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2 3 FESTIVAL PARTNERS: FAMILY PATRONS: Tauranga Art Gallery, The Incubator Shaun & Gina Barry, Kate Barry- Creative Hub, Mauao Crazy Choir, Piceno & Craig Batchelor, Dean Baycourt Community & Arts Centre, Thompson & Claire Beard, Alexander NZ Book Council. Sutherland & Alison Blain, Judith Bidlake & Mike Chapman, David Church, Graeme & Judy Clarke, GOLD PATRONS: Marilyn Cleland, Christine & Brian Bethlehem Charitable Trust, Cloughley, Terry & Dallas Collett, C Blackley Family Trust, William Buck, BOP Chrysalis Collection, Emily & Sharp Tudhope Lawyers, Chloe & Aaron Cook, Sue Lund & Dave Dekker, Wayne Wright. Bruce & Lesley Fraser, Liz French, MESSAGE FROM FESTIVAL TEAM Jennifer & Peter Glaussius, Briar & THE MAYOR MESSAGE John Gordon, Simon Clark & Kate On behalf of the city, welcome to Nau mai, haere mai, welcome. SILVER PATRONS: Graeme, Glenn Dougal & Debbie the 2019 Tauranga Arts Festival. The We are delighted to bring you the 11th Burley Attwood Law, Nancy van der Green, Shima & Andrew Grice, Brett Arts Festival brings some of the best biennial Tauranga Arts Festival. Our Laan & Marty Brick, Alan & Lynda & Rhonda Hewlett, Rachel Parker & national and international artists from 10th Festival in 2017 was a huge success Bougen, John & Fay Burn, Ian & Paula Richard Hoare, Marty & Sue Hoffart, a range of disciplines to our city. As a with over 45,000 attendees at ticketed community, the arts connect us, they Cross, Graeme & Susan Horsley, Linda & Bruce Inglis, Greg & Mandy and free events. There are always challenge our thinking, inspire and Paula & Graeme Lane, Guy Malthus, Jarvis, Peggy Kittow, Bridgit Cummins treats and challenges for everyone delight us – which is why Tauranga Jon & Bev Mayson, Jann Medlicott, & Murray Landon, Marty & Sue Lee, in the programme, found in thought City Council has proudly supported John & Debby Meldrum, Barby Jade & Keir Maddox, James Trevalyan provoking talks, music, theatre, art, & Vicki Long, Max & Helen Mason, the festival for the last 20 years. On a dance and our schools festival. None Pensabene, Bob Sutton & Jen Scoular, personal note, I have greatly enjoyed Stewart & Jane Taylor, Ian & Jenny Marg & Nigel McConnochie, Mig of that would be possible without the my involvement as both a participant generous contributions of our funders, Thomas, Carolyn & Stewart Gebbie – McMillan, Diana & Alistair Melvin, and spectator in the performing sponsors and patrons. We are hugely The Barrel Room, Sue & John Dewes- Marg & Tony Mills, John & Margaret arts since arriving in Tauranga in the grateful for their support which enables Hodgson – Tranquillo Beauty Clinic, Rountree, Chris & Lynda Royal, Irene mid-1980s. us to continue to bring the Festival to Rachelle & Chris Duffy – Our Place Thompson, Theresa & Graeme Tingey, Karina & Peter Tinholt, Ciska I encourage everyone in our our city. My thanks also to the capable Tauranga. community to take every opportunity Festival Board members who voluntarily Vogelzang & Neil Tyson, Sonya to experience the performances and bring their skills to the governance of Korohina & Tony Wall, Marlene exhibitions on offer. For those of the Festival and to the magnificent Ware, Bruce & Andrea Wylie, Dean you visiting Tauranga to attend the Festival team led by Jo Bond. Along with & Felicity Turner – DHT Architects, festival, I hope you also get a chance the many volunteers who will help out Aaron Power – Just Sheds Portable to explore our beautiful city. over the 10 days and nights of fun and Building Hire. Mayor Greg Brownless laughter and the talented performers we have programmed, we look forward to sharing the magic with you. taurangafestival.co.nz/become-a-patron Jo Bond, Kathryn Lellman 4 5 THEATRE STILL LIFE

WITH CHICKENS THEATRE FAMILY AOTEAROA BY D.F. MAMEA When Mama discovers a mischievous chicken PRODUCED BY invading her flourishing veggie garden her first THEATRE instinct is to reach for the spade. But what starts COMPANY out as a skirmish over the silverbeet develops into an unlikely friendship. X SPACE, BAYCOURT Award-winning playwright D.F. Mamea’s Wed 30 Oct 7pm slice-of-life story paints a vivid portrait of the Thurs 31 Oct 7pm KAPUT 50 mins (no interval) local neighbourhood, its colourful characters, and AUSTRALIA Mama’s dreams for herself and her family. Goretti $35 General Admission Chadwick gives a tour de force performance in $30 Earlybird BY TOM FLANAGAN the role of a lifetime, as she brings this glorious $20 Student character to life. An intimate, heart-warming and $15 Student Earlybird A KORAL CHANDLER & funny play about friendship, loss, love and life. $30pp Group of 6+ CRITICAL STAGES TOURING PRODUCTION $15pp Group of 6+ Students Plus Ticketek Service Fee This multi-award-winning family show has Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 melted hearts around the world with its glorious X SPACE, BAYCOURT brand of slapstick, acrobatics and total silliness. Thurs 24 Oct 6pm Proudly Be swept up in the mayhem that is the larger- Fri 25 Oct 1pm sponsored by than-life ‘elegant buffoon’ Tom Flanagan, as one 60 mins (no interval) man’s life is flipped upside-down by the lonely, $25 General Admission dust-covered world that surrounds him. $20 Earlybird In the style of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, $12 Child our likeable, luckless hero struggles to get the $65 Family* upper hand, taking one step forward and two Plus Ticketek Service Fee Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 steps back until everything is ... well... kaput. *Family ticket is for 4 people, max 2 adults Suitable for all ages. Proudly sponsored by

