Podcast appearances and mentions of tara wellington

Rachael's back from swimming with the turtles - catch up with her today. And how does a writer move from flash to longer work? Find out with Kate!Kate Mahony is a long-time writer of short stories and flash fiction with an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka. Her work has been published in anthologies and literary journals. Her debut novel, Secrets of the Land, published by Cloud Ink Press was voted onto the Whitcoulls Bookstores Top 100 Books 2024-2025. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) in Aotearoa New Zealand.✏️ Write More, Worry Less: A Year of Pressure-Free ProductivityJan 4, 2025 - CLICK HERE for the details!Don't miss the early-bird pricing, good till Dec 10th!

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with arts festival founder and director, arts events maven, book reviewer, books editor, essayist and novelist Claire Mabey about a life in the arts, the wisdom of teachers, and the transportive power of reading.Claire's debut novel, The Raven's Eye Runaways, was published only two months ago, and is already making its mark, flying out across the book world. Hera Lindsay Bird called it “powerfully atmospheric” and “immersive”; Elizabeth Knox says it's “sparky and spooky, humorous and luminous”. We dive inside the book, to talk about its origins, its inspirations, the process of writing it.Claire Mabey co-founded Verb Readers and Writers Festival (initially as LitCrawl), Lōemis festival, and event organising and production outfit Pirate & Queen. More recently, Claire's taken on the role of Books Editor for The Spinoff. In the podcast, we talk about what it is, what it means, and what it takes to make a life in the arts.Claire reflects on her diarymaking practice – kickstarted by teacher Lyn Fothergill who encouraged 10-year-old Claire to start keeping a journal; “I started being a writer in her class” – and different ways (increasingly digitised) of diarising a life.As literary director of Verb festival, Claire first took a chance and booked Bad Diaries Salon for LitCrawl back in 2018, establishing what's become our longest running festival collaboration – we've held Bad Diaries Salon at Meow bar for LitCrawl 6 years in a row, so far, and counting. We're delighted to embed Claire's connection with Bad Diaries, by welcoming her to the podcast.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Janine Mikosza about art, writing, her extraordinary memoir Homesickness, and reading Duran Duran fan fiction at Bad Diaries Salon.Jen and Janine talk about how Janine came to writing, and her memoir Homesickness. After majoring in sculpture, Justine completed post-graduate study in photo media, and practised for a decade with solo and group exhibitions. She's now a research assistant for money work, with writing and art on the side. Jen and Janine discuss the memoir, how Janine came to decide upon the form, why memoir and not fiction (and how memoir as a form was resisted initially), Janines's early reading influences, and the trajectory to agent and publication for Homesickness.Moving onto the specifics of work processes and archiving, Janine explains her different approach between $ work (as research assistant, where she is ‘highly scrupulous') and her personal creative work diaries and notes, which she says takes the opposite approach, and is ‘all over the place'. Janine writes on anything: napkins, back of supermarket receipts, but mostly post-it notes. We hear a short reading from Homesickness that explains this ‘post-it approach'.Janine read at one of our Bad Diaries Salons last year: NOTES at the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton. We hear her thoughts on being asked to read, her preparation for the reading, and that she knew straight away what she'd read: a piece of Duran Duran fan fiction that was all about desire, aspiration and escapism. We finish with our usual closing: Six of the Best, the Bad Diaries questionnaire.Content warning: this episode contains reference to child abuse.Janine Mikosza lives in Melbourne, and writes fiction and nonfiction. She studied sculpture and photo media at art school and has a PhD in sociology. Her essays and short stories have been widely published, and her writing has been shortlisted for national and international awards. Janine's debut, a literary memoir called Homesickness (Ultimo Press, 2022), was published to critical acclaim. Homesickness challenged the memoir form by using an innovative device to ‘demarcate a protective boundary between self, character and reader'. Described by critics as ‘form-bending, exploratory memoir' and ‘a remarkable and emotionally moving work that also pushes memoir forward', it was named as one of the Guardian's '25 Best Australian Books of 2022'.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

For NZ Live today we head to our Wellington Studio, and the band Dateline Dateline is the musical project of Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington singer Katie Evans.

