Whakamahuki TINY FEST
About TINY FEST
I te tau 2019 i ara ake a Ōtautahi Tiny Performance Festival hei hui taurima hou, hei tuāpapa, hei whare mō ngā mātanga Toi me ōna iwi mātakitaki o te ‘Apōpō’ ki Ōtautahi nei.
Ko tā ‘Tiny’ he whakatairanga ake i te mana kōrero, te mana ao tūroa me te mana tangata mā te whakakotahitanga o ngā iwi ki te whakanui i te tuakiri tangata me te kōtui anō i te taura tangata.
Ōtautahi Tiny Performance Festival emerged in 2019 to be a new kind of festival, a platform and a community hub for the next wave of performance makers and audiences in Ōtautahi.
Tiny Fest creates space for mana kōrero, mana ao tūroa, and mana tangata, by bringing people together to celebrate difference and the ways we are all interconnected.
MANA KŌRERO. MANA AO TŪROA. MANA TANGATA.
Become part of the Tiny Fest whānau!
We are currently looking for volunteers in the roles of:
- Ushers – scanning tickets at the door, sits in on the show
- Box office – selling tickets in the Festival Lounge
- Runners – between Green Room, library, and performance space
- Responders – written/artistic/craft responses to a performance
- Support for site specific performances
- Technical Assistants – TBC
INĀ KA KITEA Ē KOE.
KA TĀEA Ē KOE.
IF YOU CAN SEE IT.
YOU CAN BE IT.
E whakatairanga ana i ngā ahurea hou o Aotearoa, ko Tiny he waka e eke panuku ai ngā mahi a ngā pūkenga toi hei whakaatu atu i ngā mahi tūturu, taketake, tuakiri hoki, ā, hei whakanui i te wairua o Ōtautahi.
He mea whakaoraora a Tiny i ngā mahi Toi hei whakapātaritari whakaaro me te wero tangata, i waihangatia mai ē Janaína Moraes hei kōrerorero, hei whakapuaki wānanga mō ngā take matua me ngā take o te wā. Mā te whakangahau e whai wāhi atu ai te titiro ki te ao hurihuri me te rapa i te toi ora mō te tangata.
Featuring contemporary performance from around Aotearoa, Tiny Fest is a platform for progressive performance makers to showcase raw, real, and radical art, and to celebrate the spirit of Ōtautahi.
Tiny Fest is a curated, thought-provoking, and challenging performance programme, designed by Artistic Director, Janaína Moraes, to spark kо̄rero and support wānānga about urgent global and contemporary issues. Performance plays a vital role in opening up space to reflect on society and ways of making a difference.
EXPERIMENTAL.
INNOVATIVE.
BRAVE.
Our Team
Janaína Moraes
Artistic Director
I am Brazilian artist based in Aotearoa. I’m passionate about embodying the coexistence of multiple worlds, specially the ones dwelling in-between. I choreograph dance, language, performance, pedagogy and research as entangled/expanded art forms.
Sarah Aspinwall
Business Manager
Sarah Aspinwall is from a background in small business management, having been one of the owner-operators of Canterbury Cheesemongers for 23 years and now brings her knowledge to Tiny Fest. During the day, she is kept busy as the Interim Director of Movement Art Practice and the Operations Manager at CoCA Toi Moroki.
Kat Stefanova
Marketing Manager
With a background in dance and graphic design, Kat has become a multi-faceted creative, blending the boundaries of visual art, design and dance. Besides creating her own work, she is involving her creativity and experience to help promote artists, art organizations, and creative projects. Taking on Social Media/Content Creation and Marketing Manager roles for organizations like XCHC, Movement Art Practice, The Temple of Techno, Paradox Pop-ups and collaborating with artists on their personal creative projects.
Rosaria Ferguson
Technical Manager
Rosaria is an experienced event producer delivering technical solutions and bringing projects to life.
Regina Speer
Web Designer
Passionate about creating visual stories that connect people and ideas, her work blends creativity with purpose. Regina focuses on sustainable design solutions that resonate with communities and are founded in communication design principles. Her specialty is crafting narratives that captivate and inspire positive change.
Isabella Nicholson
Graphic Designer
A passion for looking into things that others do not, Isabella’s vast range of creative elements showcase a delightful spin on the mundane. — “I prefer to capture the essence of looking beyond what one already knows, and share an unspoken story, visually.”
Our Board
Jade Cavalcante
Jade Cavalcante is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and producer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. She is interested in inclusive experiences and believe in the power of art to foster belonging and community. She is the co-chair of Tiny Fest Board of Trustees.
Hamish Annan
Hamish Annan is an actor, writer, contemporary performance maker, acting coach, and arts advocate based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He is the co-chair of Tiny Fest Board of Trustees.
Bernard Gruschow
Bernard Gruschow is an audio engineer and production manager. He is the technical manager for Word festival, Ōtautahi’s annual readers and writers festival, the touring audio engineer for Wellington based act The Phoenix Foundation, creator and promoter of You Should Be Dancing, a classic disco themed club night and has around 15 years experience as a professional in the arts and events industries. Bernie is in a great position to provide quality advice from a production and technical angle to Tiny Fest and thinks it is a wonderful unique organization providing a space for exciting and essential parts of the Ōtautahi arts community to present. He believes it is important that this continues with a focus on the sustainable facilitation of many more amazing performance works and events in the long term.
Dr Hannah Darroch
Dr. Hannah Darroch is the Chief Executive of SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, and has over 15 years of arts management experience in Aotearoa and Canada with a particular focus on communications, grant writing, and project management.
Curatorial Panel
Sean Curham
My current goal is to find a way to participate in any situation, with care and respect. I can relate this to an interest in community and the challenge of how to navigate being together without clinging to the habits, inscribed beliefs and blindspots of the past.
Gab Stoddard
Gabrielle Stoddard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurua. Her practice brings in her past explorations of photography and movement which inform a wider practice of community artmaking that revolves around care and collaborative practices.
Josiah Morgans
Josiah Morgan is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection between live performance and poetry. His work is interested in the intersection between the personal and political.
Maryam Bagheri Nesami
Maryam is a migrating Iranian dance writer and curator, currently homing between Aotearoa and Finland
Waipuketia ko te ūkaipō ki te taonga tuku iho mai rā anō.
Flood the whenua with its original language. Its time.