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Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival 2020 04
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Meeting 12 May 2021 between the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, (Frédéric Julien | Director of Research and Development, Bridget MacIntosh | Cultural Strategist) and Lisa Maule | NZ Wikiproject Coordinator
St James Theatre, Wellington
Lisa Densem - Re-publica Portland 2019 - d2 (48934668148)
Circa Theatre
"Cleopatra" in Domain cricket ground 1914 New Zealand
Love For Love, 1979,Palmerston North
Limbs Dance Company
Student parade Queen Street 1920s
Emma Pearson and Amitai Pati in 2020 New Zealand Opera production of Semele
BATS Theatre

This is a project to increase content and improve the quality of performing arts information from Aotearoa New Zealand on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. It is being coordinated by Lisa Maule. Lisa is a theatre designer and arts manager with a keen interest in preserving and celebrating the performing arts landscape of Aotearoa. In April 2021 she was awarded a grant by the US-based Wikimedia Foundation for a four month project to increase content about performing arts in Aotearoa on Wikipedia. This was funded partly because of Lisa's focus to ensure good representation of women, Māori and Pacific Island artists and projects.

Existing editors please add yourself to the 'participants' section below for news and updates. There are lots of short articles with expansion possibilities in lists below.

New editors get in touch. Email to express an interest and to learn next steps (lisamauleinfo@gmail.com)

The initial stage of the project ran over four months 17 May - 10 September 2021, with three edit-a-thons and 107 new articles created. The next project focus is Pacific Arts which includes a pilot Wikipedian in Residence with Creative New Zealand.

Performing arts scope edit

Performing arts is defined as theatre, dance, cabaret, music performances and other cultural forms. Other events, festivals, musicians and composers are also encouraged.
The article Performing arts in New Zealand was created in 2023. Sections can be expanded and there are redlinks to suggested articles too.

News edit

There is an interesting discussion about the notability of theatre organisations in Articles for deletion:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afterburner (theatre production company)

Wikipedia Articles to create and improve edit

Redlisted articles in these sections have enough information available on an internet search to create an article of at least stub status. This project aims to especially include content on women and people of colour on Wikipedia. If you are new it is easier to write about an organisation or event than a biography of a living person. Note - for international editors the word Pākehā means a white New Zealander.

Suggested articles lists edit

Here is a shared google document with suggested articles and references. Comments can be made with suggestions.

Festivals in Aotearoa edit

Pasifika Arts Aotearoa Project edit

A related project to increase quality content on Pasifika arts and practioners.

Examples of articles to create or edit:

  • Ioana Gordon-Smith - curator (Pataka), (she / her - Sāmoan & English)
  • Makerita Urale - (article can be expanded). Senior Manager, Pacific Arts at Creative New Zealand. Actor, writer, producer, film and theatre. (she / her - Sāmoan)
  • Tanu Gago - photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and filmmaker (he / him), "... I'm here for posterity because I'm cognisant of the many ways our Indigenous Queer communities have been left behind." https://pantograph-punch.com/posts/by-any-means-necessary
  • Molima Molly Pihigia - founding member of Falepipi he Mafola: the award-winning Niuean handicraft group, (she / her)
  • Nina Tonga - curator / artist

Short articles for expansion edit

People edit

Organisations edit

Notable works (eg. a play, dance or musical theatre work) edit

Articles that have a problem to fix edit

Draft articles needing some work

References for citations and information edit

Refer to the google document for research material. You can also comment to share references - it is a living documents to be updated over time.

Wikimedia Commons edit

Take photos of NZ performing arts related people, places or events and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. Look through your photo archives - have you taken images of festivals, street performances, venues? You famous friend or auntie? (Please find out about copyright, privacy and permissions).

Suggested commons categories edit

Theatre Companies in New Zealand, Playwrights from New Zealand, Actors from New Zealand, Designers from New Zealand, Dance in New Zealand, Dancers from New Zealand, Choreographers from New Zealand, Theatre directors from New Zealand, Theatre of New Zealand, Opera vocalists from New Zealand, Entertainment venues in New Zealand

Wikimedia Commons how to edit

 
Get That Picture in the Wiki-Verse. Designed by Christina Blust CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Suggested projects edit

  • Upload a photo you take of your local community hall, theatre or performance venue
  • Upload images of performing arts people from the New Zealand governor generals website (check it has the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.[1])
  • Upload images from Digital NZ - this list shows images with reuse licences although always check on the original website. Link
  • Notable people - you can upload photo's of yourself and your work if you own the copyright - get in touch for guidance (lisamauleinfo@gmail.com)

Images of venues which hold performing arts are needed. Please use Category:Entertainment venues in New Zealand plus any more localised specific categories.

