come alive an online magazine for young christian kiwis |april - may 2016 | issue ten
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EDITOR GRETA YEOMAN DEPUTY EDITORS NICOLA FROUD EVONNE KEY THE ALIVE TEAM GRACE BUCKNELL / ADELLE KEMP / PAUL MCDONALD / KAZ YUNG / LAURA CHAPMAN / LYNDON ROGERS / CHELSEA YEOMAN SUB-EDTIORS EVONNE KEY (GRAMMAR) GRETA YEOMAN (DESIGN & LAYOUT) SOCIAL MEDIA/WEBSITE PAUL MCDONALD enquires COMEALIVEMAGAZINE@GMAIL.COM WWW.ALIVENZ.WORDPRESS.COM ALL THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS MAGAZINE BELONG TO THE INDIVIDUAL WRITERS AND ARE NOT REFLECTIVE OF COME ALIVE AS A WHOLE. THE COVER PHOTO IS OF AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP IN JORDAN, WHICH WAS TAKEN BY JO CURRIE AND SUPPLIED BY WORLD VISION.
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editor’s note: I write this on a ridiculously late Tuesday night on my way to sending the magazine on to sub - after working a 12-day workday already. It feels long but for the love of this publication and the unnecessary stress, I’m working late on this tonight - while listening to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ album. I don’t mind working hard on this issue as I already feel immensely proud of it, so much so I have to publically share the excitement that I felt when our lovely team began sending in articles days before deadline. We’ve got a terrific collection of stuff, including my sister’s trip to Jordan’s refugee camps as a World Vision youth ambassador. The cover photo of this issue is of Azraq Refugee Camp, which was taken by World Vision photographer Jo Currie. The mag also includes an interview with the lovely Bethel and plenty of other goodness and inspiring people. Thanks for reading. Greta
INSIDE
Opinion: Explore your own backyard pg 4
Feature: Inside Jordan’s refugee camps pg 8
Live + Loud pg 18
Opinion: How Sport Became My Therapist pg 5
An interview with Bethel Music pg 14
Missy Higgins releases refugee song pg 18
Local Legends: Reuben Rai pg 6
Southern Eastercamp ‘16 pg 16
Juliagrace pg 19
WE HAVE A FIRST-HAND REPORT ON A VISI TO REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN FROM A 2016 WORLD VISION YOUTH AMBASSADOR. CHECK OUT PAGE 8. 3
opinion
opinion: Explore your own ‘backyard’ by karen “kaz” yung In Aotearoa New Zealand one of our well known inexplicable Kiwi terms is that of the Overseas Experience (OE). In some ways it makes a lot of sense when we consider how isolated our wee country of the long white cloud is – but I can’t help but wonder what is lost when we forsake our big and beautiful back yard for the international world? Nearing my final years in high school, I was beginning to set my eyes upon heading off to see the big wide world. As a “social justice type” I thought I would be making my way to ‘save the world’ one impoverished place after another. Then I hit my final year, and reality also hit. I hardly knew anything about my very own neighbourhood, let alone this place I call home. God stopped me in my over-enthused good intentions and challenged me to the core. Sufficed to say my OE has been put on hold ever since. This summer I ventured from my Wellington home all the way up to Cape Reinga, and a whole lot 4
in between. What did I discover? That even just a few hours away from home, I live such an incredibly different life to other Kiwis – and there is so much yet to learn and see.
learnt so much about myself – what makes me smile and laugh, what leaves me speechless and of course what makes me tick; and likewise about my friend. I couldn’t help but ponder, what
“This journey also helped me see more of who I am” Whether that be the historically rich Northland, oozing of our rich but young heritage; or the isolated and beautiful Kawhia about an hour away from any town I had ever heard of (and had more than just a handful of shops); or the rural occurrence of cows hanging out on the road – a terrifying thought for a city slicker accidentally herding someone else’s lifestock into the township. Our country is incredibly beautiful, and I think for the first time in my life I understood why so many people from all over the world travel kilometres over waters to New Zealand to see the gifts we are truly blessed with. As my traveling companion put it: “It’s like God just didn’t know when to stop creating!” This journey also helped me see more of who I am. Whilst sharing this journey with a friend I
does this mean now that I’m home again? How do I see things with fresh eyes and relish in the blessings that God has gifted me with? Recognising such things, is a step in recognising my turangawaewae – the place in which I stand, which in essence is the journey of discovering my identity – where God is already active, and what I’m being invited and called into. So next time you’re looking for an adventure – I challenge you to venture closer to home, and see the everyday miracles surrounding us in our very lands, in our towns & cities, in our very own neighbourhoods and be present to the God who blesses us in the smallest & greatest of ways.
