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Epigraph Interview with Joanna Cho

In the second Epigraph interview of the year, poet Joanna Cho talks to Hainamana about her recent work and influences, and what she’d like to see change in the New Zealand publishing industry…

Life Is Easy – In Conversation with Chye-Ling Huang and Cole Jenkins

Life Is Easy is an 8-episode comedy web series that explores the complexities of race, gender and sexuality from the perspective of two best friends. Hainamana caught up with the acting/writing duo Chye-Ling Huang and Cole Jenkins behind this hilarious, hot new show. Watch online now on TVNZ OnDemand. Life Is Easy is a fun…

At a rehearsal of OTHER [Chinese]. Photo by Julie Zhu

The voices of OTHER [Chinese]

OTHER [Chinese] isn’t your standard night out at the theatre. Directed by Alice Canton, and developed over the course of a year in consultation with individuals from various Chinese communities, OTHER [Chinese] is a work of documentary theatre that explores what it is to be Chinese in Auckland in the here and now. Stories that…

Asian NZ Artists Hui

EVENT: Asian New Zealand Artists Hui | Saturday 8 July 2017

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā karangarangatanga maha, tēnā koutou katoa Hainamana invites you to a hui to discuss the role of Asian New Zealand artists in the field of contemporary art.  Over the past two decades, the emergence of Asia as an economic and cultural epicentre has lead to a re-evaluation of…