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with award winning writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player Rachael King about reading journals, her love of a good boot, and why she's no longer writing novels for adults.Rachael's latest novel, The Grimmelings – “folk horror! for kids!” – is proper scary. And it's a finalist in the New Zealand Children's Book Awards, for the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. In this episode of the podcast, we wonder whether writing for younger readers is having a bit of a buzzy moment – in Aotearoa New Zealand, at least – and we talk about why writing books for children is more important to Rachael than ever.We turn to diaries, and look at the unique perspective Rachael brings to the Bad Diaries universe. As literary director of WORD Christchurch festival, she booked the first Bad Diaries Salon outside Australia (and our first festival collab); she's been a Bad Diaries Salon reader; and she's been in the audience for several salons. We're thrilled to expand her connection to Bad Diaries, by welcoming her to the podcast.Rachael King is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of two novels for children, The Grimmelings and Red Rocks. Red Rocks won the Esther Glen Medal in 2013, and is currently being produced for television by Libertine Pictures and Sky TV.Her first novel for adults, The Sound of Butterflies, was published internationally and translated into eight languages, and won the award for best first novel at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel, Magpie Hall, was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Rachael was programme director of WORD Christchurch Festival for eight years until late 2021. She received a Waitangi Day Honour Award in 2020 from the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ) for her work at WORD bringing exiled Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani to New Zealand. In 2023 she was named Best Reviewer at the Voyager New Zealand Media Awards. She lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

In our first guest interview for Season 2 of the podcast, Jenny chats with Jock Serong on a chilly Victorian night. They talk diaries, rituals, the writing life, and what Jock does with his old Blundstones.Jock was one of five writers who read at the second-ever Bad Diaries Salon, back in September 2017 in Melbourne, and in this interview Jenny and Jock look back at that salon. The theme was TRIPS, and Jock read from a travel journal he kept in his 20s; in this episode of the podcast, Jock reads again from his travel journal, and it's beautiful and unmissable.Jock Serong is a prolific writer, multiple award winner and a thoroughly nice man. He is the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly – a journal of art, ideas and the sea – and a director of Melbourne's The Wheeler Centre . He lives in Port Fairy in far western Victoria.Jock has six novels published and the seventh – Cherrywood – is a ‘history of things that never happened' and will be published in September 2024.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Questions covered in this episode: 1:32 Opening Question: Can you take us back to a moment in your career or your life where you had to step outside of your comfort zone? 5:36 What are your roles in Bill?9:02 Can you tell me a little bit about how you work together?10:09 Can you actually give an example of a successful collaboration between PM and PMM at Bell? Maybe it's one of your recent launches that you have had?15:43 How product marketing can get a seat at the table earlier in product development?20:28 Have you ever come into organizations on either side, Kelly or Tara, where you felt like that understanding wasn't had and you had to build it from scratch. 29:29 What are some of the ways that you can work together on potential duplicative work, which happens all the time?32:32 What are your favorite metrics to report on?35:54 How should AI play a role in product marketing? 37:59 How do you achieve work life balance?39:47 What do you think has been the one thing that's been most important for growing your career? Want more insights from Tara? Check out her Sharebird Profile.Looking to connect? You can find Tara here on LinkedIn.Want more insights from Kelly? Check out her Sharebird Profile.Looking to connect? You can find Kelly here on LinkedIn.