karen “kaz” yung is a social justice, fairtrade enthuisast from wellington.
opinion
opinion: How sport became my therapist by paul mcdonald
– this activity may sound painful the tattoo parlour to add ‘2015’ to the list I had started in 2011. March 12, 2015 – When you get a to some of you, but watching, talking and analysing sport with Something I had always planned, piece of news like my family did my old man has been my passion but if you had told me in March I on that day, you never forget the since I was knee-high to a grasswould be marking the year 2015 date. hopper. as a tattoo, I would have laughed For me, it came during one of the It sounds corny, but watching in your face. busiest weeks of my year. It was a year which hurt, but it With deadlines looming for course sport has always been my “happy place”, which sounds like somewas also a year where I found and my duties for Come Alive, I had my whole week planned – all thing you would be told to visit by immense joy. While sport works for me, it is not it took was one phone call and my a therapist, so I utilised it, sport became my therapist. everybody’s cup of tea. It could schedule changed drastically. The caller ID read ‘Dad’, he was “While sport works for me, it is not everybody’s cup of tea.” off to the oncologist that day to receive the results of the scan to be a song, a movie, reading a see if his cancer had disappeared. I journeyed with the Black Caps through the Cricket World Cup, I good book or even getting out into Everything had run so smoothly travelled to Wellington to watch nature, if you are going through through the radiation, chemomy beloved Highlanders lift the something hard, find out what therapy and surgery stages, life Super Rugby trophy for the first your “happy place” is and utilise looked as though it would be time and I screamed at the TV it. returning to ‘normal’. as Beauden Barrett scored the He expected the news to be “all match-winner in the Rugby World clear”, we all did, so the words “terminal – 12 to 18 months”, felt Cup final. Through every glorious moment, like a massive kick in the guts. There is no set manual for what to through every crushing defeat, being on the journey with a team do or how to recover from news helped to take my mind off things like that, but I figured the best thing to do was to cherish the time and being able to bond over these moments with Dad made it that I had left with Dad. much more enjoyable. paul mcdonald is a sports The very next day, Dad and I sat When the All Blacks won the and music-mad journalist from together and watched the cricket world cup, I was straight down to christchurch. 5
local legend
local legend: reuben rai by lyndon rogers
families, whereas when my family course led by our vicar, Jacqui Stevenson. The course was amazReuben Rai came to New Zealand came to Christchurch in 2009 there were very few families. The ing, we were allowed to ask quesin 2009 as a Lhotsampa refugee people who came then had a hard tions and discuss. So I thought, from Bhutan. Now, he’s a close time adjusting to a new culture. “Why not start a Nepali Alpha friend who I play football with, You see they did not have another course for Nepali speakers?” With worship with and love hanging Lhotshampas to explain NZ to Jacqui’s help and advice, I adverout with. He’s a deep thinker, a them. Like explaining what a kiwi tised about the course. 16 people great communicator, and a huge is!” came along, who now know Jesus support to his community. He’s better. Amazing ae? studying a Bachelor of Ministry at “We love football. It is one of the Laidlaw College in Christchurch. main sports we played in the refu- Early on, we had issues in adjustI sat down with Reuben this week gee camps. Starting our own com- ing to a new culture and learning to talk about the Lhotsampa com“It must have been the sweat of your spirit and of your body.” munity of refugees seven years on from their arrival in NZ. I began munity football team, Team Lhot- a new language, and now we have by asking about the strengths of shampa, meant keeping up with issues on how to save our own their community. culture and language. So, we are “Our main strength is our unity, a the idea of where you belong. So, when we are playing football, we giving extra attention to this matunity which shaped by our lanare not only having fun playing ter and plan to start Nepali language, culture and history. Our guage classes soon this year. Ancommunity people share the same with friends or building closer relationships but we are also other awesome thing is that, from history and the “same” critical playing for our community. This this year, Team Lhotshampa will moments of life; expulsion from year, for the first time we played participate in the Canterbury Sunour homeland Bhutan; refugee life the Christchurch Global Football day Soccer League. I can’t wait to in Nepal, and now in New ZeaFestival, which really drew our play, [I am] sooo pumped!” land. A huge benefit from these community people together. Our moments is that it has allowed our whole community were shouting people to understand each other lyndon rogers is a youth & cheering us! Almost like in the more closely. worker and community in Today the Lhotshampa communi- camps. christchurch. Last year, I attended an Alpha ty of Christchurch consist of 104 6
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FOCUS FEATURE
INSIDE the refugee camps of jordan 2016 World Vision Youth Ambassador Chelsea Yeoman visited the syrian refugee camps in Jordan earlier this year. She spoke to Come Alive editor Greta Yeoman about her experience. Photos by world vision’s jo currie.
