So, anyway... a podcast: Recent Episodes
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Lex is the stage name of comedian Julie Sandbrook who also runs Lex Events and Panda Painting.
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Kerry Ranginui is a fashion designer and head pattern maker at Karen Walker.
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Nicole Grey is council's youth committee project support officer and blogs at The Grey Area .
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Kajun Campbell Brooking is a stand-up comedian who has gone from and open mic to Raw Comedy Quest finals to an upcoming opening slot at the Opera House in just a few months. Definitely one to watch. He also competes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Follow him on FB here.
Bryce Mason is a DJ and the former owner of Sandwiches in Wellington who returned home to set up Maria Lane in 2019.
Dr Kristen Hamling is a psychologist specialising in trauma. She has 20 years experience working with military and emergency services populations and has recently completed her pHD. She now runs her own practice, Wellbeing Aotearoa.
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Michelle Sigley is an artist practicing contemporary realistic painting, drawing, murals and tattoo. You can see her work at trulyspecial.co.nz or on Facebook.
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Rosemary Baragwanath spent her career working in nursing and has spent a lifetime involved in grassroots political movements including as a leader in the protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour and and the South African apartheid.
Matt Mulholland is a Wellington musician, YouTuber and comedian who has just released his debut album After You Grow. It's available available on all streaming platforms. Links here. He first made a name for himself on his YouTube channel amassing more than 200,000 subscribers and creating the viral recorder by candlelight version of My Heart Will Go On which has been viewed 31 million times.
Check out his YouTube here. And his Facebook here.
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Sacha Keating is a producer, a musician, a lecturer in music production at UCOL and runs his own company Te Āio Productions. Check out the site here.
He has worked with hundreds of musicians over a varied career.
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Matt Edmonds is the former owner of Lucky Bar & Kitchen and a keen musician and surfer.
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Jerome Kavanagh is a Taonga pūoro practitioner who has collaborated with many international artists, played all over the world and features on a Grammy award winning album Calling All Dawns.
He also teaches Taonga pūoro in schools and facilitates Oro Atua sound healing.
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Jay Rerekura is one third of The Bromigoes, works for Nga Tai O Te Awa, does volunteer youth work with Te Ora Hou, is a member of IGYB and is the chair of the Pākaitore Historic Reserve Board - among many other things.
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Lockdown pod #1. Dr Maria Pozza is New Zealand's first ever specialist space lawyer.
She gained a PHD in international law and policy in outer space while at Otago University and after working at law firms now runs her own company Gravity Lawyers which works in a wide range of law including commercial, cyber security and space and aerospace law.
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Katie Brown is an internationally renowned glass artist who runs Brown & Co Lighting and Design.
Katie has more than two decades experience in the glass world having graduated with a diploma in glass design and production in 1999, before becoming part of a glass making team with Josh Simpson in Massachusetts. She returned to NZ in the early 2000s to set up Chronicle Glass.
Brown & Co is Katie's next venture.
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Ellen Young is a musician performing under the name Castlecliff Lights and is also a town centre regeneration project manager.
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Elise Goodge is producing The Merchant of Venice for this year's Shakespeare in the Park at Bason Botanic Gardens, is student life coordinator at UCOL and a Taonga pūoro player.
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David Martin works for PatronBase which is an arts management software company.
He has previously worked at The PumpHouse Theatre in Auckland and Revolver Studios.
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Josh Chandulal-Mackay is a district councillor, health board member and on the executive of Monarchy New Zealand.
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Sara Fredrickson owns and operates Mindzye Fashions and is a drummer in covers band Evenflow.
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Thanks to all the guests who came on the show in 2019. More to come in 2020.
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Niki Vernon has just started Money Poppins. Think Julie Andrews as Mary, Niki will do the same for small businesses, sole traders and the like who find themselves in a pickle - all at little to no cost.
Niki also works to St John which is a great organisations that we all really need to support.
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Assassins Muay Thai head trainer and Night of Assassins promoter Kyle Gallacher is this episode's guest.
