Exhibitions
Events
On display
WORD Christchurch: Anis Mojgani Returns
Performance
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Adults $20, under 18s $15
WORD and Christchurch Art Gallery are delighted to welcome back Anis Mojgani and his ‘fiercely hopeful word arias’.
Anis surprised and enthralled audiences at the 2014 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, gathering followers throughout the festival, selling out his final performance and all of his books. Now you have another chance to catch him.
Anis is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, and frequent TEDx Speaker. Pulling inspiration from his Black and Iranian heritage, his childhood memories, his worldview, love, and existence, he takes seemingly commonplace subject matter and sculpts inspiration from them. Both innocent and heartbreaking, introspective and curious, the humanity his work carries causes listeners to remember and experience a childhood that is not their own but feels like it was.
Presented in partnership with the 2016 New Zealand Festival Writers Week and Golden Dawn Auckland.
Related reading: Performance, Poetry
Collection
Ralph Hotere Dawn/Water Poem
For the exhibition Untitled #1050 (25 November 2017 – 14 October 2018) this work was displayed with the following label:
“There are very few things I can say about my work, that are better than saying nothing.”
—Ralph Hotere, undated
