion. Damian Barr: How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain Bart van Es: radically changed our understanding of the way we The Cut Out Girl You Will Be Safe Here feel. In a rare Australasian appearance, Lisa discusses the way that culture, environment and personal history Costa Award-winning novel How does the past connect with the present? When: create emotion. Her research has vast implications for The Cut Out Girl is a moving and Damian Barr’s novel You Will Be Safe Here traces Wed 4 Mar, 6pm almost every aspect of our lives: from legal systems and hugely resonant story of hidden the lives of Sarah and Fred, forced into a camp parenting to the way we experience an arts festival. children, trauma and displacement during the second Boer War, alongside the story Where: relevant in the retelling today. of 16-year-old Willem who in 2011 is sent to the Renouf Foyer “How Emotions Are Made did what all great Professor of English at Oxford New Dawn Safari Training Camp, which promises books do. It took a subject I thought I understood Bart van Es speaks with museums and turned my understanding upside down” to “make men out of boys”. Damian deftly illustrates Tickets: specialist Miri Young-Moir. how the cruelty of Empires and individuals plays — MALCOLM GLADWELL, Best-selling author of David $29 Image: Keith Barnes Image: Jonathan Ring across time. The literary salon host and acclaimed and Goliath and Outliers author of the memoir Maggie & Me discusses South “This is a book that tilts the world” Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: African history, hope, homophobia and the true — STYLIST (UK) 1hr 15mins Fri 6 Mar, 8pm Renouf Foyer $29 1hr 15mins Sat 7 Mar, 1pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr story that inspired this extraordinary first novel.

54 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 Book fast at festival.nz | 55 Week Two Writers | New Zealand Festival of the Arts Aotearoa/New Zealand, United States Oman, Aotearoa/New Zealand The Joy of Queer Lit Salon Writing Women’s Lives United States Queer authors , Janis Freegard, Jokha Alharthi’s Booker International Prize- Emily Writes, Jackson Nieuwland, Alison Glenny winning novel Celestial Bodies brings the lives and Andrea Lawlor look at the history and canon of women in a rapidly changing Oman into An Evening of queer texts and reveal the books that set their sharp focus. Rijula Das’ debut novel A Death hearts aflutter. Hosted by Chris Tse. in Shonagachhi was recently released by Picador India and tells the story of sex workers in Calcutta. They speak with Kiran Dass about Image: Rijula Das Rijula Image: with Joy Harjo their relationship to their fictional creations and why we need more stories about women, written by women. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be appointed US Poet Laureate, is a musician and author of nine books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, Conflict When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Resolution for Holy Beings and She Had Some Horses. Sat 7 Mar, 8pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr 15mins Sun 8 Mar, 11am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

Joy uses her poems as a bridge to open discussions around indigeneity while reminding people that “poetry belongs to everyone”. She describes her work as Aotearoa/New Zealand, United States Aotearoa/New Zealand, “confronting the kind of society that would diminish Netherlands, United Kingdom Native people, disappear us from the story of this country”. Paula Green’s Poetry Shelf Live Three Short Lectures: Her memoir Crazy Brave won the PEN USA Literary An hour of poetry hosted by Aotearoa’s What Keeps Me Up at Night? Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American patron saint of verse, Paula Green, with Jane Book Award. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Arthur, Lynn Jenner, Simone Kaho, Gregory What makes you wake up at 2am? What Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from Image: Paul Abdoo Kan, Karlo Mila, Tayi Tibble and special guest thoughts prompt a restless tossing and turning? the Poetry Society of America and the United States US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. Poet Karlo Mila (So Many Islands), essayist Image: Ebony Ebony Image: Lamb Artist Fellowship. Rose Lu (All Who Live On Islands) and historian Bart van Es (The Cut Out Girl) reveal what Join Joy and Aotearoa poet Selina Tusitala Marsh keeps them awake in the small hours with a for an evening of poetry, politics and what it means short lecture commissioned for this event by Image: Simon Image: Neale to be the voice of American verse today. the 2020 Festival.

When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: “One of our finest – and Sun 8 Mar, 12.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sun 8 Mar, 2pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr most complicated – poets” — LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS Aotearoa/New Zealand, United States, Oman The Author’s Table

Sit yourself down at the author’s table and take part in a When: Where: conversation about their latest book, which you will receive Sat 7 Mar, 5.30pm Renouf Foyer with your ticket. This is an intimate event on a large scale. Read, think, ask your questions. Authors include: Craig Tickets: Duration: Cliff, , Benjamin Kingsbury, Andrea Lawlor, $29 1hr 15mins Laurence Fearnley, Jokha Alharthi, Vincent O’Malley, Rajorshi Chakraborti, Linda Burgess and Lawrence Patchett. Thanks to: When you book your ticket, you will be asked to select a preference between fiction and non-fiction. We will allocate you to an author’s table based on this preference, though cannot make guarantees. Your ticket includes a copy of your allocated author’s book. Following booking, When: Where: Tickets: Duration: we will be in touch to arrange collection/distribution. Sun 8 Mar, 5.30pm Renouf Foyer $59 1hr 30mins includes book

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Urban Hut Club | page 66

Aldous Harding Weyes Blood Purple Pilgrims | page 69 The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil | p38

Nadia Reid | page 62

Bret McKenzie COMEDIAN, ACTOR AND COMPOSER

As you’d expect, music and comedy influence Bret McKenzie’s programme, with hearty The Brief and Frightening laughs, stinging satire and soaring melodies. Headlining the week is a theatrical coup he has Reign of Phil | page 60 scored for Wellington: a work in progress production of a new National Theatre (UK) musical adaptation of George Saunders’ darkly funny The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.

You’ll see Phil before the rest of the world and can say “I was there when…” Släpstick | page 64

Bret wants families to come out in force for the Festival. Music is central to Bret’s work and his concert series He’ll be taking his kids for an arts adventure on the celebrates fellow New Zealand musicians that Kāpiti Coast and around Wellington’s green spaces influence and excite him today as well as some unique in search of the enchanting miniature huts created by international collaborations. Don’t miss the trio of late artists Kemi Niko & Co. Free for three weeks, this is a night gigs in Shed 6 on the Wellington waterfront. Shades of Shakti | page 63 must-do whānau activity – take the train, the bus or walk for a great day out in our beautiful region. In the 2020 Festival’s final week, lovers and dreamers | of all ages will see their city transformed by a touch of Estére page 63 From the Netherlands comes the virtuosic musical McKenzie magic. comedy group Släpstick, with a show perfect for all ages. They were a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and their hilarious five-star show, raved about the world over, comes to New Zealand for the first time.