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There may be more than 16,000 kilometres between New Zealand and Jordan, but as one World Vision ambassador discovered, Syrian families are much like our own. Chelsea Yeoman is one of the 2016 World Vision Youth Ambassadors along with Jay Adams, Monika Hao and Nandini Dubey. In late January, they joined a small team from World Vision on a trip into the heart of Jordan’s refugee camps. After more than 20 hours’ worth of travelling, jumping between time zones, airports and numerous countries, the contingent arrived in Amman, the capital city of Jordan. “Crazy traffic, crazy driving,’’ Chelsea says of her first observation of a city that combines thousands of years of history with modern-day life. Their first official stop was at houses in the city that were home to both Jordanians and Syrian refugee families. The homeowners rent a couple of rooms within a house to refugee families - often at a high price. One such home housed the homeowners, along with a refugee family of eight people. The six kids shared the one bedroom, the family lived within two rooms of the house and the windows were glassless, only covered in glad wrap - making the house very cold. “I felt it as soon as we sat down,’’ Chelsea said of the temperature. It is hard to believe, but their current home was better than where the family had been living. On fleeing Syria, the family was stuck at the border between Syria and Jordan for three months, living under tarpaulins and rugs. They now have a roof over their
2016 world vision youth ambassadors (From left) nandini dubey, monika hao, jay adams and chelsea yeoman were part of a contingent from world vision that visited the refugee camps of jordan in january. heads but life is scarcely better for the family. One of their daughters was severely disabled and the parents have to watch her 24/7. As it is illegal for refugees to work in Jordan, this leaves the family reliant on NGO’s (Non-governmental organisations) and donations to survive. The children cannot go to school as their parents cannot afford it. In another house nearby, a 10-year-old girl dreams of life back in Syria.