Double, double toil and trouble, join the two of us on the pod to make a throuple – this episode is all about THREE.We've chosen THREE as the theme of our second episode of the season not because we can't count, but because we both have exciting bookish news for our THIRD novels.Tracy's third (and as-yet unpublished) novel – which is full of triplets and other threes – has been shortlisted for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. And Jenny's third novel will be out in the world next month – Hurdy Gurdy is available now for pre-order, and out soon wherever you get your books. Huzzah!So with our minds full of thirds, we talk about good things coming in threes – wishes and witches, fates and furies, three-ring circuses and there dog nights. We contrast the strength and stability of triangles – geometrically and structurally speaking – with the usually destabilising presence of a third person in a relationship. (“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”)We each read from our own diaries, on the theme of THREE. We wonder if we laugh less as we get older. And we finish nostalgically, reigniting old friendships, Jen riding off on a horse, Tracy on (or perhaps being) a Shetland pony.We've got fab guests lined up for you in coming episodes – so join us on the podcast each month, for more diaries (and diary-adjacent) content. Catch you next time!Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the blank first page (for Tracy, terrifying; for Jen, not) of season 2 of Bad Diaries Podcast.In our first episode of the podcast for 2024, we look back at the summer that's passed since our xmas episode – a summer of busy-ness, bereavement, and a broken bone.Then we make a schmear on the blank page of season 2, and leap right into it with a chat about diarymaking – whatever diarymaking means. Usually on the pod we focus on the content, on the words in diaries. In this episode we shift our focus to the physical artefact – whether that's “the ultimate in wankery” of Tracy's current fancy notebook, or something more sensible.We talk aesthetics and logistics, preferences and flexibility, the creative and the mundane. Jen asks whether a diary is really a place where you can be honest with yourself. And along the way we find ourselves wearing purple 80s mohair jumpers, drinking Midori and lemonade, having dalliances in smoky bars.Looking ahead to the rest of 2024, join us for a new episode of the podcast each month, bringing you more guests, more chats, and more diaries (and diary-adjacent) content. Good to chat! Catch you next time!Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Kākā numbers are skyrocketing in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington thanks to conservation efforts. The summer science series continues with a walk through Zealandia to find out why you shouldn't feed these inquisitive parrots.

Pickle your beets, sniff your jars, and wrap the Christmas ham in a teatowel! We've reached the toe, the toenail, the heel – no, the sole of the year, and Jenny and Tracy are bringing (or at least name-checking) the A-list celebs for A Very Diary Xmas.In this final episode of Bad Diaries Podcast for 2023, recorded on a thundery (Wellington) and hot (Melbourne) day in December, we bemoan the tyranny of email, and celebrate staying in bed and sensible shoes.We look to other people's diaries on our bookshelves (hello, Andy!), as well as mining our own diaries for the good, the bad and the ugly-crying of our diarised Christmases past.In not-so-Christmas-y content, we ponder the power of photos vs diaries as archives and records. Tracy brings along some diary-adjacent books she's read lately, and Coercively Controlling Ex-Boyfriend makes yet another cameo.We finally six-of-the-best each other – as we have each six-of-the-bested our fabulous Bad Diaries Podcast special guests this season – and we look ahead to 2024, and Season 2 of the podcast, bringing you more guests, more chats, and more diaries (and diary-adjacent) content.Wishing you all A Very Diary Xmas and everything fabulous for 2024.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with poet, essayist and zine-maker Nadine Anne Hura about diaries, the narrative arc of a life, writing and drawing, and Dirty Dancing.After reading at Bad Diaries Salon:RADICAL in Wellington in 2022, Nadine wrote about what it was like to prepare for and take part in the salon, in a piece titled ‘The narrative arc of your own life'. In this episode of the podcast, we use that as a jumping off point for a wide-ranging discussion of diaries and journals (keeping them, losing them, and giving them away), about writing and other ways of making art, and about responding to loss.Nadine Anne Hura is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, of Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi whakapapa. Her writing weaves themes of language, identity, equity and climate justice – and it's full of memory, and of family.In 2023 Nadine published Narrating the Seasons of Grief, a chapbook adapted from her essay of the same title, about living in the aftermath of the death of her brother, Darren. A short documentary written and narrated by Nadine, ARO WAIRUA: Navigating the Seasons of Grief, was adapted from the essay (available on Māori TV).At the 2023 Pikihuia Awards (biennial Māori writing awards), Nadine won the Non-fiction in English category for her essay ‘A Dangerous Country', and her story ‘Affidavit in the Family Court: Ranginui vs Papatūānuku' was a highly commended finalist in the Short Fiction in English category.Both of Nadine's Pikihuia-awarded stories are published in Huia Short Stories 15 (Huia, 2023), and her work has been widely published elsewhere. She writes regularly for online media outlet The Spinoff, she's an active member of Te Hā o Ngā Pou Kaituhi (identifying, encouraging and promoting Māori writers), and is passionate about grassroots Māori writing and collective publishing.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Imagine virtual wine tastings from 31,000 feet, robot room service and exploring countries from the comfort of your couch. That's what the tourism industry is exploring while grappling with new technology that's emerging at a rapid pace. Hundreds of industry leaders have been discussing if they're ready, or not, at the Tourism Summit Aotearoa in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington today. Tourism reporter Tess Brunton is there.

