On The Bus: Flat Out Brown

Contemporary Maori Writers on Tour as a part of the Lake Taupo Arts Festival

Date	Venue	City	Country	Duration

Briar Grace-Smith

Briar Grace-Smith leads a select group of Maori writers around schools in the Tuwharetoa Rohe, presenting an entertaining and varied programme of recent writing. With a selection of both established and up-and-coming writers, this group of poets, short-story writers, playwrights and novelists will bring words alive, characters into being and stories into focus.

There will also be one public reading sesssion at the Pacific Crystal Palace.

Guest reader will be Rowley (Rore) Habib, who lives in Taupo. Rore is a highly-respected writer and playwright who, through his work since the 1950s, has paved the way for today's Maori writers and theatre practitioners.

'On the Bus: Flat Out Brown' in the Taupo region is supported by Tuwharetoa Trust Board (Hei Ara Kokiri Tuwharetoa Education Initiative).

Tour Dates

The writers will be in schools from Monday 9 February - Friday 13 February 2004.
Public programme: Wednesday 11 February at 12pm at the Pacific Crystal Palace.

Writers on Tour

Briar_Grace_Smith- playwright, short-story writer
Renee - playwright, novelist
Kingi McKinnon - children's writer, young adult writer
Mere Whaanga - children's writer, historian
Rore Habib - writer, playwright

Following the Lake Taupo Arts Festival, On the Bus will tour the Waiariki Region, 14 - 20 February 2004. otb_waiariki

Toi Maori at the de Young: A Celebration of Contemporary Maori Art and Culture

Toi Maori – small treasures exhibition, leading Maori tattoo experts, contemporary Maori cloaks and weavers. Oct. 10-12; Artist in residence - Maori weaver Kohai Grace Oct.8-22, 2008