B like Ultra Magnus
Benny Marama runs a Pasifika-focused theatre programme in the Waikato called IĒNA PASIFIKA which aims to activate youth and enable them to tell their own stories honestly and authentically. While the matrix of performance spaces is stacked in favour of Pākehā stories, looks and preferences, Benny…
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Benny Marama runs a Pasifika-focused theatre programme in the Waikato called IĒNA PASIFIKA which aims to activate youth and enable them to tell their own stories honestly and authentically.
While the matrix of performance spaces is stacked in favour of Pākehā stories, looks and preferences, Benny ensures that there is at least one space for Pasifika creators to emerge with pride, authenticity and dignity.
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Like Ultra Magnus, Benny enables youth to use their own spark of imagination to explore different transformations. Utilising the theatre as a matrix of empowerment, relevant authentic and previously unheard stories are truthfully told for the good of the wider and decidedly diverse community.
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Social transformers are no strangers to hardship; anger and grief colour their skies and the fibre of their being just like the rest of us mortals. They, like us, need a helping hand and the stories they tell themselves matter just as much as those of the titans of old. When the skies above them melt, they leave no-one untouched, and change is imminent.
Here, where it still hurts to stand still and endure the reality of today, Benny aids the development of a new cannon of stories - stories we need to hear to shape the future with our imperfect engines of change.
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