In this interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with curator, writer and art historian Emily McCulloch Childs. Emily loves diaries, life writing, and writers' journals; her own earliest diary (velveteen-covered, horse-emblazoned) dates to when she was ten years old.Jenny and Emily talk about how they first met as anonymous bloggers in the 2010s, the freedom of not having to be ‘writery' on their blogs, the sense of liberation that anonymity gave, and how blogging could become a kind of online diary.They discuss diaries as a cultural snapshot, and as revealing not only the inner life of the diarist, but of the other people around us while we are writing. They ask: do we write diaries to record, or to process, or both? And they consider the act of going back to the past and reading old diaries; how does it make us feel?Emily McCulloch Childs is a curator, writer, art historian, researcher, gallerist, publisher, fundraiser and maker, co-author & publisher of McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art and McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide, and author of New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st century Aboriginal Art.Since 2003 she has been co-director of art company McCulloch & McCulloch with her mother, Susan McCulloch. They began exhibiting art in 2009, and established a home gallery at their family house ‘Whistlewood' on the Mornington Peninsula, with a focus on Aboriginal art. In 2019 they opened Everywhen Artspace in Flinders, and now work with over 40 communities, 300 artists and 25 Aboriginal owned NFP art centres.Since 2013 Emily has been the founding curator of The Indigenous Jewellery Project, Australia's first national contemporary jewellery project working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander jewellers.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

A mixed tape of an episode that takes in The Saints and New Order at the Seaview Ballroom in 1982 Melbourne, writes a song about a closed cemetery in rainy Paris in 1989, nicks a guitar pick from the INXS stage, and reads a lot of Dick Francis.After the last two interview episodes with special guests, this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast brings Jenny and Tracy back together, to read from our own diaries, on the theme of NOTES.We set the same theme for a Bad Diaries Salon in Melbourne in May this year – our first Melbourne salon since 2019 – and it got us thinking (as our salon themes always do) about the different ways to interpret NOTES. We riff on notes we write, notes to ourselves and to others, musical notes on the page and on the voice and in the ear. Love notes, lists (of books read, of spaghetti marinara eaten); notes that have fallen out of place, and notes that remain where they belong.Both of our readings, though, focus on music. Tracy reads from her travel journals, from a few days in Paris in 1989 that she later turned into song lyrics. Jenny reads from 1982 and her music-soaked Melbourne, nights catching INXS and No Nonsense, The Saints and New Order, Night Moves on the telly.To note is to observe, to notice, and we notice the value of notes, lists, ephemera. As Jenny says, “we might be thinking this is a podcast about diaries … all this other surrounding stuff – the notes, the scraps, the ticket stubs, the postcards … in some ways maybe gives more detail than the diaries themselves.”Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

On Thursday 24th August, 2023, Japan's TEPCO electric company began discharging radioactive waste water into the Pacific. The waste water comes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which went into meltdown following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. There is 1.3 million tonnes of water is currently held in tanks at the power plant, which TEPCO plans to release over the next 30-40 years. In response, protests have erupted across the Pacific Asia region and the world. I attended one protest outside the Japanese embassy in Te Whanganui a Tara / Wellington in Aotearoa, and includes speeches from the protest, alongside a statement read by Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Punu, from a webinar earlier this year, and an interview with Friends of the Earth Japan's Aymui Fukakusa from 2021.Image used under Creative Commons licence (CC BY)