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THEATRE parenting, courtesy of Wellington blogger Emily Writes’ best-selling book Rants in the Dark, stars Renee Lyons, Bronwyn Turei and Amelia Reid-Meredith. Honest, authentic and laugh-out- loud funny, the play revels in the raw truth of parenthood (and grandparenthood) and its ‘mess of contradictions’. It is a biting antidote to judgmental supermarket-tutterers and plane-smirkers everywhere. AOTEAROA Emily’s heartfelt and hilarious writing explores her parenting experience, offering comfort and RANTS IN connection to other exhausted parents all over the world. Emily Writes appears in the Speaker THE DARK programme, see page 41.

ADDISON THEATRE, BAYCOURT BASED ON THE BOOK BY EMILY WRITES Wed 30 Oct 8pm ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY MEL DODGE, Thurs 31 Oct 8pm LYNDEE-JANE RUTHERFORD 115 mins (includes interval) AND BEVIN LINKHORN $46 General Admission A GOOD TIMES COMPANY PRODUCTION $41 Earlybird $41pp Group of 6+ Plus Ticketek Service Fee Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019

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THIS IS GREG TAMI NEILSON! COPELAND WITH VERY SPECIAL GUEST JAY NEILSON AOTEAROA/CANADA USA/GERMANY

Having become one of NZ’s most beloved artists of Like many great blues artists before him Greg the modern era, blending country, soul and rockabilly CARRUS Copeland soaked up the music early in his childhood CARRUS into her signature high-octane performances, CRYSTAL PALACE only to reach the peak of his performance and CRYSTAL PALACE Neilson’s songs have tugged at our heart-strings and Mon 28 Oct 3pm recognition much later in life. Sun 27 Oct 8.30pm soothed our souls. 105 mins For this special acoustic show Greg pays his dues 105 mins Accompanied by her brother and long-time co-writer/ (includes interval) to the originals and forefathers of the Blues from (includes interval) collaborator Jay Neilson, the Big Boss Mama will bring $46 General Admission the deep South, channelling the spirit into his own $46 General Admission her extensive songbook to Tauranga Moana. In a rare, $41 Earlybird material and style. You’ll hear warm embraces with $41 Earlybird up-close and personal show, fans can experience the $41pp Group of 6+ Sister Soul and a tip of the hat to Brother Funk. $41pp Group of 6+ songs acoustically, as they were written. Plus Ticketek Service Fee Plus Ticketek Service Fee Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 By his side will be Steve ‘Guitar’ Gilles, playing Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 Growing up on the road as two-fifths of Canadian acoustic and resonator steel guitar, while wailing country group The Neilsons, Tami and Jay were on the Blues Harp, also known as the ‘Mississippi supporting the likes of Johnny Cash from a very Proudly sponsored by saxophone’. Proudly sponsored by young age. With a wealth of stories from the road, the pair are set to bring some smiles, laughter and tears as they tell the tales behind some of Tami’s biggest songs, as well as exclusively premiering songs from Tami’s upcoming new album. 10 11 MUSIC MUSIC Photo: Shanaya Allan Shanaya Photo: A SYNTHESIZED UNIVERSE AOTEAROA NADIA PERFORMED BY ANTHONIE TONNON REID WITH ERICA SKLENARS AOTEAROA

