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Paul Coll is returning home for the NZ Festival of Squash. Piney took the opportunity to catch up with him and look back on his year, the highs of winning the US Open, and the potential of playing at the Olympics. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand's largest ever squash festival is set to take place in Tauranga.  Over 400 athletes from 30 nations will be competing in the three major tournaments this December in the 2023 NZ Festival of Squash.   Dame Susan Devoy, Vice President of the World Squash Organisation and Squash NZ Board Member, told Mike Hosking that it's been a lot of hard work over the years to get to this point.  Now that squash has made it to the Olympics, she said they're hoping that it will catapult their sport into a whole new stratosphere.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wild Dunedin NZ Festival of Nature - Suzanne Middleton previews this year's programme of 126 festival events. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

It's astonishing what magic one actor can produce on stage when they have a great script and the ability to play many roles simply through movement and voice.. TAHI - New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance brings together soloists - from emerging first or second-timers through to well-established performers - from around Aotearoa for 10 days of performances and conversations about this specialist theatrical form. This year marks the fourth TAHI and it'll be hosted in Wellington - 18 shows across four venues and ten days. Lynn Freeman talks with two of this year's participants - Sacha Copland and Helen Fletcher. TAHI: New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance starts on September 8 at Bats Theatre in Te Whanganui A Tara/Wellington.

Clementine Ford has been called an angry loudmouthed polemicist by her detractors, and a leading light of the feminist cause by her many fans.The Australian writer and broadcaster is well known for her first two books: Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. In her new memoir, How We Love, she exposes a softer side - exploring everything from the loss of her mother to cancer, to becoming a mother herself. She'll be appearing at the NZ Festival next month.

The Steampunk NZ Festival started in 2009. Seven years later, The Guardian named Oamaru the 'Steampunk Capital of the World'. We're crossing live to the North Otago town to catch up with  'La Falconess' and 'Agent Darling' at the 11th annual festival. 

The Steampunk NZ Festival started in 2009. Seven years later, The Guardian named Oamaru the 'Steampunk Capital of the World'. We're crossing live to the North Otago town to catch up with  'La Falconess' and 'Agent Darling' at the 11th annual festival. 

Motone is the creative production company based in Rarotonga, Tahiti and Wellington, New Zealand creating iconic events and assisting other people to create artistic products in Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Tahiti. Motone pushes ahead creating events and arts projects that lead to new ways of thinking, striving to create real careers for real people and build a new industry here in the Cook Islands. Glenda Tuaine and Maurice Newport are experienced producers and creatives who have delivered events internationally delivering outcomes and promotions that build arts careers and industry and focus on Education, Empowerment, Motivation and Achievement. Company Director of Motone Productions & Events Rarotonga and 2019 Creative New Zealand Special Recognition Pasifika Arts Award recipient. Glenda Is committed to building careers, projects and products within the Creative Industry. Prior to forming Motone she the Marketing Manager and Acting CEO for CI Tourism. In Aotearoa, she was the Events Manager at Te Papa Museum, the Fringe NZ Festival Director and worked on the NZ Festival of the Arts- mentored by Carla van Zon, NZ Comedy Festival and the NZ Film Festival Publicist. She has acted in and directed many theatre productions in New Zealand and has acted in film and television. She was a Radio DJ for 88FM and a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand Arts programmes. She now is a correspondent for Radio New Zealand on matters relating to the Cook Islands. In Rarotonga, she developed and produced the BCI Opera in Rarotonga, Pacific touring circuit opportunities for artists including MMQ, Ladi 6, Bella Kalolo, Tiki Taane, Kora etc. Created projects for artist residencies which saw Murray Hickman and Fran Kora participate and tour products to New Zealand and Tahiti. Held Carving and Raranga cultural exchange Vananga for for the 2015 Cook Islands Constitution Celebrations combining NZMACI and local artists and recently collaborated with South Pacific creatives to design the South Pacific component of the Edinburgh Military tattoo in Sydney Australia in November 2019 and is a Creative New Zealand Funding Assessor. In film, script and digital media she works with Maoriland Film Festival Charitable trust to produce the ‘Through Our Lens” cultural exchange program between the Cooks Islands and Aotearoa Rangatahi film makers, writes for Escape magazine, and is working with Creators Hype to create new ways of representing the Cook Islands in the Tourism space via digital storytelling with Mana Tiaki.

