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Aperture - The life and work of Ans Westra

Ticket Information

  • General Admission: $20.00 each
  • Additional fees may apply

Dates

  • Tue 13 Jul 2021, 7:30pm

Restrictions

All Ages

Listed by

AOTNZ

“Baanvinger beautifully captures the era, the struggles, the insights and the awakening of self. A skillful storyteller” – M Giroux

Actor and director Martine Baanvinger, who wrote and starred in the award-winning play Solitude, returns in this creative and innovative one-woman play about Ans Westra, a NZ Arts Foundation Icon photographer.

In 1957, Ans Westra emigrated from the Netherlands to New Zealand and began to take photos of her new homeland. Fascinated by Maori culture in particular, she created an intimate and uniquely historical documentation of Maori life which led to a successful career capturing the essence of the people of Aotearoa.

DramaLAB’s visually stunning and intimate portrait focuses on Westra’s childhood in The Netherlands, her immigration journey to New Zealand and the start of her photography career in the 1960’s. Her first publications, including the controversial ‘Washday at the pa’, offered insight into the Maori way of life in rural Aotearoa at a time of urbanisation.

Book: trybooking or at Opotiki Library

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