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“Saunders’ pitch-perfect mimicry of “Dark, concerned, confused National Theatre | United Kingdom / brainless and self-justificatory presidential and funny, all at the same time” Aotearoa New Zealand utterances contributes to a unique blend — THE TIMES on Saunders’ novella The Weta Digital Season of of hilarity, horror and sci-fi” The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil — SUNDAY TELEGRAPH on Saunders’ novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

A ‘work in progress’ showing of a Book by Tim Price new musical based on the novella by Music and lyrics by Bret McKenzie George Saunders Directed by Lyndsey Turner

Welcome to Outer Horner, home of Phil: an embittered nobody with a chip on his shoulder, When: Where:

Bret McKenzie Bret by Curated an external mounting-rack that houses his brain, Tue 10 – Wed 11 Mar, 7.30pm Shed 6 and an opinion for every occasion. Thu 12 – Fri 13 Mar, 6.30pm Sat 14 Mar, 4pm When neighbouring Inner Horner suddenly shrinks, forcing its inhabitants to spill over the border, it is Phil who steps into the breach. This is the tragic and Tickets: Duration: hilarious story of the brief and frightening reign of Phil. $59 To be announced A new musical version of George Saunders’ cult story NZSL interpreted is in the early stages of development at the National performance Sat 14 Mar, Artist Talk: Theatre in London. Now, for the first time, its creators 4pm. See page 94 or Post-show, Bret McKenzie, Tim Price and Lyndsey Turner offer festival.nz/access Wed 11 Mar, up a work in progress showing of their first draft to Shed 6 a live audience. Partnered by: THEATRE With script in hand, actors, musicians, singers and technicians will test out their new material, rewriting each day in response to the audience and turning the MUSIC Thanks to: Festival into a living, breathing development lab for Saunders’ brilliant and timely satire on nationalism COMEDY and power.

Continue the conversation with Booker Prize winner WRITERS George Saunders as part of the Writers programme. See page 78.

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil is under commission to the National Theatre of Great Britain.

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The Weta Digital Season of Aotearoa/New Zealand, India Bret McKenzie Bret by Curated The Late Night Gigs Shades of Shakti The dynamic fusion of classical Indian music and jazz Partnered by: Thanks to: made popular by John McLaughlin and L. Shankar of Shakti are celebrated Friday night in the Shed. MUSIC The music of Shades of Shakti combines intricate fast melodies, virtuosic rhythms of the tabla and percussion, and the hypnotic tones of the sārangī, a highly resonant, ancient bowed instrument of India. Aotearoa/New Zealand This unique concert brings together some of Wellington’s finest musicians, Justin Firefly Clarke Nadia Reid (guitar), Tristan Carter (violin), Chetan Ramlu (tabla), Thomas Friggens (percussion), joined by special guest With her new album sārangī maestro Sangeet Mishra direct from India’s holiest city, Varanasi. Following her return from the UK, be the first to hear A rich collaboration bringing communities together Aotearoa/New Zealand new music from singer-songwriter and guitarist, Nadia and celebrating human diversity through music. Reid, at this album launch concert. Described by The Guardian as “an understated, wise guide through Estère uncertain territory”, what brings Reid’s lyrics to life are Into the Belly of Capricorn her unique voice and accompanying soundscapes, When: Tickets: Where: which conjure the rugged beaches and mountains of Fri 13 Mar, $39 allocated Shed 6 Aotearoa, the Port Chalmers harbour of her home, and 9.30pm seating “Everything the music world is lauding and lusting after the roaming, open territory of the road. She is joined right now” (NZ Herald), Estère is a hugely inventive for this full-sound experience by her band Sam Taylor, songwriter and producer with a singular sound and flair Richard Pickard, Joe McCallum and Anita Clark. for live performance. Estère’s music is dubbed ’Electric Blue Witch-Hop’ and weaves together elements of R&B, Folk and electronic music. In 2018, following the “When I hear a young artist making release of her second album My Design, On Others’ an album as soulful and rich and Lives described as an “exceptional record, rich and rewarding on every level” (RNZ), Estère embarked on self-possessed [as this] I feel so a 40 date tour around the world. thrilled not only for the existence of that record but for all the music they Now Estère invites people to experience a specially curated live music event shaped by songs from her will make over all the years to come.” soon-to-be-released third album, co-produced by Stew — THE GUARDIAN Jackson (Massive Attack). Into the Belly of Capricorn braids together music, theatre, design, lighting and costume, and has been created in collaboration with opera/theatre director Sara Brodie, lighting designer When: Tickets: Where: Jo Kilgour and audio-visual artist Kaysha Bowler. Thu 12 Mar, $49 General Shed 6 9.30pm Admission, standing

When: Tickets: Where: Sat 14 Mar, $39 General Shed 6 9.30pm Admission, standing

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| Netherlands FAMILY MUSIC 1hr 10mins 1hr Duration: House Opera Where: Thanks to:Thanks KATHY PARKIN & CHRIS . . Arts the of Festival Zealand New — THE SCOTSMAN — THE genuine poignancy” “Unexpected, — DAILY MAIL aticket“Buy while you still can” | Week Three Curated by Bret McKenzie

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Kemi Niko & Co. | Aotearoa/New Zealand Urban Hut Club

Gather the whānau and head outdoors for an co-designed and built five enchanting mini- huts artful expedition in search of bespoke little huts with Kāpiti Coast communities, using salvaged

Bret McKenzie Bret by Curated full of stories and imagination. materials that tell stories rich with history. Housed within each unique hut are logbooks where you can Inspired by iconic huts of rural and alpine Aotearoa, share your thoughts with other explorers. Writers this collection of handcrafted structures await , Apirana Taylor, Chris Maclean and discovery along the Kāpiti Coast, from Paekākāriki Renée have gifted each hut with its own short story. to Ōtaki. Roaming around Wellington and the Hutt Valley you may also be surprised by a pop-up hut Grab a map and lose yourself in the adventure of enticing you further afield to find its regional siblings. discovering hidden wild spaces and creations right on your doorstep.

Playing with architectural forms typically found Commissioned by New Zealand Festival of Arts. in the backcountry, artists Kemi Niko & Co. have Photograph of Robin Hut on page 59 by Brendon Doran.

