Creative Creatures

01/05/2023

Got Amma/妈妈/Mummy Issues?!💔 Join our free series of poetry workshops! It's a space to unpack our complicated relationships with those who raised us.. through writing and sharing 💖

Feel like you could never live up to family/cultural expectations? Always using Google translate to try to understand what your parents are saying? Cried while watching Everything Everywhere All At Once/ Never Have I Ever coz the mother-daughter scenes are too relatable? Read Burnt Sugar/ Crying in H Mart/ Time Is A Mother and feel like you need to compare notes?! We got you!

Dates: 20th and 27th May, 10th and 17th June (different topic/prompts each week)
Time: 1 - 3 pm
Venue: All Goods Artspace, 99 Rosebank Rd, Avondale

DM us to register 💌 This event is supported by the Whau Local Board through the Whau arts broker.

03/03/2023

Still spaces available in this awesome 4-week poetry workshop themed around Y2K that Creative Creatures is hosting in our space! On every Sunday in March from 1pm to 3pm.

They'll delve into topics around Y2K including your favourite snacks you used to take to school, your first celebrity crush, movies that gave birth to your stunning personality, music that got you through those awkward teen years, and more!

Whether you want to give poetry a go, or are keen just for the nostalgia, register here for your space: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/y2k-poetry-tickets-557543657087

This workshop is supported by Henderson-Massey Local Board funding, and Creative Henderson-Massey.

26/02/2023

Y2K POETRY WORKSHOP:
Adorn yourself in butterfly clips, Kajol's Mono-brow, Sailor Moon's charms. Write a poem or three. Or just come vibe with us!!

Inspired by our childhood we are hosting a 4 week poetry workshop every Sunday in March. 1pm -3pm.
Come dressed up in your dapper y2k aesthetic and bring your favorite y2k memories and memorabilia with you.

Let's have yarn and a laugh!!
Register now!! Link in bio. Tickets are free!!

This workshop is supported by Massey-Henderson local board funding

11/05/2022

Audition Alert!!!! Get amongst this opportunity

AUDITION NOTICE: BOLLYWOOD ITEM GIRLS WORKSHOP
A Homegrown South Asian Musical

Ekanta (previously Patralekhika Productions) is auditioning for an upcoming development workshop of the brand new South Asian musical ‘Bollywood Item Girls’ written by Shriya Bhagwat (Ka*****ra Chronicles), music by Ben Fernandez ('Songs of Life', Saraswati’s Song) and directed by Ahi Karunaharan (The Mourning After, My Heart Goes Thadak Thadak).

We’ll be holding a paid script development workshop over the weekend of Friday May 20th – Sunday May 22nd 2022.

SYNOPSIS
A young woman on the cusp of her 20s Sara unleashes a rebellion against the conventional stereotypes of Bollywood and familial expectations.

We are interested in auditioning performers for the following characters:

Sara - female, 19.
University student. Ambitious, sensitive, fearless.

Piyu - female, early 20s.
Sara’s friend. Psychology student. Intelligent, troubled, rebellious, precocious

Smita - female, early 20s.
Sara’s friend. Management student. Risk-averse, sincere, coordinator and glue that binds the three girls

Ishan – male, 14.
Sara’s younger brother. High school student. Loyal, loving, Naive

Pushpa (Ma) – female, mid-late 40s.
Sara’s Mother. works in Farmers in the marketing department and has put her music passion aside to raise her family. Kind, forgiving.

Prashant (Baba) – male, early 50s.
Sara’s Father. Works as an accountant in Deloitte, used to be a passionate photographer in his youth. Reserved, stoic, fair

PLEASE NOTE:

Auditions for development workshops ONLY. No season is currently planned

Auditionees will be required to upload self-tapes due by 11.30PM Friday 13th May 2022.

We welcome performers of all South Asian/South East Asian ethnicities to apply for the roles.

Performers must be comfortable singing and it is a bonus if you can read sheet music (with any level of proficiency)

For more details and submissions, please visit: https://forms.gle/QgDCj6Wt3MP77mLR8

IN ASSOCIATION WITH AGARAM PRODUCTIONS & AKL LIVE
Agaram Productions Auckland Live Ben Fernandez Ahi Karunaharan Sananda Chatterjee 🎼🎯✅

07/03/2022

Our Voices: 4 part FREE poetry writing series for women of colour ✒🌶

Join us on Zoom for the 3 workshop sessions, and in person to launch a poetry book featuring all participants' work!📚

You will need access to the internet to use Zoom, your own writing materials and amazing creative ideas💡

No experience necessary, just a 🔥 desire to 💩 on capitalist cisheteropatriarchial colonialism 🤭

To register, please email the team at [email protected]

Ellen Melville Centre

06/02/2022

This Thursday! Poetry Night! Register for free tickets 🧡🎤🔥
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/myevent/259802715917/invite-and-promote/?showSuccessAlert=1

21/10/2021

Shout out to The Big Idea for sharing our spoken word and poetry workshops. Registrations are still open! Join your fave aunties this Sat 🔥

Spoken word poetry workshops - online

28/09/2021

🔥🔥REGISTER NOW! FREE!!🔥🔥

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lhzbKAbS_0eYn2sNpY5Uc1xasALBLGbWAsXtRQNY4D8/edit

Creative Henderson-Massey

10/09/2021

Enter the algorithm of resistance from these incredible poets... see you in the Matrix Monday night 7.30 pm 😎 😀 😉😉🧡🧡😈😈🛰🛸💻

12/08/2021

💦🍑🔥OUR ZINE IS HERE! Come and join us for the launch of our "Asian Women Talk About..." zine in collaboration with at .goods ‼️

“Asian Women Talk About...” were a series of casual zine workshops hosted by your favourite aunties from Migrant Zine Collective and Creative Creatures in 2021. Driven by a burning desire to decolonise, defetishise and delete the patriarchy, we bring to you this publication co-created with all our amazing participants!

We held a series of four workshops
aiming to explore, dissect and celebrate the experiences of pan-Asian communities connected to the Whau region. These workshops offer a space for pan-Asian folk of all ages to unpack the racialised and gendered barriers which impact their everyday lives. Topics we explored included food; sustainability; dating, s*x and love; and reimagining feminist futures.

This zine showcases the voices of predominantly Asian migrant women in Aotearoa, as a space to share, unpack and release our pent up emotions. As a collective, we represent
a group of Asian women in community organising, activism, theatre and the arts. We centre our approach towards our lived experiences of racism, patriarchal oppression and misogyny.

This project would not be possible without the funding of Whau Community Arts Brokering - we thank the board for this opportunity.