In our second guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with poet, essayist, reviewer and five-time Bad Diaries Salon reader Kate Camp about diaries, the slipperiness of memory, and noticing what you notice.Kate and Tracy dig down into the experience of reading at, and returning to, Bad Diaries Salon – what that means, what it brings, and what it feels like. Kate very generously talks about and reads from the treasure that is the little red diary she kept every day in 1986, the year she turned 14, “the best possible year of your life”.Kate Camp is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's finest and most loved poets, with awards and plaudits and seven collections of poetry to her name, from her 1998 debut Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars to 2020's How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems.Last year saw the publication of Kate's sharp-edged and quietly magnificent memoir, a collection of disarming true stories titled You Probably Think This Song Is About You. The pieces in the memoir are familiar but unsettling, disturbing but also somehow joyful – qualities shared with Kate's readings at five Bad Diaries Salons at Wellington's Verb Festival since 2018.Content warning: this episode includes brief mention of sexual assault and drug use, abortion, and negative self-talk.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

In our first guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Sarah Krasnostein.On a May morning in Melbourne, Sarah and Jenny sink into Succession, narrative structure and shaping a story, research stepping stones, stationery, and Sarah talks about reading her early spy diaries (hello, Harriet the Spy) at a Bad Diaries Salon in Melbourne in 2018.Sarah reads from her 2022 book The Believer (Text Publishing, Australia; Tin House, US).Sarah Krasnostein is the multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer and the Quarterly Essay, Not Waving, Drowning. She holds a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria. A regular contributor to The Monthly and The Saturday Paper, she was awarded the 2022 Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. Her latest work, On Peter Carey, is out this year from Black Inc Books.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Welcome to Episode 111 of the Think UDL podcast: Digital Ethics in ePortfolios with Kristina Hoeppner and Kevin Kelly. Kristina Hoeppner, M.A., is the project lead for the open source portfolio platform Mahara, working at Catalyst IT in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. She traded hemispheres and careers in 2010 and enjoys supporting and working with the New Zealand and worldwide community of educators, learning designers, and education innovators in both formal and informal learning settings to create positive and supportive learning environments. Since 2019, she has been a member of the (Association for Authentic, Experiential, & Evidence-Based Learning) AAEEBL Task Force on Digital Ethics in ePortfolios and, since 2021, a member of the Executive Committee of FLANZ (Flexible Learning Association New Zealand). In September 2022, Kristina started the podcast 'Create. Share. Engage.' in which she interviews members of the portfolio community to share their stories in a contemporary medium, making these stories accessible beyond academic articles and conference presentations. Kevin Kelly, EdD, works with colleges and universities as a consultant to address distance education, educational technology, and organizational challenges. He also teaches online courses in the Department of Equity, Leadership Studies, and Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University, where he also previously served as the Online Teaching and Learning Manager. Kevin is a member of the AAEEBL Board of Directors and the AAEEBL Task Force on Digital Ethics in ePortfolios. He co-authored with Todd Zakrajsek the 2021 Stylus book, Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments which is featured in episode 55 of the Think UDL podcast. In today's podcast my guests explain the ethics of ePortfolios and how they are aligned with UDL principles. It turns out, there is a lot of overlap between the two! Kevin, Kristina, and their colleagues on the task force have done all of the heavy lifting so that you don't have to, and you'll find links to the digital ethics for ePortfolios on the Think UDL web page for this episode. 