“Syria is heaven,” Chelsea says the girl told her. The children from the two houses joined in games of duck-duckgoose with the youth ambassadors and were soon joined by a several other refugee children. “We didn’t need to have English to play with the kids.’’ The following day, the World Vision crew headed off to Azraq Refugee Camp, a two-hour drive from Amman. “It’s pretty much out in the desert,” Chelsea states. Before driving into the camp, the youth ambassadors were taken up on a hill above the camp, and stared down over endless rows of the white tin sheds that the 30,000 refugees of Azraq call home. “That was really, really overwhelming.’’ The team met a man who had escaped Syria with his wife and four children. The couple had had to drug their children with sleeping pills to make sure the children did not 9
make any noise while they were escaping across the border. Chelsea noticed the love the family had for each other, with the children cradled by their parents, and the constant hospitality from everyone in the camp. “Even though they have so little, they’re always so generous.’’ The World Vision crew combined meeting families with plenty of interaction with children - playing games and jamming on the ukuleles brought over by youth ambassadors. Chelsea met 16-year-old Hussam, who she described as a “bright kid’’, who taught himself English in the space of three months with the help of YouTube videos. He had been sitting an English exam back in Syria when his school was bombed. His family fled the country soon after, along with 100 others who travelled by night. The group was spotted one night 10
“It’s always cold, it’s always damp, rats run about, but we always thank God for what we’ve got,’’ one woman commented to her. “Which is amazing,’’ Chelsea said, “because we never thank God enough.’’ and spent two terrifying hours hiding in a two-room house from people on the ground and in helicopters who were trying to find them. Hussam’s mum and brother live in Azraq with him, but his dad journeyed by sea to make a new life in Germany. The family are now applying to go and join him. The ambassadors were then shown around the football fields
at Azraq, the biggest past-time in the barren refugee camp. The camp has team members from toddlers to 80-year-olds and had a visit from the Chelsea Football Team to help coach people to become coaches themselves. “These kids are so good at football.” Along with the football fields, the children of Azraq are entertained in ‘child-friendly spaces’, currently under development from World Vision. As well as providing schooling for the kids, these spaces provide fun, games, arts, crafts and sports for the children, as well as activities for children who don’t want to go back to school. “[But] most of the kids want to go back to school - it’s their only chance at a future.’’ Chelsea said her fellow ambassador Jay had been struck by a kid they had met, whose life
in Syria had consisted of football and computer games - two of the activities Jay enjoyed. “These kids are just like us.’’ She said the thankfulness of the people there, even in their awful situations, was “amazing’’. “It’s always cold, it’s always damp, rats run about, but we always thank God for what we’ve got,’’ one woman commented to her. “Which is amazing,’’ Chelsea said, “because we never thank God enough.’’ Another mother they met, however, was struggling with life in the camp. Her husband was in prison back in Syria and she was left to raise her four children by herself. “She said, “Living here is like death”,’’ Chelsea recalls. On the third day, the ambassadors visited a remedial school, which was a combination of local kids and refugee children who were behind on their schooling. Chelsea told of a funny miscommunication of visiting an English class at the remedial school, where, after spotting a poster on the wall that labelled body parts in English, the ambassadors promptly tried to lead the kids in a rendition of ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ - much to the confusion of the children. They soon discovered the poster was in place for a Level 3 class, and the children they were meeting were still in Level 1 two years behind. Later on, one of the school pupils took them home to meet his mother, who broke down in tears about her story of the family’s last three years in Jordan and their life before then. “She just wanted to go back to Syria.’’ The group later made a visit
to Zaatari Refugee Camp, the biggest camp in Jordan, but were unable to go into the camp. They did get to meet the camp director - a former refugee himself - and looked over the camp which was home to more than 81,000 people. “That was pretty overwhelming.’’ Chelsea said a comment from Hovay, the camp director, had
remained in her mind. “He said “these people are refugees now but they will not be refugees forever.”” The ambassadors and the team visited a school in Adjlun the next day, to drop off a large amount of backpacks provided by World Vision - full of enough stationery and books to help an entire family. 11
“It was just cool giving the kids something after they’ve lost everything.’’ After their heart-rending and emotional visits to the refugee camps, the ambassadors got to unwind with a visit to the Dead Sea and Petra - along with the chance to look over the Promised Land and visit a church with “incredible’’ mosaics of biblical scenes. “[It] was pretty cool.’’ But in the end, it’s the kids and families in the refugee camps that left the biggest impression. “These people are just stuck.’’ She said it was heart-breaking to leave everyone behind, with no idea of what would become of them. She said there was no difference between Syrian kids and Kiwi kids except for a “stuffed-up’’ country. “Though we seem ages away we can’t put off helping them.’’ 12
This year’s 40-Hour Famine will focus on helping the refugees, mainly setting up and maintaining the ‘child-friendly spaces’ at the camps to help educate the children so they can eventually return to Syria and help rebuild their country. Chelsea encouraged everyone to get on-board with the initiative,
either taking part or donating to the cause. “When have borders ever stopped us from helping people.’’ many thanks to the world vision team, especially dominica leonard, jo currie, simon day and chelsea yeoman for their assistance with this story. all photos were taken by jo currie and used with kind permission, courtesy of world vision. the 2016 40 hour famine runs from june 10-12.
