The Festival of Work in Development (FWD) finally returns live in 2022, showcasing student works at Toi Whakaari from Aug 30 - Sep 1.

FWD is a platform for students in their final year to share their research and explorations of form, performance and storytelling.

According to Acting Tutor, Anya Tate-Manning, FWD is a "beautiful feast of creativity and artistic voices, with emerging artists sharing new work with audiences."
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"This year's festival features artist ventures that traverse generations and worlds; clowns form outer space, dance workshops, installations, creations around culture, history and politics. These are artists are creating their own creation processes, and exploring their artistic questions. forms of all kind are being explored and invented - film, live, comedy, solo, ensemble, scriptwriting, performance art and more."

"The voices of these emerging artists are inspiring, compelling and poignant."

The full programme of events occur in different theatres and space at Toi Whakaari, and are free for entry to the public. You can find a schedule below.

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TUESDAY:

Creating her
‍By: Johanna Nyberg Rydström

Workshop - 11am (Drama 2)

The Fictional Truth
By: Dylan Matthew Prasad Menon

Performance - 11am (Basement Theatre)

Eighty-Seven‍
By: Ethan Jeffries

Performance - 12pm & 5pm (Te Whaea Theatre)

Miti Miti
By: Gideon T. Smith

Performance - 1.30pm (Basement Theatre)

Keige Leaga
‍By: Luz-Eliana Folau-Tovine

Performance - 2pm (Seeyd Space)

Laksa
‍By: Shervonne Grierson

Film premiere - 2.30pm (Drama 1)

How to be a good girl
By: Ruby Pledge

3pm (Drama 1)

Enjoy Yourself
‍By: Madison Wade

Draft cut - 3.30pm (Drama 1)

Sarah Rabbit Luka Rabbit
By: Luka Piripi & Sarah Lawrence

Performance - 4pm (Te Whaea Theatre)

Shirin and the main mountain
‍By: Rosalind Lay-Yazdani

Performance - 5.30pm (Basement Theatre)

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WEDNESDAY:

The Fictional Truth
By: Dylan Matthew Prasad Menon

Performance - 11am (Basement Theatre)

‍There's so mushroom for love
By: Tabatha Killick‍

Performance - 12pm (Drama 2)

‍Thanks to our mothers pt. 2
By: Te Ani Solomon

Performance - 1pm (Te Whaea Theatre)‍

Fale Fa'atau
By: Brett Taefu

Talk - 1pm (Screen Lab)‍

‍The DJinn
By: Mojtaba Nazari

1.30pm (Drama 2)

Keige Leaga
‍By: Luz-Eliana Folau-Tovine

Performance - 2pm (Seeyd Space)

Leftovers
By: Joey Sheppard

Play reading - 2.30pm (Drama 2)

Don't fuck sheep
By: Maurea Perez-Varea

Performance - 5pm (Basement Theatre)

Two broke girls and a fetus
By: Nisha Jolliffe & Tabatha Killick

Performance - 4pm (Te Whaea Theatre)

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THURSDAY:

Creating her
‍By: Johanna Nyberg Rydström

Workshop - 11am (Drama 2)

Shirin and the main mountain
‍By: Rosalind Lay-Yazdani

Performance - 11am (Basement Theatre)

Behind the scenes of Taniwha
By: Luka Piripi

Film - 12pm (Drama 1)

Bozo the clown finds the meaning of life
Devised by: Ethan Morse, Joey Sheppard & Xander Manktelow‍

Performance - 12pm & 4.30pm (Seeyd Space)

Two broke girls and a fetus
By: Nisha Jolliffe & Tabatha Killick

Performance - 12.30pm (Te Whaea Theatre)

How to be a good girl
By: Ruby Pledge

1pm (Drama 1)

Don't fuck sheep
By: Maurea Perez-Varea

Performance - 1pm (Basement Theatre)

Laksa
‍By: Shervonne Grierson

Film premiere - 1.30pm (Drama 1)

Thanks to our mothers pt. 2
By: Te Ani Solomon

Performance - 1.30pm (Te Whaea Theatre)

Enjoy Yourself
‍By: Madison Wade

Draft cut - 2pm (Drama 1)

Mise-en-scene Screening

Film screening (30 minute loop) 2.30pm (Drama 1)

Glasspaper
‍By: Max de Roy‍

Performance - 4pm & 5pm (Te Whaea Theatre)

D' things & such
By: Seiyan Thompson-Tonga

Performance - 5pm (Basement Theatre)

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INSTALLATIONS

There's something hiding inside
By: Caiden Jacobson

All Week (Plaza)

Tautu Mo E Ativili
By: Luz-Eliana Folau-Tovine

Tuesday & Wednesday All Day (Seeyd Space)

Fale Fa'atau
By: Brett Taefu

Wednesday - All Day (Screen Lab)

The Reservoir
By: Megan Gladding

Thursday 4pm & 5pm (Design Atrium)

Suits You Well
By: Jodi Walker

Thursday 10am - 2pm (Dressing Rooms)

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Any questions

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Should you need to contact us, we can be reached as follows:

Craig Atkins – Registrar craig.atkins@toiwhakaari.ac.nz /021 0826 2095

For media enquiries- Taylor-Rose Terekia taylor-rose.terekia@toiwhakaari.ac.nz / 021 0394 200

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