In this third episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we talk about the origin of BAD in Bad Diaries, and how, in our diaries, we can allow the badness – and  the goodness – of our unedited lives to show. Jen coins the term ba-goodness, and we commit to making bad good (and making good bad).We bring other people's diaries to this episode of the podcast, raiding our bookshelves for a random selection of Not At All Bad But Really Very Good Diaries to discuss. Some are diaries that we love and have re-read a bazillion times. Others we've only dipped into, or haven't quite got round to reading (no shame!), despite best intentions.There's some very heavy fan-grrrling on Helen Garner, and lots of love for Sylvia Plath, Katherine Mansfield and Derek Jarman (and Tracy's decades-long obsession with his cottage and garden). Sarah Laing, in The Covid-19 Diaries, reminds us of The Bubble, but we can't remember whether or not (or why) The Pillow Book was sexy. Different note-making and page-marking styles are revealed (Jen's a corner-folder, top and bottom; Tracy's appalled), we ponder crossings-out and missing facts in our diaries, and we talk about gaps and guilty pleasures (again, no shame) on our bookshelves.As we often do, we talk about this (writing) life. We get into professional competition (and jealousy), writing relationships (spouses and parents and sibs, oh my), and the importance of sisters (and how sisters freak Tracy out).Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

We continue to hit NZ Music Month with music from some of Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington musicians. Some have featured on our show and others we'd love to have! Who will they be? Tune in to find out!

In this first episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we talk about Bad Diaries Salon, the live literary series that we co-produce and co-curate – from the concept's beginnings in 2017, when Jenny first put a call out on Twitter, to running 20 salons, with more than 70 readers, between 2017 and 2022.We talk about what makes the Bad Diaries Salon engine (juggernaut!) run so smoothly, recite the Bad Diaries Salon rules, and talk about the gold at the heart of salons: “people dig the concept, they get it straight away, and they love it”; “it works, it just works, it's the little concept that could – it can fill a big space; it can also get little and quiet and beautiful”.We introduce Bad Diaries Podcast, our hopes and plans for the podcast. The salons exist in the room in the moment, a contract between readers and audience, that you have to be there to experience. With the podcast, we want to create something to return to. We'll talk all things diaries – our own, other people's, published and unpublished – and feature guest interviews with writers who've read at live salons, and with people publishing diaries, designing them, and using them in fiction, film and other media.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

In this second episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we take another dive into the Bad Diaries universe.We ask each other, Were you always a writer? We talk about our own history and practice of keeping diaries, personal journals and writing notebooks, and how that's changed over time. Tracy curses her long-ago diary-reading boyfriend, and we ponder value, worth and hierarchies of writing.Tracy reads diary entries made on an overseas work trip (seaweed conference in Thessaloniki? Yes, please!), when she was scheduled to fly from Vancouver to Auckland on 11 September 2001.Jenny reads from DiArama – her 1980s diaries that she blogged, pseudonymously, in the 2010s – from April 1983, featuring bands, beer, boys, bad TV, and re-reading Blyton.We talk about the postures we assume, and the voices and ideas we try out, in our diaries. Then we talk about My Mum's Bad Diaries, the podcast in which Jenny reads her own diaries to her 20-something daughter. Season 1 – in 27 episodes, covering 1980 to 1981 – was released in 2022, and Season 2 – starting in 1982 – is out weekly in 2023.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Diving into the world of diaries - the good, the bad and everything in between.Writers Jenny Ackland and Tracy Farr are fascinated by diaries: their own and other people's. They've curated more than 20 Bad Diaries Salons across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017, and now have a podcast to keep the discussion going. Join them as they chat with each other and with some of the more than 70 authors who have read at the Bad Diaries Salons.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

On this episode of Women on the Line we chat with Melody, a member from Fired Up Stilettos based in Aotearoa. Fired Up Stilettos is a group of strippers fighting for improved Industry standards and independent contractor protections, nationwide.  Earlier this year Melody, alongside 18 other strippers were fired from Calender Girls Strip Club in Wellington after petitioning management for better labour rights. Sign their petition and support their campaign by visiting www.firedupstilettos.com.  Melody Montague is an arts and culture writer and former stripper from Te-Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is one of nineteen strippers fired from Calendar Girls Wellington after petitioning management for better labour rights, and a founding member of the Fired Up Stilettos, who are fighting for improved working conditions for strippers and sex workers across Aotearoa.   