“If art should be accessible, participatory and fun, then Kemi and Niko have succeeded spectacularly” – WILDERNESS MAG on Miniature Hikes

When: Where: Online Audio Descriptions 21 Feb – 15 Mar Kāpiti Coast, Hutt City and Wellington. available. Suitable for Deaf Visit festival.nz/urbanhutclub for hut audiences. See page 94 or Partnered by: locations and clue navigation. festival.nz/access

Kāpiti Coast huts are located a short walk from carparking and railway stations and are in natural VISUAL ARTS Thanks to: environments such as beaches and bush trails. Locating the huts may require navigating uneven terrain off track. Within the collection there are FAMILY FREE journeys suited to most moods and abilities, however wheelchair access cannot be guaranteed for all huts. Visit festival.nz/access for more INTERACTIVE information on hut accessibility. Kāpiti Coast WRITERS District Council

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Aotearoa/New Zealand, United States Aldous Harding “A high-wire act tense with vulnerability” Weyes Blood — THE GUARDIAN on Aldous Harding “Her work floats through space with Purple Pilgrims a glistening, emotionally rich shimmer” — LA TIMES on Weyes Blood “Baffling, brilliant, and totally original”(Stuff) , Aldous Harding live is all three. The entrancing “Lush melodies, strands that wind singer, performer and 2019 Silver Scroll winner Bret McKenzie Bret by Curated is in great company here delivering a night of and splay like a carpet of vines” sublime and offbeat indie folk to sweep you — PITCHFORK on Purple Pilgrims into the weekend.

Pennsylvanian Natalie Mering – aka Weyes Blood – creates beautifully crafted folk with a subtly psychedelic edge. Her voice has “a potent, old-school beauty” (The Guardian), recalling Karen Carpenter and Carole King. Hear tracks from her “gorgeously smart” fourth album, Titanic Rising, her most sumptuous and assured.

Sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon are Aotearoa dreamscape duo Purple Pilgrims. Expect entwined voices that soar, seduce and slow dive, in a “suite of dream pop, folk and cosmic jazz” (Pitchfork).

When: Where: Fri 13 Mar, Michael Fowler 8pm Centre

Tickets: Partnered by: Early Bird $83 $89 Thanks to: MUSIC

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Lyon Opera Ballet | France Trois Grandes Fugues

One massive piece of music. Three choreographers’ remarkable interpretations.

In “one of the most exhilarating, uncompromising evenings of dance” (The Guardian), three of the world’s most esteemed choreographers, Lucinda Childs (US), Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Belgium) and Maguy Marin (France), present their own visions of Beethoven’s passionate masterpiece Die Grosse Fugue.

Performed by the world-renowned Lyon Opera Ballet, a company known for taking on a vast range Images: Stofleth of ambitious work, this “monumental, stark and uncompromising” (New York Times) triple bill takes you deep inside Beethoven’s score, in ways so When: Where: different and gripping it reveals how strongly music Wed 11 – Opera House can move you. Thu 12 Mar, 7.30pm Thu 12 Mar, 1.30pm

Tickets: Duration: Choreographed by Adult Early Bird P$139 1hr 30mins Lucinda Childs P$149 (incl. interval) A$109 Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker B$99 Thanks to: Maguy Marin C$79 The Van der Boyes Child A$39 Family Trust B$29

Matinee Tickets: “The experience is riveting” “Dance that rewards close Adult Early Bird $109 — NEW YORK TIMES viewing and illuminates its music” P$119 A$99/$39 — FINANCIAL TIMES B$79/$29 C$69 Child A$39 DANCE B$29

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Focus & Chaliwaté Belgium Piemme Alice Image: CHANGING WORLD?“[They] make us laugh with their “A charming blend of fact and Dimanche ingenuity and then break our hearts fiction with a vintage aesthetic in two with their profound message” and very current message” — THE SCOTSMAN — EDINBURGH GUIDE It’s a typical Sunday. A family is about to spend the When: day together. But the walls are shaking, strong winds Thu 12 – Fri 13 Mar, 7pm and torrential rain rage outside and the storm has Sat 14 – Sun 15 Mar, 5pm only just begun. Where: Meanwhile, three travelling wildlife reporters are TSB Arena doing their best to document the apocalypse. They film, with what little equipment they have, Earth’s Tickets: last living species: three wild animals on the brink Early Bird $63 of extinction. $69 What is normal in a radically changing world? Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of Duration: humanity caught out by the uncontrollable forces 1hr 20mins of nature. “Meticulously made using a skilful mix of mime, video, object and puppet theatre to enchanting Artist Talk: effect”(Edinburgh Guide), Belgian creatives Focus Post-show, Fri 13 Mar, & Chaliwaté’s almost wordless performance observes TSB Arena the ingenuity and stubbornness of humans as they go to absurd extremes to keep up a sense of normalcy Suitable for Deaf despite the chaos of an ecological collapse. audiences. Artist talk Fri 13 Mar in NZSL. See page 94 or festival.nz/access

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Written and directed by Julie Tenret Sicaire Durieux Sandrine Heyraud THEATRE

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Borderline Arts Ensemble | Aoteoroa/New Zealand “A bold and often-exhilarating piece of dance; a deeply humane, life-giving Strasbourg 1518 piece of storytelling” — PANTOGRAPH PUNCH on Lobsters Strasbourg, 1518. A city on the brink. The triple threat of escalating inequality, rampant misogyny and a Directed and choreographed by devastating drought threaten to break the town in Lucy Marinkovich two. When a lone woman steps out of her house and begins to dance, everyone is bewildered. But within Written and composed by days, hundreds more have followed her lead. As the authorities invent ever more bizarre ways to resolve Lucien Johnson this new crisis, the city falls one by one into a delirious hypnosis of a real-life dance with death.