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Cracked Ink (Si Ormerod) is a street artist and one of the organisers of Whangnaui Walls street art festival which is back in March 2020.
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Kupe Renata is a New Zealand musician, formally of the Black Trio, and who is about to release his debut solo EP. He is in the process of moving back to his hometown of Whanganui.
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Hamish Horsley is a sculptor, painter and photographer who has worked all over the world. He has a masters degree in sculpture from the Royal College of Art. After 35 years in London he now lives back in his birth town of Whanganui.
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Bill Milbank is a gallery owner, art dealer, exhibition curator and was the director of Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery for 28 years from 1978 until 2006. Check out WHMilbank Gallery here. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts here or wherever you listen to podcasts. And please rate it 5 stars! Also, like us on Facebook here.
Vorn Colgan is a Wellington musician who is joined on the episode with his band mates Thomas Ligget and Nick Brown.
Check out dates for Vorn's Last Chance to See tour here.
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Dan Shand was a candidate in the recent Whanganui District Council elections. He joins the pod to talk politics, underground art and les ux.
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Hamish Webster is a Whanganui artist working in glass and wood sculpting. Check him out here.
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On the podcast for this birthday episode is Jaki Arthur who is the relationships officer at the Sarjeant Gallery and a former publicist for some of the world's biggest book publishers.
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Alexander Sparrow is New Zealand's most prolific character comic known for his Donald Trump impersonation and his own character Fred from Featherston.
He’s also an actor touring a solo version of Much Ado About Nothing. Alexander is also a stand-up comedian.
He is one half of Sparrow & Boyle Entertainment which is putting on two four-night seasons of solo Shakespeare shows in Whanganui.
Check out all their cool work here.
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Katie Boyle is one of New Zealand's most noted Shakespearean actors, a comic, a writer and a NZ fencing champion.
Katie is also one half of Sparrow & Boyle which is putting on two four-night seasons of solo Shakespeare shows in Whanganui.
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Mark Ward is chief executive of economic development agency Whanganui and Partners... and a pianist.
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Caleb Kingi is a filmmaker and podcaster who has just launched the Ready Machete Creative Podcast which you can find here.
Check out his other work with Lamp Studios here.
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Hamish Allan is a teacher aide, a spokesperson for Positive Money New Zealand and used to own (s)nans coffee shop and occasional music venue in Marton.
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David Pate aka Dancin' Dave is a Whanganui identity with a love of music, the environment and dancing.
His words: "Hard times requires furious dancing"
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Otis Mace is a New Zealand musician who has been writing, recording and performing for 40 years.
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And the great Otis Mace, Guitar Ace video from 1984 here.
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Anthonie Tonnon is a New Zealand musician.
On this episode Anthonie discusses song writing, his Rail Land tour, urbanism and the history of public transport in New Zealand.
Listen to Anthonie's music here or visit anthonietonnon.com.
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Dr Athol Steward has a strong voice in the fight against the proposed seabed mining off the coast of Taranaki which has been documented in a recently released film called Making Waves.
Athol is also an emergency doctor in Whanganui.
He walked the coast from Raglan to Whanganui and completed an ocean swim over the proposed mine to raise money and awareness.
Watch the trailer for Making Waves here. And follow it on Facebook here.
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Sarah Williams is an artist and the proprietor and curator of Space Studio & Gallery in Whanganui.
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Mike Marsh is a Whanganui pop artist who paints bold, colourful portraits and characters among and a range of other entertaining pieces.
You can see some of his work in Space Studio and Gallery’s new online Stock Room here.
Or see more of it by following him on Instagram here.
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Gioia Damosso publishes a blog called Coco Mama, runs a wine club in Whanganui and works for the Rangitikei District Council tasked with making the Rangitikei the place to be.
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Pat & Lety Beers are from San Diego rock 'n' roll band The Schizophonics.
Check out their 2017 album Land of the Living here. Follow their Facebook page here.
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Jack Marsden-Mayer is a sculptor who uses driftwood to make incredible animal sculptures from his Whanganui studio.
