Christchurch mosque shootings: Inside Al Noor’s area for women
NZ Herald.
A month after the Christchurch mosque shootings Lana Hart was invited to the women's prayer session at the Masjid Al Noor, where 42 people died.
THE SAVAGE K´LUB
OutTASpace gestures to an aesthetic of neo-savagery - bringing a playful electricity to traditional forms, and lighting up that which is new, that which is queer, that which is gentle and that which is curious into the work, in order to invite these multiple presences to exist alongside more culturally entrenched ways of being. Read more...
MAKING SPACE
Taking place in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch - where collaboration and collective working has become a part of the fabric of this post-earthquake city - MAKING SPACE will involve six diverse artist collectives and over 30 individuals practising at the cutting-edge of the Aotearoa New Zealand art community. Read more...
FAFSWAG
FAFSWAG seeks to decolonise their minds and lived experiences through creativity, expression, and the ownership of their own narratives.
FAFSWAG is a Queer Pacific Arts Collective based out of SOUTH Auckland. They celebrate queer brown bodies, contemporary Pacific arts and cultural restoration. Their online platform documents in an artistic manner the cultural connectivity of queer Pacific people of colour navigating their unique identities within NZ’s urban landscapes. Read more...
Intersectional
Leafa and Faith Wilson are a mother and daughter who collaborate with an explicit understanding of where they converge and diverge as individual women.
In this collaborative performance, the artists will use a popular intersection by the bus exchange intersection to physically and literally realise the idea of intersectionality. Read more...
Widows of Shuhada: Those left behind after Christchurch’s terror attack share their stories
An article about the Widows of Shuhada in The Press - www.press.co.nz today . This is one of the projects I have been working on in the last few months with a group of amazing people. Widows of Shuhada is a podcast series with accompanying photography, depicting the lives of four women whose husbands were killed on March 15th. If you want to know more have a look at the https://www.stuff.co.nz/…/widows-of-shuhada-those-left-behi…. From tomorrow the series will be available at the RNZ and Plains FM webpages.
With Lana Hart, RNZ, Plains FM, Nicki Reece, Jumayah Jones, Asma Azhar, Sharon Moreham, Asha Abdi, and the four wonderful women who generously shared their stories with us.