An immersive experience, A Synthesized Universe New Zealand-born, soon to be UK-based, Nadia CARRUS CARRUS combines live music with custom animation, Reid has attained global success off the back of her CRYSTAL PALACE CRYSTAL PALACE otherworldly video manipulations, and a flight first two albums. Her prolific writing and touring through the known universe. Sat 26 Oct 8pm have seen her at some of the world’s most respected Thurs 31 Oct 8.30pm 60 mins (no interval) music platforms, including WOMAD (NZ), Green 105 mins Singer-songwriter Anthonie Tonnon originally Man Festival (UK), End of the Road Festival (UK) (includes interval) developed this work for a planetarium, working with $46 General Admission and a television appearance on BBC's Later...with animator Andrew Charlton and Otago Museum. In $41 Earlybird $46 General Admission Jools Holland. Nadia was awarded #2 in Mojo this newly expanded version, he has incorporated the $20 Student $41 Earlybird Magazine for Album of the Year (Preservation) and in holographic-like techniques of video and installation $15 Student Earlybird $41pp Group of 6+ New Zealand, she was a finalist for both the APRA artist, Erica Sklenars, aka Lady Lazerlight. $41pp Group of 6+ Plus Ticketek Service Fee Plus Ticketek Service Fee Silver Scroll Awards (2017) and the Taite Music Prize Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 Throughout the show, Tonnon and his visual Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 (2016 & 2018). operator perform together in real time, with room With sell-out shows in Auckland, London, for improvisation. A Synthesized Universe is Tonnon’s Proudly sponsored by Melbourne and her home town of Port Chalmers, Proudly sponsored by own charmed blend of science, surreal storytelling and record three under her belt, Nadia is a rising star and physical movement, combined with Charlton’s not to be missed. animations and Sklenars’ distortion of visual reality, making for a multi-sensory experience. Supported by Supported by Creative New Zealand Creative New Zealand 12 13 SAMOA/AOTEAROA THEATRE Alive with the energy and rhythm of raw and lyrical performance poetry and oral traditions, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt will challenge WILD DOGS your perceptions of culture, life and love. Based on Tusiata Avia’s provocative and unapologetic poetry, this is a play that explores power, politics, racism, love, sex, abuse and life between cultures. UNDER MY It’s a celebration of island life, the femininity of a Samoan woman and all its wonderful complexities. Vivid, passionate and compelling, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt is SKIRT also flush with humour and pure entertainment. Recommended for ages 13+ Contains strong language and references to violence. BY TUSIATA AVIA DIRECTED BY ANAPELA POLATA’IVAO PRODUCED BY VICTOR RODGER AND FCC

X SPACE, BAYCOURT Fri 1 Nov 7pm Sat 2 Nov 7pm 75 mins (no interval) $46 General Admission $41 Earlybird $20 Student $15 Student Earlybird $41pp Group of 6+ $15pp Group of 6+ students Plus Ticketek Service Fee Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019

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Supported by Creative New Zealand 14 15 LIGHT MR RED with agunandfire. Please Note: Contains coarse language,scenes anything canhappen. love –suddenlythepieshopisaplace where Wild slapstick,themeaningoflife, falling in more abouttheirlives than is possible. And mysteriously, MrRed Lightseemsto know play agame ofgetting to know you. As timeticks by, MrRed Lightandhiscaptives world’s worst police negotiator. with three very uncooperative hostages andthe miserably –andendsupinapieshopdealing So naturally, whenhetriesto rob abankhefails Mr Red Lightisamanwhoattracts badluck. 16 Proudly sponsored by AOTEAROA WRITTEN BY CARL BLAND PARTNERSHIP WITHTOUR-MAKERS PRESENTED BY NIGHTSONG IN THEATRE

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Photo: Stephen Langdon 10mins into theshow. Latecomers NOT admitted from abuse, gunshotsoundsanduseshaze. depiction ofdomesticviolence and Contains coarse language,the Recommended for ages 13+ Aotearoa for thefirst timein2019. Theatre, Cellfish istouring Festival and Siloat Auckland Arts voiceless. After standoutseasons Cellfish gives agency to the Te Kare andCarrieGreen, Starring acclaimed actors Jason minds ofitsresidents. Correctional Facility andinto the behind thewalls ofaNew Zealand this grippingnew work takes us wants to kill.Funny andinsightful, to killsometimeandonejust their parole chances, others want Lucy! Someare lookingto improve Shakespeare classes withMiss face withawholenew nightmare: hardened inmates come face to Auckland present Taki Rua and TOA -Theatre of a voice class... one count dangerous operation of cultivation ofShakespeare, and four counts ofpossession and reckless useofMā using imagination,five counts of Eight counts ofunlawful entry Proudly sponsored by Cellfish, where ori mythology, CELLFISH CELLFISH AOTEAROA & ROB MOKARAKA MIRIAMA MCDOWELL WRITTEN BY JASON TEKARE, Earlybird 13Sept2019 finishes Fee Plus Ticketek Service $15pp Group of6+Students $41pp Group of6+ $15 $20 Student $41 Earlybird $46 90 mins(nointerval) Tues 29Oct8.30pm Mon 28Oct1pm X SPACE, BAYCOURT Creative New Zealand bySupported Student Earlybird General Admission

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WILSON DIXON – WHAT A THE SOUTH COUNTRY! AFREAKINS AOTEAROA AOTEAROA

America is like an enormous armed toddler at an Helene and Gordon are stuck. Stuck in their same all-you-can-eat dessert buffet, simultaneously eating CARRUS armchairs, on their same farm and in their same rut. THE ARTS JUNCTION, KATIKATI and throwing pudding around the room. Who’s going CRYSTAL PALACE One longs to get out and experience everything the to tell him to stop? Where are his parents? Sat 2 Nov 8.30pm world and retirement has to offer, while the other Thurs 24 Oct 7.30pm 60 mins (no interval) A situation like this needs a calm, firm hand: 60 mins (no interval) won’t leave his milk tart. someone with insight and experience, someone like $40 General Admission When they finally leave everything they’ve ever LITT PARK THEATRE, Wilson Dixon. He’s a comic who delivers with careful $35 Earlybird known and immigrate to New Zealand, the result PARK LANE, TE PUKE listening – and rewards his audience with buckets of $35pp Group of 6+ is hilarious and heart-breaking as they discover Fri 25 Oct 7.30pm smiles. Plus Ticketek Service Fee it’s hard work to find ‘home’. The South Afreakins is 60 mins (no interval) Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 Wilson Dixon’s latest show, What a Country! delivers about displacement, immigration and finding that $35 General Admission cleverly crafted songs that reward the attentive ear! home cannot only exist within places, but within $30 Earlybird people. $20 Student $30pp Group of 6+ In a rapid, dance-like duologue Paterson switches Proudly sponsored by Plus Ticketek Service Fee between her two characters, Helene and Gordon, Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 to create a story of loss, family and the true Supported by meaning of ‘home’ that is at once heart-breaking, Creative New Zealand hilarious and universally relatable. Supported by Western Bay of Plenty 18 District Council 19 MUSIC MUSIC

