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Friday 10 May
12.30–2.30pm
King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre

​THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT ​
$10 per student
Places limited, schools should email info@dwrf.co.nz to secure places

Secondary Schools Programme: Afternoon Session
Language:
​Te Reo, Hip-Hop & Shakespeare
 

Stacey & Scotty Morrison:
Te Reo





Supported by NZ National Commission for UNESCO





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Image: Carolyn Sylvester
Scotty Morrison, author of the hugely popular Māori Made Easy series, learnt French rather than te reo Māori when he was at high school in Rotorua. 
​Stacey Morrison, co-author of Māori at Home, spent her college years in Christchurch feeling whakamā about her lack of te reo and learnt Japanese instead. The pair will talk about their te reo journey, why the language is undergoing a great boom and what young people can do to keep it booming.

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Akala Presents: Hip-Hop & Shakespeare
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In association with 
​Auckland Writers Festival
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Image: Paul Husband
Akala is a BAFTA and MOBO award-winning hip-hop artist, social entrepreneur and best- selling author, as well as the co-founder of The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company. In this interactive session, which includes spoken word and a student ‘call and response’, Akala will explore the social, cultural and linguistic parallels between the works of William Shakespeare and contemporary hip-hop. The talk aims to encourage young people to develop an alternate view of the arts – and ultimately themselves – by showing how the culture and language of hip-hop and Shakespeare have the power to transgress race, class and iambic pentameter.
Major funders:
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Gold sponsors:
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Silver sponsors:
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Bronze sponsors:
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