19 December 2013 - 0 Comments

Splore has added to an already tightly packed programme with new performance and music acts as well as visual artists,  creating a stellar line up of entertainment for the weekend of 14-16^th February 2014.

A few bonus acts will see an eclectic array of music across five zones including the new Red Bull Theme Camp zone within the campground which will be programmed from 12 to 10pm each day.

New York music ethnologist and DJ, Brian Shimkovitz, is bringing his Awesome Tapes from Africa set to Splore. Playing on two tape decks listeners are subjected to one of the most unique and uplifting sets of brilliant African music sourced from the continent’s tape culture. This is not polished “world music” but rather raw, mesmerizing music from the myriad of musical subcultures that proliferate in Africa from bongo flava, hiplife, kuduro to coupe-decale.

Local acts added also include Taste Nasa, High Hoops, Dubhead, Jamie Newman, Murray Cammick, The Fuzzbox, Keegan, Logan Baker, Amin Payne and Sam Senior.

A spoken word showcase will feature in the Living Lounge on Saturday afternoon.  Interspersed with live music from the sublime Modern Maori Quartet will be some of NZ’s most relevant performance poets. Namely Tourettes,  whose work is a celebration of the absurd beauty of 21st century capitalism and three of Rising Voices royalty. Mohamed, a journalist from Cairo, navigates between two cultures and languages. Kirsti Whalen, a novelist and world wanderer with a dislike for the wearing of shoes. And Liam Stewart, speaking with power from places of vulnerability. And if that doesn’t move you there will be a very special performance from a man who needs little introduction, New Zealand’s pre eminent poet Sam Hunt.

Trick of the Light Theatre is a Wellington-based theatre company who will perform their new work ‘The bookbinder’ - a story of mystery, magic and mayhem.  It weaves shadow play, paper art, puppetry, and music into a performance for both children and adults.

All you can eat productions are excited to bring roving excerpts of their latest show to Splore. The Way We Fall witnesses the humanity, hilarity and horror of falling in, falling out and of course falling over. Painfully familiar and gleefully relatable, a delectable stumble into contemporary dance, dialogue and ice cream.

Family spiritual leaders Brother Buddy and Sister Franny Finger deliver the family’s rapturous (and very tongue-in-cheek) sermon of love and light throughout, offering spiritual redemption, impromptu faith-healing, baptism-by-mister and glorious (if slightly suspect) miracle-working. The Finger Family Revival Show tramples on all religious barriers to welcome and embrace all who seek to revive their mind, body and spirit.

To top off the rich cultural content at Splore, there will be an innovative spectrum of over 30 art installations, mainly from New Zealand artists.

To read more about the acts and artists at Splore the following links provide more information on the Splore website.

Splore artists and detail of their projects can be found here.

Splore music artists can be found here

Splore’s performance artists can be found here

Tickets are available fromhttp://www.iticket.co.nz/
Current ticket price $255 + BF

Website -http://www.splore.net/

www.facebook.com/SploreFestival

Twitter handle – Splore #MoretoLove

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