AN EVENING WITH JOHN WRIGHT AND THE REB FOUNTAIN SOU’WESTERS AOTEAROA AOTEAROA

A pre-eminent singer and performer, Reb has for Wright launched his debut 10-track album Red Skies years been the musicians’ secret. She has performed CARRUS at a concert in Motueka in 2017 last year, touring CARRUS CRYSTAL PALACE CRYSTAL PALACE with , The Eastern, The Warratahs, Marlon with The Sou’Westers and his collection of insightful Williams, Don McGlashan, Finn Andrews/The Veils, Thurs 24 Oct 8.30pm songs and stories about travelling as an international Wed 30 Oct 8.30pm Tami Neilson and Julia Deans. 105 mins cricketer and coach. A prolific songwriter, John will 105 mins (includes interval) (includes interval) Adam McGrath (The Eastern) describes her as release another EP (Jump The Sun) in the spring of Lucky Strike-cool and Jamesons-raw, with a voice $46 General Admission 2019. $46 General Admission $41 Earlybird born of fire and river run, mountain strong and The first New Zealand test batsman to score 5000 $41 Earlybird $20 Student $41pp Group of 6+ feather soft. $15 Student Earlybird test runs in first-class cricket, John coached both the Plus Ticketek Service Fee Her release Hopeful and Hopeless is, according to $41pp Group of 6+ New Zealand and Indian cricket teams. In 2017 and Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 some, the most perfect EP ever made. It won the Tui Plus Ticketek Service Fee 2018 he coached Derbyshire and is currently a scout for Best Country Album/Artist 2018 and Reb took Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 for the IPL Mumbai Indians featuring on the 2019 out the APRA Best Country Song 2018 for its title Netflix series Cricket Fever. Proudly sponsored by Proudly sponsored by track. Expect an evening of thoughtful songs, rich harmonies and colourful tales from the crossroads where music and sport meet. Supported by Creative New Zealand 20 21 MUSIC MUSIC

MILLY TABAK AND SHOOGLENIFTY THE MILTONES SCOTLAND AOTEAROA

Lighting up the stage with joy and verve has always Milly Tabak and The Miltones are known as the been Shooglenifty’s modus operandi, but with their CARRUS masters of blending modern blues-rock with the CARRUS new fiddler, in the shape of pint-sized fireball Eilidh CRYSTAL PALACE nostalgia of a vintage record collection. CRYSTAL PALACE Shaw, they’ve upped the ante. Fri 25 Oct 8.30pm The Auckland five-piece have been turning heads Fri 1 Nov Oct 8.30pm Formed in 1990 by musicians from the Scottish 105 mins with their powerful stage presence and moody 105 mins (includes interval) (includes interval) Highlands, Orkney and Edinburgh, the group’s melodies since forming in 2014. They have bright spark was the idea of fusing traditional and $46 General Admission performed at WOMAD and as support to Bryan $46 General Admission traditional-sounding melodies with the beats and $41 Earlybird Ferry and Mick Fleetwood. $41 Earlybird basslines of a mixed bag of more contemporary $41pp Group of 6+ Their debut recording (produced by Ben Edwards – $20 Student influences. Plus Ticketek Service Fee Nadia Reid, Aldous Harding, Marlon Williams, Tami $15 Student Earlybird Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 $41pp Group of 6+ Neilson) earned them last year’s Best Independent Fresh from some high-profile appearances, including Plus Ticketek Service Fee Debut Album at the Taite Music Awards and was a show at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Proudly sponsored by Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 band is on sparkling form. labelled “the freshest sound in New Zealand popular music right now” by the NZ Herald. Proudly sponsored by They’ve just finished recording their second album, Supported by set for release early next year, and will provide a sneak preview of songs that ramp up the ‘moody’ Supported by with a dash of soul. Creative New Zealand 22 23 PORTRAITS Volker Gerling is a passionate creator of flipbooks and an intrepid traveller. Since LITT PARK THEATRE,

THEATRE/TOURING IN MOTION PARK LANE, TE PUKE 2003 he has walked some 4,000km, inviting people to visit his travelling Thurs 24 Oct 7.30pm ‘thumb book cinema’ exhibition and 75 mins (no interval) from time to time capturing the hidden magic of seemingly everyday encounters, THE ARTS JUNCTION, transforming these into new photographic KATIKATI GERMANY flipbooks. Fri 25 Oct 7.30pm AURORA NOVA PRESENTS In his show, Gerling moves through the 75 mins (no interval) VOLKER GERLING flipbooks with his thumb underneath a video camera and projects the images UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO, on a screen. In a series of enchanting DURHAM STREET, TAURANGA and precious moments the people he photographs come to life as he shares a Sun 27 Oct 7pm Photo: Franz Ritschel Franz Photo: gentle but profound reflection upon the 75 mins (no interval) transitory nature of the moment and the $35 General Admission significance of interpersonal encounters. $30 Earlybird Living in the world of ‘selfies’, this $20 Student idiosyncratic, beguiling artist confronts $30pp Group of 6+ us with our capacity for sudden deep Plus Ticketek Service Fee Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 intimacy with our fellow beings.

