Podcasts about tusiata avia

Anapela Polata'ivao has recently returned from South Korea, having directed Tusiata Avia's The Savage Coloniser Show for the Seoul Performing Arts Festival. 

Angus Cerini has been writing plays for 25 years, but his recent experiences as a farmer have inspired his latest play, Into the Shimmering World. The acclaimed writer of The Bleeding Tree and Wonnangatta now introduces us to two aging farmers, played by Kerry Armstrong and Colin Friels, struggling against relentless adversity.Also, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt is a published collection of poems written by the Samoan-New Zealander Tusiata Avia. 20 years ago, Tusiata was touring the world performing these poems on stage and now that show has been reimagined for an ensemble. Wild Dogs Under My Skirt is now on tour in Australia.

Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events

New Zealand greats Catherine Chidgey, Damon Salesa and Tusiata Avia have all made the cut - with some exciting newcomers in the mix, too.

Poet and performer Tusiata Avia, who is of Samoan descent, isn't afraid to challenge Aotearoa's colonialist history, and racist present. It comes at a significant personal cost. After her poem ' 250th anniversary of James Cook's arrival in New Zealand' went viral she faced harassment including death threats. Her new collection Big Fat Brown Bitch was partly written in response to that experience. Her previous poetry collections are Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004; also staged as a theatre show), Bloodclot (2009), Fale Aitu Spirit House (2016), and the Ockham-award-winning The Savage Coloniser Book (2020). In 2020 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and the arts and an Arts Foundation Laureate

On today's First Up pod - Why is the Act Party so keen to silence poet Tusiata Avia while demanding that anti trans rights activist Posie Parker be allowed into the country? The Black Caps go into bat for Cyclone Relief against Sri Lanka at Eden Park tomorrow and it's the first day of Ramadan -- the month of fasting -- for nearly 50,000 Muslims in New Zealand. What does it mean and how do you cope with no daytime snacks?! First Up - Voice of the Nathan!

Free Speech Union council members Ani O'Brien and Dane Giraud discuss the union's defending of Drag Queen story time along with Tusiata Avia's controversial poem. Enjoy!  https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131393894/the-free-speech-door-swings-both-waysSupport the show

There are calls for the Government to pull funding for creative works in the lead-up to Tusiata Avia's latest project. Tusiata Avia's 'The Savage Coloniser Book' is being adapted into a stage show for the Auckland Arts Festival. The play's premise of murdering James Cook and other white colonisers has generated controversy and criticism. Creative New Zealand CEO Stephen Wainwright has defended funding this project, saying the use of violent language and themes isn't meant to be a manifesto. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Cal Wilson with special guests Annie Potts, Nik Taylor and Tusiata Avia and music from Grace PetrieRecorded 22 July at the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch. Released 5 December 2022.The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon.More about Deborah Frances-Whitehttps://deborahfrances-white.comhttps://twitter.com/DeborahFWhttps://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-bookMore about Cal Wilsonhttps://twitter.com/calbohttps://cmdy.live/MICF22CalWilsonMore about Annie Potts and Nik Taylorhttps://twitter.com/Animalsociologyhttps://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/contact-us/people/annie-potts.htmlMore about Tusiata Aviahttps://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/avia1.asphttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Savage-Coloniser-Book-Tusiata-author/dp/177656409XMore about Grace Petriehttps://twitter.com/gracepetriehttps://gracepetrie.comFor more information about this and other episodes…visit https://www.guiltyfeminist.comtweet us https://www.twitter.com/guiltfempodlike our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/guiltyfeministcheck out our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theguiltyfeministor join our mailing list http://www.eepurl.com/bRfSPTOur new podcasts are out nowMedia Storm https://podfollow.com/media-stormAbsolute Power https://podfollow.com/john-bercows-absolute-powerFOC it UP Comedy Club https://podfollow.com/foc-it-up-comedy-clubCome to a live recordingKings Place: 14 December, 26 January, 17 March: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/?s=guilty+feministSoho Theatre: 4-7 January: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/the-guilty-feminist-2/Rose Theatre, Kingston, Sunday 29 January: https://rosetheatre.org/whats-on/the-guilty-feministThank you to our amazing Patreon supporters.To support the podcast yourself, go to https://www.patreon.com/guiltyfeminist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Cal Wilson with special guests Annie Potts, Nik Taylor and Tusiata Avia and music from Grace PetrieRecorded 22 July at the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch. Released 5 December 2022.The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon.More about Deborah Frances-Whitehttps://deborahfrances-white.comhttps://twitter.com/DeborahFWhttps://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-bookMore about Cal Wilsonhttps://twitter.com/calbohttps://cmdy.live/MICF22CalWilsonMore about Annie Potts and Nik Taylorhttps://twitter.com/Animalsociologyhttps://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/contact-us/people/annie-potts.htmlMore about Tusiata Aviahttps://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/avia1.asphttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Savage-Coloniser-Book-Tusiata-author/dp/177656409XMore about Grace Petriehttps://twitter.com/gracepetriehttps://gracepetrie.comFor more information about this and other episodes…visit https://www.guiltyfeminist.comtweet us https://www.twitter.com/guiltfempodlike our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/guiltyfeministcheck out our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theguiltyfeministor join our mailing list http://www.eepurl.com/bRfSPTOur new podcasts are out nowMedia Storm https://podfollow.com/media-stormAbsolute Power https://podfollow.com/john-bercows-absolute-powerFOC it UP Comedy Club https://podfollow.com/foc-it-up-comedy-clubCome to a live recordingKings Place: 14 December, 26 January, 17 March: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/?s=guilty+feministSoho Theatre: 4-7 January: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/the-guilty-feminist-2/Rose Theatre, Kingston, Sunday 29 January: https://rosetheatre.org/whats-on/the-guilty-feministThank you to our amazing Patreon supporters.To support the podcast yourself, go to https://www.patreon.com/guiltyfeminist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's World Menopause Day and what better guest to revisit than the very woman who told Penny that the day existed in the first place. Tusiata Avia was Showy Ovaries third ever guest, and in their conversation she alerted Penny to the fact World Menopause Day was just around the corner. So Penny leapt to action and launched the whole shebang on World Menopause Day. A year later Tusiata wanted to tell Penny how listening to Showy Ovaries over the past year has changed the whole way she looks at her own menopause, about how she is now on HRT, and how she's shedding her culty tendencies of the past. They chatted about her Scientology youth, her yearning to have a her epilepsy under control and about how some surgeons can be total dickheads. Support the show

