Russell Brown & Colin Hogg Hit the High Road

Russell Brown and Colin Hogg discuss Colin’s book The High Road, an exploration of legal marijuana culture in America, and its implications for Aotearoa.

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival28 June 2020Russell Brown, Colin Hogg, marijuana, legalisation, Cannabis, USA, drug-culture, drugs

Rod Oram: Between Here and There

Rod Oram like you’ve never heard him before, orating a trans-historical soundscape encapsulating the ecological history of Tāmaki Makaurau.

Oratory, Season 1Going West Festival25 June 2020Rod Oram, 2017, Celeste Oram, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, environment, ecology, colonialism, Logan Campbell, Allen Curnow, environmentalism

Paula Morris: the Tyranny of Ideas

Paula Morris, Sir Graeme Douglas Orator, responds to the 2018 Going West theme and puts forward a bold argument for valuing the craft of writing over ideas.

Oratory, Season 1Going West Festival23 June 20202018, Paula Morris, Education, Writing, Pedagogy, Ideas, Language, Douglas Orator, Māori

Unfiltered

Four writers give creative responses to selected items within Auckland Museum’s documentary heritage collection.

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival21 June 2020Auckland Museum, Diversity, Identity, Diaspora, Colonialism, Museums, Immigration, Foo

TŪ - Moana Maniapoto & Paddy Free

Musical collaborators Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free give a soaring and powerful multimedia performance of contemporary songs in te reo Māori, with lyrics by Scotty Morrison.

Performance, Season 1Going West Festival18 June 2020Te Reo Māori, Music, Moana Maniapoto, Paddy Free, Live, Live Music

Selina Tusitala Marsh: Live at GW2017

As New Zealand poet laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh performs recent works including her Commonwealth speech performed for the Queen at Westminster Abbey.

Performance, Season 1Going West Festival18 June 2020Selina Tusitala Marsh, Pasifika Poetry, Pacific Poetry, Going West, 2017, Henderson, Commonwealth Poetry, Poet Laureate.

Breathing Words

Robert Sullivan, Bernard Makoare and Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku discuss and perform taonga pūoro, oral and written Maori literature at the very first session of the Going West in 1996.

Performance, Season 1Going West Festival18 June 2020Te Ao Māori, Te Reo Māori, taonga pūoro, Māori music, Māori written literature, Poetry, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Robert Sullivan, Bernard Makoare