From the pandemic to climatic issues, traveling the world has become a lot harder - ethically challenging, more expensive and riskier, as the headlines have pointed out this week. In 1971, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington photographer Grant Sheehan sold his treasured motorbike to buy a return ticket to Amsterdam and he's travelled extensively ever since. During the lockdowns, he had the chance to sort through his photographs and think about his experiences, which he shares in a book called in memory of travel. But,m as he tells Lynn Freeman, it's not all looking back. In the final chapter he considers the future of travel, from space tourism to digital tourism and virtual reality. Grant Sheehan's in memory of travel is published by Phantom House Books.

The housing crisis has been headline news for some years now. But Wellington artist and activist Heleyni Pratley wants to delve deeper and ask people to share their own stories about how it's affecting them. The Kiwi/Greek conceptual artist and former union organiser is setting up a 'Housing Crisis Community Reflection & Assessment Centre'. People coming in for a look-see will be invited to talk about their experiences and thoughts on video. Heleyni will then edit these interviews together and project them onto a sculpture she's making out of paper. It's called A work about the housing crisis with an indoor outdoor flow is the Installation's name, and it will be on for a month from mid-October in central Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington. Members of the public can also book an interview in advance via email. It's being supported by the Urban Dream Brokerage organisation.

Ruth Delaney, the main organiser from DIA's Visits and Ceremonial Office team and Rachel Hayward, Acting Secretary of the Cabinet/ Clerk of the Executive Council, are coordinating the State Memorial Service inside St Paul's Cathedral, and the screening of the on Parliament Grounds for the public, rain or shine. They talk to Lynn about the logistics of this afternoon's official Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Service in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington.

A thoroughly modern Cinderella centred around a quest for identity, true love and the courage to be yourself is being staged by the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company. Cinderella is the company's first national tour in more than a year, and the first production performed at its renovated home base, the St James Theatre in Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. The new ballet, three years in the making, has been choreographed and composed by Kiwis Loughlan Prior and Claire Cowan.

A thoroughly modern Cinderella centred around a quest for identity, true love and the courage to be yourself is being staged by the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company. Cinderella is the company's first national tour in more than a year, and the first production performed at its renovated home base, the St James Theatre in Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. The new ballet, three years in the making, has been choreographed and composed by Kiwis Loughlan Prior and Claire Cowan.

Train lines have been disrupted in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara/ Wellington resulting in some cancellations today and into tomorrow. Samantha Gain, General Manager of Metlink tells Karyn what you need to know.

This season we bring you our Conversation Series - in each episode, a trio of improvisors come together to talk about what lights them up, what challenges them, and what keeps them excited about the future of improv.Featuring: Jennifer O'Sullivan and Christine Brooks from Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), and Laura Irish from Whakatū (Nelson) Recorded in front of a live audience at BATS Theatre in October 2021.This episode was produced and edited by Aaron Douglas and made possible thanks to the New Zealand Improvisation Trust and Creative NZ.NZ Improv Festival 2021 ran 4-16 October 2021 at Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington's BATS Theatre. Learn more about it at improvfest.nz or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

This season we bring you our Conversation Series - in each episode, a trio of improvisors come together to talk about what lights them up, what challenges them, and what keeps them excited about the future of improv.Featuring: Tara McEntee and Susan Williams from Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), and Ryan Knighton from Te Papaioea (Palmerston North)Recorded in front of a live audience at BATS Theatre in October 2021.This episode was produced and edited by Aaron Douglas and made possible thanks to the New Zealand Improvisation Trust and Creative NZ.NZ Improv Festival 2021 ran 4-16 October 2021 at Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington's BATS Theatre. Learn more about it at improvfest.nz or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

It's been a pretty tough time for the performing arts industry over the last two years, but the show must, Covid-19 settings allowing, go on. Actor, singer, performer and director Vanessa Stacey is the Director of the 2022 New Zealand Fringe Festival in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, and for her it marks a bit of return to the beginning.

