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CREATIVITY & COVID

29 MARCH 2021, 6.30 PM TO 8 PM, 6 NIXON STREET, AUCKLAND

Creativity & Covid reflects on how the global crisis reshaped artistic practice, identity, and resilience, not through direct discourse on the pandemic itself, but through reflections on rebirth, endurance, and the messy, complex processes of creation during challenging times. This event invites audiences to engage with creative practice as a lived experience of persistence and reinvention, exploring how artists navigate personal and collective struggles. It foregrounds creativity not simply as output but as a vital, embodied process of making meaning, connection, and healing when the world feels uncertain.

SPEAKERS

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh

Poet, Academic and former NZ Poet Laureate

Amanda Betts

Creator, Heartspeak Project, Ex-Founder of Red 11 modeling agency

Leonie Morris

Manager, Wāhi Wāhine o Tāmaki Makaurau
(Auckland women’s Centre)