Directed and choreographed by Lucy Marinkovich and written and composed by Lucien Johnson,

Borderline Arts Ensemble’s world premiere explores Image: John McDermott the unsolved and enigmatic true history of the 1518 Strasbourg dance epidemic. With live music and an outstanding company of dancers including Ōkāreka Dance Company | Aotearoa/New Zealand Choreographed by the legendary Michael Parmenter, this production in collaboration with Exhale Dance Tribe | United States is a visceral, explosive exploration of the limits of Taiaroa Royal rationality, the power of the subconscious and the Missy Hubbard pivotal need for dance in human lives. Hōkioi me te Vwōhali Andrew Hubbard Commissioned by New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Supported From spirit eagles land by Creative New Zealand, Wellington City Council, Wallace Arts “Truly memorable and inspired” Trust and the Australian High Commission. — OTAGO DAILY TIMES on Mana Wahine Enter a world of sacred eagles that blends the ancient with the modern. When: Where: Thu 12 - Sat 14 Mar, 6.30pm Circa Theatre From spirit eagles land explores parallels between the When: Where: Sun 15 Mar, 4pm Hōkioi (Haast) Eagle and the Vwōhali (American Golden) Thu 12 - Sat 14 Mar, 8pm Soundings Theatre, Eagle, embodying the majesty and mana of those two Sat 14 Mar, 1.30pm Te Papa sacred birds and their shared whakapapa. Tickets: Duration: 1hr 10mins Tickets: Duration: Early Bird $53 Swooping and soaring, the dancers’ movement is $59 Early Bird $53 1hr 10mins enhanced by a cinematic surround-sound experience $59 that cleverly transports you between Aotearoa, Duyuktv Artist Talk: (Cherokee) land and the spiritual realm. DANCE Audio Described Post-show, Sat 14 Mar, Artist Talk: performance Sat 14 Pre-show, Circa Theatre For Ōkāreka choreographer Taiaroa Royal (Te Arawa, Kai Mar 1.30pm. Touch Sat 14 Mar, 12.30pm THEATRE Tahu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ūenukukōpako), this is the climax Tour 12pm. See page Soundings Theatre Partnered by: of his 11-year journey of cultural discovery that began with 94 or festival.nz/access MUSIC a chance meeting with Cincinnati-based choreographers Missy and Andrew Hubbard of Exhale Dance Tribe and the revelation that both Māori and the Duyuktv people share Partnered by: Thanks to: Thanks to: Contains nudity a special connection through reverence of the eagle. Be there for this, the world premiere season.

Commissioned by New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Supported DANCE by Creative New Zealand and Foundation North.

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NEW FOR 2019 New Zealand String Quartet Aotearoa/New Zealand

Secrets of Sea “Stunning … Superb … Magical” — NEW ZEALAND HERALD on Quintessence: and Space The Mozart and Brahms Quintet Experience

The New Zealand String Quartet, who recently with a quartet by one of his most celebrated students, celebrated their 32nd season, regularly tour to the UK, Alban Berg, who furthered his mentor’s twelve-tone Europe and North America where they are renowned technique with Lyric Suite. for their versatility and passionate communication through music. They are also enthusiastic champions The programme concludes with Ross Harris’ ode to of New Zealand composers and supporters of the unforgiving oceans, The Abiding Tides. Originally emerging musicians. commissioned for Wollerman and the New Zealand String Quartet, the piece uses poems by Vincent In their new programme, Secrets of Sea and Space, O’Sullivan, whose premise, “the sea has no favourites”, the Quartet, joined by soprano Jenny Wollerman, concedes to an ocean as vast as it uncompromising. transport you with Arnold Schoenberg’s String Adventurous spirits will be rewarded by this exquisite Quartet No. 2. The Schoenberg is handsomely paired programme.

With guest soprano Jenny Wollerman

When: Tue 10 Mar, 6pm

Where: St Mary of the Angels

Tickets: Early Bird $53 Simon Barnett $59 Duration: 1hr 40mins and Phil Gifford (incl. interval) Touch Tour and Afternoons. pre-show talk 5pm. See page 94 Wellington or festival.nz/access 89.3 FM Thanks to: 12PM – 4PM TUESDAY TO FRIDAY MUSIC

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United Kingdom United States United Kingdom Aotearoa/New Zealand Samer Nashef: The Lindy West: The Scarlett Thomas: Young Minds Take the Library Angina Monologues Witches Are Coming Oligarchy Bring the whānau along to see author interviews led Cardiac surgeon Samer Nashef’s memoir, Nobody critiques US politics and Scarlett Thomas is loved for her by young readers, make your own mini book, and more The Angina Monologues, describes culture like Lindy West: incisive, ingenious storytelling that crackles at this day-long writers festival for children and young life inside the operating theatre: from funny, smart. Lindy takes a long look with originality. Once described as adults. Authors include Scarlett Thomas, Sacha Cotter, emergency surgeries to operating in the at the misogyny riddled through like “Muriel Spark’s disreputable Josh Morgan, Whiti Hereaka and Vincent O’Malley. Palestinian West Bank. He speaks with the media and joins journalist and niece”, Scarlett discusses her life Curated by Bret McKenzie the Aotearoa author of A Mistake, Carl broadcaster Charlotte Graham- of writing, where the inspiration FAMILY Shuker, about what you draw upon when McLay to explore how we have for Oligarchy originated, and where When: Where: Partnered by: faced with life and death situations. she is heading next. arrived at Trump’s America. Sat 14 Mar, National FREE Image: Jenny Jimenez Partnered by: When: Where: Image: Ed Thompson 10am-3pm Library Wed 11 Mar, 6pm Renouf Foyer Proudly Supported by National Library Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga $19 1hr Wed 11 Mar, 7.30pm Renouf Foyer $29 1hr 15mins Fri 13 Mar, 6.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr o Aotearoa.

United States United States Australia Aotearoa/New Zealand, United Kingdom George Saunders: Kristen Ghodsee: Alison Whittaker: Three Short Lectures: What Does

Image: Chloe Aftel Live from New York Socialism vs Blakwork My Future Look Like? Capitalism Published in 2005, George Saunders’ Mesmerising performer, poet and What happens when a climate scientist, The Brief and Frightening Reign Is capitalism bad for women? Dr legal scholar Alison Whittaker’s work a neuroscientist and an economist offer a of Phil is astoundingly resonant of Kristen Ghodsee asserted as such in is to interrogate feminism, class, portal into the future as they see it? Professor contemporary American politics. her viral New York Times opinion piece social justice and the erasure of James Renwick (weather and climate Aotearoa artist speaks leading to her book Why Women Have Aboriginal people. Her second book researcher), Dr Hannah Critchlow (The with Booker Prize winner George in Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Blakwork is a stunning mix of memoir, Science of Fate) and Kinley Salmon (Jobs, this digital event about the place of Arguments for Economic Independence. reportage, fiction, satire and critique. Robots & Us) deliver the second in our series darkness and kindness in stories today. The author and professor joins RNZ’s of Three Short Lectures commissioned by Kim Hill to discuss. Shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Hosted by Curated by Bret McKenzie Awards and Australian Book Industry Awards. Image: Alina Yakubova futurist Melissa Clarke-Reynolds.