This is a shocking statistic in 2022. Just 3% of annual publishing in New Zealand features Maori and tagata moana writers. Facing these woeful figures, it's clear a strategy is needed to support and encourage the moana creative sectors who are trying - but clearly failing - to get their voices heard. Where are 2022's Whiti Ihimaera, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Alan Duff and Tusiata Avia? Kim Meredith is the Manager for the Coalition for Books. She's working on a national strategy along with Reading Warrior publisher David Riley and published poet, playwright and short story writer Courtney Sina Meredith. Lynn Freeman talks to Kim Meredith and Courtney Sina Meredith about the shout out they're doing to creative moana communities for feedback and ideas.

A multiple award winning poet of the stage and page, Tusiata shared with me her ongoing menopause journey,  including her increasing epileptic seizures, her struggles with her body image and who loves her bum. A bonus poem about her Grandmother's Bum too.  Honest, heartfelt and ultimately uplifting, Tusiata tells it like it is. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/pennyashton)

An exceptional evening performance brings together celebrated writers and taonga pūoro practitioners in a lyrical weaving of language and song. Arihia Latham, Anahera Gildea, Becky Manawatu, essa may ranapiri and Tusiata Avia take you on a journey of sound and words, from the distant past to the distant future. Featuring live taonga pūoro from composer, musician and poet Ruby Solly and Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao, as well as pre-recorded compositions from artists Rob Thorne, Horomona Horo, Richard Nunns and Al Fraser. He whakaaturanga pō, he inati hoki, e whakatōpū ana i ētahi ringatuhi me ētahi kaiwhakatangi taonga pūoro rangatira ki tētahi kaupapa whatu ā-kupu i te reo me te waiata. Mā Arihia Latham rātou ko Anahera Gildea, ko Becky Manawatu, ko essa may ranapiri, ko Tusiata Avia koe e ārahi ki tētahi haerenga ā-oro, ā-kupu anō, i inamata noa atu, ki anamata noa atu. He taonga pūoro ka whakatangi mataoratia e te ringatito, e te ringa pūoru, e te ringa toikupu hoki, e Ruby Solly rāua ko te rau kahurangi toi, ko Ariana Tikao. Ka rangona hoki he titonga nā ngā ringatoi, nā Rob Thorne rātou ko Horomona Horo, ko Richard Nunns, ko Al Fraser kua oti kē te rekoatahia. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI 2021

The acclaimed New Zealand poet Tusiata Avia has become the first Pasifika woman to win the prestigious Peter and Mary Biggs Award.

Celebrated Christchurch poet Tusiata Avia has become the first Pacific woman to win the prize for poetry at the New Zealand Book Awards. Avia won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at last night's ceremony for her collection 'The Savage Coloniser Book'. She is also the first Pacific woman to win any major category award in the event. Avia spoke to Susie Ferguson.

