BE LIKE BILLY?
Theatre Royal
Thurs 24 + Fri 25 Oct | 6.30pm | 70 min
After wowing us in Thoroughly Modern Māui, award-winning Rutene Spooner returns to celebrate showband legacy, idolise the greatest Māori showman and tussle with the future of Māori in entertainment. This is everything but an impersonation show. Can you be like Billy without being the butt of the joke?
ABBY HOWELLS
The Boathouse
Thurs 24 Oct | 8pm | 55 min
Aged 11, Abby wrote a romance set in the Navy in the wake of World War II. Now 33, she returns to this tale of love, loss, nautical trauma and deeply undiagnosed Autism in her hilarious Billy T Award winning comedy show.
HOUSING FOR ALL
Suter Theatre
Fri 25 Oct | 12.30pm | 60 min
From accessible housing design to the tiny house movement, and everything in between, what happens when people step outside the box in housing design and development? Join architect and housing advocate Jade Kake, disability rights advocate, essayist and poet Henrietta Bollinger and local visionary Miriana Stephens, who is leading Te Āwhina Marae’s redevelopment project, in conversation with Min Hall.
AIGA
Theatre Royal
Tues 29 Oct | 6.30pm | 65 min
An exploration of identity, desire, family, and of being disabled and Pasifika, AIGA (Sāmoan for family/whānau) is ground-breaking theatre told through the lens of Pacific Toa award-winner Lusi Faiva.