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.It's February and our latest episode is packed to the gills. We chat trigger warnings, American Dirt, festivals, movies, poetry and of course, have our usual book reviews and TBR piles. Tune in!Book newsAWF Programme is out on the evening of 11th MarchOckham Shortlist is out on March 4th.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LISTEN: Digging into American Dirt pod: From four perspectives.https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800964001/digging-into-american-dirtPatti Smith helps Portland bookshop after break in.The 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts starts this week, 21 Feb – 15th March 2020.https://www.festival.nz/https://www.festival.nz/events/writers Writers programme including KD’s session with Booker International Prize Winner Jokha Alharthi https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ and Alharthi and Rijula DasBook reviewsKD: Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride, Rest and be thankful by Emma Glass.LK: Separation Anxiety by Laura ZigmanJT: Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove (with a mention of As the Verb Tenses by Lynley Edmeades), In the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoNot booksKD: Three Women by Robert AltmanLK: Next in Fashion on NetflixJT: Emma.The TBR PileKD: The Undying by Anne Boyer, Out of the Woods by Luke Turner,LK: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Dept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillJT: Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey, Burn the Place by Illana Regan, Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (in preparation for the June release of The Lying Life of Adults), 2000f Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An in-depth conversation with Marnie Karmelita, Creative Director of Tawhiri. We had chatted previously about her life and work, here we preview the 2020 NZ Festival, talking through the decision to involve guest curators and discussing highlights from the program.

A conversation with the creative director of Tawhiri.. Marnie Karmelita and I talk through the 2020 NZ Festival.

An in-depth conversation with Marnie Karmelita, Creative Director of Tawhiri. We had chatted previously about her life and work, here we preview the 2020 NZ Festival, talking through the decision to involve guest curators and discussing highlights from the program. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth conversation with Marnie Karmelita, the new head of programming at the NZ Festival and Wellington Jazz Festival. We discuss Marnie's background in arts administration and preview the upcoming Wellington Jazz Festival (June 5-9, 2019) Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

A conversation with head of programming at the NZ Festival and Wellington Jazz Festival, Marnie Karmelita. We talk about her background in arts-admin and then preview the June 2019 Wellington Jazz Festival events.

An in-depth conversation with Marnie Karmelita, the new head of programming at the NZ Festival and Wellington Jazz Festival. We discuss Marnie's background in arts administration and preview the upcoming Wellington Jazz Festival (June 5-9, 2019)

An in-depth conversation with Wellington actor Heather O'Carroll. We talk all things acting - and we talk too about her time working behind the scenes, in arts admin and event management, running BATS Theatre for a time, working with the NZ Festival. We talk about her return to the stage for the upcoming Moodporn and we talk about processes and other behind-the-curtain things from learning lines to intimacy coaches and so many of the things that the audience members are never privy to. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth conversation with Wellington actor Heather O'Carroll. We talk all things acting - and we talk too about her time working behind the scenes, in arts admin and event management, running BATS Theatre for a time, working with the NZ Festival. We talk about her return to the stage for the upcoming Moodporn and we talk about processes and other behind-the-curtain things from learning lines to intimacy coaches and so many of the things that the audience members are never privy to.

For our last interview we have Ben, Cherie and Robin from Last Tapes Theatre Company - Benjamin trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, whilst directing productions for the London fringe and cabaret circuit. Having directed productions in Germany and France, as well as nine consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ben moved to Auckland to continue his career.Ben has become known for his adaptations of classics, including Titus and Earnest for Fractious Tash and a musical version of Edith Nesbitt's classic Five Children and It which received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival.His dark, original thriller Not Psycho was performed by Fractious Tash at Q Theatre in August 2015.Ben’s directing credits are many including The Tempest (AUSA), This Is Our Youth (Basement Theatre), The Effect, Not Psycho, Earnest, and Titus (Fractious Tash), Camino Real, Punk Rock, The Turn Of The Screw, Red Speedo (ATC), Twelfth Night (Fortune Theatre), and Valerie (Last Tapes Theatre Company) Cherie is a singer, actor, vocal coach, director, producer, and a company director of Last Tapes TheatreCompany. She is a graduate of The Actors’ Program, has a double degree in Drama and English from the University of Auckland, and has studied singing for the last 20 years.She is the founder and creative director of Ihi Musical Theatre Company –an auditioned youth company launching in June this year. She teaches singing to a private studio of students, for The Actors’ Program, as an itinerant teacher, and for The Auckland Performing Arts Centre. Cherie regularly vocal coaches voice and singing for professional productions in New Zealand.Cherie has been directing since2011. Recent credits include: Hubbub (Basement Theatre), Love and Information (Asst.Director, Basement Theatre), Swimming With Whales In Tonga (Nelson and Hamilton Fringe),99% for the Short & Sweet Festival where she wonBest Director. Cherie has been directing large scale musical theatre productionsfor high schools since 2015, including Seussical, Grease, Threepenny Opera, The Wiz, and The Addams Family. Cherie co-created and performed in Last Tapes’ show ‘Valerie’ in 2016, named cabaret of the year by The Herald, and most original production at the Auckland Theatre Award. Cherie is represented by Auckland Actors, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Robin graduated with a BMus/BSc from the University of Auckland in 2011 majoring in composition, andstudied classical piano for over 15 years with Australian Music Examination Board and Trinity College London.Valerie is Robin’s first original work, receiving critical acclaim and going on to tour New Zealand festivals in 2017 and 2018 (Nelson, Kokomai, NZ Festival, Dunedin, Hawke's Bay)Robin works as an accompanist, repetiteur, musical director, arranger, composer, choir leader, and is company director of Last Tapes. Robin’s credits include Musical Director for The Last Five Years (Last Tapes), Earnest (Fractious Tash & Last Tapes), The Events (Silo, 2015), Guys and Dolls (ATC, 2015), and Night of the Queer (TAPAC, 2015-2016). Other roles include choir leader for Stimmung Choir, and founder of Auckland-based band The Bethell Gang.Robin is currently working on a follow up to 'Valerie' -weaving together science, personal history, and music to create a new show about memory. Recorded and Edited - Matt Eller Theme Music - Ricky Simmonds