He has made hundreds of driftwood animals since moving to New Zealand from Manchester.
Check out his work here. And here’s the link to the Karen Ellett mural fundraiser.
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Emily Kara is the founder of the Eko Collective fashion library & pop-up exchange. She also trains in Muay Thai and is an occasional event promoter among her many other projects.
Check out Eko Collective here. And follow it on Facebook here. Emily is also bringing Baily Wiley to Whanganui in July.
This episode was also fulled by Ketonic Lean Vodka.
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Ray O'Leary is a New Zealand stand-up comic, writer for 7 Days and other shows and a Billy T Award finalist. Ray grew up in Whanganui but now lives in Auckland.
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Al. B. Damned is a musician, the host of the You're Gonna Die In Bed podcast and new resident of Whanganui.
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Author and founder of the After AI, Derek Pearson, is home in Whanganui and pops in to discuss how humans will thrive in the age of artificial intelligence.
Derek is a writer, film maker, musician and tutor.
Visit the After AI project here. Watch a short about it here. And donate here.
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Jonathan Carson is a journalist, content marketer and co-host of the The Wild Podcast.
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Milly Chandulal-Mackay talks ballet dancing, psychology and living with OCD.
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Riah King-Wall is the arts adviser to Whanganui District Council and is helping to develop an arts and culture strategy for the district.
The draft plan is open for submissions here. Please subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts here or wherever you get podcasts. Also, like the Facebook page here.
Anna Bettini is an anthropologist studying her PhD with the University of Alberta.
She in New Zealand studying the impact of the oil and gas industry on society and culture.
People wanting to talk to Anna about her research can contact bettini@ualberta.ca. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts here or wherever you listen to podcasts. Please like us on Facebook.
Ajax the Kea Dog has been trained to detect endangered Kea in our South Island national parks.
His trainer Corey Mosen is a wildlife biologist with the Department of Conservation and stopped in on a trip home to Whanganui to talk about Ajax, detection dog training and Kea conservation.
Check out a short film on Ajax and Corey here. And follow Ajax on Facebook here.
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Dr Derek Patton is a psychologist with training in child and family psychology and experience in special schools, family court, child protection and secure units for youth in New Zealand.
His advice? Be calm, breathe, then act.
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Charlotte Melser is the owner of The Citadel in Castlecliff. But not for long...
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Sung Hwan Bobby Park is a ceramic artist, designer and former marine in the Korean military. He is currently artist-in-residence at Rayner Brothers in Whanganui.
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Julia Holden is the current artist-in-residence at Tylee Cottage in Whanganui. Check out her work and website here.
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The pictured work was produced by Julia in Whanganui and is called The Spanish Woman (Jack Mitchell-Anyon, after Edith Collier).
Below is Wartime Wendy (Nicky Gerard, after Ann Verdacourt).
Rhian Wood-Hill is a New Zealand comedian who has just completed a four-night residency at Lucky Bar + Kitchen in Whanganui.
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Nick Erickson is a Whanganui musician and gardener / landscaper. Check out Nick's Gardening.
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Rachel Māia is a New Zealand representative climber based in Whanganui.
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Matt Edmonds runs Lucky Bar + Kitchen in Whanganui.
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Paige MacDonald is a third year fashion design student at UCOL in Whanganui. She has just had a collection on show at New Zealand Fashion Week.
Check out her work on Instagram here.
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Kit Lawrence is a musician and visual artist based in Whanganui.
Check out his latest EP - Mortal Sin EP - here https://soundcloud.com/bodybeatritual and @bodybeatritual on Facebook.
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Philip Stokes is a glass artist based in Whanganui.
Read more here: https://www.nzglassworks.com/products/philip-stokes
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Isaac Chamberlain is a Whanganui musician. He's the guitarist for Drxnes, a producer and rapper in Machete Clan and has his own solo project, Something Zesty, in the works.
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And Machete Clan here: https://www.facebook.com/macheteclanNZ/
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