Please email the url of any uploaded images to lisamauleinfo@gmail.com so the categories and other technical details can be checked.

Wikidata edit

Participants edit

Add yourself to the participants list below. You will get irregular updates.

Outcomes - new and improved articles edit

Please add your new articles to the bottom of the list. The initial four months of the project created 107 new articles (that were recorded here). Edit with VisualEditor

New articles - biographies edit

  1. Jane Yonge - (she/her) director. https://www.tetaumatatoiaiwi.org.nz/creative-leadership/
  2. Patricia Rianne - ballet dancer and choreographer (she/her) (Wikidata item)
  3. Cat Ruka - dancer and choreographer (she/her - Māori)
  4. Malia Johnston - choreographer (she/her - Pākehā)
  5. June Kerr - dancer (she/her - Pākehā)
  6. Anne Rowse - dancer (she/her - Pākehā)
  7. Susan Jordan - dancer and choreographer (she/her - Pākehā)
  8. Sarah-Jayne Howard - dancer and choreographer (she/her - Pākehā)
  9. Bianca Hyslop - dancer and choreographer (she/her - Māori)
  10. Dolina Wehipeihana - dancer and choreographer (she/her - Māori)
  11. Helen Pearse-Otene- playwright (she/her - Māori)
  12. Tupe Lualua - choreographer (she/her - Samoan NZer)
  13. Michelle Scullion - (Wikidata) composer and musician (she/her - Pākehā)
  14. Geraldine Brophy - actor, director (she/her - Pākehā)
  15. Diedre Irons - pianist
  16. Rosalie Carey - founder of the Globe Theatre
  17. Sara Brodie - director - 2015 Arts Foundation Laureate
  18. Cathy Livermore - dancer
  19. Kate Hawley - costume designer, performing arts and film
  20. Meggan Rollandi - scenographer / designer
  21. Nisha Madhan - actor
  22. Julia Croft - actor / director
  23. Jack Gray - choreographer and director of Atamira Dance Company
  24. Luke Di Somma – New Zealand musical theatre composer, lyricist, musical director
  25. Honor McKellar – New Zealand mezzo-soprano (1920–2024) (DYK)
  26. Carla Van Zon – Artistic director in New Zealand, born 1952 (DYK)
  27. Sue Paterson - arts manager
  28. Tanya Muagututi'a
  29. Alice Canton - actor, director, creator, writer
  30. Michael Haigh
  31. Rodger Fox - jazz musician
  32. Lisa Densem
  33. Phillip Rhodes (baritone)
  34. Hilary Halba Created as part of the Dunedin Edit-a-thon
  35. Cindy Diver Created as part of the Dunedin Edit-a-thon
  36. Jenny Wake Created as part of the Dunedin Edit-a-thon
  37. Terry MacTavish Created as part of the Dunedin Edit-a-thon
  38. Benson Wilson
  39. Lisa Warrington - theatre director, academic and author - (she/her - Pākehā) (DYK)
  40. Emily Mair - soprano
  41. Dylan Lardelli - composer
  42. James Reach (playwright) (not NZ, a spillover!)
  43. Rob Mokaraka playwright, producer, actor
  44. Arthur Meek (playwright)
  45. Ninna Tersman (Swedish playwright, first winner of Adam NZ Play Award)
  46. Mitch Tawhi Thomas
  47. Louise Petherbridge
  48. Philip Chatfield - ballet dancer, artistic director
  49. Leonie Holmes - composer
  50. Deirdre Tarrant - dancer, choreographer
  51. Cathy Downes - Created as part of the Tāmaki Makaurau Edit-a-thon
  52. Claire Ahuriri-Dunning
  53. Miriama McDowell - Created as part of the Tāmaki Makaurau Edit-a-thon
  54. Arnold Trowell - composer
  55. Tracy Grant Lord - Created as part of the Tāmaki Makaurau Edit-a-thon
  56. Peter Hayden -actor, and television producer, writer and presenter
  57. Turid Revfeim - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  58. Sara Neil (dancer) - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  59. Taane Mete - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  60. Mere Boynton - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  61. Justine Simei-Barton - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  62. Susan Wilson (director) - created during the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  63. Jason Te Kare - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  64. Jan Bolwell - created immediately after the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  65. Helen Medlyn - opera singer, actress (DYK)
  66. Natasha Wilson - opera singer
  67. Elizabeth Whiting - costume designer
  68. Louise Potiki Bryant - choreographer, dancer, video artist
  69. Madison Nonoa
  70. Raymond Hawthorne
  71. Gaylene Sciascia
  72. Sheilah Winn - arts patron and philanthropist, of the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival
  73. Judy Callingham - television drama scriptwriter, presenter and journalist
  74. Sharni Spencer - Australian ballet dancer, graduate of NZDS
  75. Lucy Marinkovich - dancer, choreographer (she / her - Pākehā)
  76. Loughlan Prior - dancer, choreographer (he / him - Pākehā)
  77. Te Manahau (Scotty) Morrison - author, broadcaster (he / him - Māori)
  78. Vanessa Byrnes - Director, actor, academic (she/her, Pākehā)
  79. Jacqueline Coats - Director, theatre and opera (she/her, Pākehā)
  80. Suli Moa - Actor, writer (he/him) - Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  81. Natalia Mann - Musician, composer (she/her) - Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  82. Pati Solomona Tyrell - Interdisciplinary artist (he/him, Sāmoan) - Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  83. Pati Umaga - Musician & advocacy for the Pacific and Disabled communities (he/him, Sāmoan) - Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  84. Pelenakeke Brown - Multi-disciplinary artist (she/her Sāmoan/Pālagi) - Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  85. Lusi Faiva - Dancer (she/her, Sāmoan) - Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  86. Amanaki Prescott-Faletau - Actor, writer, dancer, choreographer, producer and director (she/her, Tongan) -Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  87. Tupua Tigafua - Dancer, choreographer (he/him Sāmoan)- Created for the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project
  88. Carolyn Henwood - Circa Theatre founding board member (she/her Pākehā)
  89. Amber Curreen - (she/her Māori), actor and arts manager. Te Pou Theatre, Te Rēhia Theatre Company
  90. Stacey Leilua - actor, producer, (she / her, Samoan, Māori and English heritage)
  91. Kōhine Pōnika - composer
  92. Elspeth Tilley - academic and playwright
  93. Tom Sainsbury - comedian and author

