Cris Obregon
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.
Cris Obregon
Verónica Peña
Frankie van Kan
Joanna Cook, Steve Lovett
Tui Emma Gillies and Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows
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