When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Thu 12 Mar, 12pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Thu 12 Mar, 6pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sat 14 Mar, 10am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sat 14 Mar, 11.30am Renouf Foyer $19 1hr

Aotearoa/New Zealand United Kingdom United States, Aotearoa/New Zealand Aotearoa/New Zealand Kinley Salmon: My Dr Hannah Critchlow: Sex, Politics and Gender Dear Me: Letters to Menton Future, My Robot? The Science of Fate Kristen Ghodsee (Women Have Better Sex To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Image: Alina Yakubova Image: David Hamilton Kinley Salmon, New Zealand The Science of Fate is a ride through Under Socialism), Marilyn Waring (Marilyn Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, three former recipients of the prestigious residency write economist and author of Jobs, the mechanics of the way the brain Waring: The Political Years) and Ngahuia letters . to themselves. Mandy Hager, Lloyd Robots & Us, presents a view into the shapes our decisions told in Dr te Awekotuku (Tahuri, Mana Wāhine Jones and Jenny Bornholdt read aloud to us letters Hannah Critchlow’s characteristically Māori Mau) discuss with RNZ’s Kathryn future of work in Aotearoa. Should we to themselves as residents in the room where be worried or excited? And what can clear and compelling voice. Hannah Ryan the ongoing fight for gender equality. Drawing from their formidable experiences Mansfield wrote. What did that time and place we do to build a positive future for helps demystify the brain with science mean for them? What was written while there? work in New Zealand? communicator, Damian Christie. across cultural, political and academic landscapes, the authors reveal where they What does the writer of today feel now about the think the future is headed for women. writer of then? After, join us for a glass of wine, canapés and conversation with other residents. Image: Deborah Smith Partnered by: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: When: Where: Tickets: Duration: Thu 12 Mar, 7.30pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Fri 13 Mar, 5pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sat 14 Mar, 1pm Renouf Foyer $19 1hr Sat 14 Mar, 2.30pm Renouf Foyer $29 1hr 30mins

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Turn your passion for writing into a career

Our Master of Professional Writing programme is open for entry in 2020. We cover all aspects from creative Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia writing to writing for promotional purposes, advertising On the eve of the anniversary of the Christchurch and editorial. This is the only programme of its kind Massacre, writers from Aotearoa and Australia Who are we now? discuss their experiences of everyday racism. in New Zealand and is supervised by award-winning Guled Mire (Aotearoa), Alison Whittaker (Gomeroi, authors who will help you take your writing to the When: Where: Australia), Nyadol Nyuon (Australia), Anahera next level. Your study programme will include an on- Sat 14 Mar, 5pm Michael Fowler Centre Gildea (Ngāti Tokorehe) and Jack McDonald campus mentor and professional writing internship so (Te Whakatōhea, Te Pakakohi, Te Ātiawa) offer when you graduate you’ll be ready to write the next Tickets: Duration: poetry, conversation and an assessment of where stage of your career. $19 1hr 15mins we are now and what needs to happen next.

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As dusk falls on 15 March, the one-year anniversary of the Christchurch shootings at the Linwood and Al Noor mosques in Christchurch where 51 people lost their lives and 49 were injured, the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts closes with a moment of remembrance and reflection hosted by members of the Wellington Muslim community in partnership with mana whenua, Wellington City and our fellow citizens and visitors. We welcome all. Writers | Renouf Foyer | firing on | all syllables | 4 weekends | Feb 22 to March 14 Details announced in early 2020. Image: stuff.co.nz ON SITE & ON WILLIS ST OFFICIAL BOOKSELLER 2020 NEW ZEALAND FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 80 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 Visual Arts

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You are lying on a hill, your eyes filled with When: New Zealand Lathe-Cut Records the endless blue sky. Your perception 1 Feb – 5 Apr suddenly gets distorted and clouds drift At the foothills of the Southern Alps in the When: late 1980s, Peter King re-engineered a by the tip of your nose. You stretch your 15 Feb – 7 Jun Where: then-outdated technology, developing a arms up to touch the clouds … but you Expressions Whirinaki new way of “cutting” audio into transparent Where: can’t reach them. What if you could? Arts and Entertainment polycarbonate plastic. Now, researched The Dowse Centre, Upper Hutt and curated by Luke Wood, these lathe- Cloud Pink is an immersive piece by cut records and more recent developments Art Museum Seoul-based creatives Everyware that Suitable for in lathe-cutting record technology come invites you to manipulate the sky from below, Deaf audiences. together to explore the intersection your touch causing a visual reaction in the VISUAL ARTS See page 94 or between music and design in the radical projected simulation of wafting pink clouds. margins of New Zealand culture. festival.nz/access FREE Join us to explore a sense of childlike Co-commissioned by The Dowse Art Museum

and Objectspace. Image: Haru Sameshima wonder and playfulness. Interact with VISUAL ARTS the world above but just within reach. FAMILY Aotearoa/New Zealand Created by INTERACTIVE Anthems of Belonging Hyunwoo Bang Yunsil Heo FREE In Anthems of Belonging, artist, musician and vocalist Olivia Webb has worked with five families to write songs that reflect on their feelings about place and belonging in Aotearoa. Filmed in their living rooms Aotearoa/New Zealand and emphasising the political aspect of using one’s voice, the songs form a Fired Up: Festival collective expression of our community, acknowledging the constantly changing of Ceramics nature and diversity of New Zealand’s population. This festival within the Festival is for makers, When: collectors and anyone keen to learn more 21 Feb – 15 Mar about ceramics. Choose from exhibitions at more than a dozen dealer and public art Galleries: Aotearoa/New Zealand galleries, take a late-night ‘crawl’ between Avid Gallery venues, or attend a firing workshop. With Bartley and Company Art Strands a range of opportunities to appreciate and Bowen Galleries even acquire your own piece, Fired Up is a Hamish McKay Highlighting the role of whakawhanaungatanga, Jhana Millers Gallery Strands brings together the work of Arapeta fantastic way to explore and celebrate New McLeavey Gallery Image: Olivia Webb Ashton (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Whanaunga, Zealand’s lively and diverse contemporary Mossman ceramics-making. Page Gallery Ngāti Porou, Muriwhenua), Ayesha Green (Kai Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu), Chevron {Suite} Art Gallery When: Hassett (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, The Dowse Art Museum 29 Nov – 22 Mar VISUAL ARTS FREE Pātaka Art + Museum VISUAL ARTS Ngāti Kahungunu) and Ana Iti (Te Rarawa). Te Auaha Gallery Each of these artists has recently reconnected Te Papa Tongarewa Where: with the whenua they are from, using these FESTIVAL IN THE FESTIVAL FREE Toi Māori Gallery The Dowse Art Museum experiences to inform their art making.