New articles - organisations, venues, companies, festivals, awards edit

  1. Kila Kokonut Krew - music and theatre company
  2. Massive Theatre Company - theatre company
  3. Oamaru Opera House - venue
  4. New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing – Professional society in New Zealand
  5. Annual Auckland Theatre Awards – Annual performing arts awards in New Zealand
  6. Wellington City Opera – opera company
  7. The PumpHouse Theatre
  8. The Māori Sidesteps
  9. Gamelan New Zealand
  10. Allen Hall Theatre (joint DYK with Lisa Warrington) Created as part of the Dunedin Edit-a-thon
  11. New Zealand School of Dance
  12. Doubtful Sounds - Wellington community choir led by Bryan Crump
  13. Kilimogo Productions Created as part of the Dunedin Edit-a-thon
  14. Dunedin Theatre Awards
  15. Dance Aotearoa New Zealand
  16. Playhouse Theatre, Dunedin
  17. Centrepoint Theatre
  18. Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
  19. Wow! Productions
  20. The Basement Theatre - Created as part of the Tāmaki Makaurau Edit-a-thon
  21. Silo Theatre - Created as part of the Tāmaki Makaurau Edit-a-thon
  22. Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards - Created as part of the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  23. Going West - created immediately after the Wellington Edit-a-thon
  24. Tempo Dance Festival - held in Auckland
  25. New Zealand Opera Company
  26. National Opera of New Zealand
  27. Young and Hungry Arts Trust - youth theatre organisation since 1994
  28. Entertainment Technology New Zealand - a professional association for the design, management, craft and technical performing arts and events
  29. Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival - annual arts festival in the Gisborne region
  30. FAFSWAG - Arts collective of Māori and Pacific LGBTQI+ artists and activists - from the Pasifika Arts Aotearoa Project
  31. Pacifica Mamas - arts collective of traditional Pasifika arts - from the Pasifika Arts Aotearoa Project
  32. Orpheus Choir of Wellington
  33. The Performance Arcade
  34. Playwrights Association of New Zealand
  35. Theatre New Zealand formally the New Zealand Theatre Federation
  36. New Zealand performing arts venues
  37. Performing arts of New Zealand
  38. FAME Trust Awards