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festival one
bethel music: in faith Bethel Music is a family of worshippers who are dedicated to bringing everyone they worship with into the presence of God in a humble and beautiful way. On an extremely hot afternoon at festival one I sat down with the Bethel music team as soon as they arrived at Mystery Creek to talk to them about their music, goals and of course what they love about New Zealand. Jacob Cook said he was actually “disappointed that all of New Zealand wasn’t the shire” after Stephen Hart the creative design14
er for bethel took them to hobbiton and made sure they got the full kiwi experience, because even though he works in Redding, California he is still a New Zealander at heart! They team had a few days travelling together and hanging out before coming to Festival One. With such a big team its easy to imagine that it would be hard to bond and get to know each other but Jacob Cook said they genuinely just enjoy hanging out and “doing life together… Touring is like a forcible bonding thing because you’re
in a confined space” but they really are friends and family on and off stage. Being a celebrity in any way or form can be extremely difficult especially in this technology obsessed world we live in, Jeremy Riddle touched on what it’s like to so easily access people’s opinions “If you wanna go digging for negativity there is plenty of it. I like to be aware because some of it is a misunderstanding… and some of those bridges are really easy to rebuild. There’s no good fruit that comes from paying a lot of attention to someone’s negative stuff”
Having a career where you are always in a position of leadership and sowing into people’s lives it’s easy to get worn out and Jeremy talked about how as a group they deal with looking after each other “you have to be intentional about being sown into. I have all the people in place but I need to pursue them. Learn the art of the word ‘no’. Everyone has different capacities. Be intentional about self care.” Obviously Bethel are big movement that reach a wide range of people, Amanda Cook talked about the crowds that they worship with and perform too “we all try to define crowds as Christian and non-Christian but I like to just look at it as humans” predominantly they are playing at church events but as Jeremy Riddle said “what actually defines a Christian? Our heart is to take people wherever they’re at and move them many steps closer to connection with the Lord. It’s a huge spectrum.” They didn’t want to put labels on anyone or confine people to different boxes. Jacob Cook is really passionate about what the future of bethel music looks like “I get excited thinking about the day where our individual artists are going to be making projects which aren’t worship-centric as much as they are testimonial and story telling” Amanda Cook has already started doing this with her newest solo album ‘Brave New World’ which came out in September 2015. It’s an album that expresses a journey Amanda went on herself and was written to help other people discover God in a new way. The whole team were really excited to be playing at a New Zealand Christian music festival so much so that Jacob and Amanda Cook actually invited two girls from the hotel they were staying at to come along, Jacob explained
“you have to be intentional about being sown into. I have all the people in place but I need to pursue them. Learn the art of the word ‘no’. Everyone has different capacities. Be intentional about self care.” “I didn’t feel like I was inviting them to something that was relegated to the Christian church, I was inviting them to see a festival of love, they’ll meet God here in a different way, they’ll recognise beauty and it won’t be ‘Christianese’” That is the perfect way to sum up what festival one was and Bethel music beautifully articulated what it’s like to be in a position of creating an atmosphere of worship for any person. Their worship set on Sunday night at the festival was incredible and showed how they live out what they believe, sing, worship and minister in an extremely powerful way.
BETHEL Music’s song include “No Longer Slaves”, “It Is Well” and “You Make Me Brave”.
grace bucknell is a student from wellington. grace and adelle kemp attended festival one, courtesy of the festival, where they inteviewed a number of artists including bethel.
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eastercamp
southern EASTERCAMP ‘16
chRISTCHURCH-BASED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AND KEEN PHOTOGRAPHER LAURA CHAPMAN ATTENDED SOUTHERN EASTERCAMP 2016. SHE BRINGS US SOME PHOTOS FROM THE EASTER WEEKEND EVENT.