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Irish choreographer and theatre-maker Michael Keegan- TIES BLACK Dolan and his company Teac Damsa (Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (2018), Rian (2014) and Giselle (2008), who are Lemi Ponifasio: Epic, Bret McKenzie: Music, deeply committed to the reclamation of indigenous Irish culture through language, story and music, were our first Orchestrated and Ceremonial Imagination and Sharp Wit contributors. Fri 21 – Sun 23 Feb Fri 13 – Sun 15 Mar “Collaborating with the Tāwhiri team In the first six-week Made in Wellington residency, Michael Kick off an epic opening weekend with the powerful Witness the virtuosic shenanigans of Släpstick and his company developed an exciting new work that has been a high point of my working life” event Chosen and Beloved (page 14) featuring the (page 64) before searching for the charming little comes full circle in 2020, to be presented as Teaċc Damsa’s — Michael Keegan-Dolan NZSO and MAU, follow it with Lemi’s radical theatrical huts of the Urban Hut Club (page 66). Become part Jerusalem (page 16) and wrap your of the creation of the National Theatre’s new musical القدسprayer for hope MÁM, 5-8 March at the TSB Arena (see page 44). Image: Stephen A'Court weekend up with the heart-stirring music of Philip Glass The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (page 60). and Max Richter performed by the NZSO (page 24). Explore the tender and tough absurdities of a rapidly changing climate in Dimanche (page 72).

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It’s your Festival and we’ll do our best to make How to Book Internet bookings: Tickets sure access is never a problem for you. posted, picked up at venue or Online: festival.nz printed at home: $5.00 per Need help with your booking? or ticketmaster.co.nz transaction. Call Ticketmaster on 0800 120 071 Physical Access Festival-goers who are hard of hearing Bookings and Contact Information Phone Ticketmaster: Tickets couriered: $9.00 per For more details on accessibility at specific There are hearing loops available at If you have special seating requirements 0800 120 071 transaction. Want to find out more about the shows? venues, please visit festival.nz/access. the Michael Fowler Centre, Soundings such as wheelchair access, hearing In person: At Ticketmaster Door sales and Ticketmaster Call the Festival on (04) 473 0149 All venues have limited wheelchair Theatre and Circa Theatre. The Opera difficulties, or a companion seat, please outlets nationwide outlets: $2.00 per ticket. seating. Designated wheelchair spaces House and Shed 6 have Infrared Assistive contact Ticketmaster on 0800 120 071 (where available) are sold at the lowest Listening Systems. More information is or [email protected]. Door sales: Tickets may be Credit cards: A payment non-restricted view price in the house available at festival.nz/access. Please purchased at the venue one processing fee of no more than for that performance. If you require inform ticketing staff when booking if you For the Access and Inclusion Programme, hour prior to the show – provided 2.3% applies to purchases by B Reserve (B): These are the Disclaimer/Important assistance to attend, you can book an wish to sit in a certain area of the venue. if you would like to book for an event, there are still tickets available! credit card, debit card or gift card. second-best seats in the venue. Information essential companion ticket for free. find out about companion seats or B Reserve seats may have slight Information in this programme Companion tickets are limited and subject Transport Information have any other questions, contact our Talanoa Mau: Tickets for sightline obstructions that is correct at the time of printing. to availability. Accessibility Manager, Emma Deakin, on this event are available from Booking Information do not affect your view of the Information about accessible parking 021 029 21959 or [email protected] iTICKET. Booking fees apply. The Festival reserves the right to and public transport in Wellington is action. alter without notice any events, Visit festival.nz/talanoa-mau. Booking online? Get your available at festival.nz/transport. tickets posted or download C Reserve (C): A limited programmes and artists. them through your Ticketmaster number of seats are available in All ticket purchases are account to print at home or this price category. These seats subject to availability, and the Booking Periods and Offers show on your smartphone. are not the best seats in the best available seats (in each The Culture Club supporters: Booking for more than ten venue, and are often at the back price category) at the time of Access and Inclusion Preferential booking from people? For groups of or to the very sides of the venue. purchase will be sold. Thursday 7 November to 10+, customers can email: They may have some sight or Latecomers may be excluded Programme Sunday 17 November 2019. [email protected] sound restrictions. from a show or admitted Learn more about The Culture or call the dedicated group only at a suitable point in the NZSL Interpretation Audio Description $20 Tickets Club at festival.nz/join. line: 09 970 9745. Restricted View (RV): These are the lowest priced seats in the performance. Latecomers will Shows listed with this symbol will be Shows listed with this symbol will be audio All tickets in the Access and Inclusion Public sales: From Monday 18 Tickets didn’t arrive? If you venue and will have restricted not be entitled to a transfer interpreted into New Zealand Sign described. Audio description is auditory Programme are $20 for people who are November 2019. haven’t received your tickets sightlines and/or sound issues. or a refund. Language or offer other specific access for narration, through a small headset, for Deaf, Blind or with low vision. within ten days of booking, The use of cameras or recording Deaf audiences. If interpreted into NZSL, people who are Blind or with low vision. Early Bird sales: Book early please contact Ticketmaster Wheelchair seating: devices is prohibited. All mobile one or two professional performance The audio provides a description of visual Free companion seats and save! An Early Bird price on 0800 120 071. It is essential you advise interpreters will translate the show live for elements of the show, such as scenes, phones and other devices is available for most shows, Ticketmaster at the time of Deaf audiences. Specific seating will be settings, actions and costumes. If you require assistance to attend an event, giving you a discount on top of Child pricing: Selected shows that emit a sound must be have special prices for children booking if you have any special either turned off or switched allocated to Deaf audiences to ensure a you could be entitled to a free companion the ticket price. But only until aged 15 years and under. All seating requirements, including to silent for the duration of the clear view of the show and interpretation. Touch Tours seat. Get in touch to find out more about Monday 16 December 2019. our companion tickets. children must have a ticket, wheelchair and/or companion performance. seating. All venues have an Shows listed with this symbol provide Take Five Pass: A discounted regardless of age. allocated wheelchair area, Tickets are not transferable a free pre-show Touch Tour for people Get more online Writers multi-pass is available who are Blind or with low vision. This but availability is limited. All and there are no refunds or for purchase from Friday exchanges permitted, except is an opportunity for those audience Check out our website festival.nz/access Seating/Pricing wheelchair seating is sold at 8 November (for The Culture as required under New Zealand Find out about events for members to explore pieces of set, for more Access and Inclusion curated the lowest non-restricted view Club) and Monday 18 November consumer law. If a show is Deaf audiences online. props and costumes of a show. events that don’t appear in this brochure. Premium seating (P): Available price, even if located in a higher (General Public). Offer ends cancelled you will be refunded for selected shows. Premium reserve area. If you require a free Friday 21 February 2020. seats are the very best seats in your ticket price (excluding the companion seat, please contact which to see the show. Premium Ticketmaster service fee). Need a large print version? Ticketmaster on 0800 120 071 seats are limited and sell quickly. to book. Any claims on refunds for Get Festival information in an alternative format. Ticketmaster Booking Fees A Reserve (A): These are the cancelled shows must be done Seating requests: If you have Ticketmaster booking fees apply best seats in the venue (after prior to Friday 27 March 2020, a particular seating request to all ticket purchases, including Premium, if Premium seating via Ticketmaster. This programme brochure is also available in large print. Download we advise you to phone through door sales. applies). 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1 Circa Theatre 8 TSB Arena 7 Te Papa: Toi Art 2 Michael Fowler Centre 9 Te Wharewaka 14 Pātaka Art + Museum and Renouf Foyer 10 National Library 15 The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt 3 Odlins Plaza 11 RNZB Dance Centre 16 Expressions Whirinaki, Upper Hutt 4 Opera House 12 Lower Hutt Events 17 College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Mt Cook 5 Shed 6 Centre 6 13 Te Rauparaha Arena St Mary of the Angels Other 7 Te Papa: Soundings Theatre 5 Ticketmaster: Opera House Supporting talent 3 Tourist information T Taxi rank on any stage. 10 To Petone, Porirua, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, Paekakariki, Paraparaumu and Ōtaki JACKSONSTONE & PARTNERS Venue Tips 12 13 14 15 16 EXECUTIVE SEARCH & RECRUITMENT • Arrive early, as most PROUD SPONSOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND FESTIVAL venues won’t be able to seat latecomers and you will not be entitled to a refund or transfer. • The venue Box Office will usually be open one hour before the show for last-minute ticket sales and ticket collection. Proud supporters of the 2020 • If collecting tickets, please be there at least T 30 minutes before the performance starts. 8 5 • Venues will generally open for seating 30 minutes prior to the start of the show. • Remember to switch off your mobile phone prior to the start of the show. 3 T 9 7 • Recording or photography 2 11 1 during the performance is not permitted. 6 4 From outside Wellington?

