Hester Ida and the Music
An innovative platform that brings together community dancers and artists to collaborate on professionally choreographed pieces in unique, site-specific locations around our city. Inspired by the carnaval traditions and the vibrant energy of Ōtautahi’s rave scene, MANIFESTA is a party-protest uniting diverse communities through movement, performance, and activism. Choreographed by Brazilian-born, New Zealand-based artist, Janaína Moraes.
This project is for everyone with a spark to share—whether you’re an emerging artist, a seasoned performer, or simply someone eager to step into the creative arena. MANIFESTA is bringing a party-protest performance to the Climate Action Campus thinking about the collective “party-body” as a political one: a body in potential, a body in protest.
What’s in it for you?
13th of May – 28th of June
Tuesdays & Saturdays 4-7pm
MANIFESTA invites you to learn new craft skills and join us in co-making the masks, heads, crowns and estandartes (textile banners) for our winter parade.
In the run-up to the performance on June 28th, the choreographer, The White Room, and Stich-O-mat will collaborate to create a series of weekend public and free workshops at Climate Action Campus.
The workshops include crafting, sewing, mask-making and more… weaving discussions on social action through the joy of co-creating together, and widening the conversation about climate crisis and other global/local issues.
Hester Ida and the Music
Cris Obregon
Verónica Peña
Tui Emma Gillies and Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows
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As part of our audience development and critical engagement, we engage a group of responders for each performance, where artists and writers create creative responses to the works, to spark artistic dialogue, to provide alternative documentation and to allow art to generate art.
Creative responses can be created during the performances or in response to the performances and can take the form of any kind of artwork. Responses in the past have included illustrations, drawings, paintings, critical writing, poetry, live tweets, sound compositions, zines, crafts, sculptures, fragrances.
Images/recordings of the responses are collectively owned by the performers, the responders and Tiny Fest. They are published on Tiny Fest Socials, are credited to the responders and are available for the performers and responders to use.