Celebrated Christchurch poet Tusiata Avia has become the first Pacific woman to win the prize for poetry at the New Zealand Book Awards. Avia won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at last night's ceremony for her collection 'The Savage Coloniser Book'. She is also the first Pacific woman to win any major category award in the event. Avia spoke to Susie Ferguson.

Acclaimed poet, performer and writer Tusiata Avia MNZM is of Samoan descent, born and raised in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Known for her dynamic performance style, she has travelled the world performing her one-woman poetry show Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, which toured between 2002-2008 in places including Moscow, Jerusalem and Vienna, as well as destinations closer to home, establishing her as a leading New Zealand poet and performer. Avia is the author of four critically acclaimed collections of poetry Fale Aitu / Spirit House (2016), Bloodclot (2009), Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004) and her latest collection The Savage Coloniser Book (2020) has made this year’s New Zealand Book Awards poetry shortlist. Last year she became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and the arts and became the Arts Foundations Laureate.  In 2016 the stage version of Wild Dogs Under my Skirt was relaunched (produced by FCC and directed by Anapela Polata’ivao) as a six woman ensemble show. It won Best Director at 2016 Auckland Theatre Awards and Best Production, Best Actress and Best Lighting at 2018 Wellington Theatre Awards.  It performed in New York last See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

31 October 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In her landmark book Wild Honey, poet Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names, who lived unconventional lives for their art and who gave a poetic voice to resistance, to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were due in their lifetimes. Join us for a celebration of these amazing talented women, featuring three generations of poets who will each read from their own work and choose a poem from a woman who has inspired them. Featuring some of our greatest and freshest performers, this will be a moving, engaging and unforgettable festival event. Wild Honey celebrates the many ways in which poems by women deserve a place in the literary canon of Aotearoa. Featuring Jess Fiebig, Bernadette Hall, Cilla McQueen, Selina Tusiatala Marsh, Frankie McMillan and Freya Daly Sadgrove, with Morrin Rout. Unfortunately, Tusiata Avia is not able to appear at this event.

30 October 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art created in response to the editors’ questions: What is New Zealand now, in all its rich variety and contradiction, darkness and light? Who are New Zealanders? The starting point for the anthology was the statement by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after the March Christchurch attacks: ‘Because we represent diversity, kindness, compassion, a home for those who share our values, refuge for those who need it…we will not, and cannot, be shaken by this attack.’ To celebrate the launch of this important book, published by Otago University Press, we welcome contributors reading from their work alongside special guests from 5pm to 6pm, followed by a reception from 6pm to 7pm. Featuring Dr Hanif Quazi, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, essa may ranapiri, Donna Miles-Mojab, Mohamed Hassan, David Gregory, E Wen Wong and more. Unfortunately, Tusiata Avia is not able to appear at the event.

Hot off the Press - Black Lives Matter and the Coronavirus both make an appearance in the latest poetry collection from Tusiata Avia - who's also celebrating being named a 2020 Arts Foundation Laureate. 

Faith Wilson reviews The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia, published by Victoria University Press.

Faith Wilson reviews The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia, published by Victoria University Press.

Today Tina interviews Tusiata Avia. An acclaimed New Zealand Samoan Writer. Tusiata means Artist in Samoan and she embodies this well.

A second Radioactive Show reflecting on the March 15th Terror attack on two mosques in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Featuring a discussion with Adel Salman, Vice President of the Islamic Council of Victoria. He speaks about his experience of the massacre, the public and political response in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa, and the important work ahead. Later in the show we share two powerful spoken word pieces by poet, performer and author, Tusiata Avia, as first performed at the Together Against Racism Rally held on May 18 in Ōtautahi.Credits:Tusiata Avia: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/avia1.aspOllie MC: https://olliemc.bandcamp.com/

2 September 2018 | WORD Christchurch Festival Supported by University of Canterbury In 2011 author, activist and performance poet Sonya Renee Taylor posted a photo of her 105kg big brown queer body in a corset because she believed that no human being should be ashamed of being in a human body. This small unapologetic act was the catalyst for what has become a global company and movement that reaches millions, exploring the intersections of radical self-love and social justice. Sonya discusses her new book and shares some of her extraordinary life and work with us and with poet, performer and guest programmer Tusiata Avia. #suffrage125 #WhakatuWahine #SuffrageDay

Selina Tusitala Marsh is this country’s first woman of colour Poet Laureate and as Commonwealth Poet she performed for the Queen and recently welcomed Barack Obama to New Zealand. She is also an associate professor at Auckland University, juggling international festivals and academic conferences with her busy family life – and marathon-racing. So many women share this kind of extremely demanding existence, as we try to do everything and do it excellently. Guest programmer Tusiata Avia, sister poet and friend from the frontlines, talks to Selina about her life, her poetry and how women, under pressure, may burn bright but not out. #suffrage125 #WhakatuWahine #SuffrageDay Supported by the National Library of New Zealand and the Ministry for Women's Suffrage 125 Community Fund