T For travel, accommodation T T and tourist information, visit festival.nz/info or wellingtonnz.com. Wellington Combined Taxis (04) 384 4444 To College of Creative Arts 17 New Zealand Festival of the Arts | 2020 Calendar 2020 Calendar Week One: Fri 21 Feb – Sun 1 Mar Week Two: Mon 2 – Sun 8 Mar

Feb Mar Mar Page Key Sat 22 Sun 23 Mon 24 Tue 25 Wed 26 Thu 27 Fri 28 Sat 29 Page Key Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7 Sun 8 Event Venue Fri 21 Sun 1 Event Venue Mon 2

Pōwhiri Te Wharewaka 9 7.30am Kopernikus – Opéra-rituel de mort Opera House 18 O 7pm Eight Songs for a Mad King RNZB Dance Centre 52 O 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm Chosen and Beloved MFC 14 M T 7.30pm The New Pornographers MFC 50 M 8pm Te Ata Porirua 13 FF Sat 22 - Sat 29 Feb. For event information visit festival.nz/teata. Lower Hutt Events The Calling 40 M 6.30pm Elizabeth Knox: On Imagination Renouf Foyer 28 W 10am Centre Lower Hutt Events 8-10pm 6-10pm Lou Reed Drones 39 M Kara Jackson: Bloodstone Cowboy Renouf Foyer 28 W 11.30am Centre Drop-in Drop-in Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift Renouf Foyer 29 W 1pm Close Listening: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson Opera House 41 W 7pm 1pm & Mr Red Light Circa Theatre 53 T C 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm Justin Paton: McCahon Country Renouf Foyer 29 W 2.30pm 7pm 1.30pm Witi Ihimaera: Native Son Renouf Foyer 29 W 4pm BLACK TIES Shed 6 48 T C M 8pm 8pm 8pm & 8pm Jerusalem Opera House 16 T D 8pm 5pm Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi MFC 51 M 8pm Real Imaginary Lives: Namwali Serpell, Damian Barr: You Will Be Safe Here Renouf Foyer 54 W 6pm Renouf Foyer 29 W 9.30am Tina Makereti MÁM TSB Arena 44 D M 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 4pm Art in the Afterlife: Justin Paton, Dame Anne Renouf Foyer 30 W 11am Salmond, Matariki Williams, Witi Ihimaera Long Litt Woon: The Way Through the Woods Renouf Foyer 55 W 5pm An Indigenous Future: Maria Bargh, Jade Andrea Lawlor: All About Paul Renouf Foyer 55 W 6.30pm Renouf Foyer 30 W 12.30pm Kake, Rebecca Kiddle Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions are Made Renouf Foyer 55 W 8pm Chigozie Obioma: An Orchestra of Minorities Renouf Foyer 30 W 2pm Here Comes The Ocean MFC 36 M 8pm Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl Renouf Foyer 30 W 3.30pm Coming to Our Senses: Long Litt Woon, Renouf Foyer 55 W 10am Laurence Fearnley An Evening with Kate Tempest Renouf Foyer 31 W 5pm Bart van Es: The Cut Out Girl Renouf Foyer 55 W 1pm Glass/Richter/Järvi MFC 24 M 7.30pm Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies Renouf Foyer 54 W 11.30am Kate Tempest MFC 25 M 8pm Concert for Dogs Odlins Plaza 42 F I M 12.30pm Soundings An Evening with Joy Harjo Renouf Foyer 56 W 5.30pm Talanoa Mau - we need to talk 12 C All day All day Theatre Netherlands Chamber Choir - Programme One MFC 46 M 7.30pm Tash Aw: We, The Survivors Renouf Foyer 31 W 6pm Photobook Festival 2020 Various 84 V FF All day All day All day All day All day Chiké Frankie Edozien: The Lives of Great Men Renouf Foyer 31 W 7.30pm The Joy of Queer Lit Salon Renouf Foyer 57 W 8pm Soundings Writing Women’s Lives: Rijula Das, Jokha Alharthi Renouf Foyer 57 W 11am In Search of Dinozord 20 D T 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Theatre Paula Green’s Poetry Shelf Live Renouf Foyer 57 W 12.30pm Tommy Orange: There, There Renouf Foyer 31 W 6pm What Keeps Me Up at Night? Karlo Mila, Rose Lu, Renouf Foyer 57 W 2pm Bart van Es Jung Chang: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister MFC 32 W 8pm The Author’s Table Renouf Foyer 57 W 5.30pm Writing Survivors: Tommy Orange, Tash Aw Renouf Foyer 31 W 10am Netherlands Chamber Choir - Programme Two MFC 46 M 6pm Rajorshi Chakraborti: Shakti Renouf Foyer 32 W 11.30am