New articles - productions edit

  1. That Bloody Woman - musical production (DYK)
  2. Nga Tangata Toa – 1994 play by Hone Kouka
  3. Waiora Te Ūkaipō - The Homeland (Hone Kouka play)
  4. The Prophet (2004 Hone Kouka play)
  5. Hōhepa – 2012 opera
  6. Pass It On - play by Renée
  7. Ihitai 'Avei'a - Star Navigator - 2021 opera
  8. Wednesday to Come - play by Renée

Articles improved edit

Articles with a fixed problem

Draft articles needing some work - now in main space

 
Online Wellington edit-a-thon

Wikify the Tahi Festival edit

The Tahi Festival is a festival of solo works that has been running for a few years. Participants and interested folk are getting together to 'Wikify' it. This means putting into Wikipedia and Wikidata people, companies and shows. The article Tahi Festival also needs to be created.

To start with a list of the programme year by year:

2019 edit

  • Tiny Deaths: Performers - Hannah Banks, Stevie Hancox-Monk, Brianne Kerr, Rebekah Adams, Maggie White, Katie Hill, Emma Katene and Freya Daly Sadgrove. Playwright - Uther Dean
  • Shot Bro: Confessions of a Depressed Bullet: Performer - Rob Mokaraka

Edit-a-thons & 2021 project edit

There were four edit-a-thons / editing workshops as part of this project in 2021 to generate content in a collaborative environment and to teach new editors.

Wikify the Kia Mau Festival edit

This mini edit-a-thon on Saturday 5 June was a takeover of an existing Meetup event in Wellington.

Details:

Results over 12 hours tracked with a dashboard:

Articles Created 25 Articles Edited 89 Total Edits 575 Article Views 234
Editors 7 Words Added 57.1K References Added 239 Commons Uploads 8

Notes:

  • Articles include Wikidata
  • It was acknowledged by the participants that improvements were time consuming as base information (such as venues or production companies) is also missing
 
The red door of Allen Hall

Ōtepoti Dunedin Edit-a-thon Sat 19 July 2021 edit

 
after lunch participants at the Hocken Collections seminar room

An edit-a-thon took place in Ōtepoti Dunedin on Saturday 10 July at the Hocken Collections Library from 10.30am – 4pm, Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin 4. This was the first of three edit-a-thons. The coordinator Pakoire and co-host DrThneed were joined in person by seven others, which included six new editors from the performing arts community, and two people working remotely in Wellington and Christchurch.

There were two content focus areas for the workshop:

  • To improve content around the legacy of Allen Hall Theatre, which is the theatre venue of the Otago University theatre department and has been operating for decades
  • To celebrate the current performing arts companies in the city by increasing content on people and organisations in Wikipedia

In addition the Theatre Aotearoa Database was put forward as a resource useful for expanding theatre articles.

Comments from new editors after they had learnt the basics and started editing related to how accessible they found doing it. There was motivation amongst many in the group to continue to meet as a way of progressing the articles they are interested in. Conflict of interest is an area of consideration for editing in performing arts, since most subject experts are also practicing arts and producers. This edit-a-thon / meetup format was useful and people worked on unrelated articles but in tandem with others who knew where to get information.

Both the Otago Theatre Department and the Hocken Collections Library were keen to host this event but the timing meant the Hocken was a better option. It was a very suitable venue and the event was very warmly supported by staff with special thanks to Lynn Benson. The university subject librarian for Art and Humanities Alexander Ritchie has also expressed a desire to support Wikipedia events in the future.