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Photo: Sarah Walker Sarah Photo: POU RAMA BY STORYBOX AND DESNA WHAANGA-SCHOLLUM (RONGOMAIWAHINE, NGATI KAHUNGUNU, NGATI A CALL TO DANCE PAHAUWERA) ​ AUSTRALIA MUSIC COMPOSED BY AL FRASER

Join acclaimed choreographer and dancer Pou Rama (Light Posts) features a series of free- TAURANGA ART GALLERY Amrita Hepi for a one-on-one fun and free yarn standing light structures inspired by pou whenua MASONIC PARK, THE STRAND about heritage, belonging, public expression CONVERSATION SESSIONS: (land symbols of support) and represent creative ​ and cultural authenticity. Together you’ll have Fri 25 and Sat, 26 at 10am, wairua​ (inspiration) which is generated from ​te taiao ​ 24 Oct – 3 November a fun and open conversation about some big 10.45am, 11.30am, 12.15pm, (the environment). The ​whakairo​ designs express FREE issues facing us all, and come up with a small 2.15pm, 3pm. cycles of creativity and connections to place. movement of personal rebellion: a move that’s DAILY PERFORMANCE: Each post cycles slowly through a series of colour all about you. Fri 25 4.15pm for 5 mins changes and is accompanied by a music composition. At the end of her residency, on Sunday, October Sat 26 4.15pm for 5 mins Pahu pakohe​ (argillite gong) and ​pahu onewa 27 at 1pm, Amrita will create a performance (basalt gong) provide a shimmering movement, like ​ that captures the character and people of FINAL PERFORMANCE: Tutumaiao​ (Aurora Australis) and the light dances of ​ Supported by Sun 27 1pm for 12 mins Tauranga Moana. HineRuhi and​ Tane​ Rore.​ Free Admission ​Pukaea​ (long wooden trumpet) and hue puruhau ​ but booking essential at artgallery.org.nz/events (blown gourd) punctuate, call our attention to the pou (posts) and ground us to the whenua (land) Supported by while ​koauau rakau​ (wooden flute) and ​poiawhiowhio ​ (swinging whistling gourd) provide light and move our attention towards the realm of ​Ranginui (Sky Father). 26 27 VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS VISUAL

THE CHRYSALIS LOCATION TBC Kelcy Taratoa: TAURANGA ART 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 Oct / 1 Nov GALLERY TOI COLLECTION who am I? episode 001 TAURANGA 12 - 2pm/5 - 8pm The Chrysalis Collection; a Tauranga-based This exhibition is a mid-career survey of work by Cnr Wharf & art-buying group, hosts an exhibition of its 26, 27 Oct/2, 3 Nov leading contemporary artist Kelcy Taratoa (Ngai Te Willow Streets private shared collection in support of creativity 11am-7pm Rangi and Ngati Raukawa). Taratoa’s work deals with 5 October 2019 throughout the Bay. Take this unique opportunity Closed 28 October cultural identity in twenty first century Aotearoa New to view more than 30 Bay of Plenty connected – 1 March 2020 Zealand and tackles important themes, including artists, both established and emerging. FREE Image links between history, media, social conditioning and Alongside Miles Art Award winners and finalists, Three Stories identity construction, surveillance and privacy, nuclear you will see a diverse collection of carefully (Nocturnal Bay Series #3) and environmental threat. curated art. Group members will be personally James Ormsby 2016 Taratoa will be creating a new site-specific work for hosting the exhibition and will be pleased to the Tauranga Art Gallery atrium; exploring the cultural share their experiences. During the Festival significance of Tukutuku panels (a traditional Māori weekends, selected artists will talk about their art form) on the 7-metre-high walls. exhibited artwork. Visit www.chrysaliscollection.co.nz for full exhibition information. 28 29 CIRCUS

Staged between heaven and hell, LIMBO is dirty and dangerous stuff, whisking audiences into a ADDISON THEATRE, sinister netherworld of jaw-dropping contortion, BAYCOURT gut-churning aerial acrobatics, mind-boggling Fri 25 8pm INTERNATIONAL illusions and fiery flames hot from Dante’s inferno. Sat 26 Oct 2pm & 8pm PRESENTED BY STRUT & FRET Taking sexy bravado to dizzying new heights, 70 mins (no interval) PRODUCTION HOUSE this circus-cabaret, is wild, wicked and out of $75 General Admission this world. A rambunctious live band led by Sxip Shirey dishes out devilish electronica beats on Plus Ticketek Service Fee brass, harmonica and concertina – the perfect live soundtrack for some other-worldly circus antics. Recommended for ages 13+. Contains adult themes.