Sophie Cunningham: City of Trees Renouf Foyer 32 W 1pm Rebecca Priestley: Fifteen Million Years Renouf Foyer 33 W 2.30pm Festival-long Events in Antarctica Lucy-Anne Holmes: Don’t Hold My Event Venue Page Key Dates Renouf Foyer 32 W 4pm Head Down Tamatea: Legacies of Encounter/ Do We Deserve Earth? Sophie Cunningham, Access Renouf Foyer 33 W 10am I Interactive Tatau: Sāmoan Tattooing and Te Papa 84 V 9 Nov - 7 Jun Rebecca Priestley Photography Artist Talk M Music We Are Here: An Atlas for Our Aotearoa Renouf Foyer 33 W 11.30am Strands/Anthems of Belonging The Dowse 83 V 29 Nov - 22 Mar C Conference O Opera V I F Alan Duff: Conversations with My Country Renouf Foyer 33 W 1pm Cloud Pink Expressions 82 1 Feb - 5 Apr D Dance T Theatre A Short Run: A Selection of The Dowse 83 V 15 Feb - 7 Jun Many Hearts: A Journey Through Love: New Zealand Lathe-Cut Records Dame Fiona Kidman, Tracey Slaughter, Renouf Foyer 33 W 2.30pm F Family V Visual Arts To The Moon The Dowse 38 V I 15 Feb - 7 Jun Freya Daly Sadgrove, Catherine Robertson FF Festival in the Festival W Writers A Feminist Romance: Lucy-Anne Holmes, Fired Up: Festival of Ceramics Various Galleries 82 FF V 21 Feb - 15 Mar Free Event MFC Michael Fowler Nicky Pellegrino, Bronwyn Sell, Catherine Renouf Foyer 33 W 5.30pm Urban Hut Club Kāpiti 66 V I F W 21 Feb - 15 Mar Robertson Centre Into the Open Waterfront 26 V 22 Feb - 14 Mar Kopernikus – Opéra-rituel de mort Opera House 18 O 7pm MAU: House of Night and Day Te Papa 22 V D 24 Feb - 7 Jun

98 | 21 Feb – 15 Mar 2020 Book fast at festival.nz | 99 2020 Calendar Week Three: Mon 9 – Sun 15 Mar PREPARE Mar Event Venue Page Key Tue 10 Wed 11 Thu 12 Fri 13 Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 9 Secrets of Sea and Space St Mary of the Angels 77 M 6pm TO BE The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Shed 6 60 T M C W 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 4pm Samer Nashef: The Angina Monologues Renouf Foyer 78 W 6pm Lindy West: The Witches are Coming Renouf Foyer 78 W 7.30pm 1.30pm & Trois Grandes Fugues Opera House 70 D 7.30pm MOVED 7.30pm George Saunders: Live from New York Renouf Foyer 78 W 12pm Kristen Ghodsee: Capitalsim vs Socialism Renouf Foyer 78 W 6pm Proud to support 2020 Lexus Song Quest Strasbourg 1518 Circa Theatre 74 D T M 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 4pm Dimanche TSB Arena 72 T 7pm 7pm 5pm 5pm The Lexus Song Quest competition has been supporting Kinley Salmon: My Future, My Robot? Renouf Foyer 78 W 7.30pm emerging opera talent and providing them a platform 1.30pm & Hōkioi me te Vwōhali: From spirit eagles land Soundings Theatre 75 D 8pm 8pm 8pm to excel for over 60 years. As the proud sponsor, we The Late Night Gigs: Nadia Reid Shed 6 62 M 9.30pm at Lexus are honoured to be part of this esteemed The Late Night Gigs: Shades of Shakti Shed 6 63 M 9.30pm showcase of talent. We look forward to seeing what’s in The Late Night Gigs: Estére: Into the Belly Shed 6 63 M 9.30pm store for 2020. of Capricorn Dr Hannah Critchlow: The Science of Fate Renouf Foyer 78 W 5pm Scarlett Thomas: Oligarchy Renouf Foyer 79 W 6.30pm 2pm & Släpstick Opera House 64 T F C M 7pm 2pm 7pm Aldous Harding/Weyes Blood/Purple Pilgrims MFC 69 M 8pm 10am- Young Minds Take the Library National Library 79 W 3pm Alison Whittaker: Blakwork Renouf Foyer 79 W 10am What Does My Future Look Like? James Renwick, Renouf Foyer 79 W 11.30am Dr Hannah Critchlow, Kinley Salmon Sex, Politics and Gender: Kristen Ghodsee, Renouf Foyer 79 W 1pm Marilyn Waring, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Dear Me: Letters to Menton: Mandy Hager, Renouf Foyer 79 W 2.30pm Lloyd Jones, Jenny Bornholdt Who are we now? Guled Mire, Alison Whittaker, MFC 80 W 5pm Nyadol Nyuon, Anahera Gildea, Jack McDonald

Access I Interactive The Power of Three Artist Talk M Music C Conference O Opera Buy three or more tickets to any Festival D Dance T Theatre shows and be in to win. Each Wednesday F Family V Visual Arts FF Festival in the Festival W Writers we’ll reward one lucky ticket buyer with a $300 Festival voucher and we’ll pay it Free Event MFC Michael Fowler Centre forward by gifting another three tickets to a charity via our Partner Wellington Community Trust. Subject to T&Cs.

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