Hone Kouka
The founders of dynamic Kia Mau and Pacific Dance New Zealand Festivals
This month welcomes two contemporary indigenous performing arts festivals which have established themselves as cornerstones of the presentation of new work from Aotearoa and across the Pacific. Audio
Kia Mau Festival
Wellington is playing host to one of the city's most important arts events this year - the contemporary indigenous arts festival Kia Mau. It's grown from its enthusiastic but smaller-scale beginnings… Audio
Hone Kouka: his provocative new work Ngā Rorirori
Hone Kouka is no stranger to controversy with his work, and his new play Nga Rorirori is no exception. Audio
Two major grants to Māori arts organisations
The independent Maori theatre and dance sectors are overflowing with people wanting to create work. But what's often holding them back is a lack of experienced producers, and somewhere to go for… Audio
Te Ao Maori in a Te Ao Pakeha Media - Hone Kouka
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This week the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt hosted Connection: an Arts Communications Hui, gathering together arts marketers, communicators and PR people with artists and… Audio
Don Brash invited to play after objecting to use of Te Reo
The director of a play about Māori trying to adapt to Pākehā culture says he's delighted Don Brash has agreed to drive from Auckland to Whāngārei tonight to see it. Audio
Bless the Child
Who killed baby Ara? It could be another headline to another news story about another child killed by a family member or step parent. Which is very much the point of Hone Kouka's new play Bless the… Audio, Gallery
Maori and Pacific Island takes the stage in capital
The Kia Mau Festival kicks off in Wellington today - a chance for Maori and Pacific Island actors to take centre stage, with fourteen different plays or shows across the Wellington region till later… Audio
Hone Kouka - The Beautiful Ones
Playwright Hone Kouka speaks with Wallace about his latest work, The Beautiful Ones, a multi-media tale of two young lovers set in an urban environment but with a distinct Pacific flavour. Audio
Are New Zealand Playwrights representing our nation honestly on stage?
Are New Zealand Playwrights representing our nation honestly on stage? Audio
Hone Kouka and Tanemahuta Gray
The Beautiful ones Writer, director and performer of Tawata Productions' 'The Beautiful Ones' which is premiering as part of the Ahi Kaa Festival in Wellington. Audio
Act Ten - The Rise and Rise of Maori Theatre
Including Bruce Mason on maori playwriting, Mercury Theatre, 'Mr King Hong'i, Catherine Styles-McLeod, Maori stereotyping, The Depot, 'Michael James Manaia', Taki Rua, 'Waiora', Briar Grace Smith… Audio
Hone Kouka, Jo Randerson and Tim Spite
Downstage Theatre Wellington based theatre practitioners on the closure of Downstage Theatre and future direction of the industry. Audio
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Playwright and director Hone Kouka drops in to talk about his wildly amibitous theatre project - taking Patricia Grace's epic novel and turning it into a stage production. Audio
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Playwright Hone Kouka talks about his latest play, I George Nepia, which has opened in Wellington's Circa Theatre to coincide with the Rugby World Cup. Audio
Te Ahi Kaa mo 19 o Pipiri (June) 2011
Miria George and Hone Kouka of Tawata Productions talk about some of the more challenging aspects of creating Maori theatre and the upcoming Matariki Development Festival helping to grow Maori… Audio
Playing Favourites with Hone Kouka
Playwright, short story writer, poet, children's writer, actor and director, his production of He Reo Aroha will play at the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival. Audio
