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Witty wanderings - 203 | Regional News

Witty wanderings

Embark on witty wonderings with some of Pōneke’s silver-tongued storytellers at This Could Be A Podcast: Stories Tall and True.

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The songs you know in your bones - 203 | Regional News

The songs you know in your bones

We interviewed legendary Kiwi musician Tim Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House fame about his tour The Lives and Times of Tim Finn, coming to the Michael Fowler Centre this September.

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A queer pirate punk Shakespearean musical - 203 | Regional News

A queer pirate punk Shakespearean musical

What if all the Antonios that Shakespeare wrote were in fact the same person? Ania Upstill’s original queer pirate punk Shakespearean musical Antonio! asks that very question.  

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Wellington Silver Screeners: Tin Whistle Collective - 203 | Regional News

Wellington Silver Screeners: Tin Whistle Collective

In our new Wellington Silver Screeners series, Alessia Belsito-Riera shines a spotlight on the movers and shakers working in the film capital of New Zealand. 

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Sorry, I’m a Libra - 203 | Regional News

Sorry, I’m a Libra

Pōneke-based artist Danica Bryant and her out-of-this-world band will celebrate her new single Libra with The Astrology Tour, landing at Wellington’s very own space-themed bar, Moon, this September.

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Movement of life - 203 | Regional News

Movement of life

With a rich, textural style and decades of experience, painter John Badcock captures the fleeting beauty of life in his en plein air artworks.

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