Results over 12 hours tracked with a dashboard:

Articles Created 19 Articles Edited 53 Total Edits 474 Article Views 11.2
Editors 11 Words Added 48.1K References Added 245 Commons Uploads 4

Notes: 4 new Wikipedia articles on the day and 15 new Wikidata items

 
Auckland Theatre Company studio's
 
Glen Eden Playhouse Theatre

The red door of Allen Hall is being used as a hook for a Did You Know feature on the Wikipedia homepage including two new articles created for this event, Allen Hall and Lisa Warrington.

Auckland Women in Performing Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Sat 14 Aug 2021 edit

Held at the home base of the Auckland Theatre Company with support from the Auckland City Council as part of their Open Studio programme. Focusing on notable women two new editors made a great difference as well as learning about Wikipedia, it was a small edit-a-thon with four people in-house and three contributing remotely. Lisa the coordinator had meetings whilst in Auckland with Te Pou Theatre, choreographer and dance archivist Susan Jordan, and the Audio Foundation, and managed to take images of Auckland places of interest for uploading.

New articles created because of the edit-a-thon include six biographies on women:

  1. Miriama McDowell
  2. Cathy Downes
  3. Elizabeth Whiting (draft)
  4. Tracy Grant Lord
  5. Silo Theatre
  6. The Basement Theatre
  7. Claire Ahuriri-Dunning
  8. Deirdre Tarrant

Results of the Auckland edit-a-thon tracked over 12 hours with a dashboard:

Articles Created 12 Articles Edited 69 Total Edits 352 Article Views 36.6K
Editors 6 Words Added 21K References Added 200 Commons Uploads 6

Notes:

  • Articles include Wikidata
 
Downstage Theatre plaque uploaded as part of the Wellington edit-a-thon

Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara Performing Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Sat 21 Aug 2021 edit

 
New articles include: Madison Nonoa

Sixteen editors joined the event dashboard,. People joined our Zoom video meeting when they were able and breakout rooms allowed small group coaching and also social catch ups. There were four new editors - two from last weekend in Auckland, and two with accounts set up for the day. Out of the fifteen editors two were in Australia and one in USA, eight from Wellington and five dispersed around Aotearoa.

New articles created because of the edit-a-thon include:

  1. Turid Revfeim
  2. Taiaroa Royal
  3. Taane Mete
  4. Sarah Foster-Sproull
  5. Paul Mathews
  6. Mitch Tawhi Thomas
  7. Mere Boynton
  8. Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards
  9. Modern Māori Quartet
  10. Peter Hayden
  11. Susan Wilson
  12. Jan Bolwell
  13. Jason Te Kare
  14. Justine Simei-Barton
  15. Madison Nonoa
  16. Tanea Heke
  17. Maoriland Film Festival
  18. Going West

Wikidata

Commons

Results of the Wellington edit-a-thon tracked over 12 hours with a dashboard:

Articles Created 16 Articles Edited 219 Total Edits 1.2K Article Views 13.1K
Editors 16 Words Added 77.5K References Added 225 Commons Uploads 95

Notes:

  • Articles include Wikidata

Media coverage edit

More information edit

New editors information edit

How to set up an account: YouTube video – How to Edit Wikipedia – a 2018 tutorial (47:44) (the first few minutes)

Make some edits by adding a citation - follow along to this (preamble finishes at 11mins): Webinar by LIANZA and Mike Dickison

  • Email Lisa to express an interest and to learn next steps. lisamauleinfo@gmail.com
  • Leave a message for Pakoire / Lisa Maule the project coordinator by starting a new section on this talk page.

Join an edit-a-thons / editing workshops in Dunedin, Wellington or Auckland. Having some one-to-one time with an experienced editor is recommended when you start out. You never know what questions you will have! Get in touch, on-line tutorials can also be arranged.

Conflict of interest (COI) edit

Wikipedia:Conflict of interest

Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. Any external relationship can trigger a conflict of interest. That someone has a conflict of interest is a description of a situation, not a judgement about that person's opinions, integrity, or good faith. Purpose of Wikipedia: As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's mission is to provide the public with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, written neutrally and sourced reliably. Readers expect to find neutral articles written independently of their subject, not corporate or personal webpages, or platforms for advertising and self-promotion. Articles should contain only material that complies with Wikipedia's content policies and best practices, and Wikipedians must place the interests of the encyclopedia and its readers above personal concerns.

References edit

  1. ^ "Copyright". gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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