Word-Up Wānanga

With Eric Soakai, Ruby Macomber and Phodiso Dintwe

Calling all young performers, musicians, singers, rappers, poets and spoken word artists! Corban Estate Arts Centre is thrilled to offer a group of budding artists the opportunity to partake in our Word-Up Wānanga.

Over a dedicated weekend on-site, you will work collaboratively with a group of experienced mentors to develop your creative practice, creative writing, and performance skills.

Concluding in a public performance night, Word-Up Showcase, participants will have the opportunity to share their art and performance onstage.

Eric Soakai - Eric Soakai is an artist, activist and academic of Samoan, Tongan, German, Scottish and Irish descent. An award winning poet they are 2019 New Zealand National Slam Champion, 2021 University of Auckland Slam Champion with other various achievements. They have been published in academic journals such as Knowledge Makers Journal in Canada as well as online magazines such as Oscen. Their primary focus currently is on multiplicity and Selfhood.

Ruby Macomber - Ruby Macomber (Ngāpuhi/Oinafa) is an award-winning poet, creative essayist, researcher and tauira of Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa. Her mahi centres on the creative exploration of intersectional feminism, and features in Awa Wāhine, Landfall, Starling, and Kete Books. She is currently writing ‘Returning to Rotuma’ a creative essay exploration into Rotuman youth experiences in Aotearoa.

Phodiso Dintwe - Phodiso Dintwe is a musician, performer, and writer from Botswana. He was raised in his maternal grandmother’s village, Lentswelemoriti, alongside the Limpopo River, a stone’s throw from his kin over on the South African side of the water. Between these two places he began learning various Tswana & Pedi percussion styles at an early age. Music, dance and poetry are the gifts of his clan, BaMoganetsi, and so he learnt those too. He is currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, working as a musician and a performing arts practitioner-teacher. He has performed dance, music, and theatre in Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Malaysia, New Zealand, USA, Wales and England.

Youth: 13 - 18

$40

Don’t let $ be a barrier - contact us, we have sponsored spots availble.

Bring a friend for half-price!

Snacks and refreshments provided.

For more informaion email enquiry to leela@ceac.org.nz