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What does easter camp mean to me? I have been to every Easter Camp for the past five years, including the year it got rained out, and each time I walk away with a new God encounter to share. Behind all the music and the food and the cool activities is a team praying and believing for God to move. This is exactly what He does, every year chains are broken, hundreds are set free and thousands are saved. Southern Eastercamp means more to me than words can explain. This is where I first felt a glimpse of God’s love for me and I have made friends for life at this camp. There’s just something so uplifting about being in Big Top, worshiping God with thousands of other teens around you. It is something you can only truly understand if you have experienced yourself. This year, I decided to make it the year I’d remember the most, so thats what I did. I went on a gorgeous helicopter ride over the beach and the campsite, I went jet boating and I had God show up in ways I have never experienced before. I will definitely miss Easter Camp in the years to follow. But I know for sure this is only the beginning of God’s work in my life and so I challenge you readers to set your expectations high for God and He will go above and beyond. God bless.
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live and loud IN OUR EARS Let it Echo Jesus Culture
The Hope Six Demolition Project PJ Harvey IF PJ HARVEY’S NEW SINGLE ‘THE WHEEL’ IS INDICATIVE OF HER UPCOMING ALBUM, IT’S GOING TO BE A GOODIE. THE ENGLISH ALT-ROCK ARTIST HAS EIGHT PREVIOUS ALBUMS UNDER HER BELT. THE ALBUM IS OUT APRIL 15. THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT WAS CREATED IN SESSIONS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS PART OF A LONDON MUSEUM EXHIBITION LAST YEAR..
Beautiful Lies Birdy
Lonely Cities Tigertown
Beautiful Lies is the aussie alt act a new live album third studio album by tigertown are back from worship act with their new ep jesus culture is just British musician Birdy. It is due to be lonely cities. one of the many released on 25 this family band made on-going worship March. the album a number of album releases this follows up 2013’s apperances over the year.. ‘fire within’ which was years at parachute the twelve-track the first release and have two previous album was released of original songs eps. in january and from the artist who the album is available features artists like broke through with from itunes and may kim walker-smith and an album of covers - be available in hard chris quilala. the album is available including a cover of copies, though I am ‘young blood’ by kiwi not certain of that. on itunes and likely band the naked and christian book stores famous. too.
missy higgins releases a song about syrian refugees BY greta yeoman
became inescapable. From where I sat in my Australian musician comfortable living room Missy Higgins has nursing my written a song about newborn son, the tiny Syrian refugees. child in that wrenching In a post on her webimage could have been site, Missy said: my own little boy. I felt “Like most people, the overwhelmed by a photo of little Alan profound protective Kurdi being carried out instinct for him and of the water shook me people like him. to my core. We often Alan died along with his read about the tragic little brother, his mother plight of refugees but and many other Syrian I think that picture people on that boat. The exposed us to the only survivor of the Kurreality in such a raw di family was Alan’s faway that the truth ther, Abdullah...Writing 18
songs has always been my way of dealing with strong feelings and this situation obviously stirred up a lot of emotions. So initially I started writing about it just to try and make some sense out of something so senseless.... ‘Oh Canada’
simply aims to tell a story. It’s not preaching anything in particular, it’s simply my attempt to make sense out of senselessness.” Oh Canada can be found on MIssy’s youtube channel.
nz music month
juliagrace able to lean on it for money it has people take away and treasure.” become structurally strong. She said the boat analogy in one For me it was teaching for years, of her song had come from a diffiIt was Julia Grace’s first Festival I have been a school teacher and cult place. One and she found it very differ“I’d had depression and gone ent to Parachute, where the singer/ from that I learnt a lot. And what taught me I use now. As my artthrough that. After getting betsongwriter had been a regular istry began to grow I was able to ter, I did research on the effects performer. lesson the teaching.” of depression on children. And I Julia seemed to really like the She said her “secret talents” inread a little think that I pictured change, however, saying it had a cluded painting and drawing. it as being boats on the water. cool vibe of the arts and creative “I love painting and drawing, in And I wanted people to visualise community. Being a natural creative artist her“Festival One was no ordinary festival; branding it a ‘Christian self we sat down with Julia to chat about being an artist and what the festival’ does not do it justice; Festival One was heaven on earth.” future looked like for her. the past it’s been doing murals that and take them on the journey She said the advice she would and using my hands to create. I allowing them to picture them self give budding musicians was to think when you tend to do only being by the river and looking out not to put all the pressure on your one type of thing you start realise at the boats. So the story usually art at an early stage but to get a how many other ways there are comes from the information.” real job. to be creative that are similar. Julia said her goals for 2016 “Not necessarily a real job that And for me it’s through words, included working on recording. becomes you career passion but melodies and stories. Everything “I will be working on recording, something you can rely on finanthat I do, when I play (music), it’s Taking all the songs I have been cially. Think of your skill as a all about finding the story. That’s working on and turning them into tiny seed or pot plant and you’re what is core to my jobI am a comprehensible music.” trying to grow that. And if you story teller. My greatest gift, it’s expect that to pay the rent you’re taking something, creating a story just going to kill it. Keeping it adelle kemp is a student from around it and then people underas a skill to work on, allowing it wellington. standing it; The little pictures to grow and then when you are
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James Corden takes Adele out for a drive, accompanied by some carpool karaoke and some impressive harmonies from Corden, that even shock Adele. Adele’s down-to-earth British humour and rough accent (so different from her singing voice) are again put on show during this hiliarous video that can be found on YouTube.