28 August 2016 | WORD Christchurch Festival Listen in on a conversation between two extraordinary poets and performers, to celebrate the release of Tusiata Avia’s recent collection, Fale Aitu | Spirit House, which contains poems that are confessional and confrontational, gentle and funny. Set in Samoa, Christchurch, Gaza and New York, her poetry combines stories from myth and the everyday. Tusiata is joined by Selina Tusitala Marsh – who, among many achievements, recently performed her poem ‘Unity’ for the Queen – to talk about their work and their world views, and to share their poems.

Auckland Writers Festival 2016 Maxine Beneba Clarke is a prize-winning Australian writer, essayist and slam-poetry champ of Afro-Caribbean descent with a newly released poetry collection Carrying The World, and an upcoming memoir The Hate Race. Tusiata Avia is a leading Pacific poet who has travelled the world with her one woman show Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, and launches her new collection Fale Aitu | Spirit House in Festival week. These two formidable talents discuss their lives, their drives and cultural amalgamations.

Auckland Writers Festival 2016 Our annual sell-out smorgasbord of stories – invariably funny, moving, and rousing – signals the start of three days of public programming. Eight writers deliver a seven-minute true story, propless and scriptless, inspired by the theme Altered States. Don’t miss the literary gymnastics of Chilean/Canadian playwright, actor, memoirist and former revolutionary Carmen Aguirre; NZ/Samoan poet Tusiata Avia; Christchurch raconteur Joe Bennett; Cambridge-educated trade lawyer and rising Zimbabwean star Petina Gappah; erstwhile Midnight Oil front man and politician Peter Garrett; New York woman of letters Vivian Gornick; author of the European sensation The Dinner Herman Koch; and the incomparable UK writer Jeanette Winterson.

From Australia's ABC Radio National programme, Earshot Tusiata Avia provides a narrative about her poetry from two of her poetry collection books, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt and Bloodclot. Tusiata grew up in Christchurch and visited Samoa when she was fourteen years old. In her early twenties she left Christchurch and spent a year or so there teaching. Her experiences in Samoa and her dual heritage as Samoan Palagi would form part of the inspiration of her poetry, which is described as raw and lyrical . Avia spent over a decade travelling overseas teaching, and seriously took to writing in 2001, a year later she completed the MA Creative Writing Programme at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, Wellington. In 2002, the children's books, Mele and the Fofo and The Song were published. Her work was adapted for broadcast on Radio New Zealand, and her first collection of poetry Wild Dogs Under My Skirt was published in 2004. In 2009 the book Bloodclot was published, in 2013 she was a recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Awards.

From Australia's ABC Radio National programme, Earshot Tusiata Avia provides a narrative about her poetry from two of her poetry collection books, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt and Bloodclot. Tusiata grew up in Christchurch and visited Samoa when she was fourteen years old. In her early twenties she left Christchurch and spent a year or so there teaching. Her experiences in Samoa and her dual heritage as Samoan Palagi would form part of the inspiration of her poetry, which is described as raw and lyrical . Avia spent over a decade travelling overseas teaching, and seriously took to writing in 2001, a year later she completed the MA Creative Writing Programme at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, Wellington. In 2002, the children's books, Mele and the Fofo and The Song were published. Her work was adapted for broadcast on Radio New Zealand, and her first collection of poetry Wild Dogs Under My Skirt was published in 2004. In 2009 the book Bloodclot was published, in 2013 she was a recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Awards.

Tusiata Avia talks about her mixed heritage and reads her poem, Fresh From The Islands.

Tusiata Avia is a poet and performer from New Zealand and a recent Fulbright Pacific Writer at the University of Hawai’i. She performs her poems and talks with Ryan Van Winkle about her work and influences, including how she rediscovered poetry in her 30s. Her two collections of poetry are Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004) and Bloodclot (2009). David Stavanger aka Ghostboy is a poet and one of Australia’s premier young adult and children’s spoken word presenters. As well as reading a few of his poems, David also talks about his love of poetry, how he is developing his voice and the way he plays with genre and audience expectations. We also include one of his music tracks with the Golden Virtues, 'The Woman Who Is All Heart'. http://www.ghostboy.net Presented by Ryan Van Winkle http://www.ryanvanwinkle.com. Produced by Colin Fraser of Culture Laser Productions http://www.culturelaser.com. Music by Ewen Maclean.