An in-depth chat with Mark Cubey, former producer of Kim Hill's popular Saturday morning radio show, recent director of The NZ Festival's Writers & Readers, magazine editor and creator, broadcaster, arts enthusiast, entrepreneur and encouraging presence. Mark and I sat down to talk about radio and film and books and magazines and their place in his life, we talked about changes in technology and approaches throughout the years, the record label and magazine and website LOOP, his time spent subbing the NBR and The Listener and many other things...

An in-depth chat with Mark Cubey, former producer of Kim Hill's popular Saturday morning radio show, recent director of The NZ Festival's Writers & Readers, magazine editor and creator, broadcaster, arts enthusiast, entrepreneur and encouraging presence. Mark and I sat down to talk about radio and film and books and magazines and their place in his life, we talked about changes in technology and approaches throughout the years, the record label and magazine and website LOOP, his time spent subbing the NBR and The Listener and many other things... Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth chat with American singer/songwriter, soundtrack composer and theatre performer Elvis Perkins. He was in Wellington in February/March for the show "HOME", as part of the NZ Festival. So we talked about that show, but also his solo career beginning with Ash Wednesday and his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the horror films his brother (Oz Perkins) has directed that he has scored, the most recent American election, his father Anthony Perkins, the death of his mother (Berry Berenson)in 9/11 and so much more...

An in-depth chat with American singer/songwriter, soundtrack composer and theatre performer Elvis Perkins. He was in Wellington in February/March for the show "HOME", as part of the NZ Festival. So we talked about that show, but also his solo career beginning with Ash Wednesday and his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the horror films his brother (Oz Perkins) has directed that he has scored, the most recent American election, his father Anthony Perkins, the death of his mother (Berry Berenson)in 9/11 and so much more... Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

Perfume Genius - performing name of American musician Mike Hadreas - is in New Zealand for festival shows in Wellington and Auckland. Nick Bollinger talked to him and caught one of his Wellington concerts.

Kupe, the great Polynesian navigator and explorer, as imagined by playwright Apirana Taylor, in one of the first shows of the 2018 New Zealand Festival in Wellington. It's also part of a week long Kupe inspired series of events starting with tonight's Waka Odyssey. This is also the farewell festival for its three time Artistic Director, Shelagh Magadza. Standing Room Only presenter Lynn Freeman is hoping for three weeks of jaw-dropping shows and new experiences. She joins Susie Ferguson in the studio.

An in-depth chat with Shelagh Magadza, Artistic Director of the NZ Festival, incorporating the Wellington Jazz Festival. We talk about her background, her commitment to the concept of Festivals, her work in both Australia and New Zealand and then we plug the upcoming Wellington Jazz Festival, previewing and profiling the great names involved from local talent to international stars including Dianne Reeves, Bill Frisell and Comet is Coming. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

An in-depth chat with Shelagh Magadza, Artistic Director of the NZ Festival, incorporating the Wellington Jazz Festival. We talk about her background, her commitment to the concept of Festivals, her work in both Australia and New Zealand and then we plug the upcoming Wellington Jazz Festival, previewing and profiling the great names involved from local talent to international stars including Dianne Reeves, Bill Frisell and Comet is Coming.

Violin player and busker Elisabeth Auchinvole is a Wellington based performer and event organiser who will be taking part in The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in the New Zealand Festival.