B-Side Stories

'You feel it bite your skin' Tūī speaking about indigenous art and contemporary dance

Wellycon is the largest boardgame convention in Aotearoa New Zealand and, on King's birthday weekend 2023, 1,400 or more keen players are expected to join in at Wellington's Tākina convention centre.

Sadie Coe talked to Ceedee Doyle and Adrianne Pollock about some of the huge number of exciting activities taking place over the two days of Wellycon: late night mega-games, the national Settlers of Catan tournament, a giant Lego pit, a game-themed quiz, treasure hunts, expert lectures and panel discussions, play-to-win games, and world premieres of new games and EVEN MORE!!!

Made with the support of Wellington Access Radio and NZ on Air.

Emily Wikingi tells Perrine about her experience getting ready for and performing kapa haka at Te Matatini 2023.

'He toi whakairo, he mana tangata'

Where there is artistic excellence, there is human dignity

~ Piri Sciascia, founder of kapa hapa group Tamatea Arikinui

"The hardest platform you can ever perform on is the street". King Homeboy is a legend in the Wellington busking scene and an internationally acclaimed beatboxer and musician. The six time national beatboxing champ, and world record holder for the longest continuous beatbox (34 hours!) talks to Perrine Gilkison and Sadie Coe about his "wild, amazing journey", ahead of his next trip to the World Beatboxing Champs in Berlin, and treats us to some live beatboxing!

This show was produced with support from Wellington Access Radio and New Zealand On Air.

Sara Shabahang and Bahman Khalili talk to Perrine about recent protests in Iran, what they are fighting for, and the role music plays in the protests. We also get to chat about how they came here, and the Iranian community of Wellington.

The music discussed or played in the show:

~ Speak Out by Public Voice

~ Baraye by Shervin Hajipour

~Shades of Blues by Public Voice

Love not loss: Josh - CEO of Sustainable Coastlines - talks to Perrine about Seaweek, our problem with litter, the absolute joy we can get from our coastlines... and what you can do to help :D

Internationally 15% of humans have dyslexia or related neurodiverse conditions. In New Zealand the government gathers no statistics on dyslexia/neurodiversity and the conditions are not mentioned in any legislation. People with dyslexia are over-represented in school dropouts, unemployment rates and in the prison population.

Mike Styles is an adult literacy specialist who is calling for the New Zealand government, which only officially recognised the existence of dyslexia in 2007, to carry out an inquiry into dyslexia. He talks to Sadie Coe about why he believes that dyslexia is both an equity issue and a productivity issue and what measures could be taken to allow people with dyslexia to use and develop the positive skills that come with the condition.

B-Side Stories is produced with help from Wellington Access Radio and New Zealand on Air.

This week, B-Side Stories host Rachel Liao caught up with Pōneke-based multidisciplinary artist Min-Young Her about her latest show “Misaeng” on at Play_station artist run space, her background and interest in the arts, and how she is settling into the windy city!

This week on B-Side Stories, co-hosts Rachel Liao & Min-Young Her caught up with Wellington-based songwriter/producer Mitch Zachry about his latest track ‘setting sun’. We chatted everything from his creative process to musical influences, and of course, played some our fave tracks of his!

Trish Given and Sadie Coe have a chat about some recent and upcoming events around Wellington this September.

Thanks to Wellington Access Radio www.accessradio.org.nz and NZ On Air.