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30 31 SCHOOLS FESTIVAL Our Schools Festival gives Tauranga and Western Bay rangitahi the opportunity to engage in a variety of arts experiences. The Festival offers schools and students special matinee performances at student-friendly prices, inspiring future theatre makers, innovators and arts lovers. We also offer KAREN MCMILLAN ROLLICKING performances and workshops in schools. Karen McMillan is the author of 14 ENTERTAINMENT See our website taurangafestival.co.nz/schools-festival for more information. books, published in nine countries, Rollicking Entertainment Ltd was Contact the Festival office for bookings on [email protected] a mixture of fiction, non-fiction and founded by David Ladderman and children's books. Her popular Elastic Lizzie Tollemache, actors, circus Island Adventure series for children is in artists and variety entertainers who early development to be made into a produce and tour original work from TV series. Karen will be taking writing their home in Christchurch. workshops throughout the region The workshops on offer will be: suitable for children aged 8-12 years. Slapstick and Physical Comedy, Proudly supported by Circus Skills and Introduction to the NZ Book Council. Performance. CRAIG PHILIPS Craig Phillips is internationally renowned for his illustrations which includes contributing to the official colouring book of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and illustrating rock band posters for Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Foo Fighters. He shares lively tales of mythology and magic, heroes and heroines, with a bit of drawing thrown THE NUKES in. Craig will be taking workshops for The Nukes from West Auckland are 8-12-year olds throughout the region. far more than a ukulele band. Part Proudly supported by the NZ Book Council vaudeville, part ratpack, this talented Gordon Flash Photo: Photography trio deliver an engaging mix of humour and originality. The Nukes will be providing workshops and shows Proudly sponsored by throughout the Western Bay of Plenty. 32 33 FRINGE

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www.theincubator.co.nz/fringe-village 34 35 Explore the cultural narrative that is expressed through the connected series of artworks, installations and thresholds VISUAL ARTS VISUAL VISUAL ARTS VISUAL of the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus, Te Manawaroa. Join Director of Regional Engagement, Joseph Macfarlane on a walking tour to discover the stories built into the frame and woven into the fabric of the building. TE WHAKAATA I Features work by award- winning artists Whare Thompson, Jamie Boynton, TE MATAPIHI Maraea Timutimu, James Tapiata, Melissa Willison, GLIMPSES Teresa Nepe, Michael Mason, Robert Turner, Shona Tawhiao and Kereama Taepa. “Hei pupuri te aho o te wananga, hei kawe i nga kura huna a Rua.” CARRUS CRYSTAL PALACE “To hold fast to the strands of valued knowledge” UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO, VERANDAH Te Manawaroa: DURHAM STREET Embodied in this whakatauki (proverbial saying) is 24 Oct - 3 Nov the notion that knowledge must be treasured and Wed 16 Oct FREE Weaving cultural at times hidden within, protecting the ideology of 11.30am-12.30pm sacred wisdom as in the term Rua the repository. 1pm-2pm narrative into Te Whakaata i te Matapihi provides a glimpse of Proudly presented by FREE - limited to 20 people hidden treasures designed to make known the Tauranga Heritage artwork and per tour. ability of traditional artisans and reveal strands of Collection Suitable for all ages and is valued knowledge expressed through the hands of building design wheelchair friendly. the maker and the marks they leave behind. Registration is essential by Selected images of taonga from the Tauranga contacting the Arts Festival Heritage Collection will be displayed in a lightbox office on: [email protected] to celebrate 50 years of collecting. or phone 07 928 6213.

36 37 WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS Photo: BOP Times Photo: Photo: Catherine Chidgey Photo: SCRIPT TO SCREEN SHORT BACK WITH TIM BALME Kleyn Russell Photo: Screenwriter, actor and director Tim & SIDES Balme de-mystifies the world of making WITH TRACEY SLAUGHTER BOUNDARY WRITING film and television in New Zealand from a This workshop will concentrate on RIDING: FICTION THAT writer's perspective, including turning an issues of ‘ending’ and ‘opening’ in idea into a pitch, the evolution of a pitch the short story form, from finding WRITING SELLS into a treatment into a script and beyond the first seed of the story to FOR MIDDLE WITH CATHERINE ROBERTSON and how to look after your intellectual setting down the final crucial word. property. Using Brokenwood and other READERS Want to write fiction, but lack Looking at specific examples, as any knowledge of the writing and recent local shows as working examples, well as exploring their own work, WITH publishing process? To make your Tim will leave time for Q&A after his talk. participants will examine how journey less painful, Catherine UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO questions of opening and ending This workshop will explore the range Robertson has offered to let you in Sat 26 Oct 10am-noon intensify and deepen the story, of forms and approaches possible on all the mistakes she made on her $45 Limited to 20 people reflecting on where to cut into the when writing for this multi-faceted action, where to ‘open-out’ from age group (8-13), through discussion 5-year mission to get a book in print. a single image, and where to cut of texts and writing exercises. (Her most recent book is What You ART & CRAFT OF away from scene into white space. Readers in this age group are Wish For 2019). smarter than ever and hungry for SCREENWRITING In 2014 Tracey, who teaches Catherine will also offer an overview WITH TIM BALME creative writing at University sophisticated, wide-ranging material. of the worlds of traditional and self- Workshop participants will see a short of Waikato, established the One of New Zealand’s most loved publishing, here and overseas, and scene, discuss it, identify what was university’s literary journal Mayhem. authors, whose work engages share tips for submitting to agents important and then read the published Her collection of acclaimed short children, teenagers and adults alike, and editors. version of the scene in script form and stories, deleted scenes for lovers, was Kate is a two-time winner of the NZ The workshop will include some compare what was seen with what published in 2016, while a book of Post Children’s Book of the quick, fun writing exercises, and is on the page. Practical exercises poetry, conventional weapons, was Year Award. plenty of time for questions. include collectively editing to make a published in May 2019. (real) bad scene better and writing an THE TERRACES, BAYCOURT THE TERRACES, BAYCOURT original scene together. UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO Sat 26 Oct 9.30am-3.30pm Sun 27 Oct 9.30am-3pm UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO $120 Limited to 12 people $65 Limited to 12 people Sat 26 Oct 1.30-4.30pm Sun 27 Oct 9.30am-3pm $65 Limited to 12 people $75 Limited to 12 people

