Soapbox

Serious: The Hamilton Sept of the Clan McGillicuddy at 100 Old Farm Road, December 1992.
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Soapbox: The funny thing about satire

Social media and smartphones mean everyone can now have their own soapbox
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Amy Shamblin
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Soapbox - Doing arts ain’t for sissies!

Think the arts are all opening nights and cocktail parties?
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A Lost Cause
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The miseducation of Loren Black

Writer and dramatist Loren Black unpacks her life experiences. Maybe you should, too.
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LA Contemporary Dance Company: Adaptation. Photo supplied.
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The new normal: what it takes to be a crazy fool

Tempo director Carrie Rae Cunningham uncovers the basic motivations for artistic endeavour. It’s not what you’re thinking.
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Drowning In Milk
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Soapbox: Why I’m Coming for The Good Guy

Saraid Cameron elaborates on the infinite truth that “all your faves are problematic”
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Peter O'Connor
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Time for art and history to rhyme

The arts matter, and education matters. So why are they further apart than ever? By director and educator Professor Peter O'Connor.
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Fanny Fern 1811-1872 Library of Congress
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Suffrage essay winner! The damned mob is coming for your words.

Steff Green dives into the outpourings of dead misogynists, and finds their ugly sentiment alive and well and walking the Earth.
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Steff Green
Lemi Ponifasi: Stones in her mouth. Photo by MAU
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MAUSINA: women's suffrage, whakapapa and truth

Susana Lei'ataua considers the ceremony MAUSINA - mau meaning testimony and sina meaning taonga - reflecting on colonial structures, genealogy and truth.
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Barbarian Productions company photoshoot 2017 'Ready to Work', photo by Owen McCarthy.
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Passing the bucks: a living wage for artists

Jo Randerson is passionate about artists earning their worth. That’s why her company Barbarian Productions just became a living wage employer. James Littlewood clocks on.
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James Littlewood
Ani-Piki Tuari and Annette Morehu. Photo via Facebook
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SOAPBOX: “You’re not Māori. You’ve just got Māori in you.”

Shortland Street storyliner and playwright Annette Morehu discovers the racial powers of narrative.
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