The Pantograph Punch publishes urgent and vital cultural commentary by the most exciting new voices in Aotearoa.

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, we're delighted to unveil our full programme of events for 

is a celebration of writers. It also runs alongside three original new plays that are being staged as part of the 

The Deliberate Disappearance of My Friend, Jack Hartnett

All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever

These are dark plays with troubled protagonists, and we'll be taking the stage to explore similar ideas of fractured truths, unexpected collisions, and untimely ends.

Our first event invites you to put your lie-detecting skills to the test in an evening of half-truths, tall tales, and hand-to-heart facts.

, we'll be serving up stories that are true, some that are hard to believe, and some that will threaten to slip under your radar.

Tickets are $15 (with an option to add on a donation for our writers) and are available 

Next up, we're slinging together an unlikely mix of theatre, poetry, comedy, music and prose to form a curated sampler of artistic delights.

 and Tui-award-winning music by Great North’s 

Finally: when you're creating something - whether it's a painting, a play, or a song - how do you know when you're done? When is a work ready to meet the world, and when is it time to slay the muse?

Join our panel of artists, musicians and writers – 

 about beginnings, ends, and when to put the pen down.

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Presenting a short season of writerly events

The Pantograph Punch team reflect on 14 years of continuous publishing as a stalwart arts media journal (are we allowed to say this about ourselves?), and our choice to go on hiatus.

Long Live Pantograph Punch, Forever

Mya Morrison-Middleton

Te Rā, the only remaining Māori sail, has temporarily returned home. Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Te Rā, asking questions of its origins and future, while highlighting the work of those who are actively reviving Māori sails.

Opening Portals with Our Hands: On Te Rā, the Māori Sail

Matariki Williams

What if Pākehā were subjected to the same colonisation as Māori? Matariki Williams travels into the sci-fi world of 'Turncoat' - where an all-too-familiar narrative of colonisation plays out amongst aliens and humans.

A State of Disconnection: The Human Alien Relationship of Turncoat

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Tunmise Adebowale

Tunmise Adebowale finds warmth and unexpected connections between wooden carvings of twins from her Yoruba whakapapa, and Ōtepoti-artist Kate Fitzharris’ works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Looking at Things as a Whole

Stacey Kokaua 

Pip Laufiso was born and raised in Ōtepoti and her contributions to Māori and Pacific arts in this city have spanned decades. Stacey Kokaua reflects on how Pip influences a community of creatives in a city not often recognised for a brown arts culture.

Pip Laufiso: Living and Breathing Pacific Arts in the Deep South 

From the Springbok Tour, to the Vietnam War, to the occupation of Palestine, Matariki Williams delves into how the arts have been, and can be, used to express solidarity and protest.

Art is a Salve

Mya Morrison-Middleton reflects on the career of renowned Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa, and her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua', which showed at Season Aotearoa in Auckland and Christchurch's Centre of Contemporary Art.

He Toka Tū Moana a Robyn Kahukiwa

Gabriella Brayne

Litia Tuiburelevu

Gabriella Brayne and Litia Tuiburelevu publish this essay, taken from a wider research project on Pacific Peoples and the Criminal Justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand, written with Liz Lotoa, Isabella Ieremia and Hugo Wagner-Hiliau. Their research calls for abolition and an ending to carceral capitalism, envisioning emancipatory past futures for Tangata o le Moana and the globe.

What Shall We Build on the Ashes of a Nightmare?

Tom Denize

Is cruising a form of time travel, a doorway into a pocket of Queer time, or something else entirely? Tom Denize unpacks the heat and magnetism of cruising spots.

Waterlilies Sucking Mud

Briar Pomana

Briar Pomana (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) falls down the enticing crochet rabbit hole of artists Lissy Robinson Cole and Rudi Robinson, reflecting on the role ringatoi Māori play in our current realities and beyond.

Wharenui Harikoa is what dreams are made of

Emele Ugavule

Is the demand for intimacy co-ordinators, choreographers and directors just colonialism rebranding itself to undermine our sense of collective morale and personhood? In asking for collective responsibility in storytelling, Emele Ugavule pulls forward Indigenous conceptualisations of body sovereignty from an iTaukei worldview. 

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