15-2815-28 October 2018 hbaf.co.nzOctober hbaf.co.nz Welcome to the 4th annual Harcourts Hawke’s Arts Inc. Heretaunga is proud to present the We are incredibly excited the Harcourts Bay Arts Festival. 2018 Harcourts Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival. Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival 2018 is Our fabulous festival team has been almost here, with another outstanding I trust that this year’s festival, with its stories told beautifully and sincerely by working harder than ever to present a programme. It is one of the highlights in eclectic array of world-class acts, will dancers, actors, artists and musicians. festival for you to connect with, enjoy and our district’s event calendar. thoroughly entertain you and leave you Poets and writers to craft new stories and love. The programme on offer is the best Hastings District Council is hugely with a sense of pride in what we can comedians telling satirical tales to make local, national and international offering committed to supporting the Festival. It’s achieve together, when we support the you laugh and maybe even forget… yet. From artists at the height of their a wonderful way to bring people together arts in beautiful Hawke’s Bay. And then there are stories of hopes and careers, who have spent years learning to share their stories and to be excited, I am delighted with the stories that will dreams told by our young ones for the very and honing their craft, to individuals who inspired, challenged, and even provoked. unfold in front of your very eyes over the first time, stories of the future, our future. have just started their journey, being The Harcourts Hawke’s Bay Arts two weeks of our festival. I invite you to take part in new conversa- trained and mentored by the best. All this, Festival has achieved so much in four Stories of love, longing and belonging. tions, to be brave and introduce yourself to give us the most exciting and engaging years. We are very proud that from the Stories about home and homecoming. through the arts to different worlds, views live experience possible. Festival, Hastings now has a fringe festival There are stories of loss, and stories of and ways of being from your own. Go on, take Please take the time to come and in its third year, which also adds a unique truth and freedom. Your stories, brought a walk on the wild side, explore something immerse yourself in what our artists have to difference to the event. to life by complete strangers. Poignant new and revel in the magic that unfolds. offer. And here’s a challenge … book all the The 14-day programme, featuring music, shows you know you’re going to love and at theatre, dance, circus, cabaret, comedy, Pitsch Leiser, Festival Director the end try something new, less known to literature and so much more, will again be you, outside your comfort zone, perhaps. based in a Spiegeltent on the Havelock hawkesbayartsfestival You may find yourself surprised, delighted, North Village Green and in other venues HBartsfestival or enchantingly enticed in new directions. across the region, from Central Hawke’s hbartsfestival Mounting a festival of this scale each Bay to Wairoa. www.hbaf.co.nz year is a huge undertaking from a small Free shows such as The Cube in organisation that dares to dream big. We Hastings CBD (2016) had a continual queue couldn’t have achieved this without a huge of people waiting to visit. Our Flaxmere level of community support from our core community loved the Tape Art last year funders, sponsors, patrons, community and the school shows are always very grant providers, corporate suppliers, the popular. These free shows make the talented festival team and the volunteers Festival accessible to all of our people, so who give their time so freely. They do keep an eye out for these events – there’s all this for our community and a huge even more to be involved with this year thank you goes to all involved – you make than ever. Hawke’s Bay the amazing place it is! This is a unique opportunity for our Thank you for continuing to support us people to experience the arts on this and we look forward to seeing you at the scale and of this calibre, and I encourage Harcourts Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival … you all to enjoy the local, national and enjoy the show. international acts on offer. Andy Heast, Chair, Arts Inc. Heretaunga Sandra Hazlehurst, Hastings Mayor HERETAUNGA Festival Corporate Supporters, Partners Grants and Patrons Core Funder Core Funder Corporate Supporters Pounamu Patrons Anonymous Patron The Mactaggart Family Gold Patrons Anonymous Patron Anonymous Patron Anne and Paddy Maloney Jonathan and Cristina McHardy Kim and Bronwynne Thorp Platinum Sponsor Web Ranger Silver Patrons Judith and Wyn Drabble John and Betty Baker Jo and Jon Eames Katherine Halliday Murray and Sue McNae Paulette Durrant and Wayne King Ros Stewart and John Gommans HASTINGS