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Providence by Louise Tu’u returns for two nights only on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th February, as part of the New Performance Festival, being held at the Aotea Centre, The Edge in Auckland.  Artists from Canada, Germany and Australia as well as local folk will be simultaneously performing and exciting audiences and themselves about what [...]

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Last Friday evening, we attended the first Central Beginner Bike sessions for Adults at Parnell District School. It’s been awhile since we’ve graced a bicycle so when we saw the ad in the Auckland City Harbour News, saying they were on and for FREE, we rang up straight away and booked. It’s all part of [...]

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Last week, We Should Practice’s director, Louise Tu’u gave fourteen Trinity College lay preacher students and their tutor, Reverend Lynne Frith, a dramatic approach to space, ritual and liturgy. The engagement from all involved was enthusiastic, open and critical. Fa’afetai lava, Malo aupito, Bula vinaka and many thanks to the beautiful people: Siutaisa, Matafonua, Rupeni, [...]

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Our first post of 2012 is a celebration of one of our favourite projects from last year:  We Should Practice 50+. For those of you who have joined us here for the first time, We Should Practice 50+ were a series of introductory drama classes for people aged 50 and over. They ran for over [...]

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Over the weekend, we had amazing experiences with two shops, one in Mt Roskill and the other in Pt Chevalier. Please give it up for Liz and Barry Wakelin at Tayles Framing Supplies and Celia Hopkins at Two Daughters. These retailers are pleasant, knowledgable and affordable. In addition from checking them out, please vote for them [...]

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Last night, we attended the first dance show “The Beaten Track” of a two-night season at the Musgrove Studio. Curated by Serene Lorimer, “The Beaten Track” had a great variety of choreographers and dancers with Claire Luiten, Annabel Harrison, Katie Burton, Elise Chan, Michael Holland, Liana Yew, Georgie Goater and the curator herself. The standout [...]

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In recent weeks, we’ve been fortunate to have some great experiences with three particular shops in Grey Lynn. Don’t worry, we’re not getting paid to promote them. We simply agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Life is short but there is always time for courtesy”. Fa’afetai lava Cherie at Presentz , Flossie and Bryan at Grey Lynn Tyreworx and [...]

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What a wonderful way to spend an Auckland afternoon: working with seven talented individuals who participated in Part 3: artillery of the heart workshop at S/F. Led by Louise Tu’u, Anya, Lani, Lana, Kelvin, Kerry, Xin and S/F director Layla shared their fascinating array of objects, movements and thoughts inspired by them and their writings [...]

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We warmly invite you to Part 3: artillery of the heart, which happens this Saturday 19th November from 2-3pm. Louise Tu’u will be running this workshop. This is the third of four parts of Range of Convergence, in collaboration with graphic designer, Kelvin Soh at the wonderful and innovative project space, S/F. Part 3: artillery of the [...]

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As part of Artweek 2011 in Auckland, Louise Tu’u is performing with Kelvin Soh in “Range of Convergence” this coming Tuesday night. With early 20th century Auckland theatre ephemera as material, Kelvin Soh and Louise Tu’u explore fiction, indexicality and dramatisation in their respective mediums of printed matter and performance. The venue is the wonderful [...]

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