Sad to see Critical Stages Touring - a key Australian arts touring org - going in to liquidation. Covid is still hurting so many, as well as the massive travel cost increases we are all seeing. I hope we don’t see this in NZ… but I won’t be surprised if we do.

Stoked that Theia was on 🎵 RDU98.5FM 📻 The Morning of Absolute Truth this morning - got your tickets for her gig yet? It’s going to be so special. wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/thei…

The Soundcheck for Theia X TE KAAHU is sounding so heavenly in the beautiful acoustics of The Piano. We’ll have door sales available for show, see you there?

Ka rawe Phil!

Looks like I’ll be in Auckland for the first One NZ Warriors game of the season…

Given Lotteries NZ have now capped their funding for Creative New Zealand a bit of Scottish nous from the incoming NZ National Party government wouldn’t go astray…

How important, yet simple, it is to say “thank you”. Please is also a magic word!

OMG.

Literally the mother of the Buskers Festival, and a writer too. Go Jodi!

If this is what South Africa can do with their best team, I look forward to seeing the second tier play the BLACKCAPS #carnage theguardian.com/sport/2024/jan…

Efeso Collins was the first person I saw up close, as a teen, who was a natural, outstanding leader, so obviously marked for greatness no one even stopped to consider it. One of the country’s best orators and such an incredibly warm, positive and kind person. RIP Fa’anana

13 years!

I love the PANNZ performing arts market, but I think I count only 1 panelist (out of quite a few) based in Te Waipounamu, the South Island. Needs more geographic reach!

Glad I’ve got other things to do today besides watch the cricket.

This could be amazing for NZ performance too

Our creative sector is making a huge economic and social contribution. Imagine how much more we could grow with sustainable investment!

Pure joy 🥹

5 yrs ago a white supremacist shot 51 Muslims because he feared white people were being ‘replaced’. We had a royal commission, which recommended that we, like many countries, had hate speech laws. Today the govt abandoned that work. That’s a shit msg to send the victims.

Toha Harris' hair is giving me Claudia Kishi vibes and this is also a very niche tweet. #nrlwarriorsmanly #babysittersclub

“Books multiply the world…” On the necessary power of books. And “To the politicians and decision makers… I say read a story, read a novel…” Ka rawe Emily Perkins who has just been awarded Ockham NZ Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.#TheOckhams