This season we bring you our Conversation Series - in each episode, a trio of improvisors come together to talk about what lights them up, what challenges them, and what keeps them excited about the future of improv.Featuring: Matt Powell and Liz Butler from Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), and Emma Brittenden from Ōtautahi (Christchurch)Recorded in front of a live audience at BATS Theatre in October 2021.This episode was produced and edited by Aaron Douglas and made possible thanks to the New Zealand Improvisation Trust and Creative NZ.NZ Improv Festival 2021 ran 4-16 October 2021 at Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington's BATS Theatre. Learn more about it at improvfest.nz or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

This season we bring you our Conversation Series - in each episode, a trio of improvisors come together to talk about what lights them up, what challenges them, and what keeps them excited about the future of improv.Featuring: Marea Colombo from Ōtepoti (Dunedin), Ben Zolno from Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington), and Daniel Allan from Otautahi (Christchurch) and hosted by Christine Brooks (Te Whanganui a Tara)Recorded in front of a live audience at BATS Theatre in October 2021.This episode was produced and edited by Aaron Douglas and made possible thanks to the New Zealand Improvisation Trust and Creative NZ.NZ Improv Festival 2021 ran 4-16 October 2021 at Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington's BATS Theatre. Learn more about it at improvfest.nz or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Have you been out in the waves yet this summer? It can often be a real mark of the begining of the summer holiday, that first submerging in freezing ocean water. It's even the case in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington where author, lawyer and columnist Brannavan Gnagalingam has been searching for a perfect sea swim. It's been a big year for Brannavan with the ongoing massive success of his novel Sprigs, including winning the Ngaio Marsh Award for Crime Writing for best novel. So it's about time for a swim!

Katherine Mansfield was a writer who had a lot of feelings, and had a lot of love to give. It's her birthday today! Katheleen Mansfield was born on the 14th of October in 1888 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. To celebrate her birthday the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden has published a book titled Woman in Love - a collection of her love letters of all sorts. It includes romantic love, but also lots of other types of affection. The book's foreword is by British filmmaker Richard Curtis of Love Actually fame, and his daughter Scarlett. It turns out that Richard Curtis was actually born in Wellington and he and his daughter have both been long fascinated by Mansfield. The editor of the collection is president of the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Nicola Saker.

Katherine Mansfield was a writer who had a lot of feelings, and had a lot of love to give. It's her birthday today! Katheleen Mansfield was born on the 14th of October in 1888 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. To celebrate her birthday the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden has published a book titled Woman in Love - a collection of her love letters of all sorts. It includes romantic love, but also lots of other types of affection. The book's foreword is by British filmmaker Richard Curtis of Love Actually fame, and his daughter Scarlett. It turns out that Richard Curtis was actually born in Wellington and he and his daughter have both been long fascinated by Mansfield. The editor of the collection is president of the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Nicola Saker.

A Māori-led mobile vaccine clinic that focuses on going to emergency and transitional housing is under way in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington and is helping to curb vaccine hesitancy in the community.  In the first week of alert level 4, Kahungunu Whānau Services launched the mobile vaccine service, Waka Ora, and it set up at the Strathmore Park Community Centre yesterday. Vaccination rates for Māori are slowly creeping up - but those under 60 are still behind other ethnicities.  Kahungunu Whānau Services chief executive Ali Hamlin-Paenga told reporter Matai O'Connor access to health services is an issue for Māori.  

Dearest Kick Ons listener,Your personal invite to the hottest happenings around Aotearoa has finally arrived.Welcome to INVITE ONLY - an ongoing Kick Ons mini-series that brings the countries most exciting happenings right to you.Today you're invited to meet Nikita and Ed from Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington-based band, KITA, who along with drummer Rick have just released their debut, self-titled album KITA. KITA are currently touring Aotearoa to celebrate and invited us into their home to talk about the tour, their friendship and what it was like creating an album during a pandemic. No need to RSVP - It's INVITE ONLY.TICKETS FOR THE TOURFollow@kitasoundzListen On Spotify@nikita_tu_bryant @zukebeats @rickistahArt by : @mountymadeFollow Kick Ons:@kickonspod@stephaaniemoore@onehitwonduhIf you've enjoyed our pod please rate, comment and share.Appreciate all the love.Playlists:2001-2008 playlistKick Ons Aotearoa playlistEdited with love by Jason See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.