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- Title
- Keskidee Aroha
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This film documents the influential 1979 New Zealand tour of a black theatre group from London arts centre Keskidee. They visit marae, perform at The Gluepot, prisons and youth centres; meet gang members, Ratana ministers and a young Tame Iti; and korero about roots and fights for rights. The made-for-TV film was directed by Merata Mita and Martyn Sanderson. On the tour Sanderson met his future wife, Kenyan actor Wanjiku Kairie. Tour instigator Denis O’Reilly argued in 2009 that the doco is “...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1980
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/keskidee-aroha-1980
- Related subjects
- culture clash / maori / jamaica / jamaican / ratana / gang / street kid / theatre / music / london / ingnia / haka / poi / waiata / rasta / reggae / kohitere / prison / marae / ruatoria / tigi ness / activism / protest / postcolonial / postcolonialism / africa / african / kenya / bird / muldoon / rastafarian / stormtrooper / moerewa riot / king cobra / ponsonby / gluepot / kaos / youth centre / headhunters / tuhoe / steve wilmer / james baldwin / edgar white / steve carter / play / keskidee / tame iti
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