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June Fono

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Welcome to the after-match report from Banana Boat’s June fono in Grey Lynn, which was very kindly run by Arnette.

Present were ARNETTE ARAPAI, GRANT BAYLEY, RAWIRI, STAN WOLFGRAMM, and DAVID MAMEA.

Apologies were received from Journalist-of-the-Year nominee AROHA AWARAU, a keeping-warm-and-hydrating KAHURANGI CARTER, a show-opening LEILANI UNASA, and a travelling play-reading escorting JENNI HEKA.

BANANA BOAT BUSINESS

Banana Boat has a website! You’re at it right now! ISN’T THIS COOL?

NEWS TO USE

Radio New Zealand and Playmarket Brown Ink are hosting an Audio Drama: A Writer’s Dream workshop on Friday 6 July in Auckland. For more details, click on the Opportunities link at Playmarket.

COMING UP

Arnette’s looking forward to the 2012 Playmarket Brown Ink announcements due at the end of July.

Two nights to go at Wakapurei 2012: Rough, Raw and Ready, with Dianna Fuemana’s My Mother Dreaming and Mitch Tawhi Thomas’s Have Car Will Travel.

And two nights to go on Indigenous Theatre’s run of Chris Molloy‘s The Revival. Buy your tickets here.

And rumours abound of a tenth anniversary remounting of Kila Kokonut Krew’s seminal The Taro King – keep your eyes peeled in August.

SCRIPT READING

Grant very generously shared a recent draft of his Earthquake Weather script with the group. You and your script have come a long way, baby! We look forward to the next stage of its evolution.

NEXT FONO

– will be on THURSDAY 26 JULY, at Toi Ora Live Art Trust, 6 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn.

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NEXT FONO: Thursday 28 June 2012

Boat Business

The next fono is THURSDAY, 28 JUNE 2012 from 7PM TO 9PM.

It will be held at the TOI ORA LIVE ART STUDIO, 6 PUTIKI STREET, GREY LYNN.
The agenda for the June fono is as follows:
 – news to use;
 – and the usual script reading and discussion.
PLUG:  it’s Matariki!  and Banana Boat members have been BUSY AS!
  1.  JENNI HEKA is executive producing ROUGH, RAW AND READY – a week of semi-staged readings of plays by Maori and Pasifika playwrights – including Banana Boat’s own Enter the Banana writers, ROB MOKARAKA and SULI MOA!
  2.  CHRIS MOLLOY and LEILANI UNASA proudly present the world premiere of THE REVIVAL, a tale of unbridled passion, love, lust and naked ambition.
Book your tickets!
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May Fono

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Welcome to a belated after-match report from Banana Boat’s May fono in Grey Lynn.

Present were GRANT BAYLEY, KAHURANGI CARTER, OLE MAIAVA, JONATHAN RILEY, ARNETTE ARAPAI and DAVID MAMEA.

Apologies were received from a Big Apple-devouring JENNI HEKA, a Wellington-swingin’ AROHA AWARAU, an ever-gigging JAMES NOKISE, a child-wrangling LEILANI UNASA, and a wish-I-was-there-but-I-am-writing GERALDINE WARREN.

My apologies if you were present but are not listed or gave apologies but are not listed – I have lost my notes, and my memory was never… something.  Email me and I shall make the corrections.

16Jun12:  My profuse apologies to the one, the only Ole for having forgotten his presence – an unexplainable mistake given how his reading of Jonathan‘s script had everyone in stitches.

BANANA BOAT BUSINESS

Enter the Banana‘s inaugural writers are Suli Moa and Rob Mokaraka.  Go hard, boys!  We look forward to your next reading at a future Banana Boat fono!

NEWS TO USE

Playmarket’s Brown Ink 2012 development programme is now open for applications – the deadline is Friday 1 June 2012.

COMING UP

GreyView Productions’ – that’s members Eric Smith & Chetan Patel – 3 Up  season opens on 14 June and runs for a mere three nights until 16 June.  3 Up is three short plays by Chetan, David Mamea and Eric, all at the Herald Theatre, all that quality for a mere $25/$15/$15.  Tickets can be bought online here.  Details about the evening are rampant on Facebook, GreyView, and Chocolate Stigmata.

SCRIPT READING

Jonathan shared his latest script with those assembled, the prolific so-and-so.  It was, as always with Mr Riley’s scribblings, a hoot to read and we look forward to it’s next stage of development… after his long-awaited Makigi has been staged.

18Jun12:  My further apologies for the typos and ambiguous phrases that made this post so confusing, second-rate and potentially upsetting to those present.  They have been fixed.

NEXT FONO

– will be on THURSDAY 28 JUNE, at Toi Ora Live Art Trust, 6 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn.

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