The Man Who Knew Infinity - May 5 Set during WW1, the Man Who Knew Infinity follows the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, who travels to Cambridge to pursue his studies. It delves into his controversial theories, his partnership with famous English mathematician G. H. Hardy and seeks to highlight cultural difficulties that Iyengar would have faced.
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Captain America: Civil War - May 5
A Hologram For the King - Later 2016
It’s popcorn fooder, and yet another Hollywood money making scam, with even more superheroes than before, and maybe higher stakes, at least on the political end, but you all know at least 70% of you are going to go see it, whether it’s good or not, and every MCU from here on out will only get bigger and bigger.
Tom Hanks moves to Saudi Arabia to try and sell a hologram to a king, after losing almost everything he has in the states. There he is faced with a chasmic cultural shift, an almost impossible task in front of him, all the while dealing with life’s very real curveballs of love and health.
suffragette: a must watch film It’s now only available on DVD or online, but if there’s one film I can recommend you watch this year, it’s Suffragette. Telling the story of the British Suffragette movement - note, a number of years after New Zealand women received the right to vote - the film is a powerful tale of recognising the rights we have that many had to fight for. Through extended prison stays for little reason, force-feeding, hunger-strikes, police brutality and the scorn of a nation, these women fought for their rights.
a review by come alive editor greta yeoman. Greta is a dunedin-based journalist, filmmkaker and writer.
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NEW MALI MALI ALBUM Mali Mali will release his second album on April 8. The moniker of Ben Tolich, the self-produced album ‘As A Dog Dreams’ follows up 2013’s ‘Gather ‘Round The Gooseclock’. Mali Mali has shared stages with Avalanche City’s Dave Baxter, Lydia Cole, Philip van der We;l and Luke Thompson. The Auckland-based musician has also previously released an EP ‘Brotherly’. The album is released on April 8.
OFF ON TOUR: HOLLIE SMITH Hollie Smith releases her third album WATER OR GOLD on April 1, and will celebrate with a nation-wide tour. The nine-date tour kicked off in Twizel on March 31 and finishes up in Mount Maunganui on April 16. WATER OR GOLD was produced by Smith and mixed in New York with Kiwi producer and engineer Aaron Nevezie, who has been based in the States since 1998 and has worked with the likes of The Black Keys and Danger Mouse.
Tour dates: March 31 - Top Hut, Twizel April 1 - Alberttown Tavern, Wanaka April 2 - Great Kiwi Beer Festival, Hagley Park Christchurch April 7 - Black Barn, Napier April 8 - San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington April 9 - The Mayfair, New Plymouth April 14 - The Butter Factory, Whangarei April 15 - The Tuning Fork, Auckland April 16 - Mauao Performing Arts Centre Mt Maunganui Tickets for Hollie Smith’s WATER OR GOLD tour are on available now from www.eventfinda.co.nz. Hollie Smith is a Kiwi soul singer whose 2006 single ‘Bathe in the River’ spent 22 weeks in the Top 10. Hollie’s third album ‘WATER OR GOLD’ is available now.
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