Tara and Steve Connell DISTRICT Gold Sponsors Official Media Partners LIBRARIES (Font = Frutiger or FreewayDemi) Bronze Patrons Anna Jepson and Phil Williams Annie Gascoigne TODAY Grants Alison and Geoff Bennett First with the Bay’s news Arthur and Monica Ormond Colin and Diana Crombie Daniel Betty and Allanah Scott Katharine and Robert Marffy Kate and Robin Ferguson Silver Sponsors Kelie and Stephen Jensen Lenise and Tony Lendrum Maria van Dien Frimley Sainsbury, Logan and Foundation Williams Solicitors Festival Lovers Breathe Yoga Doris & Urs Blum Elwin Sharp Bronze Sponsors Jennifer Kight Michal McKay Programme Partners Thomas Richard Moore Bernard Chambers Nelson Arts Festival, Charitable Trust Charitable Trust Dunedin Arts Festival 7 Festival Information Festival Welcome! Step right up, don’t be shy, Hawke’s Bay arts and culture review come join us for two weeks site The Hook (thehook.nz) will be of festival magic! crafting in-the-moment, of-the- moment responses to all our shows. Our Festival Programme is an You can also follow the Festival on invitation to 40+ amazing shows, our Facebook and Instagram pages 10 Readers & Writers sessions, and Twitter feed. arts and craft happenings, creative learning in abundance, hawkesbayartsfestival and the full spread of Hawke’s HBartsfestival Bay’s food, wine and sunshine hbartsfestival offerings. www.hbaf.co.nz Early Bird Tickets We encourage you to make the most of our early bird offer this year for a great discount on tickets – we have a limited time period and allocation, so be quick. See page 71 for the finer details. For literature lovers, we also have a Readers + Writers weekend pass. For the live experience itself, do take time On our website hbaf.co.nz to soak up the atmosphere either before you’ll find our Festival Stories or after shows in our Festival Garden where we’ll be sharing festival at the Spiegeltent (see page 70), or walk tips, the juice on different shows through the welcoming doors of our and artists, behind scenes tales, supporters, sponsors and hospo experts video and audio content, along in any number of fine establishments with coverage of the Festival around the region. Above all, enjoy as it happens. yourselves! Photo: Florence Charvin Florence Photo: 9 Festival Performance Street Fever: Street Performances We are thrilled to be sharing the festival love this year with vibrant world-class street performances that will have you in festival fever! These are free roaming or pop-up shows performed in various places, spaces and times. To find out where and when you can catch them, and for more details on the different performance pieces, visit hbaf.co.nz. Dancing Graffiti (Hungary) Meta (Hawke’s Bay) Out of the Blue (UK/NZ) The Nukes (NZ) Multiple award-winning Dancing Graffitifrom Performed by the Human Project (Sophie A shoal of sea warriors will capture your With their idiosyncratic brand of ukulele Hungarian Bandart Productions, is a unique Follett and Champa Maciel) in collaboration attention and imagination when Chloe brilliance, three-part vocal harmonies, interdisciplinary street-theatre performance with performance poet Sara Hirsch and Loftus brings her quirky and original dance- blistering riffs, riotous rhythms and combining dance with live digital graffiti art. sound creative Rosie Langabeer, Meta theatre work, Out of the Blue, to our streets, questionable dance moves, this talented A story about discovering your inner power explores the oddities of human behaviour with vibrant choreography and incredible trio deliver an engaging mix of humour and as an individual, while playfully exploring the and our culture of voyeurism and self- eye-catching costumes by Weta Workshop originality that audiences of all ages will love. history of subversive commentary written censorship through a sanitised lens. Like designers. Charged with rhythmic beats, these on public walls. watching a live display at the National History ghostly warriors speak of the importance of Museum. Hilarious and thought-provoking. kaitiakitanga, guardianship of the environment. 10 Aotearoa / New Zealand Aotearoa / New Zealand 11 Cabartet / Musical Theatre Cabartet Songs for Opera Nobodies A COURT THEATRE PRODUCTION In an astonishing tour-de-force, award- winning singer and actress Ali Harper brings ten distinctive personalities (and their stories) to life in mesmerising detail. Songs for Nobodies shares life-changing encounters between five everyday women whose lives have been touched by five legendary divas: Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. Profoundly moving but also humorous and witty, Songs for Nobodies poignantly explores the alchemical influence that chance encounters can play in our lives, along with the struggle at the heart of the human condition and the ephemerality of happiness. A magical, critically acclaimed showcase that reminds us that everybody has a story - and a song - worth hearing.