Artspace Aotearoa / Door, window, world
Thursday 30 March 2023, 6:00pm

The Ani Waaka Room

Date Thursday 30 March 2023
Time 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location Artspace Aotearoa, 292 Karangahape Rd
Entry Free and open to all, information on access
Part of Door, window, world

In the context of Door, window, world: Maree Horner, J.C. Sturm, join us for The Ani Waaka Room on Thursday 30 March at 6pm.

Poet Debbie Broughton reads from her debut collection titled The Ani Waaka Room. Broughton’s collection celebrates the survival of Taranaki ancestors who were forced by war to leave their homelands for Te Aro Pā. As in the late poetry of J.C. Sturm, The Ani Waaka Room weaves together fragments of whakapapa, daily life, and government atrocities.

Broughton will be joined in conversation by writer Leonie Kapea who will read selected favourites from J.C. Sturm.

All welcome, no RSVP required.

BIOGRAPHY

Debbie Broughton has whakapapa to Taranaki Iwi, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Porou and Ngāpuhi. She has a Tāhuhu Ahunga Tikanga (Masters of Māori Laws and Philosophy) from Te Wānanga o Raukawa. The Ani Waaka Room is her debut ollection of poems that celebrate the survival of Taranaki ancestors who were forced by war to leave their homelands for Te Aro Pā. The poems weave together ancestor and descendant, Taranaki and Te Aro, family stories and government atrocities. The Ani Waaka Room is a challenge to those who ignore mana whenua in cities, and rongoā for those who know Papatūānuku breathes beneath layers of concrete.