Ōtautahi Tiny Fest is a remarkable two day festival of epic proportions - 45 artists and 21 shows over two intense days - featuring theatre, poetry, dance, story-telling and intersectional forms showcasing the cutting edge of performative practice in Ōtautahi/Christchurch.
Here's a couple of shows that we think you might want to check out from two of Ōtautahi's most electric performance poets and theatre practitioners.
Gay Death Stock Take
Ōtautahi and NZ Poetry Slam Champion Nathan Joe presents a 'theatrical performance essay (with poetry elements)!' Kind of part TED-talk, part performance poem, part museum of personal history. Where
birthday party meets mourning ritual. A brand new work by Nathan Joe,
made in collaboration with Daniel Goodwin.
Nathan
Joe is an award-winning theatre-maker and performance poet based
between Tāmaki Makaurau and Ōtautahi. Recent work includes curating
BIPOC spoken word event DIRTY PASSPORTS at Basement Theatre, a staged
reading of his play Scenes from a Yellow Peril at Auckland Arts
Festival, co-creating Slay the Dragon or Save the Dragon or Neither with
A Slightly Isolated Dog, and directing Yang/Young/杨 for Auckland
Theatre Company. He is also the current National Slam Champion.
Saturday 27th November, 10am
Ron Ball Studio, Christchurch Town Hall
Notes on a Migration
‘I think of my mother and father, standing by sunflowers
the plane tilts
in a slow motion leapfrog
to limboland
tucked knees under my chin
the lights dim
leaving, heading
with both feet in’
'an
imaginative journey traversing the entire world in this intimate,
electric, political, part-memoir, part-story dreamscape drawn from
Ullyart’s poetic journaling since leaving Heathrow and stepping foot in
Ōtautahi in late 2017. She is supported on stage by experimental music
maker Admiral Drowsy in a new collaboration especially for Tiny Fest.'
Hester
Ullyart is an award-winning multi-disciplinary maker- writer, actor,
visual and spoken word artist based between England and Ōhinehou since
2017. Original plays include; ‘The Ballad of Paragon Station’ (Stellar
Original Content NZFringe, Ed Fest) ‘Paragon Dreams’ (Hull Truck, LAF).
Original film includes ‘I am all the rooms of the house’ (Best Poetry
Short DoDFest2020). Other Ōtautati work includes ‘How Dare You’ (Free
Theatre), ‘Ship of Dreams’(Delaney Davidson). Directing includes ‘Our
Town, Gladys and Alfie, Gladys and Daphne’ (LAF) and Robin Judkins’
‘Free Bus to God’. Aotearoa screen work includes One Lane Bridge S2
(TVNZ/Great Southern). She is a National Poetry Slam 2020 finalist.
Saturday 27th November, 5.30pm
Ron Ball Studio, Christchurch Town Hall