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Marilyn Waring talks to MP Chlöe Swarbrick CARRUS Join parenting writers Emily Writes (her best-selling CARRUS about her 2019 autobiography recounting her CRYSTAL PALACE Rants in the Dark is now also a play see page 9) CRYSTAL PALACE extraordinary years in parliament – the youngest Sat 2 Nov and Dr Renee Liang, paediatrician and co-author Sat 2 Nov MP to ever enter Parliament (1975); the only female 10am-11am of the 2019 book, When We Remember to Breathe, 12-1pm National MP after the 1978 election; crossing the as they talk to Tracey Slaughter. Emily’s first blog $20 General Admission $20 General Admission floor on nuclear-free legislation, thus provoking post in March 2015 went viral, reaching more $18 Earlybird $18 Earlybird PM Rob Muldoon, who had a one-seat majority, to than a million people in a few days. She has since $5 Student $5 Student call the ill-fated 1984 snap election. Marilyn went published two books and works as a parenting Plus Ticketek Service Fee Plus Ticketek Service Fee on to crusade internationally for the economic Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 columnist for The Spinoff website. Renee is also Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 empowerment of women, including working for the an award-winning librettist, short story writer, poet UN. In 2014 she was NZIER Economist of the Year and playwright. Emily and Renee are each mother and in 2018 won the NZ Visionary Leader Award Sponsored by to two young children. (Deloitte Top 200 Awards). She is a Professor of Public Policy at AUT.

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HEADLANDS STANDING UP

Traversing the Badlands of anxiety and depression CARRUS Our panel members have all had the courage to be CARRUS is a daily reality for more people than we ever know. CRYSTAL PALACE themselves in public life, sometimes at personal CRYSTAL PALACE The man on the bus, the woman at the counter, Sat 2 Nov cost. Talking to Tracey Slaughter are the second- Sat 2 Nov kids walking to school, the isolated elderly. No one 1.30-2.30pm youngest New Zealand MP to ever be elected, 3-4pm is too old or too young. Naomi Arnold, editor the Chlöe Swarbrick; Richard O’Brien, creator of the $20 General Admission $20 General Admission 2018 collection of essays, Headlands: New Stories of Rocky Horror Picture Show, who says he was born $18 Earlybird $18 Earlybird Anxiety; award-winning fantasy/horror writer and with a transgendered nature, although wouldn’t $5 Student $5 Student Headlands contributor Lee Murray; and actor and acknowledge it until recently; and Rachel Stewart, Plus Ticketek Service Fee Plus Ticketek Service Fee award-winning playwright Victor Rodger share their Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 an award-winning NZ Herald columnist, Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 stories with Dr Renee Liang. environmental activist and former farmer whose forthright views bring her daily abuse.

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MONEY TALKS: RICH ENOUGH? THE HUNTERS

Join Qantas Media Award-winning journalist Mary X SPACE, BAYCOURT Debbie Stewart, MNZM, founder of Rotorua’s CARRUS Holm as she lays out the central thesis of her 2018 Sun 3 Nov Wingspan National Bird of Prey Centre – recognised CRYSTAL PALACE book Rich Enough? A Laid-Back Guide For Every Kiwi 9am-10am as New Zealand’s leading conservation, education Sun 3 Nov which takes readers through eight steps to get their and research organisation for birds of prey – gets $20 General Admission 10am-11am money sorted, while also considering the fascinating together with fellow falconer and hawker Rachel $18 Earlybird $20 General Admission relationship between money and happiness. Mary Stewart, award-winning columnist and former $5 Student $18 Earlybird writes a personal finance Q&A column in the farmer, to discuss New Zealand’s extraordinary birds Plus Ticketek Service Fee $5 Student Weekend Herald and presents a fortnightly money of prey and the challenges they face. Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 Plus Ticketek Service Fee segment on Jesse Mulligan’s Radio NZ show. She Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 is a director of Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL), and was a founding director of the Financial Markets Authority. Mary holds degrees in economic history, journalism and finance (for the last she was taught by Nobel Laureate Merton Miller and graduated in the top 15%).

