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Kia orana
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Ni sa bula
Talofa lava
Taloha ni

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.