TRADE WARS ZF 2025 After Party!
6:00pm-late
Saturday 26th July
Trades Hall Ground floor
124 Vivian Street
Te Aro
All welcome, free entry
Expect POETRY READINGS! LIVE MUSIC! GREAT FOOD! AMAZING COMPANY! CUTE ZINES! BYO!
Poetry reading from Éimhín O'Shea and Alexandra Cherian
Music from VARDA and Horn
Bring ur zines to trade on the trading post!
---Éimhín O'Shea---
Éimhín is a proposition that comes from Ireland and various places near the Manawatū River, and now resides in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Porirua. They like making things with their friends, looking at trees, and curating Poetry from the Playroom (which you can catch on Radioactive.FM each Monday at 3:45pm-ish). They’ve promised to let everyone know when they decide what shape to be. You can find more of Éimhín’s writing in ‘circular’, the forthcoming Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025, and tattooed on the arms of their friends. They have an Instagram account under the name @for_eimhins_sake that you could follow if you wanted to.
---Alexandra Cherian---
Alexandra Cherian (she/they) is a filmmaker, writer, and girltwink extraordinaire from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, currently studying towards a Masters in Creative Writing. She has been published in bad apple, Takahē, and Starling among others, and is a founding member of queer filmmaking collective The New New.
---VARDA---
Varda are alternative synth pop duo featuring Alison O’Reilly, formerly of Sydney psych band The Dandelion and Ru from Unsanitary Napkin. Under The Radar described them as “an emotionally transportive shimmering mosaic of majestic guitars and motorik grooves”, and they are hurriedly finishing an EP to release in August!
---Horn---
Horn is a musical act based in Wellington, New Zealand comprised of
four individuals:
Abigail Macilquham on vocals and guitar (formerly of Fran/Bar Group, Wurld Series and The River Jones), Rohan on the drums (formerly of Big Rick and Diving) Rebekah Leah on the bass guitar (formerly of The Jasper Sweeney) and William Daymond (Winebox Inquiry, Terror of the Deep). They offer up a kind of Indie Rock.
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