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MONEY TALKS: START LISTENING SMASHED AVOCADO

In 2018 accused New Zealanders of CARRUS Aimed at the 16-35 age group (the Millennial CARRUS being ‘racist as f***’ – 11 months later 51 Muslims CRYSTAL PALACE Generation, more or less), this conversation will CRYSTAL PALACE were killed in Christchurch by a white supremacist. Sun 3 Nov focus on why getting savvy with your money Sun 3 Nov Time to start listening to the other side of the story, 11.30am-12.30pm is important. New Zealand’s leading financial 1pm-2pm says lawyer and novelist Brannavan Gnanalingam communicator Mary Holm will discuss with Rosie $20 General Admission $20 General Admission (born in Sri Lanka) who is joined by Renee Liang, Dawson-Hewes whether buying a first home is the $18 Earlybird $18 Earlybird editor of anthologies of migrant women’s writing only way to do well financially (no!); whether it’s $5 Student $5 Student and a second-generation Chinese New Zealander; wise to pay off a student loan fast (not necessarily); Plus Ticketek Service Fee Plus Ticketek Service Fee and Samoan-Pakeha actor and award-winning Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 how to handle credit card debt; and how to get the Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 playwright Victor Rodger, as they talk to Scott most out of KiwiSaver. Questions from the floor Campbell about the cultural and social impacts of essential! being ‘different’.

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CARRUS GETTING LOUDER CRYSTAL PALACE Step inside the magical travelling experience over the 10 nights of the Speigeltent and be transported to the Festival. Our panellists will each state their position, then CARRUS ambience of another world. engage in a frank discussion about what, if anything, CRYSTAL PALACE Doors will open one hour before Our iconic Festival venue is returning can be done at a global, national, local and personal shows so you can come and enjoy Sun 3 Nov and will be located on the Baycourt level for humans to survive climate change. Join the atmosphere before your show. 2.30pm-4pm Lawn, hosting local and international Scott Campbell to hear about the despair and the On November 2 & 3, our diverse $20 General Admission musical performances and our hope from climate scientist Dr James Renwick, Speaker programme is not to be $18 Earlybird Speaker programme. winner of the 2019 PM's Science Communication $5 Student missed. Delicacy café will be open Prize; Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick; longtime business Based on the 19th century Belgium Plus Ticketek Service Fee inside the Palace during these journalist Rod Oram; BOP Regional Council’s GM of Earlybird finishes 13 Sept 2019 designed Spiegeltent, the opulent sessions. wooden interior includes ornate Strategy & Science Namouta Poutasi; and Rachel Attend, be awed, get whisked away mirrors etched with ferns, stained Stewart, environmental campaigner and former – travel with us in the Palace on an glass windows featuring harakeke, farmer. unforgettable Festival journey. and pāua set into the pillars. Imbued with the laughter, tears, awe Proudly sponsored by and wonder of past performances, the addictive atmosphere of the Palace will be open for you to Day Pass $70 I Earlybird $65 Entry to all speaker sessions for day purchased 48 49 the little festival with big ideas…

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56 57 ADDISON THE LITT PARK CARRUS CRYSTAL PALACE X-SPACE THEATRE UNIVERSITY TERRACES THEATRE ARTS BAYCOURT LAWN BAYCOURT BAYCOURT OF WAIKATO BAYCOURT TE PUKE JUNCTION 38 DURHAM STREET 38 DURHAM ST 38 DURHAM ST 101-121 DURHAM ST 38 DURHAM ST LITT PARK KATIKATI THURS REB FOUNTAIN KAPUT PORTRAITS THE SOUTH 24 8.30pm pg 20 6pm pg 7 IN MOTION AFREAKINS OCT 7.30pm pg 25 7.30pm pg 19 FRI SHOOGLENIFTY KAPUT LIMBO THE SOUTH PORTRAITS 25 8.30pm pg 22 1pm pg 7 8pm pg 31 AFREAKINS IN MOTION OCT 7.30pm pg 19 7.30pm pg 25 SAT A SYNTHESIZED LIMBO WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP 26 UNIVERSE 2pm & 8pm TIM BALME TIM BALME KATE DE GOLDI OCT 8pm pg 12 pg 31 10am pg 38 1.30pm pg 38 9.30am pg 39 SUN WORKSHOP WORKSHOP GREG COPELAND TRACEY PORTRAITS CATHERINE 27 8.30pm pg 11 SLAUGHTER IN MOTION ROBERTSON OCT 9.30am pg 38 7pm pg 25 9.30am pg 39 MON TAMI NEILSON CELLFISH 28 3pm pg 10 1pm pg 17 OCT TUES CELLFISH MR RED 29 8.30pm pg 17 LIGHT OCT 7pm pg 16 WED JOHN WRIGHT & STILL LIFE RANTS IN 30 THE SOU-WESTERS WITH CHICKENS THE DARK OCT 8.30pm pg 21 7pm pg 6 8pm pg 9 THURS NADIA REID STILL LIFE RANTS IN 31 8.30pm pg 13 WITH CHICKENS THE DARK OCT 7pm pg 6 8pm pg 9 FRI MILLY TABAK & WILD DOGS 1 THE MILTONES 7pm pg 15 NOV 8.30pm pg 23 SAT WILSON DIXON SPEAKER WILD DOGS 2 8.30pm pg 18 PROGRAMME 7pm pg 15 NOV pg 40-43 SUN SPEAKER MARY HOLM 3 PROGRAMME 9am pg 44 NOV pg 45-48

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